Notebook Asus M50SV Benchmarks

Hello guys!Here you are all my benchmarks done on my personal notebook, an Asus M50SV with the following techical details:CPU: Intel Core2Duo T9300 2.5Ghz 800Mhz FSBMemory: 3Gb DDR 667Mhz in Dual-Channel AsynchronusHard Disk: 250Gb 5400RpmVideo Card: 9500M GS 512Mb DDR2 (475/950/400 Default)SCORES:PC Mark Vantage: 3839 (with the overclock it doesn't really change…)PCMark05: 55323DMark06(1024x768)

How to optimize Firefox 3

If you are unsatisfied about the speed of last Mozilla's browser then this is exactly what you need! We are going to set up some options inside the configuration file, to do so the first thing you should do is typing "about:config" in the address bar... You will able to see the Firefox control panel.


Now we need to modify some entries: if you can't find one of these entries then you have to

Unlock protected PDF files

PDF documents can be protected by their own creator by disabling some fuctions like "print", "copy", "editing" and many more... To unlock such files you must download this little powerful and FREE utility: "PDF Unlocker".It's very easy to use, once installed and started you just need to "drag and drop" your protected PDF file inside the software! Done!It can remove passwords from

Top 10 Softwares for iPhone and iPod Touch

Do you have an iPhone? Yes? Good!Here you are an unique Top 10 Softwares to power up your mobile phone!Some of them work great for iPod Touch too!Please, note that it isn't ordered by relevance!!!iFlckr: Uploader for Flickr Locations: WebCam live from the whole world THTouch: Poker: Texas Hold'emFring: Skype, MSN, ICQ for your iPhoneCustomize: Themes, Skins etc.iPhone Video

3D Monitor from Philips

Here you are the new Philips 3D display, that will bring you completely inside your favorite video game! This new monitor grants a 3D visual style in any game without the need of the proper 3D glasses that we are used to wear in these circumstance.As we all well know, Philips is a great high-technology producer and this 3D Display will be also of high quality, surely it won't disappoint who will

It will comes from Microsoft, the first "wearable Mouse"

On 21 June 1967, Douglas Engelbart got the patent for his display X,Y position indicator: the mouse.Engelbart intent was to improve the way to work with a PC and with his invention he fully reached the objective, marking the evolution of Personal Computers in all respects.From that date the development of "pointing devices" has never arrested, and directly from Microsoft comes a possible (and

Top 20 OpenSource softwares from the net

There are so many free alternatives and Open Source softwares, that can replace without any problem the most famous programs. In today's article, I will present you the best 20 OpenSource programs on the world wide web, surely, someone of you will find the program that was looking for, for quite a long time. Here is the list:Gimpshop: The OpenSource program for graphics. Good

Movie of the week: Kung fu Panda!

Hello folks! This movie is really funny... I hope you can enjoy it even if the quality is not that good if you enlarge the video; but who care when things are free?!

YouSerial & YouTorrent

This is really a huge serials archive... I didn't try any key so I can't tell you if it works or not, but it doesn't cost you anything since is totally free. The site is in someway related to the pirate bay, another famous website containing tons of torrent files. Links are the following:youserials.comthepiratebay.orgThere are also other two websites that I want to show you...

Skype 4.0 Beta: great news!

Skype has made available in the last hours, a first beta version their VoIP software. This release will contain some important features and it promise to don't disappoint anyone.Developers spent great resources for the reorganization of functionalities and already existing options: with Skype 4.0 users will be more supported during the installation/configuration procedure.

Canon: an USB mouse with numeric keypad and calculator embedded

"PC Launches" informed us about a curious Canon peripheral device destined to the PC world. We refer to a particular USB mouse, that hides under its body, a keyboard with double functions.The top part of this mouse can be opened and it contains a small LCD panel as a traditional calculator, while on the underside there's a numeric keypad with buttons for the most elementary

How much worth private data stolen from internet? Here is an unbelievable listing of charges!

Our personal informations have clearly no price. But everything has a price and everything has a Market... Also the data (even stolen) of your bank account. McAfee Avert Labs has discovered a list, published on the web, used by criminals for purchase and sell credit card numbers, accounts passwords and other stolen data.A discovery made by accident, when researchers landed on a

CleanAfterMe: a program for who doesn't want to leave any trace on the PC

Clean After Me is a portable application that allow us to clean up the operating system after the usage, in order to assure our privacy. Unlike other disk cleaner, this tool removes temporary files, but without being installed on the system.Program interface is really intuitive and grant the access to all options. Check-boxes are separated by category, which are: Windows Explorer, Firefox,

Go-OO: an OpenOffice revisited edition

Go-OO, stands probably for Go Open Office, it's based on the original OpenOffice but it adds new interesting features and improvements then the basic version developed by Sun.First of all it supports all Microsoft Office extensions like .docx, .pptx and .xlsx and they can be loaded without any problem. Another important feature is the inclusion of SVG and the support for Microsoft

Auzentech: new X-Fi audio card with HDMI 1.3

Auzentech has announced the new audio card Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1, a PCI Express solution based on the known Creative X-Fi audio processor, built with external and internal HDMI 1.3 interfaces, the internal one will works only via Nvidia hardware.This new card can manage high definition audio tracks, in Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. Among all the supported standards, Dolby Digital and

Realized a flexible and radiations heavy resistent transistor

It comes from the space, or almost, a material for the construction of flexible transistors that will allow a new electronic devices production. That's what come up from a Northwestern University publication where the characteristics of the new material are illustrated.Northwestern University research group has build a transistor that makes use of a new type of dielectric material called "SAND"

EFiX wants to bring Mac OS X on a common PC

When Apple has embraced Intel processors and, with them, the x86 architecture, many people started dreaming the possibility to also use Mac OS X on not-Apple PC.Apple, has obviously tried to protect more their own operating system, allowing the installation only on Apple hardware, even if, as everyone know, nothing is 100% "inviolable".We remember what happened during the past

Firefox 3 Download Day!

Firefox is from years the eternal rival of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's browser. Today however we will assist to a firefox memorial win. This Tuesday June 17 th 2008, the third version of Firefox will be released, the more attended.It is not only the day of Firefox 3 launch but it is also the Download Day. Today, in fact, Mozilla wants to enter in the Guinness Records with the "Computer

Two new Core 2 family processors

Intel is preparing new Core 2 Quad processor series, characterized by a reduced cost in comparison to others on the Market: these cpu will be marked as "Q8000 series", the first one will be named "Core 2 Quad Q8200".Technical specifications are a clock frequency of 2,33GHz, combined with a quad pumped 1.333 MHz BUS clock: the L2 cache will be 4Mb, for an official price of 203$ for 1.000

2010: PCI Express 3.0 video cards

The new specifications will allow to sensitively increase the quantity of power directly furnished to the video card from the Slot. A peak of 300 Watts will be reached, capable of power up next GPU generation that producers will introduce in the market next year.These display adapters will be based on a 3 Slots design, to be able to support the higher temperature. New cables will be used, a 2x4

Intel and USB 3.0 development

Some days ago we have spoken about protests made by AMD and NVIDIA towards Intel, guilty, according to the two competitors, to make obstructionism on USB 3.0 development. Always according to AMD and NVIDIA, this abearance would put Intel in a position of advantage, about 6-9 months, in the release of a compatible chipset with the new standard, with negative repercussions on competitors

MSI Wind, 2008: up to 500 thousand units deliveries

Micro-star International, also called MSI, is particularly confident in the capabilities of the proper Wind notebook and is convinced to be able to reach a deliveries volume between the 300 and the 500 thousand units within the end of 2008.According to Joseph Hsu, the company president, Wind's deliveries will help MSI to reach 2 million of notebooks shipped in the 2008. The preceding year MSI has

Wine 1.0 soon available!

Developers of Wine, legendary implementation open source of Windows API, have confirmed through a post appeared on the official site of the project, to be next to the end of the job for the final release of Wine 1.0. According to Alexandre Julliard, leader of the project, the throwing of Wine 1.0 will happen next 20 June.The throwing will happen therefore in proximity of the fifteenth anniversary

Nokia will release "cheap" touch screen mobile phones

Within the end of the year, Nokia will start selling cheap touch screen mobile phones - this is what come from some recent declarations of Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia senior vice president, to the press agency Reuters. Therefore Nokia has the intetion to propose solutions starting from entry level.Presumably the new solutions touch screens proposed by Nokia will be based on the Symbian S60 and can be

VMware Fusion 2.0: Now support Mac OS X Leopard Server

During the last Thursday, VMware has declared that Fusion 2.0, famous virtualization software for Mac, will also support Mac OS X Leopard Server.The new functionality will be available in the next public beta release, the implementation was possible thanks to a variation on the Mac OS X Leopard Server license that allows users to initialize the operating system in a virtual environment.The