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ColorEdge CG301W: Eizo’s 30-inch widescreen visual magic

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 by admin

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With every enactment day technology is blurring the lines between the accomplishable and the probable. Visual clarity and splendor are no longer confined to the big rating or the television sets. In the digital age, beautiful images are as that much a half of your system’s score as anywhere else. Taking currently penchant submit is the ColorEdge CG301W launched by Eizo Nanao Technologies at PMA 2008 in Las Vegas. The new age monitor employs a gamut LCD panel which is 100% vs. NTSC and reproduces 97% of the Adobe RGB color space. The monitor is intended to submit amid both ass clarity and perfection in tones in most any likely way. This monitor’s astonishing amalgamation of the present technology obtainable these as 12-bit hardware calibration allows greater clarity. Eizo has calibrated every unit, by measuring most every tone of 0 - 255 to create a gamma curve of 2.2, which guarantees both astounding visuals and moreover the properly color tones.

In situation of the ColorEdge it is the hardware calibration that leads guaranteed so the monitor itself is calibrated in its place as opposed to the computer’s graphics board, as is the state of affairs amongst application calibration. This ensures non-loss of color tones in the calibration process. This additionally causes so one becomes a remarkably factual representation of the previous image and a good sympathy to detail. The calibration utility comes among the CG301W and supplies for setting the worth for brightness, grey point, and gamma. The application in addition emphasizes a good amount calibration devices the as Eye-One, DTP94, DTP94B, and MonacoOPTIX, all for X-Rite.

One of the right portions so instigate the monitor so different is the truth so one can tweak the color environment of the monitor to mimic a color space or color facets of an extra monitor. This leads the approach of interfacing and exchanging info a lot more effortless and problem free, remarkably when it comes to studying data. The native resolution is 2560×1600 (16:10 aspect ratio). A picture-by-picture function divides the display to two equal halves, presenting two 1200×1600 monitors amid no heart bezel. This provides the user to afford and view insert based on what i read in two many computers this type of as a Windows and a Macintosh and go on two tasks simultaneously without suffering to painfully toggle coming back and forth.

The monitor too comes equipped amongst Eizo’s ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). The ASIC has a 12-bit look-up table provided a whole color palette of 68.1 billion tints based on that the a large amount of appropriate 16.7 million are selected. This once more signals so one becomes the perfect image impending and moreover ensures this the image resolution and color is not concentrated at the middle of the rating and is uniform for the duration of out. This ensures the current the image is as basic at the edges of the score as it is at the center. All in all, the ColorEdge CG301W is a the best buy, essentially for folks who operated a above the usual state of affairs nearly finely enlarged images. I imagine it is a above the usual gift for a forensic investigator; unconventionally talking who is.
[Source:gizmowatch]

Battlefield Heroes Beta candidates exposed in security breach

Sunday, June 15th, 2008 by admin

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If you are one of the multi aspirants for the Battlefield Heroes beta, you have maybe carried on imparted upon of their via a somber mass email, but QA Boss, the association in credit of registration for alleged beta test, has felt a security breach that “exposes QA Boss forum user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords.” The signal and quantity of the breach, and who, if anyone, did the breaching, we have yet to discover — nor do we can appreciate if it plans to impact the progress of the beta test.

QA Boss advises homeowners who uses a single password for all the drastic logins, and used up alleged password in the Battlefield Heroes beta signup, when and if likely difference the current password as a precautionary measure. Too bad, as our original cipher was nigh uncrackable — “drowssaP”. It’s “password” backwards! Brilliant, right?

[Thanks to homeowners who sent this moment in!]

HP 2133 Mini-Note PC misses ship date for pre-orderers

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 by admin

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Say it ain’t so! Just a week after HP’s totally adorable 2133 Mini-Note PC popped online for purchase, we’ve received word that pre-orderers aren’t going to be seeing their new machine quite as soon as originally expected. Reportedly, HP has sent out notifications to customers who pre-ordered to let them know that their lappies won’t be shipping today as promised, but there’s no word on how long the delay will last. Hang in there, subnote lovers — a tracking number is bound to come soon (er, we hope).

source:engadget

ASUS Eee PC overclocking looks surprisingly easy

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 by admin

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Have an Eee PC? Did your friend’s overclocked OLPC get you thinking about just how much more horsepower you can eke out of that little beast? Say no more — with a little hackery you too can join the 900MHz+ Eeelite with your ASUS cheaptop. Looks like there are apps for both Windows and Linux to get the job done, just don’t come crying to us about melted legs or — worse still — a busted computer.

source:engadget

Official: ASUS 8.9-inch Eee PC will include touchscreen, possibly GPS

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 by admin

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Here we have it, confirmation that the second generation Eee PC will in fact feature an 8.9-inch (resistive) touchscreen display. Kevin Lin, ASUS VP of Sales, says that the $500 (starting price) Eee PC will begin shipping in May or June in 8GB to 12GB options with “possible GPS support.” That’s the same time ASUS plans to begin shipping its $200 Eee Dekstop, aka the E-DT. Look, we’re happy with your success with the Eee brand ASUS, but when are we getting our $200 Eee PC?

source:engadget

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 by admin

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One of our totally awesome tipsters got his hands on some more pics of Intel’s forthcoming (we hope) Netbook, or as they call it, the Eco PC. These shots are way clearer than the previous pictures we’ve spied, and showcase the TI-99-esque keyboard that has at least one member of the Engadget team pretty darn excited. Take a look after the break at a few more photos, and hit Min Thu’s Flickr gallery for the whole tour.

source:engadget

$50 Teachermate PC launched by Chicago nonprofit

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 by admin

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As you’ve probably figured out from all the OLPC XO and Intel Classmate news we’ve hit, computers aimed at students are a pretty hot topic these days. A Chicago-based nonprofit called Innovations for Learning has joined the fray with a new $50 entry dubbed the Teachermate. The small PCs come equipped with a 2.5-inch LCD display, 512MB of RAM, an SD slot, and built-in microphone and speaker. The systems are being rolled out to a whopping 500 Chicago elementary schools over the next two years, with the aim of having a unit in the hands of every child. The kid-friendly computers will come with a special case that allows charging and data-sync of 30 units at a time, allowing teachers to collect score-data quickly. If you absolutely must have one, it looks like they’re going to commercially available on Amazon, so you will be able to add it to your collection.

source:engadget.com

Asus expects Windows Eee PC to outsell Linux counterpart 6 to 4

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 by admin

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Asus has never been one to shy away from making from making bold predications about it’s fast-selling Eee PC, and it’s now come out with yet another feat of prognostication,

saying that it expects it’s forthcoming Windows-based Eee PC to outsell its Linux-based counterpart by a ratio of 6 to 4. As PC World points out, that’s despite the fact that the Windows version will cost nearly twice as much as the cheapest Linux-based Eee PC. Asus chairman Jonney Shih seems undaunted by that fact, however, and assures us that “a lot of people have been waiting for the Windows version.”

Asus Eee PC

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 by admin

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Do you know someone who is a novice PC user and who wants to have a crack at using a Windows-based laptop without it seeming intimidating? Maybe you have a child in your home who simply just wants to surf the net every now and then? The Asus Eee PC is just right for those people but it isn’t limited to those types of people. 

The newly-released Asus Eee PC is perfect for the mobile individual as it allows you to practically do anything with it as it is a Windows-powered laptop. This Asus release actually offers webcam functionality and most importantly Wi-Fi capability which allows users to access the Internet from any wi-fi enabled location.

Users have access to applications such as the Firefox browser, Skype or even Yahoo! Messenger. One of the things that you will like about this compact laptop is that it is quite quick when you’re booting it up. The 512MB of RAM is enough for it to load the necessary applications. Because it doesn’t come with a lot of  unnecessary applications, it will immediately allow you to get booted up and go online in a few moments. No long waits needed. Just no-nonsense computing the way it was always supposed to be.

Gateway 820GM Media Center PC

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 by admin

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The Gateway 820GM Media Center PC is quite a good deal for a computer with its capabilities. Its notable feature is its quiet and virtually soundless operation that would be an added bonus if you relish a bit more peace and quiet. The Gateway 820GM Media Center PC also comes with a wonderful array of functions and features that one would look for in a Media PC.

It 820GM comes equipped with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 530 processor with 1GB of RAM. Its media features make it an attractive PC to have for its price range. The 820GM can also be bought with a dual-format DVD Burner along with its primary DVD ROM drive. The 820 GM also comes with a 250 GB hard drive and a 128 MB ATI Radeon X300SE graphics card.

One of the drawback 820GM Media Center PC is its bulky tower case. The Mini-tower design of the PC, which also houses the super silent cooling fans of the CPU, may not suit well for people who look to save some bit of space. But for those people who might not consider style and size for choosing a media PC, then the 820GM would do just fine and more.