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Check Your CPU’s Speed

Came across this small and nifty tool which provides an insight into how speed your processor is with a multitude of tests. Its an installable of a low size and takes a moment to spring to life.

Here is how it provides info, with other options and you can even compare with the around-the-world reports to know where you stand in the CPU Speed Race. ;-)

Check the Speed of your processor

Pretty Cool interface, right? Try it here: CPU Speed Professional

April 21, 2008 Posted by avyaya | Computers, Education, Entertainment, Software, Technology | , , , , , , | No Comments

Beautiful GFX Cards

Beautiful Nvidia Box Art

Don’t you sometimes wish that the graphics generated by your video card was on the same level of sophistication as the graphics shown on the box? There are many incredibly gorgeous works of art found on Video card boxes, especially those with the Nvidia brand. Asus and Gigabyte Technology in particular have some very good ones that deserves to be framed and mounted on a wall. Here are some of the best looking Nvidia box art in recent memory.

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For more……

February 28, 2008 Posted by avyaya | Computers, Entertainment, Technology | , , | No Comments

Google Sites - Ex JotSpot - 10 GB Free Space

One and a half year passed by and here we are with a new look and new version JotSpot which was laid hands on by Google. No new users were entertained, but existing users had been made available to use the portal. Now, Google has launched JotSpot with new features, new version capabilities and a new name “Google Sites”.

Graphically, there has been a leap in designing Google Sites, but the core functionality of
being a wiki has not been lost. As with any Google product, users can embed spreadsheets, presentations and word documents from Google Docs, favourite YouTube Videos, Picasa Albums as well as Google Calendars. The prior structured data templates introduced by JotSpot in July 2006 have been shelved and the users are provided to choose between just five basic templates- a standard wiki, a dashboard where google gadgets can be embedded, a blog-like template for announcements, a file cabinet for file uploads, and a page for lists of items.

Like Google Docs, Google Sites wikis can be made private, shared with others, or made
public. Users can select from a variety of templates, but cannot yet customize the look and feel of the site. Somewhere down the road, Google says, they’ll release an API for the new
service as well. Editing is done with a rich text editor that allows for basic formatting.
Google Sites is a free product, with limitations on support and storage (10 GB). Users can
upgrade their Google Apps account to a standard edition, also free, and map their own
domains to the site. A premier edition is also available for $50/user/year that includes a
service level agreement, support and more admin capabilities.

All wiki pages have RSS feeds associated with them to allow users to track any changes.
Existing Jotspot users will continue to be supported on the old platform for the near
future, and they will also be given instructions for porting their Jotspot wikis to Google
sites.

In an interview today, Google’s Management Director of Enterprise Matthew Glotzbach called the combined products under Google Apps a “Microsoft Sharepoint killer” because it’s allowing businesses to collaborate without all that expensive Microsoft software. It may not be a Sharepoint killer yet, but Google Apps constitutes 2-3% of Google’s total revenues.

Some point soon, its going to start hurting Microsoft.

Sample screenshots:

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February 28, 2008 Posted by avyaya | Computers, Technology, internet | , , , | No Comments

Wanna Have an Icon to be extracted

Had there ever been a moment when you saw some cursor or icon in any other software and thought,”Ohhh, Wish I could have that.” Using IconsExtract you can extract your favourite icons or cursors with just a few mouse clicks. Provide the .exe file which has your favourite icon and go on the select the icons which You wish to be saved for .ico files. The properties like whats the Icon size can be selected in the options provided in this tool.

Icons

There is no need to carry an installation file and go around installing the software in multiple systems. You can just copy it into the USB Drive and carry it over, as it doesnt have any setup files. Nice!!!

February 28, 2008 Posted by avyaya | Computers, Software, Technology | , , , | No Comments

Firefox 3-Mozilla’s Ultimate Browser

Ever since the Browser’s race started to hold on to the internet savvy people, there had been a stiff competition among IE 7, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. In rather a new leap towards the becoming of an ultimate browser Mozilla improved its JavaScript working performance and stood out a winner by beating out the competition. The browser’s performance is simply blazing, opens lightning faster than IE, handles multiple requests to download a file, got bundles of plugins and add-ons.

Get ready to be there to download in a week or two.

February 28, 2008 Posted by avyaya | Computers, Entertainment, Technology | , , , | No Comments