 News Archive | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LucidLogix Introduces Unity Graphics Board Architecture | |
Today LucidLogix Technologies (Lucid) announced its arming video card manufacturers with the new Unity graphics board architecture for the HYDRALOGIX (previously known as HYDRA) engine. Now graphics board vendors for the first time can combine a single HYDRALOGIX 200 real time distributed processor with any single NVIDIA or ATI GPU, creating an affordable, flexible multi-GPU-ready graphics card that can make any motherboard a high... [Read More] |  | AMD To Kill ATI Brand Name |
Yep, the rumors are true. AMD does indeed intend to do away with the ATI name, eliminating the "ATI Radeon" co-branding the company has steadfastly maintained since its acquisition of ATI. The firm briefed us on its plans late last week and explained several factors influencing its decision.
As one might expect, a major motivator is the fact AMD plans to introduce a range of new products incorporating both AMD... [Read More] | | uTorrent 2.0.4 |
uTorrent is the world's most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in uTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, uTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.
uTorrent was... [Read More] | | Graphics Functionality And Performance Update for Windows 7 | |
This update (KB2028560) is a separate package of changes that must be installed in addition to Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This update provides new functionality and performance improvements for the graphics platform. You should also install this update to support features in an upcoming release of an Internet Explorer 9 platform preview build. After you install this item, you may need to restart your computer.
| | Research Experiment Disrupts Internet |
An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday, disrupting a small percentage of Internet traffic. The damage could have been far worse however, and the incident shows just how fragile one of the Internet's core protocols really is, security experts say.
The problem started just before 9am GMT Friday and lasted less than half an hour. It was kicked off... [Read More] | | Intel Sandy Bridge Preview |
The mainstream quad-core market has been neglected ever since we got Lynnfield in 2009. Both the high end and low end markets saw a move to 32nm, but if you wanted a mainstream quad-core desktop processor the best you could get was a 45nm Lynnfield from Intel. Even quad-core Xeons got the 32nm treatment.
That's all going to change starting next year. This time it's the masses that get the upgrade first. While Nehalem... [Read More] | | DivX 8.1.1 | |
DivX 8 is a free download that provides everything consumers need to enjoy high-quality digital videos on the computer, including HD H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of DivX technology. Consumers can also play DivX files (.divx, .avi) on millions of DivX Certified devices today. Look for DivX Plus Certified devices later this year that will support playback of all DivX and DivX Plus files,... [Read More] | | Valve Want To Make The Half-Life Movie Themselves | |
Valve’s CEO and co-founder, Gabe Newell, has told PC Gamer that the only way there’d be a Half-Life movie would be if Valve made it themselves. He also said they’ve been experimenting with doing just that. Tom interviewed the living daylights out of Gabe, and came up with the whole history behind the Half-Life movie – it turns out that they were approached by lots of rubbish proposals for movie cash-ins, and felt that the only creative... [Read More] | | Apple Removes Boot Camp From OSX Server |
Apple has removed the Boot Camp dual-boot utility from its pre-installed Mac OS X Server operating system. Here’s the knowledge base article: "Boot Camp is not included with Macs that ship with Mac OS X Server pre-installed. This includes all Xserves as well as Mac mini and Mac Pro configurations that include Mac OS X Server."
This is probably not a big deal for the big guys using Xservers, but Apple ships OS X... [Read More] | | Gmail Users Dial Over a Million Times in 24 hours | |
Let's put that number into perspective. In February, Gmail was the number three web-based email service with slightly less than 11 percent of the market. Yahoo had 56.46 percent market share of US visits and MSN's Windows Live Mail was number two at 19.14 percent. With nearly 175 million users, Google is pushing Gmail to become a direct competitor to FaceBook's 500 million claimed users. Google wants to offer more and more features so the... [Read More] | | Acclaim Shuts Down |
Acclaim, the shuttered classic game maker reborn in 2005 as an online game company, shut down the vast majority of its online games Thursday, according to the company's website. All Acclaim's client-based online games switched off on August 26. The company is offering reimbursement of Acclaim's virtual currency Acclaim Coins, and specifically for players of the game 9Dragons, refunds on purchases made in the last 30 days.
[Read More] | | VLC Media Player 1.1.4 | |
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, OGG, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, MP3, MPEG-4, AAC and more) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols. It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn't need any external codec, program or codec pack to... [Read More] |  | | Our Software | | | | | | | | | | Recent Files | | | | | | | | | | | | Recent Threads | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
