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During Late Night with Conan O’Brian’s trip to San Francisco, the host visited Intel with cameras for a segment that was aired on May 5th this year. The TechEBlog Referer contains a link to the segment on You Tube which I found quite amusing. |
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The MX Air Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse from Logitech aspires to proved mouse pointer manipulation well in both 2D and 3D. When used on the desk, the mouse acts like most laser input devices. When lifted from the desk, it uses gyroscopic sensors allowing you to control the mouse in the air. This mouse is clearly aimed at media center PC setups given the bevy of buttons it has. The mouse has a small USB dongle which allows for a range of about thirty feet. The mouse only works in Windows XP or Vista. The Logitech MX Air Rechargeable Cordless Air Mouse is available directly from Amazon for $150. |
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I am a big fan of multiple monitors. I have four displays where I work and coming home to just my laptop display is tough. Windows users now have a couple of options for adding additional displays via USB 2.0. First up is the TRITTON SEE2 USB 2.0 VGA Adapter which allows for resolutions up to 1600×1200 at 16-bit color or 1152×768 at 32-bit color. You can get the the TRITTON SEE2 from Amazon for $70. There is also the Iogear USB 2.0 External VGA Video Card that can run at 1280×1024 at 24-bit color which you can buy from Amazon for $80. Last there is the USB to DVI Display Adapter at Sewell Direct that can run displays 1280×1024 at 32-bit color thanks to its 128MB of memory. It is available for preorder for $120. |
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I cannot decide if the USB Mouse Calculator by Lexibook is a good combination of a numeric keypad and a mouse or too much functionality packed into one device. I am also curious as to how many if any buttons actually work with various OSes even though the product description states that it is compatible with various versions of Windows, OS X and Linux. The LCD requires a AG10 battery which is included. The USB Mouse Calculator is available from Prezzy Box for $30. |
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So lets say you had hundreds of discarded CPUs from a large cluster processor upgrade. What would you do with the discarded CPUs? Matt Tovey’s answer when presented with this opportunity was to cover a desk with the processors. I must say that it looks quite nice, the desk is covered with roughly 500 Itanium processors, a NUMAlink SHUB chip from an Altix 4700 blade, and a MIPS R10K CPU. Some of the Itanium chips lost their metal covers making them also stand out on the desk. Since 500 CPUs weighs a little over 66 pounds, he had to further reinforce his desk so it didn’t collapse under the additional weight. Geeky, but very nice! |
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Evoluent has released the third revision of their VerticalMouse series previously mentioned here. This latest release has been reshaped to accommodate more hand sizes and has small flange to prevent the pinkie finger from dragging on the mousing surface. The infrared sensor has been improved to “gaming grade” offering resolutions ranging from 800 to 2600 DPI and the smooth optical scroll wheel has been replaced with one that clicks. The electrical system has been completely redesigned for improved reliability. There are a few groups of folks that have been left out of this iteration. There is no left-handed version of the Vertical Mouse 3 and there is no Mac driver for any of the Vertical mice so only only two buttons and the scroll wheel function in OS X. The Vertical Mouse 3 is available directly from Evoluent for $80. |
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As I have mentioned before, I dropped my land line back in October and primarily use Skype for my meager telecommunication needs. I was a bit perplexed when my client was going offline and having difficulty connecting until I heard about the outage. The folks at Skype are attributing the problem to a “perfect storm” of factors that prevented the Skype P2P network from recovering from all the Windows reboots caused by Patch Tuesday. Given that I still had my cell phone and don’t really talk on the phone that much, it wasn’t that big of a deal and the Skype folks are giving seven additional days of service for all of their paid Sype Pro, Skype Unlimited, SkypeIn and/or Skype Voicemail customers. The most interesting part of this to me is how infrequent Skype outages have been. I was sure there was some other form of network problem. At least now I know to check the Skype Heartbeat site before I start rebooting machines and routers the next time there is a Skype problem. |
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