The Asus Eee PC 1005HA netbook features an excellent balance of size and battery life. At a glance, the netbook looks virtually identical to the Eee PC 1008HA, but it’s both thicker and heavier. The added depth gives the 1005HA room for a full sized VGA port, and a high capacity removable battery, both of which are missing from the 1008HA. Yet the Eee PC 1005HA is still thinner and lighter than its predecessor, the Eee PC 1000HE which Asus will soon phase out.
But does the Eee PC 1005HA offer enough advantages over the 1000HE for existing users to upgrade? Read on to find out.
The Ubuntu team has now delivered the beta version of Karmic Koala aka, the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system. Coming after six alphas, the beta build is based on the 2.6.31-11.36 kernel, it includes the GNOME 2.28 desktop environment and features improved startup times, the Ubuntu Software Center, the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (in the server edition), the Ubuntu One file sharing service, GRUB 2 as the default boot loader, an improved iSCSI installation process and lots more.
You can download the Ubuntu 9.10 beta (in all its flavors) from this page or have patience and wait until October 29 for the full release.
Posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 @ 12:29:34 CEST
Check for RAM Error in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem. For RAM to operate optimally, reliably and stably, there shouldn’t by any physical error or defect problem or issue on the memory chip, or else data processed may corrupt, programs may crash, or computer may hang, freeze, reboot or restart unexpectedly, unpredictably, and erroneously.
Posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 @ 11:58:47 CEST
Secrets of Nikon's Coolpix S1000pj projetor camera revealed
Perplexed by the mystery of Nikon's Coolpix S1000pj projector camera? Like the puzzle of free energy or Google Wave, it's a quandary that has perplexed researchers and common folk alike for decades (or at least a few months). It looks we can now finally lay this particular quandary to rest, however, as leading scientific journal Tech-On! has finally revealed how something can be both a camera and a projector at the same time. It turns out the key is a new L-shaped projector module developed by Nikon itself, which is just the right size to fit inside the camera alongside some repositioned optical components, and some new heat control measures that keep the whole thing from getting too toasty. Still skeptical? Hit up the read link below for a closer look and some additional details.
Posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 @ 11:52:34 CEST
Microsoft announced today via its Windows Blog that it has released Windows XP Mode (and presumably, Windows Virtual PC--these guys never explain anything correctly) to manufacturing. The final version will be delivered to customers on October 22, the day of the Windows 7 launch.
Thanks to everyone’s feedback, we’re happy to announce that Windows XP Mode has RTM’d today. We expect to make the final release of Windows XP Mode available via the Microsoft Download Center on October 22nd. OEMs will be able to offer Windows XP Mode on their PCs based on their manufacturing schedules.
For more information on Windows XP Mode, including feature highlights and quotes from some of our partners, I recommend reading this blog post.
Posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 @ 11:40:24 CEST
Twitter is trying out a new feature designed to make it easier for users to group the people they follow by organizing them into lists.
Nick Kallen, manager of Twitter's Lists project, said in a blog post Wednesday night that the company is testing the new feature (see image, below) with a small subset of users. The Lists could organize the people you follow into groups of, say, friends, colleagues, industry luminaries and celebrities.
While the lists can be made private, Kallen said they're public by default, allowing other users to subscribe to any of your lists that they're interested in.
Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 @ 22:48:58 CEST
Consumer group: 'Free' Windows 7 upgrades not always free
The free Windows 7 upgrades that Microsoft has promised buyers of new PCs powered by Vista are not always free, a consumer watchdog Web site said today.
"To me, whether it's $12.99 or $17.03, the charges are all outrageous," said Edgar Dworsky, the editor of Consumerworld.org and Mouseprint.org. "It's just a single disc they're sending, and with media mail rates, it costs just over a dollar to mail." Last June, Microsoft kicked off a marketing campaign dubbed "Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program" to keep PCs sales ticking. The program, a rerun of a similar deal in 2006 before Windows Vista's launch, gives people who buy a PC equipped with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate a free or nearly-free upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate once the new operating system ships Oct. 22.
Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 @ 22:46:25 CEST
ASUS intros first 'Marine Cool' motherboard, the SABERTOOTH 55i
ASUS is good for canning concepts just before they've had a chance to truly thrive, but thankfully the company has made an obvious effort to bring its "Marine Cool" mainboard to life. After peeking said device at CeBIT earlier this year, the SABERTOOTH 55i has become the first actual, working product to be based around the technology. The newly-developed TUF series is designed to handle "extreme conditions," and while ASUS claims that it'll survive "military-style testing," we wouldn't recommend submerging it under liquid or blasting it with a railgun. For those looking to piece together a new Core i5 / Core i7 rig, feel free to give the read link a look for all the details, but don't bother searching high and low for a price or release date.
Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 @ 22:42:55 CEST
Nvidia has developed a next-generation graphics processor code-named Fermi, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demoed some of the first working Fermi silicon at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday.
"Fermi is a radically different way of designing GPUs," Jen-Hsun said following his keynote to open the GPU Technology Conference. Nvidia hosted a similar, more gaming-oriented event called Nvision last year but changed the name of the conference and tightened the focus on GPU-based parallel and cloud computing this time around.
Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 @ 22:37:37 CEST
Here are five issues that we feel Microsoft should get resolved either before or sometime soon after Windows 7 is released to the public in a few weeks.
There has been ongoing debate on Microsoft's TechNet site about an issue with Windows 7 RTM x64 and incremental backups. It seems as though Windows 7 x64 is not performing incremental backups as it should by design. Per Microsoft Help: "After you create your first backup Windows Backup will add new or changed information to your subsequent backups ...
Windows Backup keeps track of the files that have been added or modified since your last backup and then updates the existing backup, which saves disk space." In other words, after a full backup, Windows 7 should only back up changed data.
Posted on Thursday, October 01, 2009 @ 01:02:40 CEST
BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac releasing October 2
A tiny little beta leak earlier this month let BlackBerry-toting Mac fans knew that something good was coming in the near future, and now we know it's very near indeed (though a bit later than expected). On October 2 RIM will release BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac, specifically at 1:00pm EST. That means instead of wrapping up your busy work-week being productive you can instead spend the afternoon fighting long download queues and playing around getting this app configured -- for purely work-related purposes of course, like syncing with iCal, Address Book, and automatically backing up contacts. Just don't tell your boss you'll also be able to sync your iTunes collection to your handset, including album art, something that should make Pre-owning Bob down the hall a little jealous. Again, the fun starts Friday afternoon at 1:00 EST. Clear your calendars accordingly.
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 17:24:18 CEST
Alright, so we're going to go ahead and caution against buying anything that claims to have a "dual Bluetooth" module, but if you're feeling froggy, the planet's first (and probably last) dual CPU netbook has just been launched. Not dual core, mind you, but dual processor. The admittedly chintzy looking Swordfish Net 102 Dual claims to have a pair of 1.6GHz Atom N270s within, not to mention 2GB of DDR2 RAM, optional WWAN, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 10.2-inch display (1,024 x 600 resolution), a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP runnin' the show. It's available to order for the low, low price of $449, though we wouldn't expect the stock 3-cell battery to last very long (read: an hour) with a pair of CPUs sucking down juice.
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 17:17:19 CEST
As far as the great majority of users are concerned, Windows Vista was the greatest flop in Microsoft history and few points of view dare to contradict this. Proof is the sleuth of computer enthusiasts that still cling to Windows XP as the familiar grounds where stability and functionality combine smoothly into one easy to use operating system. When Vista came, all it took to bring it down before even starting to rise were the driver incompatibility issues and a number of programs that could not run on anything else but XP. Its slick looks were the only ones impressing the audience, but even this was viewed as unoriginal.
The endpoint here is that very few users committed to replacing a reliable XP with the relatively unfamiliar turf of Vista, waiting for all the loose ends to be tied up in Windows 7, which, as the voices of the experts claim, is a much better dish than Vista (I strongly concur).
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 10:22:31 CEST
Google set to roll out Wave to 100,000 early users
Google Inc.'s highly anticipated communication and collaboration tool - Google Wave - is one big step closer to its first customer shipment.
The company is inviting about 100,000 users and developers to preview the new technology, Lars Rasmussen, an engineering manager, and Stephanie Hannon, a group product manager at Google, said in a blog post today. The users and developers will get the invitations tomorrow, they said in the post.
The Google bloggers acknowledged that Google Wave, which was unveiled this past May, still isn't yet ready for prime time. But, they added, the developers are now ready to get some feedback on the current iteration of the tool.
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 00:39:40 CEST
Well, it's not the fifty bucks that OEMs are said to be paying for a copy of Windows on the average PC, but the pricing for individual OEM copies of Windows 7 has now finally been revealed by the folks at Newegg and, as expected, it's still a good deal cheaper than the full retail price. Things start at just $99.99 (after a $10 discount) for a full version of Windows 7 Home Premium (compared to $199 retail), and move up to $134.99 for the OEM Professional edition, and $174.99 for the Ultimate edition (also after a pre-order discount that's good until October 20th). Of course, there are a few limitations if you decide to go the OEM route yourself (like not being able to transfer the license between PCs, and a complete lack of an upgrade option), but we're guessing that extra $100+ back in your pocket will more than make up for those drawbacks with plenty of folks.
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 00:19:45 CEST
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The Asus Eee PC 1005HA netbook features an excellent balance of size and battery life. At a glance, the netbook looks virtually identical to the Eee PC 1008HA, but it’s both thicker and heavier. The added depth gives the 1005HA room for a full sized VGA port, and a high capacity removable battery, both of which are missing from the 1008HA. Yet the Eee PC 1005HA is still thinner and lighter than its predecessor, the Eee PC 1000HE which Asus will soon phase out.
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The Ubuntu team has now delivered the beta version of Karmic Koala aka, the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system. Coming after six alphas, the beta build is based on the 2.6.31-11.36 kernel, it includes the GNOME 2.28 desktop environment and features improved startup times, the Ubuntu Software Center, the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (in the server edition), the Ubuntu One file sharing service, GRUB 2 as the default boot loader, an improved iSCSI installation process and lots more.
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem. For RAM to operate optimally, reliably and stably, there shouldn’t by any physical error or defect problem or issue on the memory chip, or else data processed may corrupt, programs may crash, or computer may hang, freeze, reboot or restart unexpectedly, unpredictably, and erroneously.
Perplexed by the mystery of Nikon's Coolpix S1000pj projector camera? Like the puzzle of free energy or Google Wave, it's a quandary that has perplexed researchers and common folk alike for decades (or at least a few months). It looks we can now finally lay this particular quandary to rest, however, as leading scientific journal Tech-On! has finally revealed how something can be both a camera and a projector at the same time. It turns out the key is a new L-shaped projector module developed by Nikon itself, which is just the right size to fit inside the camera alongside some repositioned optical components, and some new heat control measures that keep the whole thing from getting too toasty. Still skeptical? Hit up the read link below for a closer look and some additional details.
Microsoft 
Twitter is trying out a new feature designed to make it easier for users to group the people they follow by organizing them into lists.
The free Windows 7 upgrades that Microsoft has promised buyers of new PCs powered by Vista are not always free, a consumer watchdog Web site said today.
ASUS is good for canning concepts just before they've had a chance to truly thrive, but thankfully the company has made an obvious effort to bring its "Marine Cool" mainboard to life. After peeking said device at CeBIT earlier this year, the SABERTOOTH 55i has become the first actual, working product to be based around the technology. The newly-developed TUF series is designed to handle "extreme conditions," and while ASUS claims that it'll survive "military-style testing," we wouldn't recommend submerging it under liquid or blasting it with a railgun. For those looking to piece together a new Core i5 / Core i7 rig, feel free to give the read link a look for all the details, but don't bother searching high and low for a price or release date.
Nvidia has developed a next-generation graphics processor code-named Fermi, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demoed some of the first working Fermi silicon at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday.
A tiny little beta leak earlier this month let BlackBerry-toting Mac fans knew that something good was coming in the near future, and now we know it's very near indeed (though a bit later than expected). On October 2 RIM will release BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac, specifically at 1:00pm EST. That means instead of wrapping up your busy work-week being productive you can instead spend the afternoon fighting long download queues and playing around getting this app configured -- for purely work-related purposes of course, like syncing with iCal, Address Book, and automatically backing up contacts. Just don't tell your boss you'll also be able to sync your iTunes collection to your handset, including album art, something that should make Pre-owning Bob down the hall a little jealous. Again, the fun starts Friday afternoon at 1:00 EST. Clear your calendars accordingly.
Alright, so we're going to go ahead and caution against buying anything that claims to have a "dual Bluetooth" module, but if you're feeling froggy, the planet's first (and probably last) dual CPU netbook has just been launched. Not dual core, mind you, but dual processor. The admittedly chintzy looking Swordfish Net 102 Dual claims to have a pair of 1.6GHz Atom N270s within, not to mention 2GB of DDR2 RAM, optional WWAN, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 10.2-inch display (1,024 x 600 resolution), a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP runnin' the show. It's available to order for the low, low price of $449, though we wouldn't expect the stock 3-cell battery to last very long (read: an hour) with a pair of CPUs sucking down juice.
As far as the great majority of users are concerned, Windows Vista was the greatest flop in Microsoft history and few points of view dare to contradict this. Proof is the sleuth of computer enthusiasts that still cling to Windows XP as the familiar grounds where stability and functionality combine smoothly into one easy to use operating system. When Vista came, all it took to bring it down before even starting to rise were the driver incompatibility issues and a number of programs that could not run on anything else but XP. Its slick looks were the only ones impressing the audience, but even this was viewed as unoriginal. 
Google Inc.'s highly anticipated communication and collaboration tool - Google Wave - is one big step closer to its first customer shipment.
