Archive for September 11, 2006

The door to the hydrogen economy may be made of cobalt

One promising class of fuel cells are polymer electrolyte fuel cells, an example of a proton exchange fuel cell. While these are not a new technology
they were first used on the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s they have one prohibitive barrier: cost.

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Why gigantic screens are the best computer upgrades ever.

Whether you’re a PC or Mac user, the humongous 24-inch iMac that Apple unwrapped on Wednesday drives home a point: Speed is good, but spread is better.

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Preview: Tom’s Hardware Benchmarks Intel’s First Quad-Core!

Intel’s first quad-core processor ‘Kentsfield’ has found its way into the Tom’s Hardware test lab. Weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press, Tom’s Hardware was able to obtain a qualification sample: The chip was sent through the test parcours, showing impressive performance.

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F1 - F12: A list of what your keyboard’s top row can do.

Commonly referred to as Function Keys, these keys were frequently used in the good old days of DOS programs. You can probably use your computer without ever using one of these keys, yet, these function keys provide some interesting shortcuts for common computer functions that can be useful tools in everyday computing.

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Samsung Develops New Memory Chip: PRAM Promised to be 30 Times Faster

Samsung on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly. The phase-change random access memory, or PRAM, chip is nonvolatile, meaning it will retain data even when an electronic device is turned off, and is about 30 times faster than conventional flash memory.

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Why I DO use a Registry Cleaner, Specifically this one

In response to an earlier front page story, which was flawed, Here are instructions on CCleaner and running its “Issues” scan. This scan does not delete DLL’s as is the danger of the other scanners. It simply removes reg entries that are pointing at non-existent files. Speed is gained as the entries are all attempted to “load” when windows starts.

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