Intel wants your legs to be cooled when you use a laptop. A laptop can get really hot when you let it sits on you for quite some time. Bad designed laptops end up be really hot quite quickly, and if you touch these, you think you are touching the hot part of the stoves; it’s a little exaggerating, but it does make you think that laptop makers need to redesign their products. Intel promotes a new way of cooling a laptop to prevent heat from inside the laptop heating up the outside of the laptop by using Intel Laminar Flow Technology.
Months back, Intel demonstrated laminar flow in Taiwan using animation to show how laminar flow works. You can picture this, inside a jet engine, extreme heat exists, and if the heat is not redirect away from a jet’s internal combustible components, the result could be catastrophic for a jet without a proper cooling technology. Although a laptop’s temperature could never rise to the level of a jet, but by implementing laminar flow, Intel suggests that the heat within a laptop could be redirect to a proper outer ducting and away from a laptop’s skin.
Laminar flow could be a crucial element that laptop makers would want to use on their super thin laptop models. Nowadays, more laptop makers are trying to make thinner laptops, as thin as possible. Laminar flow can provide a solution for laptop makers. It’s not clear how much thinner a laptop could get by implementing laminar flow, but you and I can expect that the future laptops to be found in electronic stores near you may be a lot thinner than you could ever imagine. Source.
The people who are having an interest in Chrome OS may like Jolicloud. Jolicloud is a brand new operating system that is still in a beta stage. You need an invitation in order for you to test drive Jolicloud. Just like Chrome OS, Jolicloud relies on the Internet (cloud) for storage. It will be super fast and easy to install, and you don’t even need a powerful computer to install Jolicloud. There is no need for an expensive machine as Jolicloud is very much relying on the Internet. Expect Jolicloud to work smoothly on the growing list of netbooks in the computer market. If you have a netbook from Acer, Compaq, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Asus, Dell, Intel, MSI, and Toshiba, then Jolicloud can be installed on your netbook. Check out Jolicloud’s screenshots. Can we say, Chrome OS has a new competitor?
Black Friday came, and it was time for me to shop for a new PC. Yep, you heard me right, a PC and not a laptop. I have quite a few laptops, but my old PC was decommissioned two years back; I figured that I need a new PC that should be affordable and with strong horsepower. I went to BestBuy and saw HP P6210Y, with some investigation among other few models nearby, I grabbed the P6210Y. Plus tax, the total price was summed up to $600. It turned out to be a good buy, so far!
This mean machine has 2.60GHz AMD Athlon™ II X4 620 Quad-Core Processor, Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit, 6GB PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM (although I hope it could be DDR3), 640GB (7200RPM) SATA, DVD Burner With LightScribe Technology, NVIDIA GeForce 9100 Shared video memory 512MB, High Definition Audio, USB 2.0, mouse and keyboard included, and 1 year service and support warranty. Brought home, booted it up, and Windows 7 was beautiful (still is). Afterward, I was able to install virtual machines onto P6210Y with ease, and the virtual machines worked as if it was on the real dual core machines (I configured virtual machines with 2 processors). So far, everything is running very fast and stable, the fan is very quiet, and the temperature of the machine is at 60° C. Too bad, I only had this machine for 2 days, and so I cannot review it as if I have had it for couple months or more. This is why this review can only be taken as a grain of salt.
For I had made a purchase of this machine with BestBuy, a drawback was that out of the box, it got no restore CD. A sale representative at BestBuy told me they could make one for me, but they told me to wait for 4 hours to get my restore CD and the PC, because they needed the PC for making a restore CD. Fortunately, I know something about computer and software, I said no thank you as I could make a restore CD using Windows 7. My suggestion to you, before you do anything to a brand new PC, make a system image and a repair disc using Windows 7 in case something might go wrong with your PC at a later date; you will have an option to restore your system to the brand new state. Another drawback is this machine doesn’t have a TV tuner card, but I have always wanted one. The machine doesn’t come with speakers, and so don’t forget to grab the speakers if you need them. Hopefully, you already have a monitor for your PC, or else you have to buy one. One more thing about the restoration, you can call HP’s tech support to have a restore CD to be sent to you, but you need to pay a hefty shipping price (range from $21 to $30).
I’m very happy with the purchase so far, and I’m surprised that the price for this machine in store has the same price with the one over on the web minus the shipping cost. Hopefully, I will be able to say good things about this machine six months down the road. I have found another machine online that is very much like the one I purchased from BestBuy, but this one is a different model although it’s a 6210 series. For your information, if you click on the link and purchase this PC, Amazon will have to pay me a commission.
Maybe I had jumped on the gun too quickly, because new information just came out from a Wikipedia’s insider (co-founder of Wikipedia), Jimmy Wales, says that the number of volunteer editors that have been leaving Wikipedia is quickly replacing by the number of new volunteer editors. He also argues that Wikipedia is still very strong, and the website is so large, it’s hard to grow on forever. It also seems that you don’t even have to register to edit high profile pages within Wikipedia, but you have to wait to see if Wikipedia is taking your change or not. In a sense, Wikipedia is more open, argued Mr. Wales. It’s a good sign for millions who are using Wikipedia, because the huge pool of information on Wikipedia may not be found elsewhere. Source.
Video and VOIP altogether through Fring is something new to me, and I have not tested the product, mind me if I’m saying product, because it’s FREE to use by all. It seems Fring is available on not one but many mobile devices. I don’t know much about Fring yet, but it looks very interesting, and so if you think Fring is something you should look into, you can go to Venturebeat for details.
Very good accuracy on most topics, freely edit by volunteers, are what make Wikipedia unique and powerful. Instead of paying for encyclopedia like we have done in the past, nowadays we visit Wikipedia for all factual things. Lately, Wikipedia is suffering as thousands, if not hundred of thousands, volunteer editors are leaving the website. With less volunteer editors, Wikipedia may not be so accurate; there will be less new factual contents to be available for perusing.
I have been redirecting my blog readers to Wikipedia for fact check, but I have to think twice now as Wikipedia is becoming less stable. Hopefully, Wikipedia survives by coming up with a solution for its current turbulence. Perhaps, Wikipedia could make the website easier to use so even an average Joe could contribute what he knows best. If that is the case, I bet Wikipedia is more accurate and its survival won’t be questioning. Wikipedia could use some of the social elements of Facebook and Twitter to improve its user base and content accuracy. Source.
Mr. Rupert Murdoch knows a lot of things about the news business, but lately, things aren’t going his way. He’s arguing that a lot of people are stolen news contents from news websites, from his and others. As of now, he is going through legal route to make his point, and Google is one of those he’s targeting. It’s understandably, that Mr. Rupert Murdoch is going to charge everyone for his contents over the Internet, because he is from the traditional media which has failed somewhat to co-exist with the Internet. For an example, people are expecting contents over the Internet are mostly free, and we can use YouTube as a perfect example for this.
Mr. Rupert Murdoch argues that it’s a lot more expensive for him to get good contents to his audience nowadays, and so he may have to stop them (i.e., Google, Bing, etc.) from indexing his websites and remove all links that point to his websites. His point is that his contents become so cheap that in a sense, the contents worth nothing. Mr. Rupert Murdoch shows frustration for search engines make a lot of money by not creating the contents, but just by indexing the contents, especially his. In the same sweep, Mr. Rupert Murdoch will also make people pay for his contents, particularly on the Wall Street Journal.
In recent interview with Sky News, Mr. Rupert Murdoch points out that most news websites and blog websites aren’t making any serious money, because there aren’t enough advertisers around to pay for that many heavy traffic websites on the web. I’m disagreeing with his point of view, because Internet is a much different beast from the past media, and so new approach should be taken when Internet is in play. Although it’s perfectly sane for Mr. Rupert Murdoch to cry foul, I think he and other smart people should come up with a better model than just simply making people pay, because kids nowadays are born into a world where most contents over the Internet expect to be free!
You gotta be damn good to make people pay for what you put onto the web, because not everyone is in sync with you Mr. Rupert Murdoch. Some prominent news organizations have already denounced that they are going to charge people for contents, instead they take the new route by providing excellent free contents. On a second thought, new comers may not mind so much, because the new journalistic startups then becoming the alternatives, that’s the alternative of pay. In the end, I think everything will play out as if an invisible hand was there to direct the market. The free enterprise will dictate which model will be the best for contents on the net, free versus pay. Only the future could tell if Mr. Rupert Murdoch is right. Source.
Political hackers know how to hack Google’s search algorithm by manipulating search results to allow a monkey-like picture of First Lady, Michelle Obama, to appear when someone types in Google’s search box with “Michelle Obama.” Technology is what being used nowadays for launching an attack on an individual is not new, not even a bit. Then we also have to argue, technology has been used for honest causes. For an example, president Obama used Internet extensively which had pulled in huge amount of campaign money. Back to a negative note, other politicians who had been ruined by the Internet, because a few clips of theirs were floating on YouTube and similar websites.
In this case, Google acts fast by placing a ban on an offensive website that shows the First Lady looks like a monkey. Unfortunately, Internet cannot be stopped because a same offensive picture of the First Lady can be found elsewhere, and it is at the top of Google’s search results. Google says that the company is not endorsing such a racially offensive image of the First Lady, and its search engine’s algorithm is fair, although if you want to blame, you can blame on the search engine’s algorithm.
We have to be very careful here, because free speech is at risk. The First Lady’s monkey-like image has totally disgusted me, but I have to agree with anyone who argues that free speech is precious and an offensive picture should be able to be display on equal right with any other image — either offensive or not. For Google is placing a ban on a first website that has the First Lady’s racially offensive image is correct, if I’m correct, that website is found to carry a malware virus. Google is also right on the second case when it lets the alternative racially offensive image of the First Lady to be found when searching. In the end, this whole scenario reminds us that free speech through technology can sometimes be quite distasteful, but it’s very important that free speech should be kept. Free speech does not apply to child pornographic materials and other illegal materials, and so anyone thinks that this post is arguing for that, think again! Source.
Italy is all mad because someone post a video onto Google’s video service, and the video was largely view as very offensive to the Italian people; although Google has complied by removing the video, Italy instead of going after a video creator, the country is going after Google’s two executives. The prosecutors of Italy want David Drummond and George Reyes to be jailed if they found guilty in court. Google argues that it has complied with Italy’s law, and by jailing Google’s employees for the action of a company, although the company has complied with Italy by removing the offensive video, in this very case, for not going after a video creator, everything is seeming as if Italy is launching a direct attack on a free, open Internet. Don’t you think Italy is going wrong here? Source.
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