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Tuesday Afternoon
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Tuesday, 15-February-2011 16:18:02 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Valve are getting in on the Valentines Day hype with their own Portal 2 Valentines Gift Guide. A Valentine's Day gift buyer's guide, with a surprising conclusion. I'm sure they're feeling the love, given PC Gamer report they control up to 70% of the gaming market via Steam.
You might remember Dan's stained glass window made from motherboards etc, but here's another artistic use for old PC bits: minature cities, thanks Samo. Italian artist Franco Recchia delves into the world of technology and the man made form in his mixed-media sculptures that focus on the urban landscape and related themes.
From Bill: Mod Men is a new webisode series that follows my PC modding business. Imagine an "American Chopper for Geeks" but without the reality bull. Show Trailer here, 1st season will air March 1st on my YT channel. Viewers will watch us build a water cooled PC from scratch over 5 episodes. The design is insanely cool! I'll also share guides and tips to inspire your own projects. They will also include some of my thorough and opinionated product reviews.
Fairfax media have shared how things are going with the Australian Financial Review after they hid the website content behind a "paywall". The company has revealed that afr.com.au has 6711 subscribers. The company charges $1140 per year for an annual digital subscription. Based on its stated policy that it does not discount subscriptions to the site, this would indicate, at best, revenues of about $640,000 per month, or$7.6m per year.
Petapixel checked out a $30,000 Leica camera. When it was announced back in September of last year, we predicted that most of them wouldn’t see the light of day and would be placed immediately into collectors’ vaults. Luckily for us, someone decided to actually unbox (gasp!) one of these babies (camera #164), allowing us to see what it’s like to receive such an absurdly expensive camera.
This is a year or so old now but still interesting, a video showing how a Cray supercomputer is upgraded from quad-core to six-core CPUs. Discussion here. If you want to see the innards of the hardware that powers OCAU, check out our 2009 OCAU Server Upgrade article.
For a slightly different flavour of server, dasuperham sent in this Mac Mini rackmount kit allowing two to be mounted in 1RU. The RackMac mini by Sonnet Tech allows system admins to install two Mac minis in a standard rackmount enclosure while allowing full access to the CD drive, power LEDs and even the IR port on the unibody mini.
Also from dasuperham, a new "superphone" and tablet from Samsung, info here, here and here. Contrary to the leaks, the tablet is called the Galaxy Tab 10.1 -- grabbing its moniker from the screen size, obviously -- and like the rest of the upcoming Android 3.0 tablets it's powered by a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, will be available with 16GB or 32GB of storage, and has a front-facing 2 megapixel camera as well as a 8 megapixel imager around back. TBreak have a hands-on preview as well. Discussion here.
Stuart sent word of Telstra's 4G plans. Australians will again be at the leading edge of mobile telecommunications with Telstra today unveiling plans to upgrade its Next G™ network with 4G technology later this year. More info here.
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