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This Week in Geek: Hacking Your Wii, New AMD Chips, ATI Cards, and Core i7 Rumors

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

This week, the biggest buzz was about Google Buzz, few of the hardware stories that might have been buried under the wave of social-networking stories.

How to Hack Your Wii For Homebrew Apps and Games

Looking to do more with your Wii? The Homebrew Channel provides a thriving community of developers and users looking to bring some amazing new features to the aging Wii console, including emulation, DVD and game playback from other regions, and the ability to run Linux. Mike Keller provides instructions for installing Homebrew on your Wii, which is easier than ever thanks to the mature Homebrew scene. Game on!

AMD Details Speed, Power Saving Features of Fusion

Code-named Llano, the new quad-core AMD Fusion processor running at speeds in excess of 3.0 GHz is due for release in 2011. A hybrid chip that combines a graphics processor and a CPU on a single piece of silicon, Fusion’s integrated graphics processor will natively support DirectX 11, allowing users to view Blu-ray movies or play 3D games. While the heat output from all four cores on a Fusion chip could be 100 watts, AMD’s new power management capabilities allow more efficient control of the chip’s energy draw, ensuring a cool processing and gaming experience.

ATI Introduces Radeon HD 5570, Targets Small Desktop PCs

Right after announcing the affordable Radeon HD 5450 line of GPUs, ATI introduced the energy-efficient, high-performance Radeon HD 5570, which is geared toward small form factor PCs. The new card supports both Direct X 11 and OpenGL 3.2, can drive up to three monitors, and only draws 45 watts when under a full processing load. Newegg is selling the HD 5570s for around $85.

Rumor: Core i7 coming soon to MacBook Pro?

The Apple rumor mill is at it again, but this time it has nothing to do with mythical tablets: Instead, reports are circulating that Apple will release an updated MacBook Pro featuring Intel’s newest Core i7 chips. What leads credence to this rumor? A recent benchmark test spotted on the Geekbench Web site lists a system that identifies itself as a MacBookPro 6,1. Current MacBook Pros identify themselves with “5,x” codes.

Details include a 2.66GHz Core i7 processor and an unreleased build of Mac OS X (10.6.2 Build 10C3067; the current release is 10.6.2 build 10C540). However, the track record of the site that announced this rumor is spotty at best, so your guess is as good as ours as to the validity of this leak.

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Shiny gadget becomes jokes pad

Friday, January 29th, 2010

It’s really wondered, if you have found any women in the room when the marketing geniuses at Apple decided to call the company’s new gadget the “iPad.” Because the jokes about feminine hygiene products are flying.

On Twitter, a joke went “Will women send their husbands to the Apple store to buy iPads?” And a “MadTV” comedy sketch from several years ago about an electronic sanitary napkin called the iPad went viral on YouTube.

So how did the company come up with the product name? And how could Apple have set itself up for such obvious punch lines?

Apple, a company notoriously secret about its product development process, declined to comment about the name or how many women were involved in the launch. Three Apple execs — all men — introduced the iPad at its unveiling in San Francisco.

But brand experts said the name’s not so bad.

Tye Heckler, a vice president at Seattle-based Hecker Associates, said, it fits with what Apple’s been doing consistently. They take literal words that exist and stick an ‘i’ in front of it. And it works for them. It’s not offensive despite the silly jokes, which is responsible for the store names Cinnabon, Panera and Starbucks.

Ira Kalb, associate director of the Center for Global Innovation at the University of Southern California’s business school, said: “Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know this is an Apple product just by the ‘i’ in front, and you know what it does by what `pad’ connotes.”

Kalb said the jokes are probably good for Apple — more buzz — and will eventually pass. He said other names floated for the product — iTab, iSlate or iTablet — would have been far worse. ITablet has too many syllables. ISlate is too ancient. ITab is too confusing.

Apple is all about innovation and ease of use. Those names just don’t go with that, he said.
According to the Patent and Trademark Office database, more than 20 people or companies have tried to trademark “ipad,” “ipads” or “ipads.com” over the years, for such things as vaccines, stationery, makeup remover, bra padding and a host of electronics.

If the iPad sells, it won’t be the first time a company has been mocked for its name, only to have the product fly off the shelves.

Nintendo was swamped with potty-training jokes after it announced its new game console: Wii.

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Sun Updates Java SE 6 for Performance

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

For the first time, Sun is updating Java this year providing fixes for over 300 bugs. While the total bug tally may seem high, the latest Java update more about enhancing features and performance than it is about security fixes.

That’s because Java SE 6 Update 18 (also known as 6u18) does not include any security updates at all—unlike its predecessor, Java SE 6 Update 17, which was released in November 2009 and included fixes for multiple vulnerabilities. Still, that doesn’t make the new update—which may turn out to be the last from Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) before it is acquired by Oracle—any less significant.

To Dave Hofert, senior group marketing manager for the Java Platform Group at Sun, the release marks a high-water mark for Java.

According to Hofert, the largest improvement in this release is the performance work that we did for our virtual machine, called HotSpot. “This helps improve performance for both Java and JavaFX applications.” After that, we have improved the usability of the Java installer (we have replaced the underlying installer mechanism) and of Java Web Start applications,” with a clearer progress bar, he said.

Other improvements in 6u18 usher in still more performance gains. For instance, with the new release, Sun noted that that jar file creation is faster.

The 6u18 release notes state that the fix of a long-standing bug related to jar file creation has greatly improved creation time. It also improves the startup time for Java applications and applets. JavaFX, in particular, gets a runtime speed boost. JavaFX is Sun’s effort to create an RIA that aims to compete against AJAX, Flash and Silverlight. With the 6u18 update, Sun’s efforts have improved the start of JavaFX applications by as much as 15 percent, it said.

The performance of user interface (UI) applications also gets a boost by way of smaller memory consumption by text rasterizer and faster processing of images. Memory handling overall has been improved with the 6u18 release as well.

The Sun release notes state that in the Client JVM (Java Virtual Machine), the default Java heap configuration has been modified to improve the performance of today’s rich client applications. “Initial and maximum heap sizes are larger and settings related to generational garbage collection are better tuned.”

With Java SE 6 Update 18, Sun has also makes it possible to read larger .ZIP files of up to 4 gigabytes in size. Previous Java releases were limited to being able to read .ZIP files of only 2GB or less.

Java Security Updates to Come

Sun provides two different types of Java updates: General releases with bug fixes and enhancements, such as 6u18; and security-only updates, which take place three times a year.

“The reason we do this is that many enterprise customers wish to adopt the security updates as fast as possible and we try to minimize the number of changes so as to minimize our customer’s testing cycle,” Hofert said. He added the next security release will occur later this quarter.

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New Product Arrival- Have it!

Monday, January 25th, 2010

All1Martpro.com is an e-commerce solution/application provider, which is so flexible that it can provide you any design with its fully-featured eCommerce engine. All1Martpro.com is so perfect to sell your Goods online and drive your business to new heights. Being an eCommerce application provider, it powers large Online Shops providing the Performance, Usability and Security that you expect from professional Software.

All1Mart provides you the core system and the Framework that you can use, helping you to use easily a complete Shopping Cart Solution within your own dynamic Website (”Portal”), together with many other Plug-Ins, called Components and Modules, like Forums, FAQ, Guestbooks, Galleries……..

Features-

All1Martpro.com offers a lot of Features, some of the standard Features are listed here. You can extend the
Functionality of All1Martpro using Plugins, Components, and Templates to make them do what you need.

General Features
 Ability to use Secure Sockets Layer (https) Encryption (128-bit)
 Flexibility in Tax Models
o Model 1: ShipTo Address-based Tax Calculation
o Model 2: Store Address-based Tax Calculation
o Model 3: EU Mode (Store Owner based Tax Calculation when Customer comes from an EU Country)
 Shoppers can manage their User Accounts (registration required)
 Shipping Address Management
 Able to view the Order History (previous orders and order details)
 Order Confirmation Mail is sent to Shopper and Store Owner
 Capability to change the Multiple Currencies (you can allow Customers to change the Currency and buy using an alternative Currency)
 Multiple Languages.

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Introducing New Product, Check it out!

Monday, January 25th, 2010

All1Tunes is an online social networking and music community application dedicated to provide amateur musicians with the thing that you need most, a listening audience. You can submit your favorite songs into the category of your choice where you can get reviews and ratings from the visitors, as well as an individual Play Counter.

All1Tunes is built on Beatz- Powerful Social Networking Script developed on Joomla 1.5.

It deals with social Networking focused on almost all Music community stuffs, allowing you to start your own favorite artist band, and download your favorite music, videos, photos, and much more.

All1Tunes, as a powerful social Networking and music community application, lets you share any music related information. Artists can signup and can share their musical experience through blogs, provide information about up coming shows, add albums, add fans, add photos, add videos, create customized profile page and much more. In other words, it’s an online community where you can share, discuss and learn about new artists and your favorites.

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