Asus’ Unreleased GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Pictured

Yesterday, we posted a picture of an upcoming Zotac graphics card that was powered by Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores core and now a new image of a video card based on the same unreleased GPU made its appearance, this time manufactured by Asus. The card is actually called the Asus ENGTX560 TI 448 DCII/2DIS/1280MD5 and was spotted by Fudzilla, who also provided the pictures accompanying this article. Just as its naming implies, the graphics card is built on Asus’ in-house developed DirectCU II design which uses direct contact heatpipes together with large heatsinks and fans to deliver better thermal and acoustic performance than Nvidia's reference solutions. At the same time, the high quality components installed on the DirectCu...

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Intel Atom Cedarview-Powered Asus X101CH Netbook Makes Appearance

Despite the delay of Intel’s mobile Atom Cedar Trail platform for low-power laptops, Acer its getting ready to deploy its army of netbooks using this architecture as an UK retailer has recently listed a new version of the ultra-slim Eee PC X101 that is powered by an Atom N2600 processor. This chip is built using the 32nm production process and includes dual processing cores clocked at 1.6GHz with support for Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology. This is quite a far cry from the original 1.33GHz Intel Atom N435 CPU with just 512KB of L2 cache offered in the MeeGo-running version of the Asus netbook, and should offer decent performance as well as highly improved multimedia capabilities. These are mostly due to the new PowerVR SGX545 graphics...

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Download Waterfalls, Rocks, or Candlelight Themes to Personalize Windows 7

Windows 7 users have a wide range of personalization options available for them, the most appealing of which involves downloading and installing of themes for their PCs.  Some new themes are now available for those who are into changing the looks of their desktop to fit their mood or the outside weather. Depending on the chosen theme, they will also benefit from new system sounds, a welcomed change at some times, that’s for sure. One of the new themes available for Windows 7 (though it should work with Windows 8 Developer Preview as well, that’s for sure), comes from photographer David S. Sommers and features close-up images of various geological specimens. The colors of these close-ups of polished agate, jasper, and other rocks will...

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Foursquare for BlackBerry Tastes Events, Check-In Details

A new flavor of foursquare for BlackBerry devices is now available for download from the BlackBerry App World, with features that will make the holiday season a bit more pleasant.  Owners of handsets running under Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS that take advantage of the capabilities of foursquare will be able to inform friends on events that caught their attention, all courtesy of the new flavor of the application. The company announced a partnership with outfits like Songkick, ESPN, and more, all aimed at offering info on various events that users might enjoy. “Want to tell your friends which movie, concert, or sports event you’re at? With events, you can let your check-in tell them for you,” foursquare explains in a recent blog...

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Intel Allocates Half the Sandy Bridge-E CPUs in Europe to the Nordic Market

While the rest of Europe has to settle with a limited amount of Sandy Bridge-E chips, Nordic countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark have no such problems as these get half of the Intel LGA 2011 CPUs that arrive in Europe. If you think that this is pure benevolence from Intel's side, you’re wrong, as there is quite a strong commercial reasoning behind this decision. As SweClockers explains, the average selling price of processors is higher in these countries than in the rest of Europe. Paired with the desire of those living in these countries to get their hands on more expensive CPU models, Intel has everything to gain by taking this kind of decision. So, if you are living in one of the Nordic countries and want a Core i7-3960X...

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8GB GOODRAM DDR3 Module Makes Its Appearance

Wilk Elektronik, the company behind the GOODRAM memory brand, has just announced that it has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a new 8GB high-capacity DDR3 module, adding its name to an ever growing list of memory makers that already have such solutions available. The new 8GB DDR3 stick requires only 1.5V in order to operate and it was designed to run at 1333MHZ with CL9 (9-9-9-28) timings. Wilk Elektronik settled for using Micron chips in these modules, which they promise deliver improved stability even when four such stick are installed for a total of 32GB of memory. We don’t know what to make of that claim, since we are rather doubtful about running that much memory without having ECC support. “The line of 8GB DDR3...

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Windows 8 Bootkit Demoed on Video

Windows 8 was supposed to arrive with a secure boot, but it seems that things might not be like that after all, and the first demonstration of how the User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 8 Developer Preview can be defeated has emerged into the wild.  This is none other than the Stoned Lite bootkit that Austrian security researcher Peter Kleissner has been working on for the past few weeks. We already reported on the matter, as Kleissner announced about a week ago that he planned on bringing its proof-of-concept to the MalCon conference set to take place in India on November 25th. Since that day has come, the demonstration emerged as well, and you can have a look at the clip at the bottom of this article. For those out of the loop,...

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Unofficial Symbian Belle Now Available for Nokia C7

Although Nokia already confirmed that the Symbian Belle OS upgrade will arrive on older models that currently run Symbian Anna, it looks like the Finnish company is taking its time and has yet to announce the availability of the upgrade. It appears that an official Symbian Belle ROM for the Nokia C7 has just leaked and is now ready for download and flash. However, it is important to understand that this may not be the final version of Symbian Belle for the C7, as the company included several diagnostic software. Only Nokia C7 owners that have Symbian Anna installed on their devices will be able to flash Nokia C7 RM-675 Original RC Belle 111.030.0607 ROM using the Phoenix tool. The folks over at SymbianTweet also made a video tutorial that explains how you can flash the leaked Symbian Belle...

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World’s Smallest Camera Now Available for Purchase

When we first showed you the world’s smallest camera back in September we had no idea when was this Hammacher Schlemmer creation supposed to go into retail, but now we know as the company’s has just added the camera to its website. For those of you who don’t remember, this impressively compact camera comes with a 2MP image sensor, 640 x 480 video recording at 30 frames per second and an included 2GB microSD card, all fitted inside a body that weights no more than half an ounce. These are also accompanied by a battery pack which charges via USB from either your Mac or PC computer to provide, at least in theory, 30 minutes of autonomy. If all these features sound just about right to you, then head on over to Hammacher Schlemmer’s website where...

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Fujifilm's Beast of a Camera Caught on Camera

Superzoom is a term used to describe high-end photo and video bridge cameras that, well, can zoom in and out a lot, and Fujifilm's new beast easily qualifies for the moniker.  Dubbed X-S1, it has 26x optical zoom and a lens made of 17 glass elements, of which two are LED lenses and four aspherical. We actually already went into details when we described the beast here, so we won't start listing numbers again. Instead, we figured we may as well show the promo video that Fujifilm made. Check it out above and then decide whether the item is worth the price of £699, which translates into a rather steep 1,087 US (811.8 EUR), or not. Of course, if you fancy something that doesn't need hands to 'handle', the Freestyle HD Wearable Video Camera from Swann may be more convenient and it is a...

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Parted Magic 2011_11_24 Comes with the Linux 3.1.2 Kernel

The latest update to Parted Magic has arrived and it's once again playing with the version number/scheme. This newest release is dubbed Parted Magic 2011_11_24, the previous one was Parted Magic 11.11.11 and the one before that was Parted Magic 6.7. But it's not just the version number that's changed, there are some updated packages as well. Parted Magic 2011_11_24 packs LiloSetup 0.2.9.1, TestDisk 6.13 and the Linux 3.1.2 kernel. The update also fixes a major bug that caused the secure erase command to fail. A dummy file had been left in /usr/local/bin and that was causing the problem, but it has now been removed. There are also some changes that should fix issues where Parted Magic would not boot properly, either the pmagic-<version>.sqfs...

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Galaxy Adds Quad-Monitor Support to the Nvidia GTX 550 Ti

Galaxy will soon expand its product portfolio with a new Display4-series GeForce graphics card based on the GTX 550 Ti design that breaks away from Nvidia’s two displays per card limit thanks to some specialized hardware enabling it to support up to four monitors simultaneously. The hardware in question is actually an IDT VMM 1403 display output logic chip, an integrated controller that is usually found in multi-monitor hub devices. Going for a quick look, the GTX 550 Ti Display4 doesn’t seem to differ all that much from the company’s other graphics cards as it uses the same in-house developed "Glaciator" cooler that makes use of large heatsink ventilated by a large central fan. Taking a look at the rear port configuration however, reveals...

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ARM Computer Is Credit Card-Sized, Plays 1080p Video and Runs Linux

It might not exactly be quite as small as the idea originally intended, but the Raspberry Pi will probably make jaws drop regardless.  The idea used to be for a flash drive-sized computer, but the concept has since evolved, somewhat grown in size, but not by much. Besides, when someone sees something this small, the first assumption will definitely not be that the critter is capable of playing full HD media. It turns out that the Raspberry Pi can definitely accomplish that, thanks to its hardware and the Linux operating system. The target price mostly dictated how many features were possible to cram into the device. Still, for something that will ship for $25 (18.77 Euro), the Raspberry Pi delivers a lot. A Broadcom BCM2835 media processor,...

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