Dullest Blog in the Universe? If it ever, ever crosses your mind that we could come up with more interesting stories here, may we point your attention to the self-proclaimed Dullest Blog in the World?
Where'd I Put That $%&@ Cell Phone? You may have left your heart in San Francisco but the odds are very good that you lost your cell phone in Los Angeles. According to a poll commissioned by FusionOne, approximately 400 cell phones a month, or 4,800 a year, are sent to Los Angeles International Airport's "lost and found" bin. Other more general points of separation anxiety include on air planes and in the back seats of taxi cabs. Of special note, Chicago's Midway Airport gets about 16 lost cell phones per month but has almost 6,000 in inventory. Can you hear me now?
Video on the Go I know Rich Shim. We used to work together. He's not the kind of guy who just mouths off about something half-heartedly. So when Shim reports: "Manufacturers Samsung, Creative Labs and Archos will promote the portability and ease of use [of portable video players], allowing consumers to record a late-night TV show, for example, and watch it on the subway during the morning commute. The device makers see the strong sales of Apple Computer's iPod as an indication of mobile video's potential." I have to truly wonder if we aren't actually seeing the last days of the world unfolding before us. I want my iTV?
Open Source on the Rampage Okay, so personally I happen to think that turning to open source software is going to end up as a colossal blunder to any of the corporate types out there that do so. (Except for IBM, of course, which isn't making things so open source anyway.) There is nonetheless, a certain amount of admiration for how far this group of unkempt code seems to have traveled. (Except for IBM, of course, which wraps its open source code in pin-stripe packaging.) If you want to see what I mean, go read this CNN story.
nVidia Unloads nVidia has just released it's latest group of Windows Certified Unified Drivers.
Key features of NVIDIA ForceWare Release 60 include: * Support for the award-winning GeForce 6800-series GPUs * Unmatched performance and enhanced image quality for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL-based software applications. * Support for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/98/Me/NT4 and Windows XP 64-bit (for AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron 64, and Intel EMT64) * Support for PCI Express-based NVIDIA GPUs * Consumer electronic display support for DVI-based digital displays, such as widescreen plasma screens * Quick Zoom – ease eye strain and enable ergonomic computing with easy Windows magnification * Updated application profiles allow users to assign multiple profiles for each application
(It's amazing how a manufacturer can hype its own stuff, isn't it? Just go to www.nvidia.com/drivers if you're runnning one of its "6 series" GeForce cards. There's always a performace up-swing with the upgrade.) # Permalink
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