Google Earth is the same software that was available as Keyhole when Google bought them last year. It allows you to take a magic carpet ride starting from outer space into anywhere on earth flying through satellite images with superimposed map info. It allows you to tilt the view so it really gives the sensation […]
Month: July 2005
Sling Media’s Slingbox is a US$249.99 device lets you watch cable, satellite, or personal video recorder (PVR) programming from wherever you are by turning any Internet-connected desktop or laptop computer into a personal TV, according to the company. Slingbox only works with Windows XP but a Mac version is rumored to be in development. The […]
I recently caught up with a friend who works for Google. I was curious and asked him what servers and storage Google uses in their data center, the answer is interesting and against my expectation: they use thousands of commodity PCs and cheap, off-the-shelf hard drives and rely on Google’s in-house fault-tolerant software. Here’s some […]
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Intel's Dual-Core Yonah Roadmap
Laptop Logic has posted Intel’s roadmap for their forthcoming ‘Yonah’ processor. Yonah is the low-power CPU that is presumed to ship in the first Intel-based PowerBook in early 2006: Intel’s dual-core Pentium M successor “Yonah” will ship at 1.67GHz, 1.84GHz, and 2.17GHz when it debuts early next year in 2006. The dual-core Yonahs will take […]
Griffin Technology‘s PowerJolt Auto Charger is a US$25 charger for the iPod or iPod shuffle that plugs into your car’s cigarette lighter outlet. What makes the PowerJolt different than most iPod car chargers is that it replaces the fixed cable the connects to your iPod’s docking connector with a removable USB charging cable. This way […]