Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Monday, June 23, 2008

Youtube to iPod, PSP Converter


Freeware, you can now easily download all your favorite videos from youtube(*.flv) and converts it for your iPhone, PSP, or any mobile device. Convenience at its best, just a click of the mouse and you can enjoy videos with your friends, and its user friendly too.
download it here.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Free irc shell



I found a free shell provider but they only support irc only

no need to pay or a number of required post in forums, but you only have to wait for admins approval. They have a decent number of vhosts to provide for your irc bouncer. 750GB/m bandwith check them.

http://www.free-shell.net

How to make you own TeamSpeak server


A quick guide on how to setup your own teamspeak server

TeamSpeak 2 Server English
download here


MySql 4.0.25 or higher
download here


1. Install the Teamspeak Server

2. Run the server, this will create the server.ini file to be edited later

3. Close the server (Right click on icon in system tray)

4. Unzip and Install MySql 4.0.25 (Setup.exe)

5. Open Command Prompt (Start Menu ---> Run)
Type: cmd then press enter
Command Prompt will open....... Type the following in command prompt:
C:\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --install (C:\mysql is the directory to mysql)
This installs MySql Server as a Windows Service
Close command Prompt

continue reading here...

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Rumors of PSP Slim



Rumors spread from Tech sites about the product itself but not a PSP 2 genre, but only it gets a new design. Internal hardware are still the same, the only thing that's different is the slim design. But there is more sony got under their sleeves, psp now got a new LED screen that will give you a better and crisp display but take up far less space. The LED itself helps pump up the battery life of this slim model which can last four times longer than the original PSP. This new gadget still uses the UMD Drive like from the original PSP but it will be a faster version and will help speed up load times and gameplay, the portable will come packed with 8GBs of internal flash memory. Buttons of the Slim PSP has got a new tweak from the original PSP, and the D-Pad has got a major adjustments giving players more like a PS3 D-Pad.

Final price of the new PSP has not yet been set, but Sony is hoping to sell it for under $170 or so.

Check back soon for more details of the new PSP.

Monday, August 20, 2007

What is ExpressionEngine?


A content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website.

Features Overview
Web Publishing

ExpressionEngine’s publishing features are broad, comprehensive, and highly flexible.

* Multiple Weblogs/Site Sections
ExpressionEngine supports an unlimited number of weblogs. You can separate your weblogs into independent pages, or you can put multiple weblogs on the same page.
* Custom Entry Fields
Each section can have its own unique set of entry fields. These can be input boxes, pull-down menus or textareas.
* Search Engine Friendly URLs
The URLs produced by ExpressionEngine do not contain query strings which are disliked by search engines. Rather, they mimic the directory structure of static sites.
* Custom Statuses
Create editorial work-flow by creating statuses that you can assign your entries to, like "first draft", "revision", "final edit", etc. You can color-code them too.
* Multiple Categories
Each entry can be assigned to multiple categories, and you can create as many unique category groups as you want.
* RSS and ATOM Syndication
With RSS, your content can be made available for syndication. ExpressionEngine supports all major syndication formats, including the new Atom format.
* Moblog Publishing
Email weblog entries and photos to ExpressionEngine using your mobile phone or email program.
* Relationships
You can create relationships between entries in different sections of your site, enabling information to be shared.
* Entry Versioning
The Entry Versioning feature lets you save previous revisions of your weblog entries, so you never lose any edits you make.
* Multi-Entry Editing
This feature permits multiple entries to be edited at one time, saving you time.
* Entry View Tracking
You can track up to four "zones" per entry so see where your entries are being viewed.
* Ping Servers
Each user can define their own servers to ping when new entries are added.
* HTML Formatting Buttons
Each user can store their own formatting elements that are available at the click of a button.
* URL Titles
Each weblog entry can be given a "human friendly" title for use with your comments or your permalink page.
* Sticky Topics
Weblog entries can be made "sticky", forcing them to always show up at the top of the page.
* Future Entries
You can post entries into the future and they won't appear on your site until that date.
* Expiring Entries
You can set an expiration date and your entries will be removed from your site automatically on that date.
* Pagination
This feature allows your users to view older entries by clicking "next" and "previous" page links.
* Article Pagination
You can split your articles into multiple pages.
* Image and File Uploading
Upload to multiple destinations, and limit uploads to specific user groups.
* Image Resizing and Thumbnailing
ExpressionEngine lets you resize images and create thumbnails, with support for the three major image manipulation protocols: GD, NetPBM, and ImageMagick.
* Image and File Browsing
View your uploaded images in the convenient File Browser
* Emoticons
Add "smileys" to your weblog entries and comments.
* Bookmarklet

Add-On Modules and Plugins

ExpressionEngine comes with 22 add-on modules and over 100 plugins.

* Discussion Forum
ExpressionEngine's Discussion Forum module is a complete community building solution that integrates seamlessly. Visit our community forums to see it in action. Note: The Discussion Forum is sold separately.
* Moblog
ExpressionEngine's Moblog Module enables you to send content to your website via email. Send photos to your image gallery, weblog entries to your blog, or data into your site sections simply by sending an email to your own account. You can have as many moblog accounts as you need, and each email you send can contain special tags which let you control how the content gets stored and displayed.
* Weblog
In ExpressionEngine, the term "weblog" refers to a section of your website, so even if you don't use EE to manage a blog you'll use the weblog module. The weblog module is the most flexible and powerful system we offer, enabling you to display your content in an almost infinite variety of ways. The Weblog Module supports advanced features, like custom data fields, multiple nested categories, sticky topics, workflow, publish and expiration dates, and other features found only in high-end content management solutions. You can even have multiple weblogs on the same page to create an ezine or complex brochure site.
* Wiki
The ExpressionEngine Wiki Module is a powerful, full-featured wiki that integrates with ExpressionEngine. Its a great way to host and manage community created content. Your site members can add and edit articles while your admins moderate the site as you see fit.
* Member Manager
ExpressionEngine supports an unlimited number of members and authors in a single installation, and comes with advanced member management tools so you can control exactly who can do what.

Powerful Member Groups allow you to restrict access and assign privileges to any area of your site, or within your administrative control panel. Create custom membership fields for required member information, enable editorial workflow if you have multiple authors contributing to your content, restrict pages to members of a certain level, and more.

Each member has their own profile management area where they can set their own preferences, manage their account, store notes, send email and private messages to other users, upload their photo, and more. Member management is integral to ExpressionEngine, so it provides the tools you need.
* Mailing List
Included with ExpressionEngine is a double-opt-in mailing list module that allows you to send mass email to subscribers of your site, or registered members. The Mailing List Module supports multiple sending protocols, HTML email, batch mode, and other advanced features, yet the user interface is a very simple to use.
* Simple Commerce
Introducing the ExpressionEngine Simple Commerce Module by pMachine. Fully integrate the purchasing power of PayPal into your existing ExpressionEngine site with this easy to use, flexible solution. Customizable email notifications for each product, member group assignment upon purchase, built in encryption, and automated purchase tracking through PayPal's Instant Payment Notification service give you the power you need to make your own store.
* Photo Gallery
Are you among the millions of people who take digital photos? Now you can organize and display them on the web with the ExpressionEngine Photo Gallery! And since it works seamlessly from within your ExpressionEngine installation, you no longer need to use separate programs to manage your photos and your web content.
* Blogger/MetaWeblog API
ExpressionEngine supports all three of the XML-RPC posting APIs (Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and MT API), enabling you to use desktop software to send content to your site. Each author in your system can have their own API accounts, so different authors can post to different sections of your site.
* Commenting/Trackback
ExpressionEngine supports user commenting and trackbacks, both as separate features or combined together. Our comment module supports an array of display options, as well as the most comprehensive suite of security features of any system on the market.
* Recently Updated Sites
This module enables anyone using ExpressionEngine to run their own "recently updated sites" list. If you are familiar with sites, like weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, or blog.gs you'll know that these are sites that you can "ping" whenever you publish new content, adding your URL to the top of the list published at those sites. Well now you can run your own "recently updated sites" list at your website.
* RSS
RSS feeds are an important component of any professional website since they allow other sites to syndicate your content. ExpressionEngine supports all RSS protocols - .93, 1.0, 2.0, and Atom - and gives you the flexibility to cutomize your feeds as you desire.
* Email
The ExpressionEngine Email module lets you easily create feedback and tell-a-friend forms on your site. ExpressionEngine's flexible tag syntax makes the process of creating and managing these forms very simple, and since it supports all major Email protocols (SMTP, Sendmail, PHP Mail) it'll work in virtually any environment.
* Search
ExpressionEngine supports fast, flexible, and precise content searching, through simple and/or advanced search forms. As the site admin you can set search criteria, so that your users can search only the areas you specify, and you can have multiple search forms, each with different search criteria.
* Referrer
Anytime someone arrives at your website as a result of clicking a link at another site, ExpressionEngine will track it with its Referrer Module, and display that info in a list. This can be valuable information in determining how people are finding out about your site.
* Blacklist/Whitelist
The Blacklist and Whitelist Module is part of ExpressionEngine's extensive security features, designed to prevent spam in comments, trackbacks, referrers, etc. This module let you ban (blacklist) or allow (whitelist) URLs, IP addresses, and User Agents.
* Statistics
The ExpressionEngine stats module enables you to show a "who's online" list of users viewing your site at any given moment. You can also display various statistics, like the total number of entries, comments, trackbacks, members, page hits, etc.
* Query

More Product features and information here.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

MacBook Pro


Latest Intel mobile architecture

Powered by the most advanced mobile processors from Intel, the new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is over 50% faster than the original Core Duo MacBook Pro and now supports up to 4GB of RAM.2



Leading-edge graphics

The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT delivers exceptional graphics processing power. For the ultimate creative canvas, you can even configure the 17-inch model with a 1920-by-1200 resolution display.

MacBook Pro Application Performance



MacBook Pro Graphics Performance



http://www.apple.com

Technical Specifications for iPhone


Capacity

  • 4GB or 8GB flash drive1

Display

  • 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display
  • 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 160 dpi
  • Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Operating system

  • OS X

GSM

  • Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Wireless data

  • Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
  • EDGE
  • Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Camera

  • 2.0 megapixels

Audio

  • Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
  • Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

Video

  • Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Headphones

  • Stereo earphones with built-in microphone
  • Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
  • Impedance: 32 ohms

Mac system requirements

  • Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
  • Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
  • iTunes 7.3 or later

Windows system requirements

  • PC with USB 2.0 port
  • Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
  • iTunes 7.3 or later

Environmental requirements

  • Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
  • Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
  • Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
  • Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)

Input and output

  • iPhone
    • 30-pin dock connector
    • 3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack
  • iPhone Dock
    • Dock connector

Power and battery

  • Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
  • Talk time: Up to 8 hours
  • Standby time: Up to 250 hours3
  • Internet use: Up to 6 hours4
  • Video playback: Up to 7 hours5
  • Audio playback: Up to 24 hours
http://www.apple.com

Monday, June 25, 2007

Mind-Blowing Performance

I'm not an NVIDIA GeForce fan for their graphics card, nor a fan of its counterpart the ATI Radeon. But looking on their benchmarks and performance the GeForce 8800 Ultra speaks for itself. Here are the specifications/performance for GeForce 8800 Ultra and the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900.

NVIDIA® Unified Architecture
  • Unified shader architecture
  • GigaThread™ technology
  • Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10
    • Geometry shaders
    • Geometry instancing
    • Streamed output
    • Shader Model 4.0
  • Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline
NVIDIA Lumenex™ Engine
  • 16x full screen anti-aliasing
  • Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling
  • 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
  • 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with anti-aliasing
    • 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
  • Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data
  • Support for normal map compression
  • Z-cull
  • Early-Z
NVIDIA Quantum Effects™ Technology
  • Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation
  • Simulate and render physics effects on the graphics processor
NVIDIA SLI™ Technology1
  • Patented hardware and software technology allows two GeForce-based graphics cards to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today's top titles.
NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD Technology2
  • Dedicated on-chip video processor
  • High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
  • Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
  • HDCP capable3
  • Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing
  • Noise Reduction
  • Edge Enhancement
  • Bad Edit Correction
  • Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
  • High-quality scaling
  • Video color correction
  • Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support
Advanced Display Functionality
  • Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600
  • Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz
  • Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution
  • NVIDIA nView® multi-display technology capability
  • 10-bit display processing
Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
  • Full DirectX 10 support
  • Dedicated graphics processor powers the new Windows Vista Aero 3D user interface
  • VMR-based video architecture
High Speed Interfaces
  • Designed for PCI Express® x16
  • Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory
Operating Systems
  • Windows Vista /Windows Vista 64
  • Windows XP/Windows XP 64
  • Linux
API Support
  • Complete DirectX support, including Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0
  • Full OpenGL® support, including OpenGL 2.0


As for Radeon HD 2900 Series


ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 Technology – GPU Specifications
  • 700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process
  • 512-bit 8-channel GDDR3/4 memory interface
  • Ring Bus Memory Controller
    • Fully distributed design with 1024-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
    • Optimized for high performance HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering at high display resolutions
  • Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
    • 320 stream processing units
      • Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
      • Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
      • Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
    • 128-bit floating point precision for all operations
    • Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
    • Shader instruction and constant caches
    • Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
    • Up to 128 textures per pixel
    • Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
    • DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
    • High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
    • Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
    • Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
    • Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
    • Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
    • Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
    • 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
    • Physics processing support
  • Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
    • Shader Model 4.0
    • Geometry Shaders
    • Stream Output
    • Integer and Bitwise Operations
    • Alpha to Coverage
    • Constant Buffers
    • State Objects
    • Texture Arrays
  • Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
    • High performance vertex cache
    • Programmable tessellation unit
    • Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
    • Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
  • Anti-aliasing features
    • Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples per pixel)
    • Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
    • Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
    • Temporal anti-aliasing
    • Gamma correct
    • Super AA (CrossFire™ configurations only)
    • All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
  • Texture filtering features
    • 2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
    • 128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
    • Bicubic filtering
    • sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
    • Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
    • Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
    • Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
  • CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology
    • Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
    • Integrated compositing engine
    • High performance dual channel interconnect
  • ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
    • Two independent display controllers
      • Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
      • Full 30-bit display processing
      • Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
      • Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
      • High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
      • Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
      • Fast, glitch-free mode switching
      • Hardware cursor
    • Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
      • Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)1
      • Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content2
    • Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
      • Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15361
    • HDMI output support
      • Supports all display resolutions up to 1920x10801
      • Integrated HD audio controller with multi-channel (5.1) AC3 support, enabling a plug-and-play cable-less audio solution
    • Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
      • Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
      • Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
      • Underscan and overscan compensation
    • HD decode acceleration for H.264/AVC, VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 video formats
      • Flawless DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray™ playback
      • Motion compensation and IDCT (Inverse Discrete Cosine Transformation)
    • HD video processing
      • Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
      • De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
      • Edge enhancement
      • Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
      • Bad edit correction
      • High fidelity gamma correction, color correction, color space conversion, and scaling
    • MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
    • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
    • VGA mode support on all display outputs
  • PCI Express x16 bus interface
  • OpenGL 2.0 support
I will now leave the judging from you on which graphics card you would choose for each of us have different tastes and standards. Happy Gaming!