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ATI unveils Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850

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Samsung unveils Android-Powered Galaxy Player

March 20th, 2011 sylv3rblade

Samsung unveils Android-Powered Galaxy Player

The Galaxy S series now has a multimedia player under it’s belt, the Samsung Galaxy Player.  Samsung promises that the Galaxy Player does everything that it’s current flagship, the Galaxy S does except make calls.

The Samsung Galaxy Player is equipped with A 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, dual cameras, a 3.2 megapixels back-facing camera and front-facing VGA webcam, VoIP support and video calls via Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n.  The Galaxy Player supports as DivX, Xvid, WMV, MPEG4, and H.264, while audio format include MP3, WMA, AAC, Ogg, and FLAC.  No AMOLED but Samsung has equipped the Galaxy Player SuperClear LCD and will be available in 4″ and 5″ variants.

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Google allows you to filter your search results

March 11th, 2011 sylv3rblade

To further curb the problem of content-farms, Google now lets you block websites off your search results. This is quite useful with several sites that only contain keywords that you’re searching for and not much else.

This feature is already available through plugins like Greasemonkey combined with user scripts to “block” specific sites from your search results page so it’s a welcome change to have Google implement it natively with their search page.

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APN Settings for Globe, Smart and Sun cellular

March 11th, 2011 sylv3rblade

If you’re trying to get online using your mobile phone, tablet, gadget or any other electronic device then you will need the proper APN (Access Point Name) settings for your carrier.  If your device was bought from the carrier itself (Globe, Smart, Sun), chances are you already have the proper APN installed on your phone.  If not just use the settings provided below:

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AMD introduces Radeon HD 6990

March 8th, 2011 sylv3rblade

AMD introduces Radeon HD 6990 Dual GPU

Move over 5970, the new king of the hill is here. AMD’s top end card, the dual-GPU Antilles or for easier references the Radeon HD 6990 has arrived.

The Radeon HD 6990 is clocked at 830MHz GPU frequency (@1.12v) and 1,250MHz for the memory (5.0Gbps effective data rate) and is equipped with 4GB of on-board frame buffer memory—2GB per GPU, 3072 stream processors enabled, 192 texture units, and 64 ROPs. Added up, that’s about twice the specs of a Radeon HD 6970s (almost as the 6970 cards are clocked at 880MHz). This dual GPU monster has a suprisingly low idle TDP of just 37W and a TDP at load of 375W (lol, it’s a monster card indeed).

AMD Radeon HD 6990 specs are as follows:

AMD Radeon HD 6990 AMD Radeon HD 6970 AMD Radeon HD 6950 AMD Radeon HD 5970
Stream Processors 2×1536 1536 1408 2×1600
Texture Units 2×96 96 88 2×80
ROPs 2×32 32 32 2×32
Core Clock 830MHz 880MHz 800MHz 725MHz
Memory Clock 1.25GHz (5.0GHz data rate) GDDR5 1.375GHz (5.5GHz data rate) GDDR5 1.25GHz (5.0GHz data rate) GDDR5 1.GHz (4GHz data rate) GDDR5
Memory Bus Width 2x 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 2×256-bit
Frame Buffer 2x2GB 2GB 2GB 2x1GB
FP64 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/5
Transistor Count 2x 2.64B 2.64B 2.64B 2×2.15B
Manufacturing Process TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm
Price Point $699 $349 $259 N/A

Reviews:
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MacBook Pro 2011revision Benchmarks

March 1st, 2011 sylv3rblade

MacBook Pro 2011revision Benchmarks

Apple’s 2011 refresh for it’s MacBook Pro line is certain to turn heads, sporting quad-core Sandy CPUs and new AMD GPUs. Yep it looks almost exactly as the 2010 refresh (except for the new Thunderbolt port) but as many fans of the notebook line keep re-iterating, it’s the internals that matters.

Here’s the performance benchmarks for Apple’s new MacBook Pro’s:

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Gmail accidentally resetting accounts

February 28th, 2011 sylv3rblade

Gmail accidentally resetting accounts

If you logged in to your gmail account, saw that your email archives are gone and are seeing the welcome message from your very first login, tough luck.  Your gmail account has just been reset to it’s pristine, empty condition.

According to reports, as many as 500,000 Gmail users lost access to their inboxes with years worth of messages, attachments and Google Chat logs down the drain.  That’s quite a loss if you’re using gmail as your primary storage for information and whatnot.

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Apple updates Macbook Pro line with Sandy Bridge, AMD GPUs

February 24th, 2011 sylv3rblade

Apple updates Macbook Pro for 2011 with Sandy Brige, Lightpeak, AMD GPUs and Facetime

Apple has just unveiled the updated line of MacBook Pro notebooks ahead of the upcoming iPad 2 launch event on March 2. 

These new MBPs sport Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors on all models and the option of quad-core CPUs and AMD GPUs on their 15″ and 17″.  Surprised at seeing AMD there instead of Nvidia?  So am I but it does seem that the legal wranglings between Intel and Nvidia have cost the green team their partnership with Apple for it’s Macbook Pro line.  If you remember past MBP updates, Apple was using Nvidia’s GPU (and lately Nvidia’s Optimus graphics switching technology) for it’s higher-end line Macbook Pros.

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Sony officially unveils Xperia Play

February 15th, 2011 sylv3rblade

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After the long delay, Sony has finally, officially announced the Xperia Play AKA the PlayStation Phone, an Android smartphone aimed at the gaming-eccentric crowd.

If you’re wondering if your carrier will be able to support the Xperia Play, the good news is that it will be released in both CDMA and WCDMA versions at the same time. Sony Ericsson has equipped the Xperia Play with a 4-inch multitouch 854 x 480 LCD, powered by an Qualcomm MSM8655 chipset coupled with an Adreno 205 GPU, 512MB of RAM, and 8 gigabytes of built in memory expandable through an SD card-slot.

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Samsung announces i9100 Galaxy S II

February 15th, 2011 sylv3rblade

Samsung Galaxy S II

The multi-core war has reached the smartphone platform as Samsung announces the successor to it’s current flagship phone, Samsung GALAXY S II (GT-I9100). Yes, the Galaxy S II sports a dual core SoC much like LG’s Optimus 2x and features Google Android 2.3, a crisp 4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus display, TouchWiz 4.0 UI, lightning-fast HSPA+ connectivity and built-in NFC (Near Field Communication).

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HP unveils 9.7″ WebOS TouchPad tablet

February 10th, 2011 sylv3rblade

HP unveils 9.7 WebOS TouchPad tablet

One of the inevitable results of HP’s acquisition of Palm is a webOS-enabled tablet.  Today HP has unveiled just that, a 9.7″ tablet powered by the latest version of webOS, the HP Touchpad.

The HP TouchPad is equipped with a powerful 1.2 GHz Qualcomm processor, 9.7″ capacitive multi-touch display, and HP’s exclusive touch-to-share feature, based on webOS 3.0 platform and will be available in 16GB or 32GB of internal built-in storage capacity.  Other accessories include a front-facing 1.3 megapixel webcam, support for video calling, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, A-GPS (3G model only) and a set of stereo speakers.

HP also promises seamless, wireless connectivity with the TouchPad, Pre 2 and your HP printer (the wireless one of course).

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