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Thursday, 23-February-2006 03:21:04 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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From Daniel: Telstra has launched Bigpond Movies. Most movies are over 1gb, works out to about 10mb for 1 minute of content, free quota for Bigpond customers and they also recieve a 20% discount. Obviously streamable over ADSL2/2+ and cable. :) Another article about this here from Asher. Some good comments from Sony Pictures' MD towards the end RE: the time lag between when shows air in the US and when they air in Australia.
XbitLabs have a pretty big 3DMark06 performance article. Will the new 3DMark06 be able to repeat the success of the predecessors? This is the question we are going to answer in out today’s article devoted to detailed testing of 20 graphics cards and 19 CPUs in the new 3DMark06 suite.
TweakTown have a gadget guide. Each of the products seek to enhance your computing experience in some way, by either filling a large and unsatisfyingly empty niche, or by showing you something you never knew you could live without!
World of Warcraft takes another bizarre twist, with a guild holding a server for ransom. But instead of immediately opening the gates, a post appeared on the official WoW forums for the server that it was the guild's intention not to open the gates until it was paid a ransom of 5000 gold.
From eixt: IBM have discovered that current chip-making technology has the potential to make computer processors tinier and cheaper than first thought.
OCIA have a budget system building guide. Techspot have a similar idea with their low-end PC buying guide.
A few things from Paul: BBC climate change experiment. 3D browser, cool!
Also from Paul: Danish National Radio has kindly made 9 Mozart symphonies available for free download in celebration of the grand man's 250th birthday. Indeed, at 256kbps, the mp3's are clearly showing the music the respect they deserve. Performed by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, these are a joy to listen to and a fitting way to celebrate his great work.
Also also from Paul: Songbird, a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions.
Virtual-Hideout ponder the dual-core decision, while OCWizard overclocked their dual core A64 4400+.
HWZone cover Sennheiser's new headphone range. One of the milestones for the company would be the HE90 Orpheus created in 1991. Till date, it is still the world's most expensive headphone system and is perhaps the epitome of headphones with fantastic specifications and performance.
MadShrimps have a 2-in-1 PC project posted. MWP's had one of those for years!
From Sil80: Hey - I don't know if anyone has seen this before but it's a pic totally done in MS Paint. There is a link to show you how he did it too. Its very well done! It's a 3mb download so it may take awhile. And you have to scroll down to see it all.
BigWilly spotted some spray-on solar cells. The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the first solar cells able to harness the sun's invisible, infrared rays.
From Banger: It looks like another P2P group is under the scrutiny of the law again. Razorback, one of the most well known and well used servers on the eMule network has just had their servers seized by police. There is also this PDF from the MPAA.
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