Konnecke.com: August 2006

How Much System Memory Is Really Enough?

When it comes to adding memory, we all have to deal with the cost vs. speed equation. So how much memory do you really need? Our tester got some surprising results.

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World's Oldest Consumer Electronics Fair To Open

The world's oldest consumer electronics show, the IFA, opens its doors in Berlin on Thursday to showcase an industry bursting with confidence as demand surges for flat TVs, MP3 players, set top boxes and phones.

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Google to Allow Free Downloads of Books

Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain. Using Google's Book Search service, Web surfers hunting titles like Dante's "Inferno" and Aesop's "Fables" will be able to download PDF files of the books.

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1.2 Million Flickr Photos Geotagged After First 24 Hours

Flickr added a geotagging feature yesterday that allows users to tag a photo with its physical location on a Yahoo Map. In the 24 hours after launch, 1,234,384 photos were geotagged.

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Nice Rack - 120 Terabytes in 19 Inches

Capricorn Technologies just released a low power, intelligent storage system based on the Via mini-ITX boards. The short story is 3TB per 1U node, 120TB per 19 inch rack. With a full x86 PC on board, you can your management software essentially for free. You get all this for about 80W per node, or 3200W per rack.

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Flickr's Geotagging Reviewed by Thomas Hawk

"Ok, so Michael Arrington leaked it a few weeks back and now it's official. Today Flickr launched geotagging. My first impression? It needs to be muchbetter before I'll use it exclusively.

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Flickr Adds Geotagging

If you just want to jump in and start geotagging, open the new 'map' tab in the organizr and go for it. It's all drag and drop and easy to figure out.

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eBay and Google Launch VoIP Click-to-Call Ads

Google will start to place ads on eBay and will become the exclusive provider of text ads outside of the US, reports Business Week. Google will also use "click-to-call", a feature that makes it easier for businesses to connect with customers: with one click, you're able to talk for free with someone from the company that placed the ad.

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TechTV Alumni Back With a Vengeance as Podcasters

If there is anything more boring than WATCHING video games being played on TV, I don't know ... Wait, wait, I almost forgot about televised poker. Well, it turns out that the old TechTV stars didn't just dissolve into pixels and fade away. They're back with a vengeance as podcasters.

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Gmail is officially headed for the office!

Starting Monday, Google will offer Google Apps for Your Domain, a free package of programs for businesses, universities and other organizations. Companies will be able to send e-mail with Gmail, but messages will carry their company's domain name. The package also includes Google's online calendar, IM, and Page Creator.

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What are the top 100 Viewed Wikipedia Pages?

This tool shows the articles from the English Wikipedia that are viewed most. Some results may surprise you...

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Safer Lithium-Ion Batteries

A solution may be at hand, although it could mean accepting, for now at least, lower battery capacity. Safer materials for lithium-ion batteries already exist and are available in products such as power tools. With some modification, they could be used in laptops, and also help facilitate the widespread use of lithium-ion batteries in hybrids...

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32 GB flash drives within a year.

It reads data about 300% faster and writes 150% faster. I long for the day when the only moving part in my computer is a fan.

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Tom Cruise's Secret Yahoo! Deal

After parting ways with Paramount Studios, Tom Cruise secretly (or not so secretly -- he did wave to paparazzi after all) met with executives of Internet media giant Yahoo! for a three-hour meeting in in Santa Monica, California. Tom's future films willl reportedly be backed, funded, endorsed, or whatever you want to call it by Yahoo!.

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Will the Hobbit (Homo floresiensis) Argument Ever Be Resolved?

For the past two years, researchers have been hotly debating (and coming dangerously close to fighting over) whether the fossils of a diminutive hominin found in Indonesia are those of a previously unknown species. The publication this week of some long-standing doubts over the 'hobbit' fossils show the debate is far from over.

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Yoda Backpack - Want one, you will !

A picture is worth 1000 words. Even if you aren't a huge Star Wars fan, this backpack will give you huge geek credibility.

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Google, eBay Form Advertising Alliance

In a deal between two of the Internet's most prominent properties, Google Inc. (GOOG) will begin selling advertising on Web auction leader eBay (EBAY) and help buyers quickly ring an online merchant to do business.

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Google Office Biz Suite Site Debuts

Now you can offer private-labeled email, IM and calendar tools to all of your users for free*, so they can share ideas and get things done more effectively. You can design and publish your organization's website, too. It's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.

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Generate your own energy for almost nothing

The Chispito Wind Generator was designed to be simple and efficient with fast and easy construction. There are no limits to what you can do with wind power. There is nothing more rewarding and empowering than making a wind powered generator from scrap materials. Most of the tools and materials in this manual can be found in your local hardware shop

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Al Gore Wants Democratic TV

Ever-tighter political and economic control of the media is a major threat to democracy. Media control is being consolidated in the hands of a few businesspeople or politicians. Al Gore is creating Current TV, his "interactive TV" channel, to encourage "democratic dialogue" much the way Digg and blogs do online.

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Watch Full Charlie Rose Interview with Conan O'Brien on Google Video

"Lots of good clips from both his show and the 2002 Emmy Awards, and O'Brien has a lot of interesting things to say about his 13 years at NBC, the money that FOX offered him a few years ago, what will happen when he takes over The Tonight Show in 2009, and his conversation with Johnny Carson three months before he died." [via TV Squad]

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Scientists have found a way to trick cancer cells into committing suicide

The novel technique potentially offers an effective method of providing personalized anti-cancer therapy. Most living cells contain a protein called procaspase-3, which, when activated, changes into the executioner enzyme caspase-3 and initiates programmed cell death, called apoptosis...

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ABC Radio Better Targetting for the Streaming Crowd

It seems targetted ads for streaming audio might be near as ABC Radio gears up to better target ads.

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Bin Laden not wanted ?

Comments from http://ludwigvan-tx.livejournal.com/2648.html

Well he’s still on the FBI’s Most Wanted for the bombings of the US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998... but not the 9/11 attacks.

I think it’s quite possible that Bin Laden is worth more alive than dead, and it’’s quite possible that it’s known exactly where he is. Why ?

Because if OBL (Bin Laden) was to be taken out then that just might be a trigger for sleeper cells around the world to activate.

Lets hope I’’m wrong and he gets what he deserves soon.

Predicting Crystal Structures based on On-line Book Sales

Amazing use of predictive sales technology to predict how crystal structures form.

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Engineers worry about New Orleans levees

The head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday that despite aggressive efforts to repair the levee system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it was unclear whether the it could hold up to a sizable hurricane this year.

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The secret Starbucks coffee - it's all about product sabotage!

Really interesting article about how companies intentionally sabotage their best products in order to get richer customers to buy more expensive products that are often worse. Starbucks have a cheaper, better coffee that doesn't appear on the menu. Read it, and realise how much you're played by these businesses! Get a better deal for yourself

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Digg Forces Shutdown of DiggGames.com Domain

DiggGames.com, a site that hosts a panorama of web games featured on Digg, was recently forced to abandon its domain name due to legal complaints. Furthermore, "digggames.com" has been banned from being entered as a story URL. While Digg's actions are understandable, its nature as a democratic online outlet makes such restrainment questionable.

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No more spontaneous, drunken, 3 a.m. weddings in Las Vegas

After years of sanctioning hastily made matches, the Las Vegas marriage bureau plans to close its all-night counter. County officials approved a new 8 a.m. to midnight schedule that will take effect next Wednesday, eliminating 24-hour marriage license service on Fridays, Saturday and holidays.

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Warzone whingers suddenly Australian

Recent evacuees hide under a flag of convenience in order to secure thier safety. Many accuse Australia of not being tolerant in the War on Terror, yet we tolerate this ?

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Stolen Ghost Ride

See where the Internet lives

Take a tour of the data warehouse for the web - Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com. Take a tour of the facilities, and see how much energy it takes to keep the Web alive.

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Tom and Jerry and now the Flintstones

There comes a time when too much is just, well too much. Fifteen hundred episodes of classic cartoons look like being edited to reflect current values. This article is a glimpse of what might be happening to your favourites very soon.

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9 Bittorrent How-to's

Torrentfreak has put together a roundup of Bit-Torrent How-to's. Great for n00bs and experienced users alike. Check out "How to make a custom TV-torrent feed."

Im trying this. Everytime I've tried to BitTorrent I've managed to stop my PC from working. Theres got to be a secret.

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Why Firefox counts down before letting you install an extension

The reason why Firefox has a count down before letting a user install an extension is because of security. By doing this it prevents malicious software from automatically installing on your system.

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Canon EOS Integrated Cleaning System

Details of the cleaning system deployed in Canon SLR Cameras.

Fuji Xerox Australia - Document Supplies - Home Page

Fuji Xerox Australia - Document Supplies - Home Page: "New Earthcare Binder Range
Fully recyclable and made free from PVC, these insert binders are both durable and environmentally friendly!

Check out the Earthcare binders range, located in the Insert Binders section of the catalogue"

Firefox using up 1.5 gigs of RAM (screenshot)

Firefox was used for over a week and never restarted. Eventually it started to slow down, Reason: Firefox's memory usage had gone up to 1.5 gigs. This is why you should restart Windows everyday, folks.

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Crackberry - it's no joke

BlackBerry developer Research in Motion has garnered considerable kudos from the addictive nature of its pioneering push email technology, but that could change with suggestions that technology addiction is no laughing matter and that employers could face liability for their employees' affliction.

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Amazing Pictures of Petra!

Remember in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the "temple" built into the rock face? That was Petra, and the whole city was carved from rock. Plenty of pictures to explore.

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Canon's New Digital SLR Camera Cleans Its Own Lens

The EOS Digital Rebel XTi SLR camera employs what Canon calls the Self Cleaning Sensor Unit. The technology keeps the low pass filter in front of the camera's sensor clean by using ultrasonic vibrations to shake dust off the surface. The vibrations are activated for one second each time the camera is turned on or off, or via a command in the menu.

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Internet Explorer 7 RC1 released

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic securi

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Stage6: The Youtube Killer??

DivX, the video company well known for its coding and compression technology, quietly launched a YouTube-style online video sharing community, Stage6, a few weeks ago.

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Writely Googles free, kick-ass word-processor

Google has re-launched Writely, the online word-processor they recently bought, in public beta. Access to Writely is now free for everyone. Writely does most things Word does, for free.

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Meebo for your website! - ajax im version 2

Ajax im is a complete instant messaging system for your website; akin to Meebo without needing to pay for tons of expensive servers. This system uses Javascript/PHP/MySQL to allow users to communicate between users of the ajax im script on your site. No refreshing of the page is ever needed, as everything is updated in real-time via the JavaScript.

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