Script: Sharrre

Sharrre is a jQuery plugin for creating social sharing and bookmarking widgets with custom graphics to fit any page design. The plugin works out of the box with social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Delicious, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Digg, and much more can be added as well. For quickly creating buttons with the same style across the board, Sharrre comes with an uniform Buttons API. The API can be called on demand (and only once), reducing network lag and improving page speed. Of course, Sharrre works perfectly across all modern browsers, rendering just like you wanted to. Various examples are available on Sharrre's official website. Issues and feature requests are handled via Sharrre's GitHub page. Download Sharrre...

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Apple Using "Recycled" Parts in the New iPad

Silicon expert Chipworks has released a teardown analysts of the new Apple iPad concluding (among other things) that the Cupertino giant is “recycling” parts to keep the tablet’s bill of materials at a minimum. Chipworks and iFixit worked in tandem to determine the source and complete functionality of each individual part in the new Apple iPad - particularly the chips. They found, for instance, that the A5X SoC (system on a chip) is dual core, just like its predecessor, and that it boasts 1 GB of random access memory (RAM), which is double the amount of the previous A5 chip. They also confirmed it has four GPU cores, just like Apple said. Others conducted benchmarks and found that Apple’s performance claims also held water. Several tests...

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AMD Says Trinity APUs Are 29% Faster Than Their Llano Counterparts

AMD has yet again changed its performance estimates for its next-gen Trinity APUs, the company now expecting these chips to be 29 percent faster in productivity apps than their current counterparts based on the Llano architecture. This new performance forecast showed up on a company slide recently published online by Tom’s Hardware. AMD doesn’t say what sort of applications or which APUs were used to test the performance of the two architectures, but the footnotes do mention that the data presented in the slides is based on internal company projections. A part of the speed increase mentioned by AMD in its document is expected to be made possible by the introduction of a faster graphics core. According to the same AMD slide, Trinity accelerated...

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NVIDIA Kepler Supports More than Two Monitors

Looks like NVIDIA's upcoming Kepler GPU will finally do away with that annoying limitation that made it impossible for single cards to accomplish anything similar to AMD's Eyefinity technology.  So far, NVIDIA video controllers haven't been able to support more than two monitors.  Kepler will change this, according to the HKEPC report that also revealed the TXAA and the independent benchmark results.  It is now possible to connect up to four displays to a single board. This works in conjunction with Adaptive V-Sync, which we spoke about here.  One consequence of this is that 3-monitor HD 3D Vision Surround setups are possible without SLI, leading to more affordable triple-monitor 3D gaming.  Fortunately, people...

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Script: ClanSphere

If you're a hardcore gamer and have some basic PHP knowledge, ClanSphere is a great tool to install on your server and help your clan out with a guild-specific website. Comes packed with lots of features targeted at gaming clans, guilds or online competition organizers. And if the desired feature is not found in the basic package, there are high chances it's somewhere as a module uploaded on ClanSphere's official forum. Some of ClanSphere's most notable features include a graphic installer, administration backend, site template manager, clan/guild management, server manager, embedded forum system, image galleries, guestbook, war/scrim results, awards system, news administration, FAQ section, clan sponsors lister, downloads center, automatic...

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CyanogenMod 9 Enhances Security Through Disabling Root

CyanogenMod ROMs are some of the most popular custom OS flavors available for various Android-powered handsets out there.  They bring along new functionality of phones, along with access to more capabilities and new applications. Now, they also deliver more security enhancements.  In the latest CyanogenMod release, namely CM9, the security of devices will be enhanced through the merging of three patches into one, and through the disabling of root access on CM-running phones and tablets.  “Many of you may not give it a second glance, but among all the furor and concern about permissions requested by market apps and privacy, all Custom ROMs (CyanogenMod included) ship with one major security risk — root,” CyanogenMod notes in...

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True Multitasking on HP TouchPad with CyanogenMod Android 4.0 ICS

HP's TouchPad can run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich if owners install the CyanogenMod 9 port, but multitasking could be better.  Android 4.0 is perfectly capable of running more than one app at the same time, but users can't interact with more than one at any given moment.  A user from the XDA-developers forum was able to create a modification to the software. Called Cornerstone, it lets up to three apps share the screen at once.  The main app uses the left half of the display, while the right half is divided between the other two.  There are some bugs to work through, but the feature runs well enough for the video demo above to be possible.  We aren't sure if Cornerstone will become a standard part of CyanogenMod builds, but since it is open-source, it all...

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Leaked Galaxy S III Photo Available, Could Be Real

What reportedly could prove to be the first real image of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone has just made an appearance online.  Leaked from a PR firm, a slide with the said device has made it online, supposedly providing us with a better look at what Samsung plans to launch as the successor of last year’s Galaxy S II. The image reportedly comes from Weber Shandwick, which is the official PR agency for Samsung in various countries around the world.  Available courtesy of reddit, the leaked slide also unveils the fact that Samsung is getting ready to hold a series of ‘Unpacked’ events on May 22nd to launch the device.  If so, it means that the device won’t be here for at least two more months, although some of the...

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Samsung Rumored to Make BlackBerry 10 OS Phones

There has been much talk on a possible buyout of Research In Motion by stronger players in the market. However, there are zero to none chances that this will happen anytime soon as the Canadian government is completely against any outright buyout of the company. South-Korean giant Samsung seems to have a solid interest in RIM's business. In fact, the company is looking to make a minor investment in RIM. According to Barrons, citing a source close to the matter, Samsung may not be able to gain anything from a minority stake, so the company is trying to license RIM's BlackBerry 10 operating system. It appears that Samsung is still rattled by the recent acquisition of Motorola by Google, and wants to counter the search giant's move with a move...

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NVIDIA Kepler Anti-Aliasing Called TXAA

A couple of days ago, we spotted an image that implied Kepler having a so-called new anti-aliasing algorithm, and now we know what it is. According to HKEPC, the GeForce GTX 680 will offer TXAA, which grants image improvements comparable to 16X MSAA but at a much lower performance impact. In other words, it will be 16X MSAA-level video quality with 2X MSAA performance drop, or less. There will even be TXAA2, capable making graphics even smoother than 16X MSAA while affecting performance only as much as 4X MSAA. Oddly though, the screenshot of the NVIDIA control panel shows FXAA instead of TXAA. The source makes it sound like they are different features, but things aren't totally clear to us just yet. In addition to the new anti-aliasing,...

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NVIDIA Kepler Is Faster than AMD Radeon HD 7970 in New Benchmarks

We were cautious about the first set of benchmarks showing NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 being far stronger than AMD's competing products, since it was from one of the former company's own slides.  Now, though, a third party has conducted some tests, and the results do favor the Kepler-based adapter.  The GTX 680 was found to be far stronger than the GTX 580 and quite a bit ahead of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 in some cases, though it did tie with it in others.  The test bench used an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU, the ASUS rampage IV Extreme motherboard, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and the Windows 7 x64 operating system.  Check out the gallery below for the actual results. After that, you can compare them to the aforementioned...

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