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Thursday, 2-August-2007 20:19:34 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Keep your eyes on the sky in late August. The Total Lunar Eclipse on August 28th 2007 will be visible in its entirety for all of Eastern Australia and New Zealand, and will be in progress at Moonrise for the remainder of Australia and most of Asia. I still haven't managed to see an eclipse with my naked eyes yet, there's always fog/clouds in the way!
Tech-Hounds have a GeForce 8600 series roundup. So unlike our usual comparison test, we decided to deprioritize performance for this round up. After all, this seems to be inline with what AMD and NVIDIA with these cards. In so doing, we do find these GeForce 8600 cards a bargain - but we still won't recommend it if you're serious about playing games.
A pile of Fisher-Price toys imported into Australia have been recalled. "Surface paints on the affected toys may contain increased levels of lead, which if ingested, may have health ramifications." All the affected toys were brought between May 1 and August 2 and have a date code between 109-7LF and 187-7LF marked on the product.
Shaun pointed out this interesting video on the loudness war and the effect it has on CD music quality. Big-name CD manufacturers are distorting sounds to make them seem louder. Sound quality suffers.
Tech Report reckon Realtek have resolved their EAX issues, sort of. However, last week a reader emailed me suggesting that Realtek had fixed occlusion and obstruction support in its latest 1.71 drivers, so I decided to take them for a spin, with curious results.
Craig spotted reports of parts shortages that could affect laptop sales. Certainly not a big issue at the moment, laptops are insanely cheap (as is pretty much everything else) right now.
Hathro sent in this world clock of deaths, births and other interesting statistics, updated constantly. Quite a bit of interesting stuff on that site, actually.
SharkyExtreme have their Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide updated for July. The biggest news in the four months since our previous Extreme PC Buyer's Guide is price cuts.
Nathan sent word of two free Hoodoo Gurus tracks available for download. Liveband and the Hoodoo Gurus are offering two free downloads from their performance at the Apollo Bay Music Festival. This free download will only be available for four weeks, so if you know any Hoodoo Fans who would sell their mother for new recordings, send them here!
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