Intel has launched a new desktop x86-64 processor, claiming to be the fastest in its segment till date. It has been given the name 'Intel Core i7'. Three variants has been launched with different configurations.
Core i7 are quad core processors and are based on Intel Nehalem microarchitecture.Intel Core i7
Core i7 has two variants:
1. Intel Core i7-920
2. Intel Core i7-940
Core-920 has the clock speed of 2.66 GHz, 256 KB L2/core & 8 MB shared L3 cache with DDR3-1066 memory speed support. Price: $284
Core-940 has the clock speed of 2.93 GHz, 256 KB L2/core & 8 MB shared L3 cache with DDR3-1066 memory speed support. Price: $562Intel Core i7 (Extreme Edition)
Core-965 (Extreme Edition) has the clock speed of 3.2 GHz with 8 core threads, 256 KB L2/core & 8 MB shared L3 cache with DDR3-1066 memory speed support. Price: $999
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Intel Launches Intel Core i7: Fastest Processor On Planet
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
How To Change MAC Address To Bypass Firewalls
We all are familiar with IP addresses, but what about MAC address? It's a unique identifier of the network interface card (NIC) present in the computer system. MAC address is composed of 6 hexadecimal numbers (e.g 2E-AA-45-B1-7F-1E). Every NIC has unique address that identifies it from all other NIC's that have produced till date on this planet. Sometimes, systems in the network are given restrictive access to resources on the basis of their IP's or MAC addresses. How to change the MAC address and bypass the filters?
During manufacturing, the unique ID (MAC address) is hard coded on the card and cannot be changed. But we can make such changes that the operating system fetches a different address leaving the real address behind the curtains. To change the MAC address follow this simple procedure.
1. Open your netowrk interface card's properties window. Choose Client for Microsoft Networks.
2. Click Configure in Windows 2000 Professional. If you are using Windows XP, choose Advanced tab.
3. Choose Network Address property from the list.
4. By default you will find Not Present optioned checked. Choose the Value option and type in a new MAC address in the format (1E224EA72F88), excluding the dashes as shown earlier. Click ok and you are done.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Google Adds Video And Voice Chat In GMail
Google has released a major feature upgrade in GMail. Addition of Video Chat and Voice Chat right inside GMail interface.
It will work on systems having Windows XP and later releases. To enable this feature you are required to download the voice and video chat plugin, and of course you must have a web cam. If you are unable to get this feature enabled in your account, there is no need to worry. Feature integration in all GMail accounts is under propagation, and will be available to all GMail users in 24 to 48 hours.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Secure Flash Drive With Encrypted Volume
Do you take your USB drive to office or use it on shared computer? Are you worried about the sensitive data in your flash drive? Often our USB drive is prone to unauthorized access leaving our important data at the mercy of other users. How to cope with this situation by keeping our important files safe and secure?
Cryptainer LE is an excellent USB drive locking software, that creates a secure encrypted disk volume on your flash drive for safe storage of data. The software is completely free and very easy to use.
Cryptainer LE uses strong 128 bit Blowfish algorithm to encrypt the data making it virtually unbreakable. The software is directly installed in the flash drive, and prompts for creating a volume to store sensitive data, after installation. You are required to provide the volume size, name and password through an easy wizard. Once the volume is created, all you need to do is to drag and drop your files in this secure encrypted drive. The dropped files are automatically encrypted giving double protection.
Any third person who tries to access your files from this encrypted volume will see this drive as a single file filled with junk characters.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Clone Your Hard Drive Easily
Often we want to clone entire hard drive for quick installations on multiple systems, or to save our critical data in aging hard drive. There are many commercial as well as free solutions to clone the hard drives. I tested about 4 free solutions, each one having its own pro can cons. Following software passed all tests and is an absolute gem for cloning hard drives.
DriveImage XML is a free hard drive cloning software that has some great features at par with commercial solutions. The software allows you to backup, browse and restore the drive images with ease. It also offers direct drive to drive cloning 
DriveImage XML can only run on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista as per official manual, but I have tested it on Windows 200 Professional and it runs fine without any glitch 
. During backup process, two files are made viz.. .XML containing the drive description and .DAT containing the actual data as raw binary image. During cloning process, you can also lock the partition so that no unnecessary updates occur during the cloning process.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Google SMS Channels: Keep Your Readers Updated
Google SMS Channels is one of the coolest service that enables you to send free alerts and messages to your subscribers containing your preferred content. For Indian subscribers it is completely free. 
Creating sms channels takes just a couple of minutes and you are ready to distribute your favorite content to you subscribers via mobile devices. For creating an account, you must verify your mobile number through a verification code sent to your mobile device. Once you have completed the verification process, you can create sms channels for your subscribers.
An ideal use of this service is to set alerts for your blog posts and keep your readers updated whenever any fresh content is posted on your blog. To get a taste of it, you can subscribe to my sms channel to get latest updates of my MintBlogger blog.
MintBlogger: Latest Post Updates By SMS (For Indian Subscribers only)
