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Archive for December, 2008

Steps involved for making your system Dual boot (xp and linux) :

Posted by On December - 22 - 2008 9 COMMENTS

Assuming no operating system is installed and if windows xp is installed  follow step 2 only ,in this case you should have an partition of about 25gb free for linux installation.

* Take backup of all important datas as you may loose them.


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Games of 2008. Top 5

Posted by On December - 21 - 2008 5 COMMENTS

They all have good stories, good characterisation, good concepts, good graphics, good interfaces, but only a few make it to the hearts of the gamers playing games like crazy. Here are the 5 games that made the deepest impact in 2008.

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1.5GB QuadroFX 4800 workstation graphics card by NVIDIA

Posted by max On December - 21 - 2008 3 COMMENTS

NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 4800 might not be nearly the beast that the 5800 is, but it’ll only run you an arm and three-quarters of a leg versus every limb you’ve got.


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Looking for Torrent sites? The Top 5

Posted by On December - 21 - 2008 1 COMMENT

Torrents. A must for all P2P clients. Finding the right torrent for the files you require can be hard as a bad selection can result in slow download or even corrupt data coming your way. Hence choosing the right torrent and the right torrent site is a must. itechnomax brings you the 5 most trusted of the lot.



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Video Glasses: Vuzix Wrap 920AV

Posted by max On December - 21 - 2008 1 COMMENT

How about carrying a virtual world on your eyes? Yes your eyes are working good, its the virtual world you can see by putting on Vuzix Wrap 920AV Sunglasses/ Video-glasses.

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Cowon S9: An Amazing MP3 Player

Posted by max On December - 21 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

Cowon’s S9 touch-screen MP3 player has arrived, bringing the expected music, video, and photo playback, and extras such as FM radio, Bluetooth, voice/radio/line recording, a Flash player, and a text reader.
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Japan: First Blu-ray Disc / DVD Hybrid Announced

Posted by max On December - 20 - 2008 1 COMMENT

 PonyCanyon a subsidiary of Fuji TV in Japan announced the first commercial ever Blu-Ray Disc / DVD featuring the Japanese drama “Code Blue” in a full special Box.

It sure took long enough to happen, but one of HD DVD’s biggest benefits has finally made it over to the Blu-ray side. Yep, we’re talking about a Blu-ray / DVD hybrid disc, with a single-layer of Blu on one side and a standard DVD on the very same side (as in, not a “flipper” disc).


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Solar iPhone cases by Solar Arcadia

Posted by max On December - 20 - 2008 1 COMMENT

Having an Apple iPhone and like to have accessories. Here is a good one for you….

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Voltaic Generator Laptop Bag

Posted by max On December - 20 - 2008 10 COMMENTS

How about a Laptop bag that Charges your Mobile Phones and Laptops while you are just doing nothing?

Voltaic’s bag will charge your phone and juice your notebook using a solar-powered battery. Just make sure it works with your laptop. Read the rest of this entry »

14 Countries Lose Web due to Damaged Undersea Cables

Posted by max On December - 20 - 2008 1 COMMENT


Reports from the Mediterranean indicate that two of the undersea cables severed and repaired earlier this year have been cut again, disrupting internet access and phone service between the Middle East, Europe, and parts of Asia. An additional third cable is down in the same region.

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How to prolong lithium-based batteries

Posted by max On December - 19 - 2008 3 COMMENTS

Battery research is focusing heavily on lithium chemistries, so much so that one could presume that all portable devices will be powered with lithium-ion batteries in the future. In many ways, lithium-ion is superior to nickel and lead-based chemistries and the applications for lithium-ion batteries are growing as a result. Read the rest of this entry »

Build Your Own Computer at Home!

Posted by max On December - 19 - 2008 3 COMMENTS

This post is about Building Your Own Computer at Home!!!
On Dec. 19,1974…
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Brightning your way in rain with Umbrella

Posted by max On December - 19 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

In rain? With umbrella. Need Light?
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5D Mark II camera supported by Apple Software

Posted by max On December - 19 - 2008 1 COMMENT

Apple has added support for raw photo files from Canon’s vaunted if imperfect 5D Mark II to its Aperture 2 and iPhoto 08 software less than a week after rival Adobe did so with Lightroom.

The Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 2.4 also supports Canon’s high-end compact, the PowerShot G10, and the Pentax K2000/K-m (presumably the white version, too), according to Apple. It requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later.
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Mass Internet outages in Egypt after cables cut

Posted by max On December - 19 - 2008 7 COMMENTS

CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt’s communications ministry says Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages.

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The Dual Screen Laptop: Lenovo W700

Posted by max On December - 19 - 2008 3 COMMENTS

Having only recently posted about the Apple TriBook MacBook Concept its interesting to note that IBM/Lenovo have just announced their new ThinkPad W700 series mobile workstation laptop which distinguishes itself from the stock W700 in coming complete with an integrated 10.6” (diagonal) secondary 1280 x 768 resolution display supplementing its main 17” 1920 x 1200 WUXGA screen.

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CoolIT provides cheap and easy CPU liquid Cooling

Posted by max On December - 18 - 2008 1 COMMENT

Liquid cooling offers great performance for cooling your CPU but it can really be a pain to get a system put together and of course you’ve got to worry about leaks, changing the fluid, flushing the system etc and for the average person it’s just not worth all of those hassles.
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$18 Handset upgrade fee eliminated by T-Mobile

Posted by max On December - 18 - 2008 3 COMMENTS

T-Mobile is in a giving mood this holiday season.

It has suspended the handset upgrade fee that it charges all customers who upgrade from one phone to another.
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70:30 Gamers prefer Xp to Vista

Posted by On December - 18 - 2008 2 COMMENTS

Valve’s November Steam user metrics are up, and it’s (still) a landslide for gamers running Windows XP. 68% of Steam users connect to the online community and games service running the 32-bit version of XP. Compare with just 21% running Vista and a DX10-capable video card. Slightly more than that (25%) are running DX10 GPUs on XP, while a sobering 54% still play with DX9-or-below GPUs. Read the rest of this entry »

Who’s the fastest? NVIDIA or ATI

Posted by max On December - 18 - 2008 3 COMMENTS

It’s truth time. Now that the first games using DirectX 10 have appeared, Nvidia and ATI have to face the real world and answer the question – which card offers the most performance??? Read the rest of this entry »

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