Mad Catz Eclipse keyboards, R.A.T. gaming mice up for pre-order
Mad Catz is still not ready to ship its CES 2010-announced peripheral line but, to ease the wait and give us hope, it has announced that most of its upcoming products has now become available for pre-order. First up, there's the $59.99 Eclipse mobilemouse which boasts a die cast frame, a low profile scroll bar for 360 degree scrolling, a 1600 DPI laser sensor, 2.4 GHz wireless technology, and requires one AAA battery for power.
Next, the $99.99 Eclipse Litetouch and $129.99 Eclipse Wireless Litetouch keyboards which have low profile backlit quiettouch scissor keys and an LCD 3-in-1 touch panel that can be switched between the media, numerical-pad and MyEclipse modes, enabling more control. The 2.4 GHz wireless model also boasts a 360 degree trackball with left and right mouse buttons.
Now for the rodents - the 3-button, 3200 DPI laser sensor-equipped R.A.T. 3 wired mouse costs $49.99, the R.A.T. 5 with its 4000 DPI and 4 buttons goes for $69.99, while the R.A.T. 7, boasting 5 buttons, a 5600 DPI sensor, and 30g removable weights, is priced at $99.99. Last and not least the R.A.T. 9 gaming mouse has a 5600 DPI sensor, 5 programmable buttons, 45g removable weights and 2.4GHz wireless connectivity, and costs $129.99.
All the items listed are set to ship sometime this summer.
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G.Skill bringing in 2500 MHz DDR3 memory kit
G.Skill has today claimed the stock speed crown by announcing that it has developed a DDR3 memory kit working at 2500 MHz. Targeting PC enthusiasts running on P55-based systems, the new dual-channel DDR3-2500 kit operates at 1.65V, and is part of the Trident series which means it makes use of some top-notch aluminum heatsinks for efficient and yet passive cooling.
"G.Skill is dedicated to continuously developing the best performance memory modules on the market, to satisfy the demands of extreme overclockers and gamers. We are proud of the continual milestones we are still setting in the memory industry, and we believe the collaboration with ASUS brings the best technology synergy for future product development," said Tony Chou, Senior R&D Manager at G.Skill.
G.Skill's DDR3-2500 Trident memory kit is not yet priced or dated but it will surely come with a lifetime warranty.
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Wi-LAN sues a heap of technology companies for patent infringement
Ottawa-based licensing company and claimed patent troll Wi-LAN Inc. has sued the likes of Acer, Apple, Atheros, Belkin, Broadcom, Dell, D-Link, Gateway, HP, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Marvell, Motorola, Personal Communications Devices, Sony, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and UTStarcom, for allegedly violating one of its patents.
According to the complaint filed by Wi-LAN in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, the companies mentioned have and continue to infringe on Patent No. 5,515,369 by making and/or selling various products, including notebooks and mobile phones, that feature support for the Bluetooth wireless technology. The patent in question is entitled 'Method for frequency sharing and frequency punchout in frequency hopping communications network' and was granted in 1996 so it's nice to see Wi-LAN keeping its archives tidy.
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LogMeIn Ignition comes to iPad
LogMeIn is the latest of firms to offer a client remote control app for the Apple iPad, and in this case they have ported LogMeIn Ignition so that the tool will enable users to control a Windows PC or Mac computer.
Available from the AppStore today, the new version of LogMeIn Ignition supports all 3 iPhone OS devices, the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch... adapting automatically to the size of the device that is being used.
Of course, as you would expect, the iPad version offers improved display, rendering and navigation to take advantage of the better hardware support, according to LogMeIn.
"With this latest version of LogMeIn Ignition, customers can use their iPad, iPhone or iPod to instantly and securely access their digital lives from wherever they are in the world," said LogMeIn Vice President for access and management, Andrew Burton.
LogMeIn Ignition offer the service in conjunction with LogMeIn Free and LogMeIn Pro, the company's services that allow remote access from a web browser on another Windows or Mac.
New customers can download LogMeIn Ignition from the iTunes App Store (weighing in slightly heavier than most) for $29.99 (USD), but unlike many other applications, users of the current Ignition iPhone and iPod version can download the update for free.
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HP bring KeepVault discount offer to Europe
Back in February word was out that Hewlett-Packard were working with data backup specialists at Proxure to provide the MediaSmart and DataVault server owners a 20% discount on KeepVault and KeepVault Pro backup solutions, which would also come with an online backup add-in for the Windows Home Server.
For reasons that HP failed to properly explain, the word was never made clear that the same deal is also available to European MediaSmart and DataVault server owners, and it is available in French, German, and Spanish language services too!
The announcement from HP, in clarification:
HP is excited to present users with KeepVault, an online backup service that is designed for WHS customers. With KeepVault, users can select individual subfolders and top level WHS shares for real time, continuous protection or schedule regular backups when convenient. Data is encrypted prior to transfer, and remains encrypted in the vault. KeepVault provides notifications to email, SMS, or Twitter. In case of lost data files, users can recover all missing files on their PC with the One Click Recovery feature, and all of this for a fixed annual subscription price that can easily be upgraded as your storage needs grows.
The Keep Vault is available in two flavours, standard “Keep Vault†and “Keep Vault Pro and Businessâ€Â. KeepVault Pro and Business has all of the features of KeepVault, and additional value for small businesses and advanced users. KeepVault Pro and Business sports best in class upload speeds, up to 3X regular KeepVault speeds. Data is encrypted prior to being sent, and remains encrypted in the cloud with secure 128 bit encryption (soon 256 bit). Customers can backup multiple HP Data Vaults to the cloud, and can access their files from any internet connected computer – at home, office, or on the road. KeepVault Pro and Business includes administrative features such as enhanced alert notification, proxy server support, and admin lockdown.
Customers can get access to KeepVault Online Backup and full service details from the offer site at http://hp.keepvault.com/offer.php?refer=rr_hpwhs.
To date, HP still have to release a refreshed version of the Amazon S3 add-in, which was removed with in the company’s v3.0 software update - so it seems pretty clear by now that KeepVault is the new offsite online access backup solution of choice for the MediaSmart server series.
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'Get a Mac' ad campaign coming to a close?
Justin Long and John Hodgman might be done with their run representing Apple, as Long reveals in an interview with the AV Club that the comical 'Get A Mac' ads might finally be over after a long 4 year marathon on our televisions.
The full quote from Justin Long reads:
"You know, I think they might be done. In fact, I heard from John, I think they're going to move on. I can't say definitively, which is sad, because not only am I going to miss doing them, but also working with John. I've become very close with him, and he's one of my dearest, greatest friends. It was so much fun to go do that job, because there's not a lot to it for me. A lot of it is just keeping myself entertained between takes, and there's no one I'd rather do it with than John."
However, despite the unforgiving truth that Apple could plausibly very well be going back to their silhouetted flappy dancing iPod commercials, we can take solace in the archives held over at AdWeek's AdFreak, where you can view the entire collection that the comedy duo participated in. Enjoy!
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RegScanner version 1.81 available for download
RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value in RegEdit, simply by double-clicking the desired Registry item. You can also export the found Registry values into a .reg file that can be used in RegEdit.
Changes include:
- Fixed problem: On Windows 7/Vista, RegScanner entered into a recursive scan of VirtualStore key, something like HKCR\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore...
- Added 'Delete Selected Keys/Values' option. (See Below)
- Fixed bug: When searching a key in 'Exact Match' mode, RegScanner compared the search string with the full key path, and thus it never found the key.
- Export Selected Items - String values are now exported as strings and DWord values are now exported as DWords. (In previous versions they exported as binary)
- Fixed bug: When using 'Export Selected Items' more than once, the first key was missed.
Website: NirSoft Freeware
Download: RegScanner 1.81
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iSuppli pins iPad costs at $259.60
The Apple iPad, released just last Saturday to a staggering 300,000 sales, has been trailed by praise from industry analysts for its internal designs, following the first major teardown by iFixit and the first detailed report from research firm iSuppli.
The teardown specialists are reporting that the hardware components and manufacturing costs for each 16GB (Wi-Fi only) iPad add up to some $259.60 (USD), with the most expensive part being the screen at $109.50 (44% of the total value!), followed by the casing at $32.50,the NAND Flash memory at $29.50, and the lithium-ion battery at $21.
The 16GB Wi-Fi iPad currently retails for $499 (USD) in the United States, and an international release is tentatively scheduled for 'late April'.
iSuppli have claimed in their report that the iPad delivers a "game changing" design in the way it is constructed, stating that:
"The iPad's design represents a new paradigm in terms of electronics cost structure and electronic content."
iSuppli analyst and teardown services manager, Andrew Rassweiler, explained that rather than designing a motherboard system to power the device and add peripherals, Apple used the screen and interface as the base building block, and then tailored the computing components around that.
"Everything is 'human-machine-interface-centric', with the printed circuit board and integrated circuits all there to facilitate the display of content as well as user inputs," he said.
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HP says memristor can do more than 'just' store data
Hear that? The HP Labs team is jumping with joy due to its latest discoveries regarding memristors which are supposed to be the best thing since, well, the other three fundamental circuit elements - resistors, capacitors and inductors. HP researchers demonstrated the existence of the memristor in 2008, claiming that it could replace conventional DRAMs and provide a more reliable storage solution, but their latest breakthroughs suggest that the element could be used to revolutionize not only storage, but also the way future systems process data.
Memristors are faster and less power-hungry than current solid-state solutions and they don't need to be powered to retain data, which makes them a very interesting storage solution but, according to HP, they can also perform logic, enabling computation to one day be performed in chips where data is stored, and not on a 'third-party processor (a CPU).
"Memristive devices could change the standard paradigm of computing by enabling calculations to be performed in the chips where data is stored rather than in a specialized central processing unit," said R. Stanley Williams, senior fellow and director, Information and Quantum Systems Lab, HP. "Thus, we anticipate the ability to make more compact and power-efficient computing systems well into the future, even after it is no longer possible to make transistors smaller via the traditional Moore’s Law approach."
The ability to combine processing with storage presents a lot of opportunities for faster, more compact devices that will process data similar to how the human brain does, and the first results are supposed to be not that far away. According to HP, memristor-based memory chips could find their way into devices in a few years so the race is on Memristor revolution or bust!
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Everest Ultimate Edition reaches version 5.50
Montreal-based software developer Lavalys has this week updated its well known PC diagnostics software utility, Everest Ultimate Edition, to v5.50. As expected, this latest release comes with support for the latest processors from Intel, AMD and VIA, but it also features:
- BIOS settings listing on capable Asus and Intel motherboards - Detection of various BIOS settings under Windows without the need to reboot into BIOS Setup. Available BIOS values include FSB, BCLK and memory clock settings, CPU ratio, voltage adjustments as well as data drive strength detection.
- GPU information for the latest ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics cards
- Optimized hardware monitoring support for Logitech G19 LCD keyboard - Full support for the 320x240 true-colour LCD display of the Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard to display temperatures, voltage values and cooling fan speeds.
To try out Everest Ultimate Edition 5.50 you can download the 30-day trial available here. To purchase a license for the software see Lavalys' store.
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