|
| |
|
Real World Labs And Cooler Master Joint Contest
|
 With just less than 24hours before our Joint Contest with Cooler Master is officially over you still have enough time to participate and perhaps walk away with either a Sirus True 5.1 Surround Gaming Headset, an Enforcer Midi Gaming Tower or a Spawn Gaming Mouse."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Real World Labs And Cooler Master Joint Contest
|
|
Today we are launching one of our last giveaways/contests of 2011 with our good friends over at Cooler Master USA and with Christmas just around the corner we thought it would be nice to once again secure not 1 but 3 great products as our holiday gifts to you all."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Palo Alto Audio Design’s Cubik
|
|
“When technology is ever evolving, even computer speakers can become outdated. Options such as aesthetically pleasing designs, remote controls and the ability to toggle between inputs on the computer are now starting to become as much of a focus for manufacturers as overall sound quality. Palo Alto Audio Design has chosen to ignore all these user demands and produced a speaker system that prides itself on design rather than performance. Best suited to casual computer users looking for an elegant design for playing back classical or folk music at sensible volume levels, the Cubiks don’t offer the performance or features to justify their high price.”
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
AOC and Futurelooks Team Up For An LCD Monitor
|
|
AOC and Futurelooks have teamed up to giveway a sweet LCD Monitor. Known as the AOC e2243 Fwk 21.5 Inch Aire, this LED backlit monitor is thin as a razor, which means it will look sharp on your desktop. Get it. Sharp? Razor? We recently reviewed this beautiful display and gave it a hard fought 8/10. We loved the picture, the super slim profile and the fact that it’s ready to go once you pop it out of the box. What makes it even better is that one of our awesome Twitter Followers is going to win this!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arctic Land Rider 403 Remote Controlled Leopard Tank @ TestFreaks
|
|
Up for review today I?ve got something a bit out of the ordinary, but it?s still tech related I think and it?s certainly not what I might consider a toy, but you might. Arctic has sent me over the Land Rider 403 Remote Controlled Leopard Tank and I have to say it?s a just a blast to use. The land Rider 403 comes completely assembled so all you have to do is charge the battery and start driving and shooting. The tank shoots shells by the remote control. The canon can be moved up and down and it?s attached to a turret that can rotate left and right. The Land Rider 403 is much more than a toy, it?s high quality and highly detailed remote control tank that I?m sure you?ll enjoy."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Breaking news - Osama bin Laden is dead: reports CBC News
|
CBC News May 1, 2011 10:58 PM ET
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to make a statement momentarily. It's being reported on CNN and in the New York Times that Osama bid Laden is dead.UPDATE: The US is in possession of Bin Laden's body, the reports say. It was unclear where bin Laden was killed and how the U.S. obtained his body, but CNN was reporting that he was killed outside of Islamabad. US officials have long believed bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. President Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly."
UPDATE 2: Obama had tasked the CIA with the killing or capture of Osama bin laden. In August 2010 a lead surfaced, the US followed him to Pakistan and late in April sent Special Forces to attack a compound in Abbottabad Pakistan. In the words of Barak Obama; "after a firefight, they killed Osama Bin Laden and took custody of his body."
UPDATE 3: Here's the link to a Pakistani IT consultant in Abbottabad who unknowingly live Tweeted the raid by two special forces helicopters on the compound where Osama Bin Laden is reported to have been killed. (URL: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/02/heres-the-guy-who-unwittingly-live-tweeted-the-raid-on-bin-laden/). This provides a bit more insight into what occurred.
Google Maps link - Abbottabad, Pakistan.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
XFX unveil triple display stand with HD 6990 and DIRT 2
|
|
XFX unveiled a new product to capture gamers attention at CeBIT 2011. We saw
the outshowing of an innovative design by them that will help those with
multi-display setups to enhance their configuration with a new "Triple
Display Monitor Stand". This stand is designed to support up to 3 monitors
each up to 24" in size. Height, angle and rotation can be adjusted to the
gamers needs and delivers further functionality via 2 USB2.0 ports and audio
jacks for hooking up your favourite headset.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Look West-NorthWest at 7:22 to see the Shuttle and ISS for the last time ever
|
|
"Because it doesn't really have lights of its own, the best time to catch the ISS is when it passes your area shortly after sunset (when it picks up sunlight but it remains dark at ground level). This is good for us, as tonight's pass is scheduled at 6:56 p.m. and tomorrow's at 7:22 p.m. So while fly-bys are a fairly common occurrence, these viewing conditions should be nearly ideal.
Here's the catch: the ISS generally moves across the horizon for only three to four minutes. So if you want to see it, you'll need to know exactly where to look. Toward that end, NASA's Human Space Flight page is helpful (as is Heavens Above, though it's been temperamental of late). Generally speaking, viewers should look to the west northwest. And whatever you do, don't bust out the binoculars or telephoto lenses before you get a handle on its location as you're likely to miss it all together. Once you have it in sight, you might want to consider using magnification."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Realize as much as 75% in Energy Cost Savings with GlacialLight's LED Spotlight
|
 GlacialLight, a sub-division of the experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is excited to announce a new product for indoor and outdoor use. The GL Procyon Series-Flood Light (SP100W-CW/WW), using only 100W of power, provides the equivalent amount of light as a 400W mercury lamp. GlacialLight's new lighting solution is designed for use in Architectural Lighting, Landscape Lighting, Spot Lighting, Security Lighting, Parking Lot Lighting, Construction Lighting, Park Lighting, Stadium Lighting, Public Place Lighting, as well as other indoor and outdoor settings.
With a life-time of more than 20,000 hrs (more than six times as long as the average mercury lamp life-time) and an energy savings rate of 75% over mercury lamps, users such as a car dealer could reduce his monthly lighting bill by simply replacing his car lot mercury lamps with GlacialLight's GL-SP100 Procyon Series LED spotlights. Moreover, this car dealer would also realize a reduction of his CO2 emissions from 1,120kgs per year to 284kgs per year for each spotlight used. In short, GlacialLight's GL-SP100 Procyon Series LED spotlights are both environmentally and business friendly.
With no warm-up time required as well as very low heat emission levels, the all-new Procyon Series - GL-SP100 LED spotlights have no harmful UV or IR radiation emissions and operate at power efficiency levels of greater than 80%. Taking an AC power source input voltage of 100-240V, these LED spotlights can operate in temperatures ranging from -20°C to +40°C and be positioned with a beam angle of 30º or 60º as desired. Dust-proof and able to withstand high-powered jets of water, GlacialLight's GL-SP100 Procyon Series LED spotlights are perfect for indoor or outdoor applications. Offering a 2 year warranty, GlacialLight stands behind the quality of each GL-SP100 Procyon Series they manufacture. Specifications
Power Consumption: 100W
Input Voltage: 100-277VAC
Luminous Flux (lm): 5,060lm(CW)/4,000lm(WW)
Luminous Efficacy: 50lm/W(CW)/40lm/W(WW)
Operating Temp. Range: -20°C to +40°C
CCT: 3000K(WW)/6000K(CW)
CRI: >80(WW)/>70(CW)
Beam Angle: 30º/60º
Warranty: 2 years
GL-SP100 Procyon Series LED Spotlight Features
For indoor/outdoor use
Low power consumption – energy-saving green product
Power conversion efficiency > 90%
Power factor > 0.98 at 115VAC; Power factor > 0.95 at 230VAC
Lifetime > 20,000 hrs
Eco-friendly: RoHS Compliant
No UV, no IR, & no mercury
IP65 dust proof
Cool operating temperature & no warm-up
Design of LED lighting products is based on three core technologies including
electrical design (LED drivers), mechanical design (cooling devices), and
optical design (lamp holders), respectively performed by GlacialPower,
GlacialTech, and GlacialLight in the GlacialTech family. With the three core
technologies in hand, GlacialTech has integrated all the resources required for
exceptional designs and manufactures excellent LED lighting products you can
trust.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Real World Labs And Cooler Master Joint Contest
|
|
Today we are launching one of our last giveaways/contests of 2011 with our good friends over at Cooler Master USA and with Christmas just around the corner we thought it would be nice to once again secure not 1 but 3 great products as our holiday gifts to you all."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25th Anniversary of Bhopal
|
|
"The unique qualities of Bhopal water come from 25 years of slow-leaching toxins at the site of the world's largest industrial accident." One swig and you're whisked away to Bhopal, India where in 1984 an explosion at a Union Carbide pesticide factory killed locals and released a health nightmare that still persists. B'eau Pal bottled water."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Man charged $23 Quadrillion for pack of smokes
|
|
"Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours after the purchase and saw the 17-digit number - a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Muszynski told WMUR-TV that he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers - and the $15 overdraft fee. The bank corrected the error the next day. Bank of America said the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pirate Bay confident of trial win
|
|
"One of the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has said he anticipates victory in the court battle over alleged copyright theft.
Peter Sunde said: "We are quite confident we are going to win."
Mr Sunde said the site would continue operating even if he and his three co-defendants were found guilty on Friday.
The Pirate Bay is the world's most high profile file-sharing website. In February 2009, it reported 22 million simultaneous users. "
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| The best Guides by the best writers on the internet; PCstats Beginners Guides explain computers, software, and all those other wonderful things that cause you frustration.
Learn how to use your computer better, master the internet while protecting yourself, and know what to do when your hard drive kicks the bucket.
|
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
"Get the 'Stats and Stay Informed!"
|
|
|
Beginners Guides
