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Specifications:

• Color Depth: Monochrome Green at 532nm (full color available late 2006)
• Depth of Focus: Infinite (image remains in focus at any distance from the projector)
• Resolutions Supported: QCIF, CIF, VGA, NTSC, 1024×512 (resolutions up to 2048×1280 including SXGA and S-HDTV available upon request)
• Typical Diagonal Image & Brightness: 15″ @ 50cd/m^2 (all pixels full brightness); 15″ @ 200cd/m^2 (50% max average pixel amplitude)
• Aspect Ratio Image: 7″ @ 220cd/m^2 (all pixels full brightness); 7″ @ 880cd/m^2 (50% max average pixel amplitude)
• Electrical Power Consumption: 1.4W (max pixel power, all pixels); <350mW (50% max average pixel amplitude)

Nope, I’m not lying!

This wonderful device was designed to be used in cellphones: they should make it possible to show more information at once. With a monstrous resolution like 2048*1280, you should be able to display ALOT! Except for… well… photos taken with your gsm camera, or a nicely coloured UI. Lucky us that ‘full color’ will be available later this year! But ehm, monochrome green > full color, in less than a year, isn’t that a bit optimistic? I guess they mean by ‘full color’ RGB: Red, Green and Blue. Of course, ‘full color‘
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Yesterday, somebody asked me if I could write a small batch file that compresses all files in a certain folder using CAB compression. It was finished in about 10 minutes… You have to set the folder manually in the .cmd file and you can set your own exceptions (files not to compress). I hope this will be useful to someone!

Download!
(SFX archive; contents: CabAllFiles.cmd & makecab.exe (makecab.exe must be in the same directory as CabAllFiles.cmd))

Here you should set your folder:
REM +=====================================+
REM + Folder +
REM +=====================================+
SET FOLDER=C:\test
REM +=====================================+

And here your exceptions:
REM +=====================================+
REM + Exceptions +
REM +=====================================+
IF /I "%FILENAME%"=="dontCompressThisFile.exe" GOTO END
REM +=====================================+

UPDATE

It seems there was some unclarity about this script. So here are some more details:

• it should work on any Windows platform better than Windows 95 (except for the 64-bit editions);
• the included makecab.exe is UPXed;
• it CABs each file into a CAB that contains only that file, e.g.: wannabee.txt becomes wannabee.tx_.

I hope that’s enough information, if you have more questions, ask them in the comments!

The first Apple MacBook Pro in the wild has been spotted (or at least someone who was smart enough to put some pictures online…)!

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This is THE iPod case of 2006!

And if you want one of your own, that’s also possible!

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That title is NOT a lie, it will become reality in the second quarter of this year, thanks to the Matrox Extio F1400. How it works: plug the PCI(-e) card in your pc that gives you a fiber connection, connect it with the Extio F1400 through a fiber-optic cable, connect your monitor(s) (maximum 4 and no higher resolution than 1600*1200) to the fancy device - that obviously also spots a GPU - and you’re done! (Also possible: up to 6 USB 2 devices and an audio connection.)

Fiber & fanless are the 2 keywords: no lag & no noise are the results! The only thing that could devaluate this promising product is its price - but more about that later.

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Two days until the moment where this blog wouldn’t have gotten a new post in a month… Shame on me! But, I do have some sham: I’ve been sick for a week and before that I had one week (of well filled up) vacation. But that still leaves two weeks to post something, of course. Well… I still have sort of an excuse for that: there simply hasn’t been much interesting or remarkable news on the internet.
Except for maybe the fact that Windows XP finally boots on a MacBook Pro. The happy hacker, narf2006, is now about USD 14.000 richer thanks to the contest. But what else has happened? The Xbox 360 DVD firmware has been hacked, flash memory will get alot cheaper in the next few months, in France p2p downloading might become legal, a MacBook Pro’s MagSafe connector has melted down and a 1 TB RAM drive was built by Texas Memory Systems.
That’s all fairly interesting, but either too expensive, too difficult or too useless.

Nothing but respect for this dude… He parodized another juggler by doing the same tricks with 5 instead of 3 balls. I wish I were this good… Gotta practice, I guess!

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Wow… This site gives you a way to get virtually ALL drivers for EVERYTHING internal. I have already built a DVD install disk and installed it on some of the newer machines, and it does great. Saves me a TON of time. I just hope the site doesn’t go under for bandwidth.

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I got digged for my DriverPacks project. And it seems I’m even the ‘top story’ of the week, and the second-best top story of the month
Thank you all!

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AppZapper 1.3 will be released today. The uninstaller Apple forgot has teamed up with MacZOT.com to run a special promotion for the release of their latest version featuring the new QuickZap™

AppZapper 1.3 is FREE! (or will be if we get at least 259 bloggers to mention it)

For each blog that posts a link to MacZOT.com, they’ll drop the price for everybody by $0.05 (Blog links should be posted to the Comment section at http://maczot.com/discuss/?p=35#comments

Our goal is to give away 1,000 copies of AppZapper to Mac users around the world. So, every Blog entry will be worth about $50.00 to the community.

Once they reach at least 259, AppZapper will be priced at $0.00 (FREE) to everybody who registers at MacZOT.com or sends a simple email to BlogZOT@maczot.com after the time it becomes FREE.

GET STARTED! Email your favorite bloggers and tell them to blog up MacZOT so everyone can benefit! And then: Grab your copy of AppZapper 1.3 with the new QuickZap feature from http://maczot.com

NOTE: AppZapper 1.3 will not be available until about 3:00 am PST. However, blog posts can begin immediately.

NOTE: This offer expires at 11:59 on April 03, 2006

Or… how a small company has yet invented another way to deceive the search engines. Obvioulsy, because they were the first one (at least as far as I know) to apply this kind of ‘advertisement’, they don’t need many blog entries: this will be a story on its own. After entering apple uninstall software as keywords at Google, the first result linking to AppZapper was on the 7th place. I predict this will be at least the fifth place by next week.
Probably In the future, there will probably be more of these campaigns, with requirements of at least 1000, 2000 or even 10000 blog posts. 10,000 links can make a difference for the search results, I think.
Now the most interesting part: how will the search engines filter blogposts caused by an advertisement campaign (’the bad’) from the ones that simply review or talk about a product (’the good’)? Or will they eventually just shut out all blogs from the ranking system, and only make them searchable in the blog search only?

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Fast, easy and cool!

Found it at Google Video Of the Day.

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