PC Speakers Logitech Z Cinema 2.1

The Z Cinema system has two satellites are very similar to those of Z-10, but apart from that, this new system comes at a higher band, starting with the fact that this is a 2.1 system. The words "Cinema", however, raises some suspicion, given that relies on a computer system software to simulate the presence of several speakers. The Z Cinema, however, are not a simple diffusion system, because, thanks to the USB connection, behave exactly like an external sound card. Among the "collateral damage" we point out the fact that only work with certain versions of Windows (XP Media Center Edition, Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate). In the pack are also a Media Center remote control.
Large, but easy to install.

Each of the two satellites is a two-way system with woofers and tweeters from 8 cm by 3 cm or smaller or of superior in terms of design. High 25 cm deep and 11, are real stereo speakers that can be put on the desk or subtracting to it a lot of space, or installed on the wall. On the back there are the pre-drilled holes for fixing to the wall, but the package does not include data media.

The subwoofer is quite large (and less than 41 cm deep) and heavy a burden necessary to achieve bass sounds correct. On the system there are control buttons, so you have to do everything with the remote. Audio connectors (input for MP3 players and headphone) are on the right satellite. The USB port is on the subwoofer, which depart from the two wires, rather short, bringing the sound to the two satellites. Can not remove too much then the satellites from the subwoofer, as well as the Z Cinéma from the PC. The subwoofer mounts a 20-cm cone, bass-reflex loaded and with a vent on the side, and the power supply and amplifier. Logitech did not leave things half: the amp has three channels and the power is more than enough to ensure both good dynamics and low distortion.

Technical specifications
- Subwoofer Power: 110 W
- Power Satellites: 2 x 26 W + 2 x 9 W
- Frequency response: ND
- Inputs: USB + 1 line-in
- Headphone: 3.5 mm
- Satellites: Midrange 80 mm + 30 mm dome tweeter
- Subwoofer: woofer de 20 cm
- Dimensions Satellites: 250.4 mm x 115 mm x 112.4 mm
- Dimensions Subwoofer: 292.4 mm x 290.6 mm x 413.9 mm

Unlike other audio systems, the Z Cinéma can not do without, or almost, of a PC, which has some very specific things: the operating system must be Windows XP Media Center, Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate.

System Requirements :

- Windows XP Media Center, Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate
- USB
- CD-ROM
- 256 MB of RAM
- 20 MB of free hard disk

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Cyclone Windows 7, Intel blow on sales

"The PC market is picking up, it shows the rise of Intel on the estimates of third quarter."
Intel Corporation has revised upward estimates of the financial third quarter. The company is expected to reach a turnover in the order of 9 billion dollars (estimates range from 8,8 to 9,2 billion), compared to 8.5 billion (8.1 / 8.9) predicted end of second quarter.
Intel hopes, therefore, to sell more products, especially processors. The increase in estimates is a good sign for the entire spectrum of PC, which is preparing for the resumption last month of the year: do not just trawl Snow Leopard, but Windows 7 and the news of Intel's processors and piattorme, Core i5 and Pine Trail at all.

Microsoft windows 7 Operating system

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in mid 2010 Nokia launch Nokia Smartbook

One SmartBook from Nokia. The Finnish company, after submitting the booklet 3G-based Intel Atom CPU (likely coming in early 2010), plans to play hard in the computer world with a solution SmartBook.

SmartBook is a term that identifies products halfway between netbooks and smartphones, that is architecture-based solutions and voted on the use of wireless Internet in mobility. Not by chance the first to spread this term was Qualcomm.

The availability of this product is expected in mid 2010 and production should be entrusted to Compal Electronics and Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry).

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Microsoft Windows 7 and Core i7 on MSI notebooks X420 and X620 series

Core i7 Clarksfield and Microsoft Windows 7 will give a strong jolt to the notebook market.
MSI focuses on Core i7 and Windows 7 notebooks in the market to capture laptop. The Taiwanese company is currently completing a 15.4-inch notebook and 17 inches, which will be based on platform Calpella 7200m and Intel Core i7, Core i7 8200M and Core i7 920XM (Clarksfield quad-core, 45nm). The center also offer Windows 7, a driving force of incredible reminder (at least on paper) in the months to come. The new notebooks will come on the market after the release of Microsoft operating system.

MSI intends also to present new ultra-thin notebook (again with Windows 7): The X420 model will complement the new dual-core Core 2 Duo ULV SU4100 (1.3 GHz, 2MB cache), while the X620 model will be based on Core 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz, 3MB cache). The prices of these laptops would cost in the range between $600 and $ 900.
Finally, in the range of netbooks, expect greater attention to the models based on the platform Pine Trail, Pineview processor with memory controller and graphics core integrated. The proposal should take the name of MSI Wind U150 and have the touchscreen display, exploitable properly with Windows 7. Release Date: December 2009.

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Core 2 Duo E8600 overclocked with MSI P45 Motherboard

Balance performance and power consumption. The overclocked processor and graphics cards is the easiest way to improve the performance of the system, ideally, and no cost. However, there are limits to take into account if you want to enjoy a reasonable relationship between performance and power consumption, since more speed translates into a higher energy consumption. We used an MSI P45 motherboard and a Core 2 Duo E8600 to answer this question: what is the clock speed at which a Core 2 Duo processor delivers the best performance / consumption?

P45 and Core 2 Duo, still a good match.
Although now it seems everyone is only talking of Intel Core i7 and the AMD Phenom II, the dear old dual core Core 2 Duo will remain in circulation for several months. Despite the quad core mentioned above provide a significant performance boost, they are more expensive (Intel) and typically require new motherboards, and DDR3 memory. This will apply equally to future new Intel products, such as chipsets Series 5 (Ibex Peak), which introduce the new processor socket LGA1156 and Lynfield. The new products offer better performance, and probably will fill the gap that exists between the Core 2 Quad and Core i7, but the platform will not be much more efficient configuration of a Core 2 Quad - and more expensive. Ibex Peak is as innovative product, which introduces new features. For these reasons, the Core 2 Duo models will remain attractive for a while ', because many applications do not benefit fully from the four cores.

Platform.
We looked around for a suitable basis for our plan to overclock. The choice of a high-end motherboard, equipped with many features for fans, it was certainly a good starting point, but with the intent to keep the cost to reasonable levels, we opted for a mainstream P45 motherboard. To be more precise, we selected the motherboard MSI P45D3 Neo, a model not equipped with highly advanced features - that many users probably do not use it - but however provides overclocking features we needed. The most advanced P45D3 Platinum would have been our choice in the case of quad-core CPU, but for this project to overclock the Neo is more than enough.

Core 2 Duo E8600

MSI P45 Motherboard

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Monitor 22 inch from Asus, Dell, LG and Philips

Monitor 22 inch 4 models to compare. Save money on buying a monitor 19" or a 20" no longer makes sense, because for just over $ 100 you can buy a 22 inch, a segment that offers both panels to 1680x1050 as a 1920x1080 pixel.
The high-end models offer a very wide viewing angles, are adjustable in height, they have several video inputs and an integrated DVB-T, they can also work as stand-alone televisions. The choices have expanded in late 2008, with the introduction of Full-HD panel: now you can choose between "fewer pixels is more readable" and "more pixels is more detail.

The 22 inch cheap, on the other hand, is not synonymous with low quality, but features thin, as the monitor base is fixed, the only video input is the classic VGA connector (even if the digital input DVI is also gaining ground on an affordable monitor) and the panels are common TN 5 ms, therefore with rather narrow angles of vision, which tend to bring up unpleasant trails behind fast express movement subjects.

The monitor should ideally :
1. be very responsive and without major delays in the display image.
2. with colors faithful to default (dE <3).
3. have a high contrast (to have a contrast of at least 800:1 a brightness of 200 cd / m 2, the black must be less than 0.25 cd / m 2).
4. have wide viewing angles, so you can watch the monitor also veer sideways without seeing the colors.
5. be very ergonomic, adjustable height and a swivel base.
In reality, a monitor like that does not exist, except to focus on products from the price outrageous. Nevertheless, we can consider a good monitor if it excels in at least 4 of the 5 points that we have listed. If the monitor is defective on at least 2 of these points, you can define good, unless it has some cool features or options.

Test :
Design, ergonomics, color fidelity, response times in games, video noise in films, the criteria for assessing the quality of a monitor are many. The ideal monitor should excel in all these fields, but this rarely happens, so you must reach a compromise, emphasizing color fidelity if you do photo editing, or if the reaction is often used to play.
Which diagonal?
Today the small diagonal, 19 and 20 inches, offer a significant savings than their older siblings, and not much point in their purchase, except for personal reasons. It's more interesting to look at 24 inch, which cost less, so that economic models can cost as much as a 22inch mid-range. A larger monitor, of course offers more space, and occupies more on the desktop.

A final consideration. The new LCD monitors are distinguished from those of the past, some new features, or unusual for a PC monitor, such as DVB-T tuner, special glasses that give the 3D effect, or the refresh rate of 120 frames per second instead of the traditional 60, which gives a clean break with the latency and improves the fluidity of the action.

DELL 2209WA
Diagonal : 22 inch
Native Resolution : 1680 x 1050 pixel
Panel : e-IPS 6 ms
Viewing angle H / V : 178°/178°
Connectivity : DVI, VGA, USB hub with 4 ports
Price : 335 euro

LG W2261V
Diagonal : 22 inch
Native Resolution : 1920 x 1080 pixel
Panel : TN 2 ms
Viewing angle H / V : 170°/170°
Connectivity : HDMI, DVI, VGA
Price : 195 euro

Asus VH222H
Diagonal : 22 inch
Native Resolution : 1920 x 1080 pixel
Panel : TN 5 ms
Viewing angle H / V : 170°/160°
Connectivity : HDMI, DVI, VGA
Price : 180 euro

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Core 2 Duo Vs AMD Phenom II X4 to reduced tension

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When it comes to processors and overclocking ability, the questions that users ask are: which speed is possible to carry a processore? Which tension needs in order to catch up that speed? Which is the better system than usable cooling? which speed is possible to carry a processore? Which tension needs in order to catch up that speed? Which is the better system than usable cooling?

Voltage, clock speed and power consumption
While the clock speed is the first characteristic that identifies the benefits, while the increase of tension is a variable used to reach higher clock speeds, the voltage is the parameter that affects the energy consumption. The increase in clock speed has a lower impact on consumption than the increase of operating voltage, which impacts more heavily. Similarly, the reduction in operating voltage can greatly reduce fuel consumption.

Low-voltage products
Many laptop processors are simply modified versions, to consume less, desktop counterparts. Think of the Intel Core 2 mobile: it is optimized versions, but in certain conditions consume and offer services identical to those of the brothers for desktop PCs. The Core 2 Duo T-series, have a TDP of 35 W (maximum power consumption of 35 watts), while the P series does not exceed 25 watts.
There are versions with low power consumption for desktop processors: AMD provides long-efficient processors, identified by the suffix and (Phenom II X4 900th and 905th, or X4 9350e), Intel Core 2 Quad models offer the "s" which offer the same benefits of regular models, but have a TDP of 65W instead of 95W. Although these processors are usually more expensive, both in idle which are able to reach peak power consumption reduced, as promised.

CPU low cost do-it-yourself ?
Considering the benefits described above, why not change the operating voltage of the processor on our behalf? We took two MSI motherboard, the P45D3 Neo, recently used for the article "Core 2 Duo better when overclocked, and we have matched with a Core 2 Extreme QX9650, along with a 790FX-GD70, used for the tests with the AMD Phenom II X4 955.

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Radeon HD 5800 Series AMD's DirectX 11 At Home

The first generation of DirectX 11 graphics cards from AMD could continue the tradition of the last series and called the Radeon HD 5800. Following the passed outline, the company would have intention to introduce two cards, a call 5870 Radeon HD and a Radeon HD 5850. The exact specifications - except some rumors of recent months - are not known. Both cards will have 1 GB of GDDR5 memory and ATI Eyefinity to support up to three displays.

This explains the abundance of ports seen on a sample photographed in some days before, whose images are available here. The sample in question, however, was defined by all Juniper, while according to latest reports, the code name for the HD 5800 family is Cypress. Probably Juniper identifies a slightly lower end model.

Cypress the two boards should have an aggressive market price, about $ 299, for commercial availability in October (and presentation in September). In November, in addition, there may be room for the classic dual-GPU solution, code-named "Hemlock".

Features of AMD's Radeon HD 5800 :
- 1GB GDDR5 memory
- ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays
- ATI Stream technology
- Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
- Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
- Compatible with DirectX 11 and earlier versions, supports OpenGL 3.1
- TI CrossFireX multi-GPU support
- ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
- Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology
- 2x DL-DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
- PCI Express 2.0 interface

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Nokia Booklet 3G Netbook Series

After over 25 years as a pioneer and leader in the mobile phone industry, Nokia brings a wealth of knowledge of mobility even in the world of PCs with the new Nokia 3G Booklet with Windows operating system, a laptop that does not seem different from any other netbook. Equipped with the efficient Atom processor from Intel, Nokia Booklet 3G delivers exceptional performance thanks to the battery life of over 12 hours, which allows people to forget the charger always remain connected and productive.

The new mini-laptop Nokia 3G Booklet contains a rich and complete experience of a PC in a thin lightweight aluminum frame that weighs in at 1.25 kilograms and a thickness of about two centimeters, and has all the features you would expect from the leader in the world of mobile solutions. A wide range of connectivity options - including 3G/HSPA and Wi-Fi - Allows access to high-speed Internet, including the wide range of Nokia's Ovi services, allowing you to maximize every moment and every opportunity.

The machine works in Windows 7 and is equipped with A-GPS with maps of Ovi, sports an HDMI output and an estimated duration of the battery for 12 hours. Of course features such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are also present. Additional details are expected to be released at the Nokia World 09. When you click the image below shows the promotional video.

The mini-laptop Booklet Nokia 3G also has an HDMI port for high-definition video, a front camera for video calls, Bluetooth and an integrated SD card reader easily accessible. Among other outstanding features, offers a glass display and 10-inch HD-ready A-GPS integrated, interacting with gadgets Ovi Maps can locate your position in seconds and let you live the world of maps as a real personal experience.

The Nokia 3G Booklet also allows other rich experiences of the world Ovi, such as access to millions of music tracks through the Nokia Music Store and use the suite Ovi to sync your content wirelessly from your smartphone to the mini - laptop via the Internet.

Additional information, including detailed characteristics, market availability and the price will be disclosed during the Nokia World on 2 September.

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Lite-On Launch External DVD-burner eTAU108

Lite-On is a more external optical drive. The white or black eTAU108 is connected via USB, after the burning of DVD's or CD's can begin. An adapter is unrequired as the device is powered by the USB connector. The Lite-On eTAU108 complete the series of external optical drives, which published the eTDU108 (DVD player), eSAU108 (DVD-burner) and eSAU208 (DVD-burner with LightScribe) in several colors. Lite-On eTAU108 new weighs 350 grams and is capable of burning DVD's at 8x. CD's are written at a speed of 24x.
The eTAU108 has a suggested retail price of 45 euros and should become available early next month.

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Intel Xeon Chip Processor 65 nm

Shortly after the introduction of four new 45nm Xeon processors, Intel announced that four former 65-nm Xeon chips will be the end of life status. The affected chips, four Tigerton quad core processors are the Xeon X7350, E7350, E7330 and E7320, with clock frequencies of 2.93 GHz, 2.4 GHz, 2.4 GHz and 2.13 GHz.

Four Intel Xeon processors can be ordered until February 12,2010, with a final ship date of May 14,2010 for the boxed version, and August 10, 2012 for release tray. So far, the processors are priced $ 2301, $ 1980, $ 1391 and $ 1177, when purchased in quantities of 1000.

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New Intel Pentium E6500K processor

It seems that the newly emerged Processor Intel Pentium E6500K is a worthy candidate for overclocking. After Expreview obtained one of the chips, they were able to watch the new 45 nm Wolfdale CPU with unlocked multiplier to 4607 MHz, a respectable. With the help of a K|NGP|n F1 and liquid nitrogen DFORDOG Overclocking Forum Expreview has even been able to overcome the 6 GHz mark. The motherboard is a Biostar TP45 HP, which is available in a package with E6500K Intel Pentium processor, two 1GB memory modules Geil. The retailed in the processor is the equivalent of about U.S. $ 84 in China at this time. Intel expects the chip will become a worthy rival for the new DualCore AMD Black Edition processors, which will also feature an unlocked multiplier.

Expreview

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The Sony BDP-S560 Blu-Ray Player

So many media types exist today that it can be daunting to find a media player that does it all. Sony sought to change that by releasing the BDP-S560 Blu-ray disc player to the public. Able to play just about any popular media, it has quickly become one of the most popular media players on the current market.

The Blu-ray disc was actually created by Sony to replace the DVD as the standard video format. The main difference is that the Blu-ray disc will be able to store up to 25 GB on a single layer disk- much more than the current DVD standard. As a result the discs support a higher quality picture of movies and video games. However, they also need a special disc player, such as the one currently being reviewed.

You couldn't go wrong in choosing the BDP-S560 model from Sony. this particular model plays all of the DVD discs you currently have in your collection through backwards compatibility technology. It also allows you to play older formats such as the CD. Overall, it is hard to not pick the Sony BDP-S560 solely for its ability to play just about any media format, and any media contained within.

Remember in the olden days of DVD players, how when you tried to navigate throughout the menu you often became frustrated? Sony replaced this frustration with glee, as they have released a similar interface to their PS3 interface for use on the BDP-S560. The "Xross" display allows one to easily navigate options and menus like it is second nature.

Sony also realized that the picture quality and storage options wasn't what made the movie experience- but rather the sound had a large part to play. Sony, thus, decided to give the player compatibility with Dolby TrueHD, which is the next big format in sound quality and design. The format will essentially allow those with high definition audio to feel as if they are in a movie theater- without the ticket price of course.

Ports are important for getting a device to hook up with another and share information. Sony included just about every port there is to ensure that if there is a need for the device to hook up to anything, the option to do it will be there. A rather odd port for a media player, the Ethernet port, has even been included to network your Sony BDP-S560 to other devices supporting the standard. It's innovation like this that really puts the frosting on the cake for consumers.

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Getting Started With Alpha Channels And QuickMask Mode In Adobe Photoshop CS4

There are three colour channels in typical Photoshop file: Red, Green and Blue. However, in addition to the colour channels, Photoshop can also use channels to store information used in the process of selecting and masking different parts of an image. To distinguish them from the colour channels, these channels are normally referred to as alpha channels. Alpha channels are a huge topic in Photoshop since they can be used in all sorts of very creative ways. However, in this article, we will focus on just two techniques both of which cause alpha channels to be created automatically: the Save Selection command and QuickMask mode.

In order to manipulate any part of an image, you need to make a selection. Photoshop has a number of different tools and techniques for making selections and the time taken will depend on the complexity of the subject. Certain photographic elements, such as people's hair, are notoriously difficult to select and may take hours. So, having made a selection, it is not unreasonable that the user should want to save the selection for later reuse. The Save Selection command, which is found in the Select menu, is one of the easiest ways of doing this.

When you save a selection Photoshop creates an alpha channel and prompts you to give it a name. You can view the alpha channel by going to the Channel window and clicking on its name. Alpha channels are simple greyscale images which use a visual code to represent selections: the black areas on the channel represent areas which will not be highlighted when the channel is loaded as a selection and white areas represent those areas which will be highlighted. In actual fact, the reverse can be true since the user can set his or her preferences by double-clicking the channel thumbnail in the Channel window. The different levels of grey within an image represent different levels of selection. This makes alpha channels ideal for saving selections with feathering and fades.

When looking at an alpha channel in isolation, it appears black and white. However, it is also useful to look at an alpha channel at the same time as the image to which it will be applied. This means that Photoshop has to find a way of representing the alpha channel which will not obscure the image. By default, the alpha channel changes to a red overlay with an opacity of 50%: the user can change both the colour and opacity of the overlay by double-clicking the thumbnail of the alpha channel in the Channels window.

This same technique of representing selection and masking as an overlayed colour is also used in Photoshop's QuickMask mode. To enter QuickMask mode, click on the QuickMask icon on the toolbar or simple press the letter "q" on the keyboard. When in QuickMask mode, all of Photoshop's paint tools, such as the paintbrush and gradient, can be used to make selections. Selections are represented in exactly the same way as they are on alpha channels. Furthermore, if you look at the Channels window when in QuickMask mode, you will notice that Photoshop has created a temporary alpha channel called "QuickMask" which will disappear as soon as you exit QuickMask mode.

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The Difference of Adware, Spyware and Anti virus

Adware, spyware and computer virus share some similarities, one of which is that all three are major nuisances for computer users. Let's differentiate the three.

At first she thought it was just a glitch in the internet system and then she rationalized that no it maybe a glitch in the search engine she is using but the persistent occurrence of such a thing made her think that someone bugged her. We all hate bugging people us but people we can fend of.

What this law student is confronted with is a computer bug that she cannot fend off. In the first place she is not a technology savy person and in the second place she never uses her laptop for any other things than academic research and actual writing of her papers.

The situation above is not an isolated case. There are many people who find themselves caught up in technology problems that are mind boggling but actually can be answered with two words and those two words are spyware and adware. The infamous term of spyware was first coined in the year 1995 but it was popularized in the year 2000. Spyware is a computer software innocently infiltrated in a personal computer to be able to access personal information of the user.

This is done by studying logging keystrokes, web browsing history and even scanning a user's hard drive. Sounds like something we see only in James Bond movies but apparently we are wrong for anyone can be a victim of spyware.

It is safe to use the word victim because no one wants to be monitored of all their online activities. Spyware can understandably be used to spy on criminals because such use is beneficial to society but how about the use of spyware to intercept credit card details and the like. There is simply no excuse for the lax of the use of spyware.

Meanwhile, viruses are destructive form of software. They were purely designed and created for one purpose alone: to wreck havoc to your computer. They destroy whatever they come in contact to and will initiate self replication and infect as many components of the computer's operating system or network as possible.

Spyware, adware, malware are not like virus or worms that self replicate but they can be just as hassle as their counterparts for whoever wants to be disrupted of their normal personal computer activities.

One of the more popular hassles cause by these infectious software programs is the slowness of the computer which can really be annoying because when you are at work you tend to want to finish things quick not just because you are required but also because you want more done or you want to be able to go home early.

These adware maybe spyware in disguised and are just waiting to be deployed for them to gather your information. Learn to setup firewall systems and always block pop up blockers to minimize computer infection and ensure the security of all your computer files.

Scan your computer daily for bugs using (http://cbtopsites.com/search/acts2v38/spyware) Registry Cleaner repair software will clean scan your Windows registry and (http://cbtopsites.com/search/acts2v38/spyware) eliminate all spyware.

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Registry Cleaners And Error Fix

Try to google registry cleaners and youll find thousands of hits. There are just that many registry cleaners available out there. Registry cleaners are important for maintaining your computers performance. But with so many of them, which one do you choose to do the job for you? This is why I tried out one software to test if it works.

The name of the registry cleaner that I decided to test Error Fix. It has been in the market for a long time now, but I wanted to find out if it was as good as the other reviews said it would be. Sure, it claimed that it can fix every kind of problem there is but I wanted to find out for sure.

The Error Fix software has a couple of added features aside from the basic registry cleaning tasks. There are actually plenty of things that a person can do with the Error Fix software. The installation of the program was a breeze. I didn't encounter a lot of problems with that so I guess you can take that as a good sign.

When I started running the Error Fix program, I was quite pleased to see that it does detect a considerable good number of errors in my system. After that it proceeded to fixing all the errors that it found.

One feature that I was really pleased with was how the Error Fix can create back ups of my system settings.

You can even choose to just create a back up of your registry if you find it too cumbersome to create a back up of the entire Windows system. Back ups are very important for when we need to revert to our old settings due to file corruptions.

But for those who gauge the efficiency of the program by the interface (of how it looks like), youll be happy with the put together, professional look of the Error Fix. The down side with sophistication is that it can be complicated for the user.

All the choices are all presented in a way that users will not have a hard time finding which buttons they need for what actions. I give the software a thumbs up. (http://errorfix2.com/)

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1200 Watt Power Supply by Topower

The new PSU, branded Tiger is claimed to be suited for multi-GPU setups and has an efficiency of over 80%. The Tiger features nVidia's SLI certification and the so-called Plug-N-Twist (PNT) modular cabling system. A temperature-controlled 120 mm fan keeps the supply cooled down.

Topower's Tiger 1200 Watt uses six +12V lines, each of 20A. By means of a button on the power supply, the six individual lines can be formed into a single +12V line. The Tiger will sport a pricetag of about $200. (hardware.info)

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HP Has Launched a New 27" Widescreen Monitor

The 2709 series, as it is been called has a 16:9 aspect-ratio and is compatible with Full HD content. The screen features a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels at a 60 Hz refresh rate. The contrast ratio is 1000:1, where the dynamic contrast is specified at 30.000:1. The gray-to-gray response time is 3 ms.

The monitor has DVI, HDMI and D-Sub inputs, can be tilted and features two 2 Watt speakers. Online, the HP 2709m costs about $500 USD. (hardware.info)

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OCZ Introduced The Z-Series of Power Supplies

About four months ago, OCZ launches Z-series with 80 Plus Gold, which are to set theirselves apart due to a high efficiency. Recently the manufacturer reported that the series, of which the two top models feature 80 Plus Gold certificates, are ready to hit the shelves, after nearly two years of development.

The 80 Plus Gold certification of the Z1000 and Z850 means that these power supplies have an efficiency of over 90% under a typical (half) load. According to the 80 Plus test report, the Z1000 has an 88,23% efficiency at 1/5th load, 90,93 at half load and 89,20% at full load. The Z850 features efficiencies of respectively 88,04%, 90,63% and 89,06%. The continuous power of these supplies is 1000 and 850 Watt, with peak wattages of 1100 and 940 Watt.

The Gold-certified power supplies are designed using the ATX standard and feature a single +12V rail that is capable of putting out a current of 83 A (Z1000) or 71 A (Z850). The PSU is cooled down by a 135mm ball-bearing fan. Both supplies are nVidia SLI-certified and will also be available in a modular version.

OCZ will release two more models in the Z-series, the Z550 and Z650. These supplies sports the 80 Plus Silver certificate and have three +12V rails. The Z550 and Z650 are also nVidia SLI-certified. No modular versions are planned for these models.

The power supplies come with a five-year warranty plan. At the moment of writing, American webshop newegg.com has the supplies listed at 300 USD for the Z1000M, 290 for the Z1000, 240 for the Z850M and 220 for the Z850. (hardware.info)

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Windows Spyware Removal Tools

Spyware is something most have had to deal with when using the internet. It is a common occurrence for spyware to be found on almost anyones computer. Even if you have a reliable antivirus program installed on your computer you are still likely to become infected. There are so many websites that require you to accept cookies That even if you do not download anything from the internet you are still likely to become infected.

The smartest and safest way to remove spyware from your computer is to use a program that is made for spyware removal. There are numerous spyware removal programs available online that will relieve your system of the irritating programs. You should make sure you are using spyware software that is designed for your operating system. If you are using Mac make sure it is made for MAC.

After you completely downloaded the spyware removal program you will be given a chance to scan your computer for infections. The program will produce a list of files that it feels that are threatening your computer. You can search through the list and choose to remove them all at one time or pick certain ones from the list. It is best that you remove the suspected threats one at a time to ensure that you do not remove something your system or a program you use could need to run correctly.

After you remove each item you should restart your PC to make sure there has been no mistakes made to the systems registry. Making a backup is recommended to correct any mistakes. The spyware programs will often locate files or programs that look and feel like spyware but are actually ones you need for your system to work.

It is never a good idea to try to remove registry entries on your own. You can create errors for the registry beyond repair sometime with removing just one entry. Spyware program removal software will sometimes come with a registry cleaner. It is a good idea to use this type of program to know your system is entirely free of the threats. Spyware and other malware programs will often embed in Windows registry making it very tedious to remove them. Even though the programs or files can be spotted by the removal tools they will often be unable to remove registry entries. So when you restart your computer the threat returns.

Windows Vista is equipped with several tools that are created for removing any malware programs as well as cleaning the registry. You can try using these first but in many cases it is just easier to get a program designed for spyware removal. The spyware removal programs may or may not offer protection against future malware attacks. You want to make sure that if your program does not that you find one that does. There is no way to avoid the threat of spyware entering your computer but it is helpful to have a program that includes the removal as well as the protection of spyware programs or other threats.

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