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Monday, April 28, 2008

NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GSO series GPUs get official

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/279153374/

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Peripherals

As of tonight NVIDIA's got one more notch to add to that bed post: the GeForce 9600 GSO, which is a little more on the cheap date end of the spectrum. The first of the card-makers to launch their 9600 GSO is EVGA, with a 650MHz, 384MB / 1900MHz DDR3, PCI Express 2.0 ditty (e-GeForce 9600GSO Superclocked 384MB), as well as an even lower end 550MHz, 384MB / 1600MHz version (e-GeForce 9600GSO 384MB). And yeah, it does DirectX 10 -- not that you should even need to ask.

[Thanks, Carlos]

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Nokia's "Beautiful to use" 6600 slide, fold and 3600 slide

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/279287686/

Filed under: Cellphones

Nokia just announced a trio of "Beautiful to use" Nokia handsets with its Nokia 6600 slide, 6600 fold, and 3600 slide. The €250 6600 fold is said to smoothly arc open with the press of a button to reveal a 2.13-inch OLED display sporting 16 million colors. It also features tap commands. When off, a double-tap of the monolithic cover reveals the time, messages and missed calls. A double-tap also snoozes alerts and silences or rejects incoming phone calls. The €275 6600 slide (pictured left) features the same tap technology but bumps the digital camera up from 2 to 3.2 megapixels with a 2.2-inch QVGA display based on LCD tech, presumably. The 3600 slide offers the same camera with built-in background noise cancellation -- a first for a Nokia handset -- for a respectable €175. All three ship in Q3.

Gallery: Nokia's "Beautiful to use" 6600 slide, fold and 3600 slide

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick [Google School]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/278969544/filter-google-results-by-date-with-a-url-trick

Google can reorder search and news results from the last day, week, a few months, or entire year by adding a small string to the end of the search URL. Just add this string—&as_qdr=d—to the address bar and hit enter. You'll get a custom drop-down box that lets you re-order results based on date. It's great for getting past the same top results you've already looked through, as well as grabbing only the newest links related to gadgets, software, or whatever else you're searching. Sadly it doesn't work on Google Images, but let us know in the comments if it does work on other Google searches.

Google: How to Access Filter by Date Dropdown Box [Tech-Recipes.com]

Nanomaterial Photos As Modern Art [Nanoart]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/278419343/nanomaterial-photos-as-modern-art

Sunflowers? Nope. Actually, they're silicon oxide nanowires grown in gallium and gold catalysts — and they're only several microns in length. The photo, by Chinese University of Hong Kong professor S.K. Hark, is part of the Materials Research Society's semi-annual celebration of the most artistic and eye catching images found during the study of nanomaterials. Some choice picks after the jump.

Zinc oxide nanoneedles, colorized to resemble a traditional Chinese mountain painting.

Potassium niobium oxide deposited onto a silicon surface and photographed through an optical microscope.

Check out Wired for the rest of the pictures. [Wired]

Retailers Corroborate iMac Refresh Rumor For Next Week [Apple]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/278948677/retailers-corroborate-imac-refresh-rumor-for-next-week

Things are looking good for a now probable iMac refresh this coming week, with MacRumors' retail sources confirming that new iMac part numbers have shown up in their systems. Delivery should hit about Monday or Tuesday and fall in line with the current pricing ($1199, $1499 and $1799). And according to MacRumors, the Penryn processor switchout doesn't make a whole lot of gain for desktop units (reduced power consumption there is just meh), so the storage increase and speed bump should be the reason why you'd want to grab this over an older model. [MacRumors]