A little while back; Apple bucked the trend of most major record labels and started offering higher-bitrated, DRM-free music tracks (for a slightly larger fee than normal files). At the time, it was hailed and maligned as either a step in the right direction or a ploy to get more money, as the bitrate improvement [...]
Archive for May, 2007
DriveCam Watches Teen Drivers
May 31st, 2007 
admin Now here’s something that everyone can get behind. Car accidents are teens’ biggest killer. That fact alone should make every parent want to do everything they can to ensure their safety behind the wheel. I’ve heard of parents who won’t let their children drive with other teens in the car. I’ve written about SignalTrac, a [...]
Microsoft’s Top Ultra Classified Secret Super Stylish Computer Thing
May 30th, 2007 admin Microsoft has made public it’s new platform that has been in the works for the past few years. Details are scarce, but apparently it works on the same principles that occur in the “Perceptive Pixels” post I authored around a month or two ago. It’s a touch-screen, two-way communicating, interactive, Media Center-emulating PC platform. In [...]
Incredible Gaming Technology
May 29th, 2007 admin While exclusively gaming technology isn’t usually considered highly scientific or very relevant, advances in game engines have started to gather attention of non-gamers around them for purposes other than gaming. It’s been noted that, using the physics-centered Garry’s Mod for Half Life 2 and it’s Source engine, people can create a plethora of objects, systems, [...]
Lithium Batteries Without the KAPUT!
May 28th, 2007 admin Radiation, heavy machinery, the vacuum of space, laser beams, and, sadly, lithium polymer batteries, are all dangerous entities, but there has been a breakthrough in material development that promises to fix many of the instabilities of Li-Po batteries. This new polymer, made by an ExxonMobil Chemical affiliate (Tonen Chemical) based in Japan, keeps the batteries [...]
Bioinformatics Hides Information in DNA
May 26th, 2007 admin Have you ever lost a bunch of data on a hard drive? Many of us have – and it ain’t no parade. Actually I devoted another blog to data recovery issues and some of the tricks I’ve learned around it. Anyway, hard drives and the like are pretty unstable mediums. All things are relative and [...]
Free PC Memory Test
May 25th, 2007 admin Have you ever been confronted by bizarre error messages on your computer? You may get strange recurring errors when performing routine programs. Or, usually a dead giveaway, is when you get copy messages when loading Windows for the first time. It will ask you if you want to skip the file. Try the setup CD [...]
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3 Comments »Dell XPS 720 H2C Gaming Machine
May 23rd, 2007 admin Dell (NAS: Dell) is pushing the gaming desktop tradition provided by previous XPS desktops, like the 710. The XPS 720 H2C provides delightful overclocking for gaming enthusiasts. Now, some tweakers will hate the fact that it is overclocked out of the box. “The XPS 720 H2C Edition pushes the limits of extreme performance with Enhanced [...]
Elite “Xbox 360″ Release Ownage…z0r
May 22nd, 2007 admin AGH! I couldn’t resist the -z0r plug, even after the “ownage”. Anyways, for PaulTech readers who are console or even PC gamers, it may excite you to learn that Microsoft has recently released the next tier-level Xbox 360. Named the Xbox 360 Elite, this Gunmetal-Black console is the latest version of the 360, sporting all [...]
XM Outage Angers Customers
May 22nd, 2007 admin XM Radio (NASDAQ:XMSR) is walking through a merger with Sirius Radio(NASDAQ:SIRI). And, if you have ever gone through a merger, there are always issues – always. There’s just too many things that you can’t know before walking down that path. Well, during a software upgrade to XM’s satellite broadcast system, something went awry. So, one [...]
