christmas mode!!!

third pair spec for this year.damn happy...

dunno how many specs could i have for this year......haha

today.....talk about wad?computer agn?no way!

now let's talk about phone...
that's a handphone without a keypad or keyboard...so,customer have to gotta get some keyboard fix it on the screen of the phone.this way, makes money for the company as the customer put their keyboard on screen .
while the problem comes her: do you think that's a handphone?
or
you are thinking that will be a great idea from Blackberry?


it's actually starts here ,one day which was walking with my family and shopping just before the chinese new year.somehow, my sister saw a phone which hold by a guy and that guy is using a stick like a pen touching the phone's screen. meanwhile it's 5 years ago....

and she asked me :

No Keyboard? And You Call This a Phone?

Today...
PDAs are very well known in this world of technology!
N i have a question which PDAs are the best today?
02?BlackBerry?Samsung?Nokia or whatever it is!

Here’s a great example of the intelligence that drives R.I.M.: The phones all have simple, memorable, logical names instead of incomprehensible model numbers. There’s the BlackBerry Pearl (with a translucent trackball). The BlackBerry Flip (with a folding design). The BlackBerry Bold (with a stunning design and faux-leather back).

Well, there’s a new one, just out ($200 after rebate, with two-year Verizon contract), officially called the BlackBerry Storm.

But I’ve got a better name for it: the BlackBerry Dud.

The first sign of trouble was the concept: a touch-screen BlackBerry. That’s right — in its zeal to cash in on some of that iPhone touch-screen mania, R.I.M. has created a BlackBerry without a physical keyboard.

Hello? Isn’t the thumb keyboard the defining feature of a BlackBerry? A BlackBerry without a keyboard is like an iPod without a scroll wheel. A Prius with terrible mileage. Cracker Jack without a prize inside.

R.I.M. hoped to soften the blow by endowing its touch screen with something extra: clickiness. The entire screen acts like a mouse button. Press hard enough, and it actually responds with a little plastic click.

As a result, the Storm offers two degrees of touchiness. You can tap the screen lightly, or you can press firmly to register the palpable click.

It’s not a bad idea. In fact, it ought to make the on-screen keyboard feel more like actual keys. In principle, you could design a brilliant operating system where the two kinds of taps do two different things. Tap lightly to type a letter — click fully to get a pop-up menu of accented characters (é, è, ë and so on). Tap lightly to open something, click fully to open a shortcut menu of options. And so on.

Unfortunately, R.I.M.’s execution is inconsistent and confusing.

Where to begin? Maybe with e-mail, the most important function of a BlackBerry. On the Storm, a light touch highlights the key but doesn’t type anything. It accomplishes nothing — a wasted software-design opportunity. Only by clicking fully do you produce a typed letter.

It’s too much work, like using a manual typewriter. (“I couldn’t send two e-mails on this thing,” said one disappointed veteran.)

It’s no help that the Storm shows you two different keyboards, depending on how you’re holding it (it has a tilt sensor like the iPhone’s).

When you hold it horizontally, you get the full, familiar Qwerty keyboard layout. But when you turn it upright, you get the less accurate SureType keyboard, where two letters appear on each “key,” and the software tries to figure out which word you’re typing.

For example, to type “get,” you press the GH, ER and TY keys. Unfortunately, that’s also “hey.” You can see the problem. And trying to enter Web addresses or unusual last names is utterly hopeless.

Furthermore, despite having had more than a year to study the iPhone, R.I.M. has failed to exploit the virtues of an on-screen keyboard. A virtual keyboard’s keys can change, permitting you to switch languages or even alphabet systems within a single sentence. A virtual keyboard can offer canned blobs of text like “.com” and “.org” when it senses that you’re entering a Web address, or offer an @ key when addressing e-mail.

But not on the Storm.

Incredibly, the Storm even muffs simple navigation tasks. When you open a menu, the commands are too close together; even if your finger seems to be squarely on the proper item, your click often winds up activating something else in the list.

To scroll a list, you’re supposed to flick your finger across the screen, just as on the iPhone. But even this simple act is head-bangingly frustrating; the phone takes far too long to figure out that you’re swiping and not just tapping. It inevitably highlights some random list item when you began to swipe, and then there’s a disorienting delay before the scrolling begins.

There’s no momentum to the scrolling, either, as on the iPhone or a Google phone; you can’t flick faster to scroll farther. Scrolling through a long list of phone numbers or messages, therefore, is exhausting.

Nor is that the Storm’s only delayed reaction. It can take two full seconds for the screen image to change when you turn it 90 degrees, three seconds for a program to appear, five seconds for a button-tap to register. (Remember: To convert seconds into BlackBerry time, multiply by seven.)

In short, trying to navigate this thing isn’t just an exercise in frustration — it’s a marathon of frustration.

I haven’t found a soul who tried this machine who wasn’t appalled, baffled or both.
And that’s before they discovered that the Storm doesn’t have Wi-Fi. It can’t get onto the Internet using wireless hot spots, like the iPhone or other BlackBerrys. Verizon’s high-speed (3G) cellular Internet network is now in 258 American cities, but that’s still a far cry from everywhere.

Opera Mini 4.2?LET'S find out!

Opera- a famous web browser which was introduced in 1996 by Opera Software ASA
Today, they had done a very hard work on their products and comes out with their latest Opera mini 4.2 for mobile phones.

The launch two weeks ago of a new server park in the US gives graphical mobile browser users the promise of faster performance. Since that time, the makers of Opera have been finalizing their 4.2 edition for various smartphones.Today, Opera's Web page officially recommends using version 4.0 with the BlackBerry 8830 we're using as a test system (still with BlackBerry OS v4.2, since v4.5 won't be ready until Q1), although we'd already been using version 4.1. Seeing that we could download the final edition 4.2 anyway, we gave it a shot.

The number one reason for upgrading to Opera Mini 4.2 -- perhaps the only real reason you need -- has to do with performance. Opera promised a 30% speed increase as a result of throwing the switch two weeks ago for its proxy server farm for the US. That's where a lot of Opera Mini's real functionality actually lies -- it's where some of the more difficult Web page graphics get crunched down to size, for instance.

We didn't need a stopwatch. Prior to upgrading to 4.2, our page performance during business hours for OM 4.1 was so pitiful that many pages would not even load to completion -- BetaNews itself among them. Today, we noticed page loading performance that actually transcended into the "acceptable" range -- still a few thumb twiddles, but nothing requiring strong analgesics.

Another much touted feature for version 4.2 is "skinning," and for a desktop PC user, that term implies a great deal of customization. For Opera Mini, whose most convenient mode for reading the screen is often full-screen mode, skinning frankly isn't all that important. There's a title bar over the window when you're not in full-screen mode, and skinning here allows you to change that color to any of a handful of others. It's not something to write a press release about (although these days, whenever Google changes the color of something, it does tend to take after Sir John Gielgud in "Arthur" and "alert the media").

Speaking of full-screen mode, changing to that mode still requires a trip through the menu system -- specifically, the Settings panel. For more convenience, there should be a hotkey that turns on and off full-screen mode, so users can get rid of the title bar when necessary. Right now, Opera Mini's hotkeys are dialed up using a * sequence, and they're reserved for most-used bookmarks -- what OM calls "speed dial." It would be convenient if users could also assign a program function to this list, and full-screen mode would be my nominee.

UPDATE One BetaNews reader contacted us this evening to say the * * key sequence -- which doesn't work for us, even now -- is working for him on his BlackBerry 8100 running OS 4.2.

The other major change in OM 4.2 is improved support for video; though unfortunately, your device of choice needs to support it first. Support for YouTube video is coming for existing Verizon BlackBerry users in OS 4.5. Until then, awkwardly, whenever OM 4.2 tries to launch a video, it launches the BlackBerry built-in browser instead.

In our particular situation, Opera Mini improved enough to enable us to be comfortable with using it every day in place of BlackBerry's built-in browser. And that's a good enough qualification for recommendation.

INTEL COMING OUT WITH 34nM chips! let's support!

Picture:A Cruzer Titanium Drive Opened after being nearly destroyed.

A company owned jointly by Intel and memory maker Micron Technology started mass producing NAND flash memory chips using tiny 34-nanometer technology, the companies said Monday.

NAND flash memory is used to store songs, movies and more in iPods, iPhones and a range of other consumer electronics goods.

The Intel-Micron joint venture, IM Flash Technologies, expects 50 percent of the chips at its factory in Lehi, Utah to be made using 34nm technology by the end of this year.

The nanometer measurement describes the size of the smallest transistors and other parts that can be manufactured on a single chip. There are about three to six atoms in a nanometer, depending on the type of atom, and there are a billion nanometers in a meter.

Chip makers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) and Intel currently mass produce chips using technology as tiny as 40nm to 45nm. Generally, the more transistors on a chip and the closer they are together, the faster the chip can perform tasks.

Aside from performance, companies are working to make chips smaller and less expensive because people want ever-smaller, cheaper devices.

IM Flash is manufacturing 32G byte NAND chips the size of a thumbnail with its 34nm technology, and expects the chips to be used in small solid-state drives (SSDs) or flash memory cards aimed at products including digital cameras, digital camcorders and personal music players.

The 32G byte chips are multi-level cell (MLC) chips, which means they can handle more rewrites than the single level cell (SLC) variety of NAND flash.

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest NAND flash memory chip maker, is currently upgrading its chip factories to use 42nm technology and plans to start 30nm production next year.

The company showed off a multi-level cell 64G byte NAND flash memory chip made using 30nm manufacturing technology last year.

Picture:The aggressive trend of process design rule shrinks in NAND Flash memory technology effectively accelerates Moore's Law.

wad up with the lastest iPod Touch From Apple.Inc compared with their iPhone 3G?

Picture:The second-generation iPod Touch uses a slightly faster processor than the iPhone 3G.

Apple appears to have upped the processing speed of the iPod Touch in order to help it go after the portable-game market.

Touch Arcade reports that the applications processor inside the iPod Touch (se unveiled in September is actually running faster than the processor inside the iPhone 3G, which runs at the same speed that the original iPhone and iPod Touch used. The new iPod Touch's ARM-based processor is running at 532MHz, while the iPhone 3G's processor runs at 412MHz.

A game developer interviewed by Touch Arcade noticed a huge difference in 3D-rendering speed as a result of the speed bump. As we remember fondly from our "megahertz madness" days of Intel-AMD competition in the PC, processor speed is not the only measure of performance, but it is an important one.

With the arrival of the App Store, Apple has been marketing the latest iPod Touch as a gaming device in its latest round of commercials, almost completely ignoring the fact that it's a music and video player as well.

It seems that Apple has room to boost the clock speed of the processor to 620MHz,according to ARM's specifications, but that requires striking a balance between performance and battery life.

iPods as teaching tool: making podcasts

School districts and teachers everywhere are finding ways to incorporate iPods into the classroom as teaching tools. They can be great mediums to carry foreign language audio files on, or just a device to carry class lectures on. But the most recent round of iPods-in-schools is discovering another potential use for iPods: podcasting.

At a middle school in Arlington, VA, students stay after school to create their very own podcasts, containing original poetry, essays, and stories, all mixed to music and other sounds. Another school in Arlington, this time an elementary school, uses podcasts to broadcast student reports about the monuments in Washington. One student controls the computer, while another served as the director, and a third recited her report into a microphone. This podcast was discovered by a elementary school in Scotland, and now the two schools “podcast each other.”

Yet another teacher uses podcasts to make recordings of vocabulary words, where they listen to the words over and over. They then create their own podcasts of the words, comparing their pronunciation to the teacher’s.

Podcasting in schools is becoming more and more popular, but still only a small percentage of teachers actually utilize iPods and podcasting in class. However, the potential which iPods possess for assisting learning is undeniable, and will find its way into more and more classrooms in the coming years.

wad's up with iPhone OS 2.2?

iPhone OS 2.2



i tell you ...APPLE i PHONE os 2.2 ...IS NOT GOOD FOR THE NATION!

beliEve it O not?

Microsoft Plans Free Software To Shield PCs... BELIEVE IT O NOT?

BILL GATES LOVES $$ RIGHT?
WAD THE HELL HE IS NOW TRYING TO RELEASE A FREE SOFTWARE TO SHIELD PC s?
ISN'T VISTA OR WINDOWS 7 (2010) IS GOOD?
okay...
now we all know!
here they come:::

Microsoft Corp. said it will offer free software to protect PCs from viruses, in a move that could pose new challenges for independent makers of security software.

OHW? IS IT TRUE OR FALSE!?

The Redmond, Wash., company said it plans to introduce its security software, code-named Morro, during the second half of next year in an effort to persuade more users to secure their PCs against spyware, viruses and other forms of "malware." Use of antimalware software is far from universal, especially in emerging markets.

WOW.......WHAT THE......

MICROSOFT SCARED OF MALWARES WHICH DESTROY THEIR OPERATING SYSTEM?

There are two primary reasons consumers supply for not protecting their PCs, including a concern that the anti-malware software will bog down their PCs, said Amy Barzdukas, senior director of product management for the online services and Windows division at Microsoft. The other reason is the cost of security software, which can run $75 for the programs plus two years of updates.

I THINK BILL GATES GOT SOME PLANS IN EARNING MORE MONEY FROM HIS PRODUCT!

Morro will replace another security software program Windows Live OneCare, a broader suite of software and services. Microsoft will discontinue retail sales of that software, which costs consumers $49.95 a year, on June 30 of next year.

That's a lot of money dear....I don't think the nation should waste their money for Bill Gates!

The shift to a free security offering from Microsoft could be a problem for Symantec Corp., McAfee Inc. and other independent security companies that charge consumers for their products.

My birthday had past!!!i grow

LOOKIN AT THE CLOCK...
SECONDS TO MINUTES TO HOURS TO DAYS TO WEEKS TO MONTHS TO YEARS
THESE TIME HAD PAST....SO FAST

older...
is the best way to tell your friend that i'm older than you
but,
sometimes you cann't rewind the tape to the past!

wad a sad thing you got!and everybody is wishing you a "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"hav to reply "thanks"the cell had die for me to grow older?

the printer had stop working for a moment when i celebrate my Birthday during the midnight!

how sad it is when you have your birthday ...

remember 4ever...Wednesday, March 07, 2007

on wednesday, March 07.2007...
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Fujitsu Announces World's Largest & Fastest ATA Hard Disk Drive (160GB, 300 MB/s)

Fujitsu announced yesterday the development of the new MHW2 BJ series of world's first 7,200 rpm 2.5" hard disk drives (HDDs) with a serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface. Featuring the world's highest storage capacity of 160 GB for a 7,200 rpm 2.5" HDD, the new series is targeted primarily at high-performance notebook PCs. The new series will be available on global basis at the end of May, 2007.

In addition to achieving the world's leading storage capacity, MHW2160BJ is capable of data transmission speeds at up to 300 MB/s, the fastest rate in the industry. The series also features best-in-class acoustic noise level of 2.5 bels at idle, and low-power consumption, operating at 2.3 watts or less when reading or writing data.

Ha=eadphone are really harmful for the past years...

The threat posed to your pacemaker by your iPod may have been downplayed by no less than the Food and Drug Administration, but that doesn’t mean that you can go listen to your music willy-nilly. The player itself might be harmless, but perhaps you’re forgetting about that most dangerous of accessories—the headphone.

that's iPod earphones on my MacBook

Not silent... but deadly!

According to a researcher at the Medical Device Safety Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston, the magnets in headphones can affect pacemakers or implanted defibrillators. (Note that the risk is posed by headphones and not digital music players in general or the iPod in particular, as some inattentive headline writers would suggest.)

Before you toss out your potentially deadly heaphones, note this particular detail about the Medical Device Safety Institute report: for headphones to affect pacemakers, they need to be held very close to the device in question—namely, right over the heart. So, in other words, don’t keep your earbuds in your front shirt pocket.

“I certainly don’t think people should overreact to this information,” [said study leader Dr. William Maisel] but it’s smart to keep small electronics at least a few inches from implanted medical devices, and not let someone wearing headphones lean against your chest if you have one, he said.

“The headphone interaction applies whether or not the headphones are plugged in to the music player and whether or not the music player is on or off,” he added.

So there you have it—if you’ve got a pair of headphones, exercise some degree of caution with where you keep your earbuds, but don’t let the news put a stop to your tunes.

what the hack..i 'm still waiting my laptop's returns...

on 28th of oct 2008, i just lose my MacBook on a stupid teacher's hand damn it..
it is kept by the school for at least 1 month.i'm now scared about the private datas and those softwares in that laptop...

damn it....i'm going to hate the teacher for ever and ever!AMEN!

i miss my laptop,i know it unsecure for the moment cause i forgot to lock the login with password after sent it for warranty for the last month,if i wasn't misstaken was 7th otc 2008.However , i 'm hoping that the laptop isn't spoilt without operate it for a month! and the battery is 100% full when it is taken by the teacher!

i wish everyone pray for me and my laptop.
thank you,...

INTEL i7 do supoorts WINDOWS 7

Intel Core i7 is a family of three Intel Desktop x86-64 processors. Core i7 is the first Intel family to be released using the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture and is the successor to the Intel Core 2 family. All three models are quad-core processors.The Core i7 identifier applies to the initial family of processors^. codenamed Bloomfield. The moniker Core i7 does not have a deeper meaning, but continues the use of the successful Core brand.

Intel announced that the family is due to be launched on November 17, 2008

Intel released official pricing information on November 3, 2008 and the first benchmarks also appeared online.

Core i7 Features

Nehalem represents the largest architectural change in the Intel x86 family since the Pentium Pro in 1995. The Nehalem architecture has many new features. The ones that represent significant changes from the Core 2 include:

• FSB is replaced by QuickPath interface. Motherboards must use a chipset that supports QuickPath. As of November 2008^[update], only the Intel X58 does this.
• On-processor memory controller: the memory is directly connected to the processor.
• Three channel memory: each channel can support one or two DDR3 DIMMs. Motherboards for Core i7 have four (3+1) or six DIMM slots instead of two or four, and DIMMs should be installed in sets of three, not two.
• Support for DDR3 only.
• "Turbo Boost" technology allows the cores to intelligently "over clock" themselves to 133Mhz or 266Mhz over the design clock speed so long as the CPU's thermal requirements are still met.
• Single-die device: all four cores, the memory controller, and all cache are on a single die.
• Re-implemented Hyper-threading. Each of the four cores can process two threads simultaneously, so the processor appears to the OS as eight CPUs. This feature was present in the older Netburst architecture but was dropped in Core.
• On-die, shared, inclusive 8MB L3 cache.
• Only one QuickPath interface: not intended for multi-processor motherboards.
• 45nm process technology.
• 731M transistors.
• Sophisticated power management can place unused core in a zero-power mode.

Core i7 Drawbacks

The most serious drawback to Core i7 is the lack of ECC support at least in all current motherboards. For this reason alone, it is advised by some experts, such as Daniel Bernstein, that Core i7 not be used for scientific computing, and not unless you don't mind errors in your critical data.

The second most serious drawback to Core i7 is the lack of inexpensive DDR3 memory on the market.

Processors

• The clock speeds listed here are for normal mode. Speed on a single core can increase by up to 400Mhz when the other cores are turned off.
• The 965 XE has separate unlocked multipliers for memory and cores.
  • Memory speeds up to DDR3-2000 are possible, but not supported by Intel
  • Core clocks of up to 4Ghz have been reported, but are not supported by Intel
• The processor has a Thermal Design Power of 130W and will slow itself down if this power is exceeded. This feature can be disabled.
• prices are per unit in lots of 1000 in USD

Performance

Intel Core i7, Extreme Edition

A 2.93 GHz Core i7 940 system has been used to run a 3DMark Vantage benchmark and gave a CPU score of 17,966.The 2.66 GHz Core i7 920 scores 16,294. An earlier generation Core processor, 2.66 GHz Core 2 Quad Q9450 scores 11,131.

AnandTech tested the Intel QuickPath Interconnect (4.8 GT/s version) and found the copy bandwidth using triple-channel 1066 MHz DDR3 was 12.0 GB/s. A 3.0 GHz Core 2 Quad system using dual-channel 1066 MHz DDR3 achieved 6.9 GB/s.

Overclocking will be possible with the 900 series and a motherboard equipped with the X58 chipset. In early October 2008, reports surfaced that it will not be possible to use "performance" DDR3 DIMMs that require voltages higher than 1.65v, because the integrated memory controller within the Core i7 will be damaged.Some tests however have demonstrated that the voltage limit does not apply, like on an MSI board, and manufacturers can choose to bond CPU voltage to memory or not. By the end of that month, Performance memory vendors had announced 1.65v DDR3 memory kits with speeds up to 2GHz.

Some early articles suggested that i7's design is not ideal for gaming performance. In a test done on leaked hardware, a Core i7 940 compared to a QX9770 shows the Core i7 is slower than Yorkfield clock for clock in 2 games while being faster in the other two. Difference in all cases are small. However, more recent testing done on all speeds of official hardware with final drivers and BIOS reveisions show that Core i7 at the very least beats Yorkfield clock-for-clock, and in most cases exceeds it by an average of about 17%.

In the single-threaded Super PI 1M test, a Core i7 920 running at 2.66 Ghz finished the test in 15.36 seconds, while a QX9770 (3.2 Ghz) did the test in 14.42 seconds,so the Core i7 executed 20% more instructions per clock cycle on this test.

The Core i7 has three memory channels, and the channel speed can be selected by setting the memory multiplier. However, in early benchmarks, when the speed is set higher than a threshold (1333 for the 965XE) the processor will only access two memory channels simultaneously. A 965XE has higher memory throughput with 3xDDR3-1333 than with 3xDDR3-1600, and 2xDDR3-1600 has almost identical throughput as 3xDDR3-1600.

Since the Core i7 is a quad-core processor, Hyperthreading cannot yield any performance improvement for application workloads with fewer than five simultaneous threads when all the cores are fully powered on, and some applications will suffer a performance degradation when hyperthreading is enabled.Hyperthreading will provide its best improvement when the workload has eight or more simultaneous threads.

PassWord Hacking for windows?that's easy man!

Windows passwords are easily hacked. Instead of relying on a Windows password for local physical security, set both a power-on password and, if the computer supports it, a hard disk password. Whole disk encryption is another option, but one that involves much more work to implement."

Boot level authentication or full hard disk encryption will only protect the machine and data if the computer is compromised when shutoff (like a stolen laptop). Once you are booted into Windows, these types of measures will provide little to no help.

Your Windows password will remain weak. In this sense, the second best measure that can be taken behind the obvious "abstinence" of remote access would be a 2 or 3 factor authentication approach, something you have (physical token - smart card, OTP app on cell phone, etc), something you know (PIN), and for extreme security (3FA), something you are (some sort of biometrics)...

Mac Mini should face death!BYE BYE Apple Mac Mini!

This morning, about the Mac Mini. We have a few of these hanging around our school, but it turns out they were pretty underpowered

However, the idea of a Mac Mini has always appealed to me. Reuse hardware like monitors, keyboards, and mice and get into the Mac OS X on the cheap, right? They’re incredibly tiny and use less power than the average laptop, so they can be thin clients, kiosks, web servers, file servers, print servers, media servers, etc. They even have built-in wireless, so they are easy to locate.

They have, however, largely become Apple’s redheaded stepchildren, left to linger in a little corner of the Apple store with no real hope of updates.

Back to the AppleInsider article, though, and we see there might be hope for these slick little machines , opening the door for more inexpensive options for us cash-strapped, Mac-loving ed tech folks. According to the article,

Apple appears to be taking its policing of the rumor mill to the phones, in one case dialing a customer who expressed concern over Internet reports on the Mac mini’s fate to assure him the situation would be addressed in due time.

The real question, though, is should we in Ed Tech abandon this platform? After all, it’s really cheap to build mini computers running friendly versions of Linux. Thin clients can be rolled out fairly cheaply as well. If you’re in the market for higher end hardware, then Macs offer plenty of options at a competitive price with similarly configured PCs. However, if you, like many of us in Ed Tech, are on the lower end of the hardware purchasing scale, is the Mac Mini really relevant? Again, according to Apple Insider,

One of those feature revelations, to which AppleInsider can lend a nod, suggests that Apple will offer new options that will allow the systems to better cater to the server and storage markets for which they’ve become extremely popular.

“In ordering a Mac mini from Apple, there will be an option to have two SATA HDDs and eliminating the optical all together,” the report said. “With the new Remote Disc introduced with the Macbook Air, this option will be tempting for many.”

Will the price come down, too, if Apple introduces a Mini refresh? I love Macs, but at these prices, for their capabilities, I’m just not sure that some homegrown micro ATX-based Linux boxes wouldn’t serve us better in this market.

THE MAC MINI'S RAM

Tech experts at the Obama headquarters initially believed that the computer systems had been invaded by a computer virus.

that's a funny topic to talk about!You can be sure it was israel: israel has the computer sophistication and the will to hack...sending the US a message...but will the investigators ever tell us, or like the USS liberty...issue denials or silences.

Computer systems used by the Obama and McCain campaigns were reportedly hacked over the summer by an unknown "foreign entity," according to an account of the attacks published Wednesday.

The sophisticated cyberattacks has prompted a federal investigation, Newsweek reported Wednesday. Attacks on both campaigns were similar in that investigators believed a foreign entity or organization sought to steal information on policy positions. Such information could be used in negotiations with the future administration.

Tech experts at the Obama headquarters initially believed that the computer systems had been invaded by a computer virus. The next day, however, they were told by the FBI and Secret Service that the problem was far more serious, the magazine reported.

"You have a problem way bigger than what you understand," an agent told Obama's team, according to Newsweek. "You have been compromised, and a serious amount of files have been loaded off your system."

Federal agents told Obama's aides that the McCain campaign had suffered a similar attack, which a top McCain official later confirmed to Newsweek.

Microsoft 's future is depends on Intel's processor!

AND

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) this week continued to give developers a peek at its forthcoming Windows 7 OS at its Windows Hardware Engineering (WinHEC) conference in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday, company reps showed off features of the new operating system designed to improve boot times, ease connectivity with printers and other peripherals, boost wireless connections to the Internet, and enable touch-screen interaction.

"This innovation will enable our hardware partners to provide customers with even greater choice in rich computing experiences," said Microsoft senior VP Jon DeVaan, speaking Tuesday at WinHEC.

Windows 7 will include a new feature called Devices and Printer, which will provide a single place from which users can interact with and manage settings for peripheral devices. It also includes wizards to help manage the setup process. Another new feature, Device Stage, allows hardware makers to offer customized windows from which users can manage equipment like digital cameras, cell phones, and multifunction printers.

For wireless broadband, Microsoft said Windows 7 has an improved "View Available Networks" feature that simplifies the process of locating and syncing with Wi-Fi networks.

Microsoft also announced that it has finished work on features that will allow users to interact with their PCs simply by touching the screen. Among other things, the Windows 7 Start menu, Windows Taskbar, and Windows Explorer icons have been touch enabled.

Microsoft confirmed last week that Windows 7 and the widely maligned Vista OS share the same basic architecture.

"Because Windows 7 is built on the same kernel as Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, there are no changes that are going to require a reworking of that ecosystem," said Microsoft senior VP Steven Sinofsky, who spoke last week at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, also in Los Angeles.

Vista was plagued by application incompatibilities when it debuted in January of last year. The OS featured a number of architectural changes -- particularly at the security level -- that broke compatibility with applications built for Windows XP and other previous Microsoft operating systems.

Microsoft claims that won't happen with Windows 7 -- as long as users are working with applications that are Vista compatible. "All of the devices and all of the compatibility work that has gone on in the past two years of Windows Vista will pay off in the work that we've done with Windows 7," said Sinofsky.

Microsoft stated that it will introduce a beta version of Windows 7 "early next year." That could give Microsoft and its developers enough time to kick the tires on the OS to roll out a final version prior to year's end, though Microsoft has formally said it expects to launch Windows 7 in 2010.

How-To: Make your MacBook Pro run cooler

So this guy decided that his MacBook Pro was running so hot that he decided to figure out why.

When he opened it up, he determined that there was a bunch of thermal gel that wasn’t applied very cleanly. (TUAW documented this in February 2006.) By using something called Arctic Silver 5, he was able to run the MBP a lot cooler — but admittedly much louder now.

It is now a laptop despite Apple selling me a notebook. Gone are the sweaty, clammy palms, the typing on a heat pad feeling, the amazed stares of those who touched the bar between the function keys and the display hinge to feel the bite of a working MBP.

Apple tells Mac mini fan...

Apple tells Mac mini fan to hang in there

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Having read a blog post speculating that a discontinuation of the current Mac mini line overseas may be indicative of the product's ultimate demise, one advocate of the tiny desktops fired off an email with his concerns to Apple's newly-crowned Mac hardware engineering chief Bob Mansfield.

Although Mansfield didn't issue a personal reply, a colleague in Apple's executive care division did almost immediately, offering no timetable for a Mac mini update but assuring that the company was well aware of system's market value, and suggesting the customer continue to exercise patience.

"I got a prompt reply by phone from an Apple executive care person essentially giving me no new information but assuring me that Apple knew the mini was a popular machine and to be patient," the customer told AppleInsider. "I certainly appreciated the contact, and I think it was a nice way of letting me know that rather than bug their head guys."

Fans of the diminutive desktop have become increasingly restless in recent months, as the mini continues to grow long in the tooth. The 6.5-inch square systems haven't seen significant architectural advancements in years and were last refreshed with component updates over a year ago.

Apple's behind-the-scenes customer guidance appears to back similar reports which have recently stood out in resistance to claims that the mini may again be on the chopping block. Following AppleInsider's report on the beginnings of a Mac mini overhaul earlier this year, an entrepreneur with a vested interest in the prolonged development of the computers spoke out in a report titled "The State of the Mac mini."

He outlined the mini's popularity among businesses, particularly small organizations, as well as those in the hospitality, entertainment, and security sectors. Expressing certainty that a new version of the mini was on the way, he outlined several features expected in future models.

One of those feature revelations, to which AppleInsider can lend a nod, suggests that Apple will offer new options that will allow the systems to better cater to the server and storage markets for which they've become extremely popular.

"In ordering a Mac mini from Apple, there will be an option to have two SATA HDDs and eliminating the optical all together," the report said. "With the new Remote Disc introduced with the Macbook Air, this option will be tempting for many."

Although there's no evidence to make a solid prediction at this time, overdue updates to the Mac Pro and Mac mini, combined with Apple having forgone a once-planned bump of its iMacs ahead of the holiday season, next January's Macworld Expo could be shaping up to be a Mac desktop-tinged affair.

Colorful MacBook Pros

ColorWare, the company that colorizes various laptops, desktops, and iPods is now selling colorized versions of the MacBook Pro. They offer only the 2.5GHz and 2.8GHz 15” versions, which cost $2,649 and $3,149, respectively. ColorWare also offers colorization of your existing MacBook Pro for $449. Both the pre-colored and colorization services for the MacBook Pro offer 24 different standard colors including dragon (a shade of green), ferrari (a bright red), and techno (a shade of blue). Of course, instead of coughing up the extra cash for colorization, you could just go to your local hardware store, pick up a can of spray paint, and do it yourself. Or not.

the T-Mobile G-1 from google!

Google patches Android security flaw??is it true that Google and T-Mobile have begun distributing a security patch for the first Android-powered phone, the G1 built by HTC. This is the update alert message.

Google patches Android security flaw??

Google has begun distributing a patch to its Android mobile phone operating system, an early test for how nimbly the company can respond and how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates.

For the Android test phone , a T-Mobile G1, the update was smoother than the process by which the software problem came to light publicly on October 24.

The handset testing gave a message Saturday afternoon: "A system update is available," and a choice to update now or later.But when clicked the button to begin the update, it downloaded new software, which took a few minutes, then installed it, then resumed working with no hitches.

The patch fixes the highly publicized security problem with Android's Web browser and makes a few other minor changes, according to a Google spokesman quoted in IT World on Friday.

The researchers--Charlie Miller, Mark Daniel, and Jake Honoroff of Independent Security Evaluators--called the Android Web browser flaw serious, but Google said its severity was mitigated by Android's design, which restricts each program to its own area.

Earlier, Google appealed for what it called "responsible disclosure" of security vulnerabilities--in other words, a grace period to fix problems before they're made public to reduce the likelihood an attacker will get a chance to exploit a vulnerability. There's an ages-old tension between companies that want to fix their products and security researchers who want to get the word out, in part because attackers also are trying to find the vulnerabilities.

Google didn't respond to a request for comment Saturday.