Technology
World’s First Powerless Air Cooler on a Mainboard
Just got back from a great two week vacation and to start off I just read this article about the world’s first powerless (yup, it doesn’t use electricity on the heat sink fan) air cooler on motherboards. With all the thrust towards ECO friendly designs these days, this heat-powered design for heat sinks is a very “cool” idea.
MSI has actually created a heat sink cooling design that doesn’t use electricity for the fan. The fan is instead powered by the very heat generated by the CPU. Although it will probably score any points on power savings for you as an individual, think of how much power it can save if you consider the millions of computers on the planet.
HD DVD dies a natural death
The HD DVD disc format supported by Toshiba has died a natural death with the widespread acceptance of Sony’s Blu-Ray format. Toshiba has announced that it is throwing in the towel and calling it quits. What does it mean for the consumer like us?
Safari web browser from Apple available for Windows
Apple’s Safari web browser is now available for download at the Apple Safari web site. I downloaded the web browser, which is currently undergoing beta, and gave it a spin.
How to Test Your Microwave Oven
Are you concerned if your microwave oven may be leaking? Here’s a simple test to check if the microwave oven has a leak using a readily available device.
A breakthrough in NAND Flash Memory performance
As the consumer and computing worlds slowly converts to the use of solid state storage devices, a breakthrough in the development NAND Flash memory has resulted in the creation of the world’s fastest NAND. This will definitely bring us much more closer to replacing the hard disk drive on our desktop and laptop computers.
2008: The year of buyouts
This has been an exciting year so far — first Sun Microsystems buys MySQL. Then Nokia acquires TrollTech, the creator of the Qt library used by KDE. But these will be just a spec of dust in our eyes if the one I just read on my email box pushes thru.
Have you ever heard of Medical Marijuana?
Would you believe that there is such a thing as medical marijuana? Yes there is. A certain strain of marijuana called wild cherry is actually used as a pain reliever and is prescribed in the US. Now here’s the more interesting part, Do you know that there is actually a vending machine in Los Angeles that dispenses medical marijuana? Here’s a video…
And I thought I spent a lot on my keyboard
I bought a wireless keyboard for about Php 1500 to have the freedom of not having to worry about cables and put my keyboard to work wherever I want to.
Wireless Home Network diagram
I’ve just finished making the diagram for my home network (shown below). My wireless home network contains the following components — a wireless modem provided by the Internet Service Provider, a network server, a wireless broadband router and the devices that connect via wifi.
Basic home networking is now working
With the broadband connection now available. I have installed setup a Linksys WRT54G (firmware has been modified) to allow for simultaneous and wifi connections.
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