Entries Tagged as 'Techdag'

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The Mod God has done it again! - the XBOX 360 Elite Laptop!

Benjamin Heckendorn (aka benheck also aka mod god!) has once again created something cool… and XBOX 360 Laptop!.. I so want one of these!…

here is Ben at his best:
and also checkout his wii Laptop!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Nvidia develops PhysX engine for new range of Notebook GPU’s

Nvidia have released five new GPU’s - The GeForce 9800M GTX, GeForce 9800M GTS, GeForce 9800 GT, GeForce 9700M GTS and GeForce 9700M GT The last two being the mid range consumer cards most likely to appear in new notebooks
The 9800M GTX and 9800M GTS both have 112 processing units, which is equivalent to the [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

100 microprocessor cores at your disposal!

I was just reading a Guardian UK newspaper article about the new possibilities opened up to software developers with GPU (Graphic Processor Unit) assisted computing. Basically what this is is that if you have a major brand graphics card in your PC or Mac (Nivdia or ATI), it is now possible to open up the [...]

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

A test from a mobile Techdag

Well, hot on the heels of the release of the WordPress application for iPhones (insert link to FREE iPhone WordPress application here as I don’t know how to do hyperlinks with this app yet), I have my trusty 3g iPhone in hand and this blogg post is coming to you from it,as a test. I [...]

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Apple rolls out TV shows on iTunes Australia..without fanfair…

A few hours ago, Apple has added television shows for sale on iTunes Australia, be it only TV shows and not movies. The five networks it seems are MTV, ABC (1, 2 & 3), Disney, and ATN Channel 9 (national). Individual episodes are priced at $2.99. At the moment, there are 22 shows, including a [...]

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Apple Announces 3G iPhone - Australian Release Details!

After months of anticipation, the heavily rumored 3G iPhone was announced today during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference
Features
- 3G - Great for our Australian networks
- GPS built-in
- Better battery life than previous iPhones
- 300 hours of standby
- 2G talk-time 10 hours (as opposed to 5)
- 5 hours of 3G talk-time (competition is 3 hour 3G talk [...]

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The iPhone Lego Controller has finally arrived!


Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 code named “Snow Leopard” - report

Apple is indeed well into the development of Mac OS X 10.6, which the company has internally code-named “Snow Leopard,” according to ArsTechnica.
Citing a person familiar with the situation, the technology website confirms several details of the next major Mac OS X upgrade first reported on Tuesday, including a scheduled release as soon as Macworld [...]

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Samsung intros 256GB SSD that may reach MacBook Air

Samsung has introduced a 256GB solid-state drive that promises to kickstart the industry with twice the storage and twice the speed of earlier disks while also costing less to manufacture than past models — and having a chance of landing in future Apple notebooks.
Simply called the 256GB FlashSSD, the Serial ATA drive reads in-order data [...]

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

G9 relaunches as TERRiA and prepairs for Australian Broadband rollout

The “G9″ group of telecommunications companies has renamed itself and is calling for structural separation of Telstra as it prepares its plan for the new national broadband network.
“TERRiA is now the unifying name for our consortium”, said chairman of the group, Michael Egan. “Its mission is to provide an independent and competitive communication network for [...]