A company called Software Development Solutions (SDS) announced the launch of Jamcast on Tuesday, which promises effortless streaming of your music collection from your PC to any network connected source, including your Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles. The magic happens with Jamcast's Virtual Soundcard, a software module capable of capturing any audio playing on a PC and then transmitting it over a wireless network to DLNA and UPnP-compliant devices. This not only includes other PCs and gaming devices, but smartphones, HDTVs, media adapters, home theater components, and more. [......]
Archive for June, 2010
A whole boatload of MSI motherboards built around Intel's P55 platform now support the mobo maker's "Super Unlock" technology, giving users a quick and easy way to overclock their Intel Core i7 875K and other unlocked processors. "When coupled with Intel's Core i7 875K and Core i5 655K, uses need only to press the 'OC Genie' button on their MSI mainboards to 'unlock' the CPU's multiplier and to maximize processor, memory, and chipset performance." Should you rub MSI's bottle to release the OC Genie, the mobo maker says it will grant your overclocking wishes by boosting processors with a 2.93GHz default clockspeed all the way up to 4.0GHz, resulting in a free performance boost. See here for a list of supported motherboards and the required BIOS version. [......]
It won't be long before Nvidia releases its next set of WHQL-certified drivers for its GeForce family of graphics cards, but if you simply can't wait, or want to get a sneak peek at what lies ahead, beta drivers are now available for download. The beta 258.69 drivers usher in support for Nvidia's 3D Vision Surround technology, "which works with SLI and PhysX controls to combine multiple displays to act as one larger display, allowing a panoramic view of full-screen games or your desktop." Think of it as Nvidia's take on Eyefinity, though it's not exactly the same thing[......]
Google recently updated Chrome with the ability to automatically update the Adobe Flash plug-in. In an upcoming revision, Google's browser will gain power over other plug-ins as well. [......]
Everyone has been expecting this could happen at any moment, but late on Monday Google finally began a full scale rollout of Android 2.2 (Froyo) to Nexus One users. [......]
By Ed Oswald , Betanews Documents recently unsealed in a three-year old court case against Dell Computer indicated that the company sold millions of computers with faulty parts, knowing full well that the components inside were faulty. [......]
Measuring 11.22 x 8.03 x 1.01 inches with an 11.6-inch screen, it's tough to decide whether Acer's Aspire 1551 is a souped up netbook or a thin-and-light notebook (it weighs just 3.09 pounds). [......]
If you're planning on building a system around AMD's six-core Phenom II X6 platform, you may want to sit tight for a few days and see how things shake out. In exchange for your patience, you might be rewarded with a more power-friendly chip than you were anticipating. Or not. [......]
Two weeks ago AVG announced its LinkScanner software for the Mac platform designed to keep "Mac users safe from increasing intensity and sophistication of Web attacks." Perhaps the Mac faithful didn't take too kindly to the release, as AVG felt compelled to follow-up the announcement with some sobering statistics for Mac users. [......]
We live in a world where not one, but three separate videogames about the Burger King exist, so this really shouldn’t surprise us. For some reason, though, it does. See, cops ‘n’ robbers MMO All Points Bulletin is going where no series of in-game ads has before: your ear canal[......]
Every time a new smartphone comes out, the guys at iSuppli get their paws on it and open it up. They rummage around inside and identify all the components to give us an extimate of just how much the parts are worth[......]
Microsoft's follow up the highly successful Windows 7 is already under development, and the first solid details have been disclosed to hardware partners . The leak comes in the form of some PowerPoint slides apparently provided to several manufacturers[......]
Drivers sit on top of your head, not near your ear The Psyko 5.1 takes the idea of 5.1 surround sound in a gaming headset to its logical extreme. Not content with using two drivers to simulate 5.1 surround sound, the Psyko 5.1 actually packs seven drivers into the headset; five for directional sound, and two for bass. The Psyko isn’t the first headset with that many drivers, but the way it uses them to achieve its surround-sound effect is truly unique. [......]
For the first time ever, Google has gone and pushed the big red button labeled "Remote Application Removal." In doing so, the sultan of search remotely wiped out a pair of free apps from hundreds of Android smartphones, and felt justified in doing so because the apps ran afoul of Android's Terms of Service (TOS), Google said. [......]
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy not too far from here, someone tried their hand at a massively multiplayer Star Wars game. Unfortunately, unless living the life of a tentacle-haired cantina dancer eternally stranded in a barren hell that just so happens to share some location names with Star Wars sounds right up your alley, the game was something of a disappointment[......]
