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Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Author: admin

The wait is over, the latest OSx86 version is pretty mature and works almost on any Intel based machine. This guide intends on Dual Booting Windows 7, XP or Vista with Snow Leopard 10.6

Supported Hardware: The distribution is created out of Snow Leopard 10A421 works only with Intel. Following processors are supported: Xeon 5100, 5300, 3000 Series, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Core i7, Core i5, Pentium Dual Core (NOT “Pentium D”), Celeron 4xx Sequence .. Read Further »

Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Author: admin

Android 2.0 already has been a boon to the Android adaptation, the stats of Motorola Droid sales are a clear clue to it.
Few of the existing devices are also supposed to get upgrade, and HTC Hero is one of them. But accidently, .. Read Further »

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Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Author: admin

Indian Government has taken a big step to counter Mobile Phone Piracy. MSAI, Mobile standards Authority of India)  has put down a new rule abiding to which, cellular operators will ban BTS-Registration for any of the cellphones which has a non-legal International Mobile Equipment Identity  number also popularly known as the IMEI.

As I write this, there are only couple of hours left till all those phones meet the graveyard. However, MSAI wants peeople to get their IMEI registered, a way to control the legality of Phone identification and usage upto the standards. Owners of the Chinese-made handsets are crowding authorized outlets to get the IMEI on their handsets.

As per the Times of India:

MSAI feels that even by conservative estimates, at least 2.1 crore [20.1 Million] mobiles may not get GII (Gemmological Institute of India) by Monday and are bound to go dead. NVS Prasad, who .. Read Further »

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Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Author: admin

The Black friday brings and extension to it’s offers and a solution to overcrowded stores.

Here are some of the bet deals you will find just for Today:

- HP starts us off with a pair of coupons on its dv8 Core i7 notebook, one of which drops the 18.4-inch laptop to just $899.  - 50 percent discounts on its printers, but only the Photosmart Premium All-in-One remains after the two cheaper models sold out. Click the Logic Buy link

- Amazon has the older Modern Warfare at $29.95 and Uncharted 2 at $40 flat for the PS3, Garmin’s nuvi 260W at a cent under $115 (or half price), and plenty of discounts on DVDs, gadgetry and even clothing. .. Read Further »

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Monday, November 30th, 2009 | Author: admin

Psystar had been making official Hackintosh, going seriously against the Apple’s policies. Apple finally got hold of the the company, and the lawsuit settled with loss of millions to the Psystar.

In the begining, Psystar played a trick and before Apple could file a case against them, they throwed the ball in Apple’s court by suing them with a Lawsuit which claimed: “Apple’s terms violate U.S. monopoly laws”.

Psystar believes Apple’s terms violate U.S. monopoly laws. “What if Microsoft said you could only install Windows on Dell .. Read Further »

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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | Author: admin

I know this shopping season you might have brought one or looking to buy one soon around Christmas. Buying an HDTV is no kid’s place, you need to get your concepts right before you jump in.

Who Should buy one – Are you a movie freak? You love HD content or you are a hardcore gamer? You may be a passionate laptop guy that needs a bigger rich screen, LCD HDTVs are for you.

When buying a LCD/LED HD TV, there are few things you should look for in the Specs:

1. Contrast Ratio: Contrast ratio, by definition,  is a measure of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest color .. Read Further »

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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | Author: admin

By now everyone must have tried out the Virtualized version of Chrome/Chromium OS in either VirtualBox or VMWare. But to the the real feel of the OS, which is the Speed, you need to prepare a bootable USB that can plug into any PC/Mac and will run lightning fast.

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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | Author: admin

ChangeLog Team managed to get an Interview with Google Go’s Tech Lead Rob Pike. He is the man behind development for Unix, and one of the co-contributor of UTF-8 during his tenure in Bell labs. In this talk, Rob talks about the Infrastructure, Google Go’s Vision and all the Technical challenges.

Listen to it below:

[Download] [Listen in iTunes]

Read more about : Google Go: New Programming language

[via The ChangeLog]

.. Read Further »

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | Author: admin

I still remember the days we used to manage with those weirdo 512Kb large-sized disks that were so unreliable. Over  a decade, industry has seen a steep rise to Terabytes of space. This is storage, something beyond the Moore’s law.

Soon floppies were replaced by zip drives and CDs, which were beaten badly by DVDs and BluRay DVDs. Though BluRay DVD haven’t been common on desktop, they soon will be.

Here is a Timeline of how the Data, photos and Music Storage have evolved (click to enlarge)

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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | Author: admin

We may have been to Moon and back, but we still use those pencil size AA batteries which have poor life and are large in size.

Cost of manufacture of these batteries is estimated to be several billion $s every year, and the environment pollution caused is almost irreversible.

To counter this problem, conducting polymers have long been thought to be a solution in developing lightweight, flexible, .. Read Further »

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