In the recent IDC Green IT Forum, a survey showed that 85% of respondents believe that IT will play a medium to large role in reducing its environmental impact. Some 68% of respondents think of energy efficiency first when thinking about Green IT. 51 percent said their organization pursues green initiatives because of the potential […]
Category Archives: Computing
NVIDIA Tegra fights Intel Atom and Snapdragon
Get ready for a crash course in net-capable consumer electronics devices, we will be looking at two new architectures that promises to give stiff competition to Intel’s Atom microprocessor and it’s only going to get confusing if you don’t pay attention. Things started off with Intel releasing their Atom processor aimed at low-priced low-power netbooks […]
Use RAMDISK on 32bit systems with 4GB RAM
To all the power users out there who are running 4GB RAM or more on typical 34bit systems, you may realize that only about 3GB of that RAM can be used by the operating system efficiently. The remaining memory is pretty much wasted due to the nature of 32bit addressing making it a bummer if […]
Fonts and Typography
Little attention is being paid to fonts. Apple recognized the importance of having beautiful typography, which is why aesthetics play an important part of their product design cycle. Nowadays, people are starting to realize how fonts are important to generate quality in their work and have started to pay more attention to proper font selection. […]
NVIDIA Ion Goes Official
If you have been following the NVIDIA Ion story, you should know by now the long and challenging history faced by this diminutive platform as it faced down rivals from Intel and their criticisms about the viability of such a platform. There is even a rumor that the exasperated NVIDIA might be approaching and buying […]
HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition
Look at your notebook, isn’t it boring? Have you ever dreamed of a notebook with cool, fancy and fashion designs? Now we are glad to introduce a perfect mini notebook for you… Introducing HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition, this mini notebook is what they call the “High fashion meets high tech”. This mini notebook […]
PIKOM PC Fair 2009
Hi folks, PIKOM PC Fair 2009 is here again. In fact it has already kicked off yesterday at the following four cities. 3 – 5 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm) Permata Car Park (Level 5), Kuching – Sarawak Dewan Masyarakat Sandakan, Sandakan – Sabah Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan – Jalan Tun Ismail, Sri Dagangan, 25000 Pahang […]
Overclocking your Mouse
If you think that overclocking is limited to hardware such as processors, memory and graphics card, then you are in for a new class of overclock-able hardware: the humble mouse! Ever since Razer started the gaming mouse market, we have seen a flood of these so-called gaming-grade mice that comes with all sorts of improvements […]
Encrypted Bit Torrent is future of file sharing
The founders of Pirate Bay, one of the largest public bit torrent piracy website, is now in court fighting a legal battle over whether they have committed any wrongdoing by directing users to illegal content, even though none of the content actually reside on Pirate Bay’s servers. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has […]
I earned US$12830 in Google AdSense today
Hi friends, look how much I have earned in Google AdSense these days! Yesterday, it was great with over US$8100, but today it was an all time record where I cracked US$10k in a single day! You don’t believe me? Let me show you my AdSense screenshot as proof!