May 2005

Intel demos a Mac-mini look-alike

By Simon Burns TAIPEI, Taiwan — A new Wintel prototype that openly apes Apple Computer’s popular Mac mini is due out this week, sources told Wired News, giving Intel a showcase to prove its chips are a match for anyone when it comes to tiny PC designs. Working prototypes of the Mac mini look-alike running [...]

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Ethernet Crossover Adapter & Ethernet Loopback Jack

For all of our sys/network admin readers out there, we feature a pair of very handy tools: the Ethernet Crossover Adapter & the Ethernet Loopback Jack. The ones among you have tested out an ethernet cable or searched through your box of cables for a crossover will say “Ah. At last!” For the uninitiated, the [...]

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Blue LEDs make some folks see Red

A rare sight only five years ago, blue LEDs now seem to be everywhere: on laptops, DVD players, air ionizers and even toothbrushes. And they have some consumers seeing red. Some people find the blue LED “distracting” and “annoying”. While red and green LEDs have been available for decades, blue LEDs only became practical in [...]

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Review: Gmail vs Yahoo! Mail vs Hotmail

Remember when everyone operated a portal and offered a free e-mail account with a web interface? Yahoo, Netscape, Excite, Lycos, etc. The storage wasn’t anything spectacular by today’s standards – typically less than 10MB, but since then storage on these free e-mail accounts really hasn’t grown in step with the drop in prices of storage [...]

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CNN – Top 25: Innovations

(CNN) — The world was different before the Internet. Without the Internet, you would not be reading this. There would be no way to instantly find the name of the movie your favorite actor was in five years ago or how much it costs to fly to Aruba. Shopping required braving the elements and the [...]

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New Slappa Googlewhacking Contest Started

Check out this week’s contest sponsored by Slappa. First prize will be a 160 count CD case, second place is their 80 CD case and third place will be a 40 CD case. This weeks giveaway will be the Blue Family Collection.

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Sony Under-Cabinet Kitchen LCD TV, CD Player

Entertainment options abound in the busiest room in the house! The ICF-CD555TV mounts easily under a kitchen cabinet, and includes a CD player, an AM/FM tuner, and a flip-down 7″ LCD widesceen TV! You can follow along with a cooking show, watch the news, or just relax with your favorite programs — the color LCD [...]

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Samsung to Make 16GB Flash Drive

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews Samsung says it has developed a way to store up to 16GB of data using Flash memory, a development that could lead to extended battery life for notebook and tablet PCs. Flash memory has a power consumption that is five percent of today’s hard disk drive, according to the company. These [...]

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Denon AVR-3805 Home-Theater A/V Receiver

It was about time we featured a kick-ass A/V receiver for you home theater gizmo buffs out there and the Denon AVR-3805 certainly fits that bill. Boasting 120 watts x 7 channels of powerful, pristine, totally engrossing home theater surround, the AVR-3805 envelopes you in remarkably involving, lifelike sound. In addition to Dolby® Digital EX [...]

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Video-game consoles get ready for HD

By Dean Takahashi, Mercury News Mon May 23,11:01 AM ET LOS ANGELES – The “HD era” is coming as a new generation of video-game consoles gives gaming a dose of high-definition cinema. Or at least that’s the party line from Microsoft and Sony, repeated at every opportunity during the E3 trade show in Los Angeles [...]

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