With most of us utilizing at least two monitors these days in our day to day operations, six monitors, while an awesome thought, might seem a little too excessive. After all, do we really have space for multiple video cards?
AMD has a new setup in their testing lab that is running six Dell 30inch displays at 7680×3200 through a video card holding six DisplayPort connectors.
Maximum PC has the scoop on the setup, and they say that this single GPU will be coming out on AMD’s DirectX 11 capable chips. Details are slim with the amount of video…
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Six monitors, one video card
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Tech leaders enlisted to help the newspaper industry
It is pretty obvious to everyone that the newspaper industry is in a tiny bit of trouble. They have thus far failed to reach the rapidly changing landscape of news, online news at that. They must do something to keep our interests up, or end up flailing on the ground. Microsoft and Google among others have recently entered the picture with solutions to the problem and some fresh eyes from a digital perspective.
Leading edge tech companies enterend the picture with a plea from the Newspaper Association of America on how they can monetize content online through transactions or…
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OpenPogo, an alternative to Pogoplug software
Many of us heard the news of Marvell’s SheevaPlug plug-in PC being released alongside its consumer solution counterparts. One of the prominent products based on the SheevaPlug hardware is the Pogoplug. The Pogoplug is essentially a no-configuration media server that allows you to plug in a hard drive and network cable to make data readily available anywhere you have Internet access. It’s a great idea, but the underlying software is closed source, limiting the demographic of the device to consumers who are happy with an out-of-the-box solution. Enter OpenPogo, a solution for people who want a bit more control…
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Condom testing robot
Broken condoms are a serious concern, not only for those who break them, but the companies who manufacture them. When studying the common reasons for breakage, a coital robot was used to simulate usage. Though it isn’t much of a robot, consisting mainly of simple pneumatics, it does serve its purpose. The study was able to determine the most common cause of breakage, and hopefully this information will lead to less occurrences. Robots do exist in the sex industry, and not just in that speculative future sex bot sense. Why weren’t any bots of a sexual background included in…
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Teardown of the Barista
iFixit has done a tear down on the symbolic do-it-yourself Espresso machine, the Starbucks Barista. Believe it or not, there is not a single circuit board in the works. There doesn’t seem to be much to the Barista; A few switches, some solenoids, a heater, and one way spring valve among other things. The assembly of the device is very simple. It is noted that in a pinch it may be torn down with a pair of pliers and washer; in place of a flat head screw driver. We have pondered the possibilities of this machine numerous times, while enjoying…
Internet
The Internet Adrenaline Rush
So youve researched the market youve decided to get into onthe net, youve done your homework and you know theirs a demandfor your product and not a whole lot of sites to compete with.Now your excited about the possibilities you may face. Youvebought your domain name and you have it hosted. Youve submittedyour site to all the major search engines, directories, youveeven implemented a linking strategy to add to your marketingarsenal. Over the next couple of weeks you pay close attentionto your webstats, and money allowing youve bought a couple ofmarketing ebooks and started testing different strategies. Someworked, some didnt.…
Software
Messenger Plus! Live 4.82.368
Messenger Plus Live is an add on for Windows Live Messenger that adds tons of features and extras to the software Extend the possibilities of Messenger and make your experience a lot more entertaining The only thing needed to use Messenger Plus Live is Windows Live Messenger the latest version of MSN Messenger which requires Windows XP or above Messenger Plus Live is compatible with Windows Live Messenger 8 0 to 9 0 and can be installed on 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista Installed more than 350 million times since 2001 when it started as…
Facebook
Facebook Pages Have Become Your Friends, Can Be Added To Friend Lists
This afternoon Facebook made a small modification to the friends page which changed “All Friends” to “All Connections”, integrating Facebook Pages and friends. It’s a small change but it’s a step in the direction of decreasing the distinction between Pages and profiles. Mark Zuckerberg previously stated that the two products: profiles and Pages, would increasingly become similar. This is yet another step in that direction.
Another big component of this new feature is the ability to add Facebook Pages to friend lists. This means that users will be able to now create custom feeds that group friends and specific friend…
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Facebook Launches New Granular Publisher Controls, Transforms Personal Publishing
Today Facebook officially launched a beta version of the new publisher controls which enables users to publish to anybody. You can set custom privacy settings for every single post that you publish to your stream, making granular privacy settings even more widespread. Want to publish to everybody on Facebook? Now you can. Perhaps you only want to make a story visible to your friends that are in your “Family” friend list. That’s possible as well.
This is a direct attack on Twitter who currently has two options: public and private. This is honestly a huge move forward for publishing information.…
Automotive
Motorcycle Parts – OEM or Aftermarket ???
This is always a difficult one to answer when shopping formotorcycle parts and I firmly believe that each one of us mustdecide what’s best for our bikes AFTER carefully evaluating eachof the possibilities. For me?Well… it really depends on what I am looking for – justreplacement or improvement – , the availability of the part, mybudget and other things. Sometimes I buy OEM, others aftermarketmotorcycle parts. Keep reading. You will find some views that will hopefully helpyou decide the next time you shop for motorcycle parts.What a heck are OEM parts??OEM parts stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer parts whichnot necessarily…
Facebook
Facebook Updates Payment Terms In Preparation For Payment Platform Launch
Rather than updating its payment terms without notice to users, Facebook has decided to post its payment terms to the Facbeook Governance page and is open for user feedback for the next 3 days. As Joe Sullivan, Facebook’s lead counsel for product posted today, “The new payments terms will replace the existing Terms of Sale and the payments-related sections of the Online Advertising Terms and Conditions.”
While the payment terms are not as controversial of an issue currently for Facebook, the company has learned its lesson for swapping out the terms for users. There is now a process of review…
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Web Development – ASP by: James Strutton
ASP (Active Server Pages) is the technology developed by Microsoft for creating dynamic pages from the server. ASP is written in the same web page, using the language named as Visual Basic Script or JScript (Microsoft JavaScript).A server-side language is one that runs on your web server, just before the page is sent via Internet to the customer. The pages that are running on the server can make access to databases, networking, and other tasks to create the final page. The client only receives an HTML page with the code resulting from the implementation of the ASP page. Since the…
