Averatec already has a few offerings on the market when it comes to all-in-one pcs. The D1005 slips in neatly between the 25 and a half and 18 inch models. It's nothing to write home about spec wise, but at $799, it sits neatly in the 'college workstation and publi…
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Added by Kitty on July 20, 2009 at 8:51am —
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So, after I reported on rumours yesterday, this little bundle of love comes to my attention. The Gigabyte T1028 is a netbook with reversible form factor, coming in at about the specs I want at the price I want. I'm definitely dropping its name in the hat for when I make a decision. I likely won't until october, but it will be really cool to see what shapes up.
Down to the tech sp…
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Added by Kitty on July 17, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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So, in continuation to my search for a yummy piece of tablet-ey sexiness, the latest rumour, published by a news source out of taiwan, is that Apple is going to ship a 9.7" touch screen netbook/tablet as early as October. Rumours have it set at $800, and it will include touch screen capabilities.
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Added by Kitty on July 16, 2009 at 8:30am —
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I'm smelling cease and desist action from apple on this one. Apple has had a lockdown on drivers for years now, and I kind of eyebrowed when I heard EVGA claim they were releasing a mac driver, and placed it for download in their site.
Well, needless to say, it's a few hours later an without explanation, no drivers in site. I think maybe EVGA learned why there are no other cats in america, so to speak:
ftp://ftp.evga.com/Driver/MAC285_2F16.dmg
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Added by Kitty on July 9, 2009 at 6:12am —
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The Problem
So, there has been a lot of talk recently about apple's entry into the netbook market. They're a bit wishy washy on whether or not they actually will, but one of the more exciting rumours is that they'd be making a tablet. Now, I'm not usually an enormous fan of apple's hardware, but in this case, I will make an exception. If there is one thing I know apple can make well, it would be this…
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Added by Kitty on July 2, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU project, has stepped over the line this time. He's always a little outrageous with his ideas, but he has a right to them. However, this time it's a little different. Richard Stallman has come out and said in a
new article that Microsoft is planning to force all free C# implementations underground using software patents.
I'm sorry, no matter what he says, or what credentials he has, that is at best…
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Added by Kitty on July 1, 2009 at 9:41am —
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Details are still spotty, as with most Apple video hardware, but EVGA has announced they'll be releasing a Mac version of the GTX 285. The GPU, released 6 months ago for PC users, and based on technology that has been in the hands of PC users for almost a year (see: GTX 280), is one of the best on the market, and is now the fastest available for Apple. This marks one of Apple's fastest adoption of video hardware in the past 4 yea…
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Added by Kitty on June 10, 2009 at 8:00am —
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Microsoft is widely regarded as having a distaste for open source. Wherever you stand on the issue, they *do* actually support it, as evidenced by projects such as mono, rotor, dotgnu, and the entire codeplex community. These projects are all well-respected and thriving, under open source licenses.
I personally think the next logical step for this process should be what some would consider a major, and potentially blasphemous leap: Open Windows.
It's really long overdue, and under today's deve…
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Added by Kitty on June 4, 2009 at 10:36pm —
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A lot of focus is placed on customer service, offering value to your customers. This is an important part of business, and customer service, whether it be in person, via email or on the phone, maintaining communication is paramount. As they say, the best advertising is word of mouth, and the best way to get word of mouth is to leave the customer in awe of your abilities.
That being said, there are two halves to any business relationship. In the case I'm choosing to discuss today, they are the c…
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Added by Kitty on May 21, 2009 at 4:22pm —
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnCEfMqvHzE&feature=featured
So, the basis of this is they want cellphone companies to trace back the origin of their materials (tungsten and the like), because they have made a vague link to these materials and the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At first glance this might not seem like a bad idea until we look at other factors:
1) The Democratic Republic of Congo has been teetering on and falling off the point of collapse for the better part of a c…
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Added by Kitty on May 18, 2009 at 4:03pm —
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So, I purchased Roxio Media Suite 10 awhile ago. I'd heard good things, and harkened back nostalgically to a time when EZ CD Creator did indeed make my life easy, and gave me puppies and smiley faces and flowers to boot.
Sadly, such is not the case with Roxio Easy Media Creator 10 Deluxe Suite. Installing this was the easy part. I liked the idea of some of the features it offered; streamlined authoring, simpilifed dvd production when I didn't need the full power of Avid Liquid, and a way to act…
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Added by Kitty on May 2, 2009 at 6:42pm —
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To the few people who thought that my last post implicating hydroxycut products as garbage and snake oil was nothing but speculative nonsense... well... here's some crow you can eat.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/01/hydroxycut.fda.recall/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
The FDA has recalled all Hydroxycut products, linking them to liver damage. The FDA also is urging consumers to discontinue use of the products. While not being specific as to which ingredients are the culprits (for once, thank…
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Added by Kitty on May 1, 2009 at 10:46pm —
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I'm not going to sit around all day beleaguering talking points. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, myths, etc. My questions lie more in the fact that we seem to be dead set on forcing one or the other down everyone else's throats.
Open Source development by its very nature is a good idea. It allows a bunch of people to test and report bugs on software, and even fix it and submit fixes if they see fit. The downside to this is it's a lot like the chokepoint in communism, you can't really…
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Added by Kitty on April 27, 2009 at 10:16am —
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Bren (I think, please pardon my laziness in checking this atm >_<) mentioned energy drinks in the comments of my last post on diet myths (though apparently *some* people whos non-constructive replies weren't approved didn't realize it wasn't on diet, but MYTHS, i.e. reading skills/get some/coughmovingon) and since a friend of mine got me to try a new drink a few weeks ago, FRS, I thought I'd do a little write up here.
Well, first off let's have a look at the components :
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Added by Kitty on April 26, 2009 at 3:25pm —
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I don't even know where to begin, this is one of the best (read: funniest) internet scams I've seen in a long time. Anything relating to second life is obviously made of lolercopters to begin with, but this is better than average. I found this from a google ad advertising the second life enhancing properties of the SL top level domain registration. (spazlink: https://www.nic.sl/domain)
To quote their site, "AFcom has been officially committed by the National Telecommunication Committee (NATCOM)…
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Added by Kitty on April 23, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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Okay, so, a bit off the beaten path here, but I'm really big into fitness and dietary science, and have been since college (the little piece of paper collecting dust in my closet attests to the fact that at one time I had an avid interest in biochemistry.) Either way, I've run across a lot of myths recently about food, dieting, weight loss products, etc, and thought I would take some time to discuss them.
1) Drinking water helps, fact or fiction?
Drinking water does help, and the 8 glasses a d…
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Added by Kitty on April 23, 2009 at 12:39am —
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With IBM's fumbled attempt at purchasing the maker of solaris, java, and confusing/annoying naming conventions, follwed by the announcement that Sun would be going 'employee owned,' it came as some shock when the sudden, all but overnight development began circulating that Oracle would purchase Sun Microsystems, for pennies on the dollar over what IBM wanted to pay. Now, regardless of which side you are on, it seems to make a lot more sense for a number of reasons, the biggest being that Sparc s…
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Added by Kitty on April 20, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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Here comes the newest contender, offering yet another way to complicate your buying process.
The GTX 275 fits in the motorcycle parking space gap between the 260 and 280/85, boasting two versions, 896mb or 1792mb. Now, before you get all excited, it has the 240 cores, but uses the 260 memory subset, so the performance may not be as uber as it initially appears, but still g…
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Added by Kitty on April 17, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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Ok, so this board is made of 10 kinds of awesomeness. I don't regret buying my rampage II when I did, but this is just truly very sex. This will support everyhting including the kitchen sink.
- EATX
- 1600mhz DDR3 ('and beyond'), up to 24gb
- 9 sata ports in all 31derful flavours of raid
- 4
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Added by Kitty on April 17, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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For a long time I wanted an apple 30" cinema. Well, that was before I ran across the Samsung 305T. At just under 1200USD, it provides impeccable display specifications, fastest response time you can get for the size, and a max resolution of 2560x1600 for those of you who have to have those super-high resolutions, and a miniscule .25mm dot pitch that is an absolute…
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Added by Kitty on April 8, 2009 at 9:02am —
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