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Latest technological innovations keep pouring down for PC users!!! Be ready for the newest installation from Intel.

Intel’s announced this week its latest batch of Nehalem-based Xeon processors, the single-socket 3500 and dual-socket 5500 series for servers and workstations. Both models boast speeds up to 3.2 GHz and feature Intel’s turbo boost, hyper-threading, and virtualization technologies, as well as integrated power gates. If you’ve got the newest Mac Pro, however, then you’re already using the new quad-core CPUs, but for everyone else, they’re now being sold en masse to manufacturers at a price ranging from $188 to $1,600 for the Xeon 5500 and $284 to $999 for the 3500. We’ve already heard about 5500 / 3500-equipped Lenovo and Dell workstations, but if that doesn’t suit you, Intel promises over 230 systems are in the pipeline from companies such as Cisco, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, among others.

Man’s progress in whatever areas in life occurs in an amazing speed so much so that one can fairly comment that man has improved a lot. Technology, for one, has attained considerable development that it is inconceivable that what man enjoys today is considered impossibilities just yesterday. The technological advances that have occurred since the 1980s are awesome and have radically altered our daily lives. The innovations made possible by the computer microchip, fiber optics and satellite communication are already at work in millions of households all over the world. We are all touched by the new technologies.

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Microsoft Corp. announced the next generation of Windows Live, the most dynamic integrated set of online services thus far that makes communication and sharing easier and more fun for Internet users. Further enhancing Internet experience through Windows Live is the fast and simple connection with various websites, including the popular social networking sites.

The new generation of Windows Live includes updated services for photo sharing, e-mail, instant messaging, and other popular Internet usage that makes social interaction via online much more dynamic than ever before.

It also includes free downloadable software that helps simplify digital content like music and photos usually stored on PCs, mobile phones, and websites.

The new Windows Live can be found at http://download.live.com/

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This holiday season many of us are too busy that makes us too hard to go shopping in Malls and supermarkets. But with the advancement of technology online  shopping is no longer an old fashion way. Here at online shopping buying for hard to look items bis never a problem. A list of cool toys for all the important folks in your life that should make you popular with the gift-giving community come Christmas. The best part? All of these can be purchased online. So you can do it while procrastinating at work.

For your pill-popping sister

Need a break from your sibling’s anxious tendencies to over think everything? Present her with this adorably kitsch Jonathan Adler Quaaludes container. Maybe this time she’ll take a hint and quit the histrionics. Who knows? Miracles are known to happen during Christmas!

What: Jonathan Adler Quaaludes container

How much: P6,750

Where: www.jonathanadler.com

For your louche, rich friend

Does your friend still wax nostalgic about the good old college days when he’d wake up with a hangover and puke all over his unwashed shirt? Does he moan about how his banking/investing/insert-other-high-paying-job-here career isn’t panning out the way he imagined it?

Instead of letting him bitch and moan nonstop, present him with these sommelier wine glasses. Created by Czech designer Maxim Velovsky?, the glasses are modeled after the kind of plastic Dixie cups your friend probably slammed into his head, post chugging, during beer pong. This way he gets to have the best of both worlds: the nostalgia of his less-fancier days and a little class (courtesy of the glasses’ design origins and price).

What: Sommelier wine glass

How much: P2,300

Where: http://aplusrstore.com/

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With a next-generation HD format like Blu-ray still trying to gain a more stable foothold in our country, Toshiba plays it safe and wants you to meet the advanced Toshiba XD-E500 DVD Player. Consumers have embraced the DVD format like no other technology and they’ve also invested in sizeable DVD movie collections.

As the market moves towards high definition, the XD-E500 lets them experience their existing DVD library in a whole new way. The XD-E500 offers consumers the chance to watch their existing DVD collections at near-HD resolutions, replete with enhanced detail and richer colors. Toshiba is delivering to consumers what they want: a high quality experience at an affordable price.

Surround Sound Enhances Viewing Experience

The Toshiba XDE-500 DVD Player has Toshiba’s new XDE technology on board along with Sharp, Color and Contrast Modes to provide added detail, rich colors and deep blacks. Its DVD up-scale feature lets you watch your standard definition movies in 720p, 1080i or 1080p. An HDMI connection allows for seamless flow of both video and audio data from the DVD player to the HDTV.

The HDTV also plays host to 3D Virtual Surround Sound technology, for audio that’s as pleasing as the visuals. Support for JPEG display and MP3 Playback round out its list of surface-level features. Undoubtedly, although the Toshiba XDE500 doesn’t play HD DVD or Blu-Ray, it will make the very most of your standard definition DVDs and create a whole new movie experience for you.

The Toshiba XD-E500 looks like a little black box with a minimalist design philosophy. The size of an old VHS player and sporting a new look from Toshiba, it is something you’ll be proud to put in your living room. During operation, you’ll get a glowing white Toshiba logo, and a clear green display giving you the chapter numbers and other info about the DVD you are watching. There are hard playback buttons along the front panel that are refined and easy to use. While watching though, it’s doubtful that you’ll be using the said buttons as virtually all the player’s controls are operated via the well laid out remote. The remote, which is also black, gives you all the controls you want and is dedicated to the DVD player. The DVD player supports playback of standard DVDs, CDs and DivX, MP3 and JPEG, while audio formats from Dolby Digital and DTS get support too.

While there are no options to turn the new up-scaling technologies on or off, what you do have though are three options to control the picture with three presets: Sharp, Color and Contrast. Sharp will sharpen the picture where needed rather than the whole picture, Color ups the blues and greens, while Contrast deepens the blacks. The result is a noticeable visual improvement, making your DVD collection sharper whatever you opt to play.

The Toshiba XD-E500 is an impressive up-scaling DVD player that is not only affordable but will go a long way to giving new life to your DVD collection. It’s like watching your favorite DVD movies in a new light!

Did you know that despite repeated attempts to compromise its integrity, Wikipedia remains the most popular online encyclopedia on the Web. Since anyone can create or edit a Wikipedia page, both companies and individuals have been caught airbrushing and embellishing their own entries. The Wiki community usually intervenes, however — egregious edits get reported on WikiScanner and Wiki trolls are given the heave ho — or at least a Wiki humiliation. Now you can even enjoy Wikipedia’s wisdom without ever clicking on it. The Microsoft Live search engine automatically pulls up the first paragraph of any relevant Wikipedia entry in its search results. And a new print-it-yourself travel guide called Offbeat Guides (still in beta as of June 2008) culls information from the site to create custom travel guides tailored to the exact dates of your trip. Now that’s neat. This is According to www.time.com.

Cameras have become even more popular after the rise of digital images. The demand for digital cameras has risen, allowing manufacturers to offer a wider range of products to an ever-ready-to-consume market. Digital SLRs, point and shoot cameras (instamatics) and even mobile camera phones now have larger file formats, better light compensation capabilities and automatic color correction and white balance functions to boot. Because of the many camera functions and properties to choose from, consumers may feel overwhelmed with the decisions they have to make in order to get the right gear for them. Do any of these specs really make sense to the user? Let’s take the ZOOM property of your camera as an example. Zoom is the capacity of your camera lens to move in closer to your subject, therefore, magnifying its size in relation to your distance from the object to be shot. Your camera may boast of either of two things- optical zoom or digital zoom. Which one do you choose? Let me break it down for you.

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When Lloyd Watts was growing up in Kingston, Ont., in the 1970s he had a knack for listening to songs by Billy Joel and Elton John and plunking out the melodies on the family piano. But he wondered, wouldn’t it be great to have a machine that could “listen” to songs and immediately transcribe them into musical notation? Watts never built the gizmo, but his decades-long quest to engineer such a machine has finally resulted in one of the first commercial technologies based on the biology of the brain.

Microchips designed by Audience, the Silicon Valley company Watts launched, are now being used by mobile handset makers in Asia to improve dramatically the quality of conversations in noisy places. Even a truck passing right by someone using the technology won’t be heard at the other end of the phone line. The chip is modeled on functions of the inner ear and part of the cerebral cortex. “We have reverse-engineered this piece of the brain,” declares Watts.

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A few years back in New Jersey, my friend and I used to tour the city with our motorbikes. We relished the days when we visit a friend’s house and invite him in a joy ride with our motorcycles. So engrossed are we in our motorcycles that we are the ones who fix the same when things went wrong, buy spare parts in case of repair and place accessories to complement their appearance. Not so soon we acquire a working knowledge about motorcycles with just our direct experiences with them. We can tell the difference between one brand to another and discriminate on the efficiency of one against the other.

I have become even more interested in motorcycles when I came across with ratebikepics.com, a cool site about the different styles, designs and built of motorcycles. The site features a huge online Harley Davidson collection of motorcycles. Those motorcycles I have never seen before are just right here in this site. I was amazed and amused at the same time to rate Harley Davidson motorcycles. I was very eager to tell my friend about this site and surely he will have the same feeling of admiration as I had the first time I visited the site.

It took years for people of other empires and kingdoms to know that Alexander the Great had reached India and that Julius Cesar had conquered Gaul. It took months for other nations to come to know that Hitler and Mussolini have met their downfall. It took days the world to know that the highest peak had been finally conquered by a mortal.

Now, with the coming of online news, people from all over the world can get informed of the latest events on real time.

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