During this year's blistering hot summer, one computer shop owner couldn't take it anymore, and decided to take matters into his own hands ... or should I say his shop!
It's a work of art ... and you should hear the noise that came out of this masterpiece! Loud wouldn't even begin to describe it. It's pretty cool though ... get it? LOL!
We've just published a review on CoolIT's ECO ALC - Advanced Liquid Cooler. It's an all-in-one liquid/water based cooling solution that's easy to install. Now you can have watercooling in your system at the fraction of the cost. Here's a snip ...
"In this review, we'll be taking a look at the CoolIT ECO A.L.C - Advanced Liquid Cooling for CPUs. It's designed for both AMD (AM2, AM2+, AM3) and Intel processors (LGA 775, 1156, 1366), and features an ultra low profile and compact design that's easy to intsall in only a few simple steps. The waterblock unit has a built-in 3-pin powered pump, and on the underside of this waterblock, you'll find a copper base that's covered with a layer of CoolIT's advanced thermal compand. This allows for quick heat transfer between the CPU and the waterblock.
Other great features include the compact heat exchanger or radiator, which is also easy-to-mount (to the back of most computer chassis) and consists copper micro channels for superior heat dissipation. The whole system is filled with a non-toxic coolant that has anti-fungal and anti-corrosive properties. This liquid coolant is then pumped around, via sturdy tubing to the heat exchanger or radiator, which is then cooled by a 120mm fan which spins at 1,800 rpm."
"THE LATEST BETA of Skype 5.0 for Windows has a group video chat feature. According to the Skype blog the second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes but the most obvious is that you can now make group video calls with up to 10 people.
We are not sure how many systems can handle ten video streams at once but Skype has been playing with video compression techniques for some time. However the video function has been the most unreliable aspect of Skype and typically causes the most crashes. Skype says that its Skype 5.0 beta 2 has a fresh new look as well as increased stability and better quality when making group video calls. Actually it looks about the same to us with a few more icons."
Thanks to a close friend for sending over this pictures ... He was upgrading his Sony VIAO Z115 with a SSD and 8GB of DDR3 ram. If you've got the bottle and the skills to dismantle your Sony VIAO Z115 ... then this is what you'll see.
"Taiwan makers expect shipment growth in 4Q10 from latest Apple products. Apple's iPod touch manufacturer Quanta Computer, iPod nano manufacturer Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and iPod shuffle manufacturer Inventec Appliances are expected to benefit from the latest announced Apple products and see shipment growth in the fourth quarter, according to market watchers.
The market watchers forecast that Quanta will ship more than 10 million iPad touches by the end of 2010, helping to ease the company's lower-than-expected sales of notebook products. In addition to the iPad nano, Foxconn is also the manufacturer of the newly announced Apple TV."
"Need some extra storage? Sounding like something out of a TV infomercial, LaCie's new MosKeyto (Get it? Geeeet it?) is so tiny, you won't even know it's there! But really, this thing is clever—stick it in and forget. On the other hand, the 20 mm (extending only 6 mm out of your laptop!) MosKeyto would be really, really easy to lose—so handle with care. Available in up to 16 GB.[LaCie]"
"A STEREOSCOPIC 3D SMARTPHONE will be launched this year, and by stereoscopic its manufacturer Sharp means it will not need passive or active shutter glasses for depth perception.
At IFA 2010 Sharp has been demonstating its stereoscopic 3D screen technology for smartphones and tablets, which was unveiled in April but it is now talking products. A 3.8-inch and a 10.6-inch stereoscopic 3D screen was on display. Sharp LCD marketing development senior director Q Nishishiba told The INQUIRER, "There will be a smartphone product later this year. It will have a 4.3-inch screen but I can't say who the customer is. The 10.6-inch screen will come in tablet products later."
The displays use what Sharp calls its parallax barrier technolog. A parallax barrier is placed in front of the normal LCD and consists of a layer of material with a series of precision slits, allowing each eye to see a different set of pixels creating the sense of depth. To get this effect however the screen has to be at a specific distance and for the 10.6-inch and 3.8-inch displays its 50cm and 30cm respectively."
"Jobs: "We think we are ahead of everyone"; Google says CEO of Apple's claims are inaccurate. Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs, whose star iPhone has been passed by a surging Google in U.S. sales, blasted Google at his company's product release event yesterday.
Mr. Jobs claims that Google CEO Eric Schmidt's announcement at the start of August that his company was activating 200,000+ Android devices a day globally was a falsehood. When asked questions about that number, he responded, "We think some of our friends are counting upgrades in their numbers."
"Not everybody needs the world's fastest mobile GPU, so NVIDIA is sagely trickling down its Fermi magic to more affordable price points today. The 400M family is being fleshed out with five new midrange parts -- GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M, to give them their gorgeous names -- and a pair of heavy hitters known as the GTX 470M and GTX 460M. Features shared across the new range include a 40nm fab process, DirectX 11, CUDA general-purpose computing skills, PhysX, and Optimus graphics switching. 3D Vision and 3DTV Play support will be available on all but the lowest two variants. NVIDIA claims that, on average, the 400M graphics cards are 40 percent faster than their 300M series counterparts, and since those were rebadges of the 200M series, we're most definitely willing to believe that assertion."
"Hewlett-Packard on Thursday officially won storage vendor 3Par after Dell declined to match a $33 a share, or $2.4 billion, bid. Dell’s statement on the matter ended a wild bidding war that started at $18 a share for 3Par. Dell said in a statement that it will get a $72 million breakup fee. The company added that its final offer was for $32 a share.
The 3Par bidding war reflected the animosity between two fierce rivals, Dell and HP, and the fact that there aren’t many enterprise storage players to buy.
Earlier on Thursday, 3Par said Hewlett-Packard has raised its offer to $33 a share for the storage company, or $2.4 billion, after Dell countered with a $32 a share offer. 3Par deemed HP’s bid as superior. HP had bid $30 for 3Par and Dell countered with $32 a share. Dell also revised a termination fee to $92 million."
"Here it is, the new (and completely redesigned) iPod nano. Super thin, super light, and really, the capacitive multitouch works very well. The screen is crisp and top menu navigation is smooth, but can't say we have great feel for moving back out of sub menus (via swipe or holding down the screen). We're going back for seconds and thirds, peep the initial gallery below!
Update: Okay, we've gotten much more quality time with the nano, and we'll admit that after some brief practice, the menu navigation is nice both going in and out of menus -- holding the middle will take some getting used to, if only because you gotta avoid any other on-screen items that beckon for your digits. Probably due to the small size of the screen, there is no pinch-to-zoom for photos. Instead, we're using a simple double-tap motion to a fixed zoom in / zoom out distance."
