Another late set of posts..

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Saturday, March 7th 2009

New StreamDesk Update
Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem
Schmidt: Google ‘unlikely’ to buy Twitter soon
What the Heck Is Twitter?It’s not a Google killer, and it’s not a Facebook killer.
Why TV Lost
Cydia Opens iPhone App Store for the Jailbroken Community [Jailbreak!]
Has ‘cloud-computing’ lost its VC luster?
Smartstrip surge protector and money saver
All Circuit City stores set to close tomorrow
Did Apple OK price cut on latest MacBook Air?
New Snow Leopard test build has more Cocoa goodness
New CableCARD diagnostic tool for Windows Media Center makes installation slightly less frustrating
Onkyo rolls out Sotec-branded E702A9 media PC
OWC Releases 4GB RAM Upgrades for New Mac Mini

Friday, March 6th 2009

Palm’s Sugar Daddy Serves Up Another Load of iPhone Trash Talk [Palm Vs Apple]
ASUS shows off Wireless LCD prototype, “Green” monitors
Digg CEO Jay Adelson on FoxBusiness.com
Apple’s Time Capsule, Airport Extreme Update Adds Drive Sharing For Older Units [Apple]
Apple denies second round of layoff rumors
The 100 oldest registered .com domains
Hallelujah: Microsoft confirms IE8, WMP, others can be removed from Windows 7
Unlike PCs, Apple’s Mac prices not collapsing yet
White Chocolate Keyboard Most Definitely Melts In Your Hands [Art]
Cydia developer planning independent iPhone App Store, others planning jailbreak service, adult app store
Circuit City RIP, 03-08-09
Twitter power-users, monitor calibration, and Geneva Conventions
Hulu content returns to Boxee in a different form
How To Install a Second Hard Drive in the New Mac Mini [Mods]
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs | Utilities | Macworld
‘Toys “R” Us’ Buys Toys.com Domain Name For $5.1M

Thursday, March 5th 2009

Sapphire launching Radeon HD 4870 with 2GB of memory
firefox 3 in second place
Watchmen Steve Jobs Alter Ego’s Old School Macintosh SE/30 [Apple]
OCZ jumps into the netbook game with the Neutrino
9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features
NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M causing issues in 17-inch MacBook Pro?
Lars Ulrich ‘pirated’ his own CD
Core i7 laptop weighs 12 pounds, has a one-hour battery
Clearwire stays the course despite losses
HDMI-equipped ASUS Eee Box 206 eyes-on
Georgetown Finally Greenlights Apple Store
Ustream Launches Mobile Video Broadcasting Apps
New Samsung Q1 UMPC, the Q1EX
FireWire target disk mode to the rescue
Windows 7 test build ‘turns off’ Internet Explorer 8
Google Chrome now bundled with Real Player
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs
GameTap to receive major update, lose Mac support
Mac Mini 2009 Review [Review]
Vista SP2 release candidate gets public airing
MSI WindBOX dismounts LCD, acts all proper at CeBIT
Apple Gets Nehalem Early, h264 and VMWare Performance Boosts
YouTube, Universal near new video deal
Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog
Apple developers mark a year of iPhone apps
First look: Qt 4.5 rocks for rapid cross-platform development
ASUS: Our Eee PC 1000He is better than Acer’s Aspire One D150, fashion elegant too
HDTV Pinball Machine is Almost as Good as the Real Thing [Pinball]
7 Cool Research Projects From Yahoo

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Here are the links for: Friday, January 30th 2009…

What Will Replace The Internet?
Win 7 Tip: Miss Vista’s Taskbar Or Quick Launch? Here’s How You Get It Back [Windows 7]
NEC cutting 20k employees, 20,000
PS3 doing fine, no price drop in sight, PSP is a different story, says European SCEE boss
Microsoft Confirms No More Windows 7 Betas [Windows 7]
Why Google Needs the GDrive to Fight Microsoft
Google’s GDrive revealed in code?
Limited iMac availability could mean new iMacs soon
EFF Sues for Access to Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Documents
T-Mobile Exec: More “G series” phones on the way
Windows Vista SP2 RC may be in the hands of testers as we speak
10 cheap and easy upgrades for your old PC
Dell headed into the mobile phone business?
15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers
Why CableCard isn’t on the Mac
Google Software Update for Mac refuses to uninstall
Dissecting Apple’s “Multitouch” Patent: Can It Stop Palm? [Patent Wars]
If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins
Gridplane releases hazy NXE mockup that never was
Rowmote Brings Apple’s Front Row Remote to the iPhone (Unofficially) [IPhone Apps]
Start your day violently with the Smash Clock
Google Chrome Accesses Hotmail by Pretending It’s Safari
Apple makes NVIDIA Graphics Update mysteriously disappear
Hack turns off Windows UAC forever and ever
Pixel Art Book Jackets Hide Your Shameful Reading Habit [Decorating]
Firefox 3.1 release date hampered by cheeky monkey
DRM killed Gears of War for PC
Roombas Are Fun For Cats of All Ages [Adorable]
Samsung’s 4Gb chip promises 32GB DDR3 memory modules for PCs and laptops

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As part of my Windows 7 I loaded it on my old IBM IntelliStation E Pro.

Specs:

• Cpu: Intel pIII 1ghz
• Memory: 640mb
• Hard Drive: 40gb Maxtor
• Video Card: IBM oem Nvidia Geforce 4

The install went pretty well no crashes during install. Afterwards I dug around on the IBM site to get a sound driver but found that ibm didnt list a xp driver for the onboard sound… so i ended up using a win2k driver but it works. It defaulted to default vga driver and we all know how bad the generic vga driver is so i force installed the xp driver but as expected it has side effects… eg media player causes bsod when trying to play video.

It idles around 3% cpu use and 35% ram use after bootup and thats not bad considering the age of the machine. I seriously wouldn’t use Windows 7 or Vista on this machine due to its age but it sure shows that Microsoft has done some work to make it work better on older macines provided you can get legacy hardware working.

If anyone else tries simular tests please post your results in the comments for this blog post id be happy to see what others get on their old machines.

Here is the screenshot of it idle after boot….

Thats all for now…. check back later for more Win7 Stuff

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With the release of the new Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 it was time again for my usual 30 tab browser stress test. My test consists of loading the same 30 tabs in all of the browsers tested.
In this test: Opera 9.24, Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3 (Firefox 2.0.0.9 codebase), Safari 3.0.4, and Firefox 3.0 Beta 1. In previous tests Navigator 9.x beat Firefox 2.x but now the new Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 seems to beat Navigator 9. The surprising part is how badly Opera did… it seems it didn’t even attempt to recover at all. For the most part Safari 3 is quite effecient but the new Firefox 3 beta has improved largely improved over Firefox 2.0 on mac. Note… these results may vary.

Check out the Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 @ http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b1/releasenotes/

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