Archive for October, 2006

Halloween Special: Pumpkin Computer

This Halloween season a group of guys have built a special pumpkin computer, here is the pumpkin computer’s configuration are:

Dell Latitude D410 laptop board
1.6 ghz Pentium M
Intel 2200 802.11g
60GB HDD
512MB DDR2
DVDR/RW Drive

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NVIDIA to Enter x86 CPU Market

Nvidia is planning to enter x86 CPU market by 2008, Nvidia is builiding an integerated CPU+GPU x86 CPU which is expected to compete with mighty Intel and AMD. Nvidia is developing this CPU with ex-Intel engineers from Stexar (a company founded by ex-Intel Engineers). The CPU’s from Nvidia are expected to be built using 45nm [...]

Apple Video iPods Shipped With Trojan

Apple Video iPods which were shipped after September 12, 2006 are found to be infected by a trojan called RavMonE.exe. The number of iPods expected to be infected this trojan is less than 1%. Mac OSX users don’t have to worry because this trojan does not affect Mac OSX, this trojan propagates via mass storage [...]

Intel Core 2 Duo with 1333 MHz FSB by Q2 2007

Intel will be launching updated Core 2 Duo (conroe) in 4 new offerings with 1333 MHz FSB, these processors are expected to use the upcoming Bearlake 3 family of Chipsets. The four new variants are:

E6850 Clocking at 3.0 GHz with 1333 MHz FSB featuring 4MB of L2 cache.
E6800 Clocking at 2.93 GHz with 1066 MHz [...]

Fingerprint Activated Hard Drive Encryption in Lenovo Notebooks

Lenovo has introduced fingerprint activated hard drive encryption into their Thinkpad notebooks, using this facility the user of a Thinkpad notebook can encrypt their hard drives with a touch of their finger. These notebooks will be mostly preferred by corporate users as they don’t want their confidential information to fall into the wrong hands incase [...]

How to Make Speakers Out of Your Hard Disk Drive

Instructables has published an article which describes step by step procedure for turning your old dead hard disk drive into a speaker. I wanted to try out this but currently I do not have a dead hard disk drive. Though it looks weird but the guy who thought about it was indeed very creative, [...]

Picked Up Dell Inspiron 6400

At last I have got myself a Intel Core 2 Duo based laptop, I had ordered Dell Inspiron 6400 on 29.09.06 and it arrived on 14.10.06. I actually had two laptops in mind and it was pretty difficult for me to decide between these two; one was Dell XPS 1210 with 12.1″ widescreen and Dell [...]

Sanyo Ultra Small Microphone for Mobile Headsets

Sanyo Corporation of Japan is expected to launch an ultra small microphone that could benefit James Bond. This new microphone which fits inside the ear could make mobile phone and media player headsets almost invisible in future. This microphone is powered by Sanyo’s LC70700W chip which uses sophisticated signal processing technology.
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