Make Your Own Stabilized Video Collage [Digital Photography]
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/311807044/make-your-own-stabilized-video-collage
Stabilized Video Collages, How-To [Flickr via Waxy]
Monday, June 16, 2008
Magnetic RAM is Faster, Uses 90% Less Power
source: http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1730/71/
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Instant boots save energy in several indirect ways. It promotes powering down computers at night, as the powering up becomes less inconvenient. Unpowered storage decreases power use dramatically because the RAM can continue to hold data without having to constantly pull from the power supply. Toshiba estimates that the MRAM will use about 10% less energy per megabyte than today's RAM. Unfortunately, MRAM currently has problems operating at a wide variety of temperatures. The inside of a computer has a pretty wide temperature range. Toshiba says that they have overcome this problem, and they expect MRAM to take over the market by 2015. Via TechRadar |
IBM and Toshiba are looking toward the next generation of RAM. They want it to be faster, of course, but they're also hoping to score two of the biggest unobtained prizes in RAM:Bomomo Makes Abstract-ish Art Simple [Art]
Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/311965650/bomomo-makes-abstract+ish-art-simple
Bomomo [via MakeUseOf.com]
Remove Empty Directories Does What It Says [Downloads]
Windows only: Free, open-source application Remove Empty Directories, aka RED, scans any folder you point it to for empty or partially empty folders and helps you remove them. With advanced options for protecting specific folders or detecting folders with just one file type—like an empty music folder that still has album artwork in it—RED is perfect for cleaning out your music library or a cluttered document tree. Just don't go delete-crazy and lose something you need—though if you do, our guide to recovering deleted files with free software can help. Thanks Jan!
Remove Empty Directories [JonasJohn]
AMD Faces Nvidia With Dual Chip Plan
Source: http://gigaom.com/2008/06/16/amd-faces-nvidia-with-dual-chip-plan/
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Nvidia and AMD today each launched two graphics chips for the PC market — but the two companies are pursuing divergent strategies. Both share a recent focus on high-end graphics, which underlines how important visual computing has become; but the different approaches taken by each firm may cost Nvidia market share if its monolithic high-end chips can't deliver the graphic punch to compete with a multi-GPU strategy embraced by AMD and Intel.
Nvidia launched its GTX 280 and GTX 260 chips, which are larger multi-core processors on a single chip. AMD on the other hand, has taken a bottoms-up approach with smaller, multi-core chips that can be harnessed to a second graphics processing chip on a board to deliver higher-level performance. Lower-end PCs can rely on one AMD processor and those needing more power can turn to two AMD chips or Nvidia's single, high-power chip.
The real question is how the graphics will look on the screen. And, as in most chip releases, the proof will be a while in coming. Nvidia already has HP signed up to use its new chip in a new Voodoo desktop especially for gaming. That makes sense. Nividia's chip will rock the high-end application, while AMD's is designed to provide compelling imagery for cheaper, power-efficient PCs and laptops at a large scale. The real battle will be whether AMD's dual-chip strategy takes business away from Nvidia for specialty graphics computers and high-performance technical computing. If that occurs, Nvidia will have to be on guard: Intel's planning to follow the same dual-chip path with its Larrabee GPUs.
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