Flock 1.0.8

Flock 1.0.8
Flock is a free web browser that makes it easier than ever to share photos, stay up-to-date with news from your favorite sites, and search the Web. Flock for Windows could be anything you want to share with your friends or the world: a photo of your new ride or a song your band just recorded. Flock is also a secure and spyware free internet browser that will make it easier to connect with your online buddies. With Flock it's a snap to upload, comment, and discover new pics. Read all the news you care about, in one place. Blog freely. Get search results as soon as you start typing in the search box, and much more.


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Last.fm debuts free music service

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UK homes to get super-fast fibre

UK homes to get super-fast fibre
[quote]The UK's first "fibre town" could go online in the autumn, delivering speeds of about 100Mbps...

Mozilla Says Flaw Could Lead to Data Leak

Mozilla is working to fix a browser flaw that could give attackers unauthorized access to data on a victim's machine. The problem is similar to other data leakage flaws found in the open-source browser, according to researcher Gerry Eisenhaur, who first reported the problem on Saturday. Eisenhaur has posted sample code that reads the contents of... read more

Scythe unveils Zipang CPU cooler with 140mm fan

Scythe unveils Zipang CPU cooler with 140mm fan
Set on cooling the heck out of the little transistor colonies we call processors Scythe has now unveiled a brand new cooling solution, the Zipang. The cooler utilizes UPHC or Uneven Parallel Heatpipe Construction which takes the advantage of heatpipe attachment for both the top and the bottom portion of the heatsink fin, and, on top of that it features a nice 140mm fan to blow the heat out of the well... air.

The Zipang or SCZP-1000 is compatible with Intel Socket 478, 775 and AMD Socket 754, 939, 940 and AM2 motherboards and weights 815 grams. The bundled 140mm fan is certified to work at 1000 rpm when it has a noice output of 21 dBA and a top air flow of 51.82 CFM.

The Zipang has a suggested price tag of $58.00 or 44.95 euros (without VAT).

Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'

perspective The Microsoft chairman's well-intentioned pitch for corporate activism missed the root causes of poverty. (Hint: it's not lack of corporate charity.) read more

Google CEO bullish on mobile Web advertising

Eric Schmidt says mobile Web access is a "re-creation of the Internet" that will turn location-based advertising into big business. read more

Techconnect Review Round-up 25/1/08

CPU & Motherboard

- Jetway PA78GT3 AMD RS780+SB700 mainboard @ OCWorkbench
- ASUS ROG Rampage Formula @ AnandTech
- Asus Striker II Formula @ bit-tech

Memory

- Crucial Ballistix PC3-12800 2GB DDR3 Kit @ OC3D

Storage

- Patriot Xporter XT Boost 32GB @ HardwareZone

Graphics cards

- MSI RX2600PRO AGP @ Fudzilla
- GeForce 8800 Graphics Performance: GT vs GTS vs GTX @ BmR
- Sapphire's Ultimate HD 3850 and Atomic HD 3870 @ HotHardware
- Jetway and MSI 3870 @ Fudzilla
- Crossfire meets PCI Express 2.0 @ Tom’s Hardware

Enclosures & PSUs

- PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750 Quad – Crossfire Edition @ Fudzilla
- Thermaltake ToughPower 1000 Modular Power Supply @ ProClockers
- Apevia X-Telstar Steel Mid-tower Case @ OCIA
- Scythe Quiet Drive @ OC3D
- Raidmax Sagitta 2 PC Case @ ThinkComputers
- Thermaltake SwordM VD5000BNA Super Tower Chassis @ BigBruin
- Antec NeoPower 650 PSU @ SysOpt

Displays

- Hanns.G HG216D 22in LCD @ TrustedReviews

Cooling and modding

- CoolIT Beverage Chiller @ OC Online

Peripherals

- Styx Gaming Mouse Review @ Rbmods
- Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Review @ I4U News

Computers and laptops

- Gateway FX7020 @ Digital Trends

Other

- HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 and RocketRAID 2300 RAID Controllers Review @ Overclockers Club
- Nokia E51 executive phone @ RegHardware
- Samsung SCX-4500 printer @ TrustedReviews read more

Simple system eases remote access

Simple system eases remote access

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Friday 25 January 2008 at 00:00:00

RealVNC's Enterprise Edition can boost home working and business collaboration

Released in November, version 4.3 of RealVNC's VNC Enterprise Edition (VNC EE) builds on the capabilities of the open source Virtual Network Computing (VNC) remote access system to cater for...

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Nokia captures 40% of phone market, has new record quarter

Nokia captures 40% of phone market, has new record quarter
Finnish mobile magician, Nokia has now posted its latest quarterly results and it looks like it ended 2007 with a bang. In Q4 of last year Nokia's net sales topped 15.7 billion euros, up 34% over the 11.7 billion resulted in the same period of 2006.

The last three months of 2007 have seen 133.5 million Nokia mobile phones shipped, up 27% on year and enough to secure the company a 40% share in the mobile phone market, an increase of 1% on-quarter. That number not only puts Nokia way in front but it actually means that it shipped more units in Q4 than the next three vendors' shipment volumes combined. Better yet, the average selling price experienced during the quarter went up one Euro to reach 83 euros.

For 2008 Nokia is looking to increase its market share still by taking advantage of the growth of emerging markets where it is already doing quite good and has established a strong brand.

Review: Nokia adds VoIP to business handset

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Monday 21 January 2008 at 00:00:00

The Nokia E51 fits the business essentials into a slim handset with IP telephony support

Nokia's E51 handset is aimed squarely at business users, offering email access and advanced capabilities such as IP telephony over Wi-Fi, yet delivers this in a slimline and unobtrusive design in keeping...

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Apple applies to light up laptop touchpads, iPod clickwheels

Apple has touched on a new way to help you find your way around its products. The company has registered technology in the US that could see the iPod’s clickwheel or your MacBook Air’s touchpad light-up when you finger it.

The patent application, which was filed recently with the US Patent and Trademark Office, shows in block diagram form how the inclusion of a lighting mechanism would help guide users around a device by relating menu options to lighting changes. It's little like someone switching the hallway light on and off for every step you take up the stairs.

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EA pushes ad-backed video games

EA pushes ad-backed video games
[quote] Electronic Arts is to release a free online version of the popular Battlefield game to be...

Crysis soundtrack to be released next week

Crysis soundtrack to be released next week
Sumthing Else Music Works has inked a licensing deal with Crytek which will see it release the original soundtrack of the GPU-killing FPS (first-person shooter), Crysis. The soundtrack features over an hour of original orchestral music written and conducted by award-winning film, television and video game composer Inon Zur and performed by the Northwest Sinfonia Orchestra.

Crysis' soundtrack is set to be released via retail stores, iTunes and www.sumthingdigital.com next week on January 29. No upgrade required this time.

The price of coming clean

TypePad Blogs, Sunday 20 January 2008 at 13:53:45

Oh dear. It seems that data security blunders have hit a new and rather embarrassing low. Alongside drivers , benefit claimants and...

Oh dear. It seems that data security blunders have hit a new and rather embarrassing low. Alongside drivers, benefit claimants and seemingly most of the UK population, now sexually diseased - sorry, sexually unabashed - citizens have found themselves exposed to the risk of ID fraud. Sneak has discovered that respondents to a confidential sexual health survey conducted by the Manchester Health Watchdog were all thanked for their participation, via a group email. Problem is that the watchdog forgot to conceal the addresses of those they were contacting, so everyone now knows everyone who took part. Terrible stuff, although quite what good the information would be to an ID fraudster Sneak is not sure, aside from blackmail. Nonetheless it has rattled those taking part. "It makes me wonder just how confidential the information they've collected really is and if it's even being protected at all. I'd urge people to think twice before participating in any online survey now," 21 year old linguistics student Christopher Garrett is reported as saying. Well, indeed Chris, especially a survey like that one. Oh dear. It seems that data security blunders have hit a new and rather embarrassing low. Alongside drivers, benefit claimants and seemingly most of the UK population, now sexually...

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Futuremark launches 3DMark bang for buck meter

Futuremark launches 3DMark bang for buck meter
After a period of testing and tweaking 3DMark Next developer Futuremark has now announced the full release of the "Price and Performance Information Page." Available here at YouGamers.com, the new service is set to give you an idea of what components have the best bang for buck score and it is based on the not as accurate as you'd want 3DMark06 and CNET Shopper.

The service basically analyzes the user-submitted 3DMark06 scores and pairs the components tested with their current retail prices resulting in a 'score' which indicates how much performance you can get for your money. The charts include best graphics card, and single, dual- and quad-core processors.

Grid computing expands its reach

Grid computing expands its reach

Martin Courtney, IT Week, Tuesday 18 December 2007 at 00:00:00

Platform Computing chief executive Songnian Zhou explains the lure of grid computing

IT Week: How much demand is there for distributed computing power among enterprises? Songnian Zhou: We have customers ramping up application processing demands very quickly, and they cannot do it...

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Layoffs on the Horizon at Yahoo

A Yahoo spokesperson's statement to BetaNews this morning appears to indicate that the company may b... read more

Take-Two stock jumps on 'GTA IV' release date

Take-Two stock jumps on 'GTA IV' release date
Take-Two Interactive Software will release the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV video game on April 29.

Grid computing expands its reach

Martin Courtney, IT Week, Tuesday 18 December 2007 at 00:00:00

Platform Computing chief executive Songnian Zhou explains the lure of grid computing

IT Week: How much demand is there for distributed computing power among enterprises? Songnian Zhou: We have customers ramping up application processing demands very quickly, and they cannot do it...

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My Pictures 3D Album 1.0 Beta

My Pictures 3D Album 1.0 Beta
My Pictures 3D Album 1.0 Beta Publisher’s Description: My Pictures 3D Album is a new exciting way to show off your photos. This program lets you create stunning 3D albums and share them with friends. It is an extraordinary way to show off and store your photo collection in 3D Photo Albums. This program gives you an [...]

My Pictures 3D Album 1.0 Beta

Publisher’s Description:

My Pictures 3D Album is a new exciting way to show off your photos. This program lets you create stunning 3D albums and share them with friends. It is an extraordinary way to show off and store your photo collection in 3D Photo Albums. This program gives you an opportunity to place each photo in the certain location in picturesque 3D galleries, fine-tune pictures and then view in the 3D virtual space.

Latest Changes:
* Adds the ability to export galleries to Adobe Shockwave format

Released: January 10, 2008
Publisher: VicMan Software
License: Shareware; $24.95 to buy
Limitations: Yes; 15 day timeout
OS Support: Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP
Uninstaller?: Yes

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Resource .NET 2.8.2944

Resource .NET is a freeware utility developed for easily refresh embedded graphic resources in a .NET assembly. A standalone tool that does not require installation.

Features:

• Support .resX(Microsoft ResX Schema 1.3 .NET 1.1/2.0 .NET 2.0) and .resources files
• Support ImageList/Bmp/Icon/String/Cursor...etc. all resource type.
• Support imagelist import/export.

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Next Microsoft Office will continue to support VBA

It has been the "macro" language for Microsoft Word since Office 97, even while Microsoft has moved Office developers toward .NET. But now members of the Visual Studio team are saying Visual Basic for Apps isn't going anywhere. In response to reports that cropped up last week saying that Microsoft is finally shutting down support for Visual Basic f... read more

Last.fm debuts free music service

Last.fm debuts free music service
[quote]Social music site Last.fm has launched what it describes as the world's biggest free music se...

VIAs New Low-Power Architecture

VIAs New Low-Power Architecture
Isaiah revealed: VIA’s new low-power architecture January 23, 2008 - 11:01PM CT By Jon Stokes So much of the PC world’s coverage is focused on the horse race between Intel and its archrival AMD that we often forget about the other x86 processor company out there, the one that’s still well-known among the crowd of tweakers, hackers, and [...]

Isaiah revealed: VIA’s new low-power architecture
January 23, 2008 - 11:01PM CT
By Jon Stokes

So much of the PC world’s coverage is focused on the horse race between Intel and its archrival AMD that we often forget about the other x86 processor company out there, the one that’s still well-known among the crowd of tweakers, hackers, and enthusiasts who build their own home firewall boxes and in-car PCs.

I’m talking, of course, about VIA, maker of the low-power, low-cost, and also relatively low-performance x86 processors at the heart of many special-purpose DIY boxes. VIA’s processors, designed by the company’s Centaur subsidiary, focus on keeping costs and power down at the expense of performance.

VIA’s newly launched processor architecture, known for the last three years by its codename, “Isaiah,” will keep the company’s focus on cost and power intact while taking things in a substantially different direction. In short, this year will see something truly odd happen on the low end of the x86 market: VIA and Intel will, architecturally speaking, switch places.

Intel will take a giant step down the power/performance ladder with the debut of Silverthorne/Diamondville, its first in-order x86 processor design since the original Pentium, while VIA will attempt to move up into Intel’s territory with its first-ever out-of-order, fully buzzword-compliant processor, Isaiah.

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