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  • Jul
  • 04
  • 2008

Apple orders 50 million 8 GB NAND flash chips

In a move that is believed to help Apple to secure low NAND flash memory prices as well as create artificial shortages for competitors, Apple has ordered 50 million flash memory chips for its iPhones and iPods from Samsung Electronics. Apple huge order is in place to support an increase in iPhone production.

Multi-touch display Albatron demonstrates first Windows 7 multi-touch LCD Nvidia rolls out Tegra Nvidia's open challenge for Intel: A computer on a chip. >> See all TG Daily slideshows

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  • Jun
  • 30
  • 2008

[Linux] 2.6.26: almost there

Look for more change once the 2.6.27 merge window opens. Ill be cleaning out a bunch of older stuff then as well.

I added a few entries to the pages while I was there. HP donated AdvFS, which is a welcome body of code even if it will never be shipped in the mainline kernel in anything close to its current form. The GEM memory manager is interesting: it looks…

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  • Jun
  • 25
  • 2008

Firefox 3 Benchmarks and Trending

14 hours of usage and over 1 million data points help the author benchmark 5 popular browsers–Safari, Firefox 3, Flock, Opera 9.5, and Internet Explorer 8. Firefox 3 has some impressive new numbers.

Many people load hundreds of web pages, sometimes at the same time, often over periods of 3+ hours. Users complain about the memory usage of Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer, and we need a way to identify which browsers are better at…

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  • Jun
  • 25
  • 2008

13 Tips for Using Memory Cards

Learn how to keep your memory cards happy and content and keep your data safe.

My recommendation is to never format or delete images from a memory card on your computer. I believe most camera manufacturers will echo that. You should always delete images from the camera, not the computer. Digital cameras are fairly touchy…

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  • Jun
  • 24
  • 2008

Fullscreen Mode Gets Serious in Firefox 3

Firefox 3’s new and improved fullscreen browsing introduces a truly fullscreen experience, utilizing every last pixel of your monitor for the web page. By default the new fullscreen autohides any visible toolbars, though you can bring them back at any time by hovering your mouse over the top edge of the screen.

Firefox 3's new and improved fullscreen browsing introduces a truly fullscreen experience, utilizing every last pixel of your monitor for the web page. By default the new fullscreen autohides any visible toolbars, though you can bring them…

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  • Jun
  • 24
  • 2008

7 Ways to Use Wordpress and Still Survive Digg Effect

Wordpress is notoriously famous for going down during Digg Effect, a phenomena when 1000s of digg users try to visit a site in a very short time when it hits the front page, simulating a form of DDOS causing the site to go down.

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  • Jun
  • 12
  • 2008

Creating Seamless Virtual Machine with Virtualbox

Detail guide to configuring Seamless Virtual Machine.

Latest Posts: Converting RPM to Debian Package and Vice Versa, Using Alien 5 Ways to Screencast Your Linux Desktop 10 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktop. Configuring Automated backup with TimeVault How Does your Conky setup Look Like?…

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  • Jun
  • 11
  • 2008

Compiz gets docking (and more Compiz news…)

What might be the beginning of Compiz’ very own dock is a new feature demonstration plugin for Compiz that allows for gorgeous window docking. But there’s more activity on the Compiz front, such as a physics engine for Compiz, an “elements” plugin that adds snow, firefly, stars, autumn and bubbles, a sphere-deformation for Atlantis, and more…

I am looking for a physic engine to implement, I don’t like akamaru for the lack of documentation, but chipmunk seems to be good. I’ll have a look to see if I can make rectangles stay horizontal, so don’t worry if you…

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  • Jun
  • 05
  • 2008

Why Firefox 3 matters

Review and summary of the most important new features in Firefox 3 RC2, which should actually be the final version of Firefox 3.

Xcor suborbital spacecraft One step closer to space tourism: XCOR to launch in 2010 Intel Atom Processor Intel unveiled at IDF Spring its smallest x86 processor taking aim at the handheld market. >> See all TG Daily slideshows

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  • Jun
  • 05
  • 2008

Official: Firefox 3 RC2 released!

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 14,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability.

We need help from developers and the testing community to provide as much feedback as possible to make Firefox even better. Please read these notes and the bug filing instructions before reporting any bugs to Bugzilla. You can also give us your…

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  • Jun
  • 04
  • 2008

How to fit 1TB of data on one tiny thumbdrive

New memory better, cheaper and more efficient than flash

“A thumb drive using our memory could store a terabyte of information,” Michael Kozicki, director of ASU's Center for Applied Nanoionics, told Wired magazine. “All the current limitations in portable electronic storage could go…

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  • Jun
  • 04
  • 2008

Use memory on video card as swap

Everybody considers today’s graphic cards to be meant only for gamers. After all, why would one need a fast GPU in a server? Today’s graphic cards contain a lot of very fast RAM, typically between 64 and 512 MB. With Linux, it’s possible to use it as swap space, or even as RAM disk!

# lspci -vvv 0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R300 AD [Radeon 9500 Pro] (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: PC Partner Limited: Unknown device 7c07 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-…

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  • May
  • 20
  • 2008

A tantalizing taste of Firefox 3: testing RC1

The first Firefox 3 release candidate has been released and is now available for download. This tantalizing taste of Firefox 3 is stable enough for widespread use, but there are still a few more bugs that have to be resolved before the official release.

There are few noticeable differences between beta 5 and release candidate 1. The browser has gotten a bit of added polish, including bug fixes and minor artwork improvements. This release is robust enough for day-to-day use and is ideal…

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  • May
  • 18
  • 2008

Robot trained to pick up lamps, eggs

Delicate movements by robots are fairly difficult. After all, most robots are made of milled metals and death-dealing neutronium, so you cant really pick up egg or an electric lamp”

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  • May