Technology

As if the 25-gigabyte paper disc from Sony and Toppan is not enough for our personal digital storage needs, Pioneer has created the world’s first 16-layer (ok let’s do away with 4-layer, 8-layer and just skip to 16 altogether) optical disc capable of storing 400GB of read only data.

That should be more than enough to store your 100 most loved full-length DVD videos (or is it?). You can read more about it at the Akihabara News web site.

This is great news for the supporters and users of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. The Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is now being held by Mozilla’s Firefox. On June 18, 2008 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3.

You can join the more than 8 million people enjoying the Net by using Firefox as your web browser.  Here’s my post about the Firefox 3.0 web browser.

This is good news for Flash developers. Google has recently done a lot of improvements in their indexing technology to be able to include in their index content made from Adobe Flash.

Expect your web site’s Flash content to be more searchable using Google Search. In the past creating content using Flash is an obstacle for Search Engine Optimization but now that Google has made inroads into the improvement of indexing Flash content, web sites can not only have great content but also great looks and functionality!

At last Microsoft has given in to public pressure to extend supporting Windows XP. Microsoft will continue supporting Windows XP until 2014 by providing security patches and updates. But it seems that Microsoft will still be discontinuing the sale of Windows XP after June 2008.

It’s actually good news for me since I use Windows XP but I don’t want to migrate to Windows Vista simply because it is too much of a resource hog. With news of Nokia open sourcing the Symbian OS, maybe we can all have a PC Suite version running flawlessly on Linux after all it’s the only obstacle that I have since most of the PC games I play is now well supported by the recently released Wine 1.0.

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.

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