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Entries for June, 2008

The World’s First 21.5-inch Full HD LCD Display

BenQ has announced on Friday the “world’s first 21.5-inch Full HD LCD display” as part of their lineup of high-quality LCD monitors. The new product is meant to provide a high quality alternative to the Full HD LCDs already on the market. The company also announced that it would release five new 21.5-inch and 24-inch [...]

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Atomic PST Password Recovery 1.80 - Recover lost passwords to personal folders in Microsoft Outlook

When working on MS-Outlook mail client with POP3 or IMAP accounts, all received and sent emails, are saved in a Personal Folders (.pst) file along with Contacts and Calendar. You decided to set a password on a .pst file, in order to protect the content of the emails, and prevent from accessing them by other [...]

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Gears of War 2 Control Inspired by Uncharted

Even though Cliff Bleszinski “can’t stand” the cover system of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, the outspoken game designer borrowed heavily from the PS3 game when refining the upcoming Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360.
Amid some complaints of the original Gears of War cover system, Bleszinski says: “I felt like the Gears cover system worked like [...]

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Birth of a Standard: The Intel 8086 Microprocessor

Thirty years ago, Intel released the 8086 processor, introducing the x86 architecture that underlies every PC–Windows, Mac, or Linux–produced today.
Benj Edwards, PC World
The release of Intel’s 8086 microprocessor in 1978 was a watershed moment for personal computing. The DNA of that chip is likely at the center of whatever computer–Windows, Mac, or Linux–you’re using to [...]

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Report: Apple iPhone 3G May Only Cost $100 to Make

Apple profits for hardware will drop but software sales and market share will climb
Last year when the first generation iPhone was announced by Apple, the bill of materials for the device was estimated to be in the area of $170. According to recent analysis the new iPhone 3G could be costing Apple significantly less to [...]

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Avira AntiVir Personal Free 8.1.00.295 - Download Now

Free, effective protection against computer viruses. AntiVir Personal Edition is a software that helps you protect and monitor your PC.
AntiVir software is a reliable free antivirus solution, that constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs (such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc.), monitoring every action executed by the user or [...]

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Study: 82% of gamers love in-game advertisements

Contrary to what the media has reported thus far, a new survey found that 82% of gamers love in-game ads.
 Don’t believe anything you’ve heard about in-game advertising from basically every video game news outlet to date, because a new study found that 82% of consumers love them unconditionally.
Confused? So was Wired’s Earnest Cavalli, who had [...]

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Windows XP era ends? Will Vista step up?

The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases).
The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it’s time for Vista to sink or swim.
Ina Fried has a good overview of where Windows XP will stand with PC manufacturers. [...]

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We Are All Made of Stars; Maybe by Levi Beckerson

New evidence suggests that basic life really may have come from the stars.
It has long been thought that the seeds for life came to a primordial Earth from solar system leftovers crashing into the planet. These meteorites, comets, or other unknowns may have contained vital components with which budding life on Earth either assimilated or [...]

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High Quality and Big Size Microsoft Office Icon Pack - Download Free

Most of you guys were looking for some High Quality Office Icons and here some.
Microsoft Office Icon Pack description
A set of 26 splendid Icons designed to let you customize your Office applications
Microsoft Office Icon Pack will enable you to change the deafult icons for the Office components installed on your PC. All these high quality [...]

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