100 Favorite Blogs of 2007

100 Favorite Blogs of 2007

Hello bloggers here this article is for you. This article contains the names of all those blogs that are the favorite in the year 2007. These are the 100 favorite blogs of the year 2007, which was first discovered and fully reviewed by PC Magazine. This list contains various types of favorite blogs from tech to non-tech.

If you know more useful blog then add those to this article.

Here the list of those 100 blogs:
adfreak Apartment Therapy Ars Technica Aurgasm Autoblog Boing Boing Born Rich Brooklyn Vegan BuzzMachine CamcorderInfo CocktailNerd Coolest Gadgets Core77 Crave Crunk + Disorderly Cupcakes Take The Cake Cute Overload Daily Kos Deadspin Defamer DesignSponge Dethroner Dlisted Download Squad Drawn! Eater EcoGeek Elephant Larry's Group Blog Engadget Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories FirstShowing Futurismic Gawker GigaOM Gizmodo Go Fug Yourself Gothamist Gridskipper Improve Everywhere indexed Ironic Sans Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke Kotaku kottke.org Letters From A Tapehead
Lifehacker MAKE Blog Mashable! Micro Persuasion Mobilewhack NBA.com Gilbert Arenas Neatorama Newsarama NewTeeVee Oh No They Didn't! OhGizmo! Overheard in the Office Paleo-Future Parent Hacks Phone Scoop Pink Tentacle Pogue's Posts PostSecret Product Shop NYC Rob Galbraith Digital Photography Insights Robots-Dreams.com Sabernomics Sci Fi Tech Science Blog SEO Black Hat Shacknews Shiny Shiny Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books Starbucks Gossip stereogum strange maps Suicide Food Techcrunch The Bargainist The Beat The Comics Curmudgeon The Consumerist The Cool Hunter The Drudge Report The Huffington Post The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs The Sneeze The Truth About Cars TransportTrends TreeHugger TV in Japan Ubergizmo Uncrate Valleywag we make money not art Web Worker Daily Wonkette WorldChanging You Ain't No Picasso Zeldman

Source:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2195377,00.asp

PC Magazine Staffers' Blogs:
A Duck a Day AppScout Boozy McGuzzles Dvorak Uncensored Forward Thinking by Michael J. Miller Gearlog Gears and Widgets GoodCleanTech
PC Magazine Security Watch The Daily Cross Hatch What's New Now

And any interesting blog you know??? So tell me.

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News-Windows Server 2008 Line-up and Pricing

Windows Server 2008 Line-up and Pricing

Like Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 will be available in a multitude of product versions; eight to be precise, three of which include Hyper-V: Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 Datacenter.

Two versions offered without Hyper-V are targeted at specific workloads: Windows Web Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems.

To complete the product offering, Windows Server 2008 Standard, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 Datacenter will also be available without the Hyper-V technology.

All server versions will be available in 32-bit or 64-bit versions, with the exception of Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems, which will only be available as a 64-bit version. Other changes include the availability of Windows Web Server 2008, a 64-bit edition of Web server. The Hyper-V feature will only be available with 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008.

Pricing for all Windows Server 2008 products will be increasing by approximately 1 percent for all distribution channels. Estimated MSRP* are listed by each version below:
Windows Server 2008 Standard: $999 (with five Client Access Licenses, or CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise: $3,999 (with 25 CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter: $2,999 (per processor)
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems: $2,999 (per processor)
Windows Web Server 2008: $469
Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V: $971 (with five CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V: $3,971 (with 25 CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V: $2,971 (per processor)

For more Info visit

System Requirements for Windows Server 2008:

System Requirements:
ProcessorMinimum: Minimum: 1GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4GHz (x64 processor) Recommended: Recommended: 2GHz or faster
Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems.
Memory
Minimum: 512MB RAMRecommended: 2GB RAM or greaterOptimal: 2GB RAM (Full installation) or 1GB RAM (Server Core installation) or moreMaximum (32-bit systems): 4GB (Standard) or 64GB (Enterprise and Datacenter)Maximum (64-bit systems): 32GB (Standard) or 2TB (Enterprise, Datacenter and Itanium-based Systems)
Available Disk SpaceMinimum: 10GBRecommended: 40GB or greater
Note: Computers with more than 16GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files.
Drive
DVD-ROM drive
Display
Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher-resolution monitor.
Other
Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device.

Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1

This time-limited release of Windows Server® 2008 Release Candidate 1 will expire on June 30, 2008. After this time, you will need to uninstall the software or upgrade to a later release or a fully-licensed version of Windows Server® 2008. More Info...

Download Page:

Windows Server 2008 Standard RC1 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise RC1 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter RC1 (x86 and x64) (Page Error: Page not found)
Windows Web Server 2008 RC1 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems RC1

Direct Download Links:

Windows Server 2008 Standard RC1 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise RC1 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter RC1 (x86 and x64) **
Windows Web Server 2008 RC1 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems RC1 Link

This product requires a valid product key for activation within 30 days of installation. If you have received a product key via email confirmation, you may use the key with the software you download from this site or with a DVD containing Windows Server® 2008 Release Candidate.

Register to get the product key that extends your evaluation through June 30, 2008:
http://technet.microsoft.com/bb687945.aspx

** This version of Windows Server can’t be downloaded from Microsoft, because the problem in the download page. Microsoft web suite says the page doesn’t exist. If you want to use “Windows Server 2008 Datacenter” edition the download the RC0 version from below.

Windows Server 2008 Datacenter RC0 (x86 and x64).

Windows Server 2008 Product Description:Microsoft Windows Server 2008 helps IT professionals to increase the flexibility of their server infrastructure while offering developers a more robust Web and applications platform for building connected applications and services. Powerful new management tools and security enhancements offer more control over your servers and network and provide advanced protection for your applications and data.
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition: This edition of Windows Server 2008 provides key server functionality across most server roles and features. It includes both full and Server Core installation options.
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition: This edition builds on Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition to provide greater scalability and availability, and adds enterprise technologies such as failover clustering and Active Directory Federation Services.
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition: This edition offers the same functionality as Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with support for additional memory and processors, and unlimited virtual image use rights.
Windows Web Server 2008: This edition is designed specifically for use as a Web and applications server. Other server roles are not available in this edition.
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems: This edition is designed for use with Intel Itanium 64-bit processors to provide Web and applications server functionality on that platform. Other server roles and features may not be available.

*MSRP= Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price

The final release of Windows Server 2008 (RTM) is scheduled to launch in February 27 2008.

Article by: bcdalai

012- Review-Ashampoo Burning Studio 7

Ashampoo Burning Studio 7

New functions and improvements in version 7
Ashampoo Burning Studio 7 keeps the power and simplicity that made version 6 such a runaway success and adds several major new functions, including DVD video burning, modified copies and bootable discs. These are all functions that users of previous versions have asked for and they make a great program even better.

Have you ever wished you could pack more video onto a single DVD? Ashampoo Burning Studio 7 allows you to create DVDs with much more than the standard 120 minutes of video – just add all the files you need, the program automatically adjusts the compression and encoding quality to make it fit.

Modified Copies and Bootable Discs
Now you can include additional files in a copied disc without re-building the entire disc. The unique new Modified Copy function allows you to select additional files and folders that will be inserted into the copy on the fly when you burn the disc.
You can also make modified copies of bootable discs. This makes it much easier to create updated versions of bootable installation discs because you don’t have to go through all the steps of building the disc – everything you need, including the boot image, is already there. The Modified Copy function supports CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

Features at a glance:-
What’s new:

• Video: Burn Video DVDs directly from almost any video files
• Modified and Bootable Copies: Add additional files while copying discs, make modified copies of bootable discs
• MP3 Ripping: Rip audio CDs directly to MP3 as well as WMA or WAV
• Backup and Restore: Choose archive size, restore individual files
• Expert Functions: Create bootable discs from boot images, choose file system settings

Other functions:

• Burn files and folders to CD/DVD/Blu-ray and add files and folders to existing discs
• Multi-disc file backup and restore on CD/DVD/Blu-ray with compression and password protection
• Create VideoCDs and Super VideoCDs
• Rip music from audio CDs to MP3, WMA and WAV files
• Create audio CDs from WAV, MP3, FLAC, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files
• Create MP3 or WMA CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs or just copy music to CD, DVD or Blu-ray
• Copy CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs
• Create and burn disc images for CD, DVD and Blu-ray
• Quickly erase any rewritable media
• Store disc images larger than 2GB on FAT32 file systems
• Interactive troubleshooting assistant for solving hardware and media problems
• Save project files so that you can burn the same discs again later
• Integrated support for over 1,700 CD, DVD and Blu-ray burners

Ratings: 5 Star- CNet.com Review and 4 Star- Average User's Rating.

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Software Publishers: Ashampoo GmbH & Co. KG

Go to Download Page

Or

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Worlds-4th-Fastest-Supercomputer-from-India

World’s 4th fastest supercomputer from India

This article is collected from: Times Of India

India has ranked into the Top Ten in list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, becoming a global IT power.A cluster platform at Pune's Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a Tata subsidiary, has been ranked fourth in the widely anticipated Top 500 list released at an international conference on high performance computing in Reno, Nevada.

It is the first time that India has figured in the Top 100 let alone Top Ten of the supercomputing list. The list, which is usually dominated by the United States, is also notable this time because it has five new entrants in the Top Ten, with supercomputers in Germany and Sweden up there with the one in India.

The fourth-ranking Tata supercomputer, named EKA after the Sanskrit term for one, is a Hewlett-Packard Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c system. CRL has integrated this system with its own innovative routing technology and to achieve a 117.9 Teraflop or trillions of calculations per second.

The No. 1 position was again claimed by the BlueGene/L System, a joint development of IBM and the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and installed at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Although BlueGene/L has occupied the No. 1 position since November 2004, the current system is much faster at 478.2 TFop/s compared to 280.6 TFlop/s six months ago before its upgrade.

At No 2 is a BlueGene/P system installed in Germany at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) and it achieved performance of 167.3 TFlop/s. The No. 3 system at the New Mexico Computing
Applications Center (NMCAC) in Rio Rancho, N.M posted a speed of 126.9 TFlop/s.

Ashwin Nanda, who heads the CRL, told the conference that its supercomputer had been built with HP servers using Intel chips with a total of 14,240 processor cores. The system went operational last month and achieved a performance of 117.9 teraflops.

The system is slated for use in government scientific research and product development for Tata, as well as to provide services to US customers, Nanda said.

In a statement in India, the Tata Group said "EKA marks a milestone in the Tata group's effort to build an indigenous high performance computing solution."

CRL, it disclosed, built the supercomputer facility using dense data centre layout and novel network routing and parallel processing library technologies developed by its scientists.

While the US is clearly the leading consumer of high power computing systems with 284 of the 500 systems, Europe follows with 149 systems and Asia has 58 systems. In Asia, Japan leads with 20 systems, Taiwan has 11, China 10 and India 9.

The second ranked supercomputer in India, rated 58th in the Top500 list is at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Others are ranked 152, 158, 179, 336, 339,340 and 371.

Horst Simon, associate laboratory director, computing sciences, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, and one of the Top500 list authors, told Computerworld that it was exciting to see India's entrance into the Top 10 and because the country has "huge potential" as a supercomputing nation.

"India is very well known for having great software engineers and great mathematicians, and having a (HPC) center there is a catalyst for doing more in the high performance computing field," Simon told the industry publication, adding that it brings "a whole new set of players into the supercomputing world."

India has made steady progress in the field of supercomputing from the time it first bought two from the US pioneer Cray Research in 1988, at a time of a tough technology control regime. US strictures on the scope of its use and demand for intrusive monitoring and compliance led India to devise its own supercomputers using clusters of multiprocessors.

Supercomputers are typically used for highly calculation problem solving in quantum mechanical physics, molecular modeling, weather forecasting and climate research, and physical simulation including that of nuclear tests.

The term supercomputer is quite relative. It was first used in 1929 to refer to large custom-built tabulators IBM made for Columbia University. The supercomputers of the 1970s are today's desktops.

Courtesy:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2538928.cms

Article By: Chidanand Rajghatta

Collected by: bcdalai
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011-New- Real Player 11 Build6.0.14.738

RealPlayer 11 Build 6.0.14.738

Last updated on 29th March 2008.

The new version of RealPlayer is the all-in-one digital media player that lets you find anything and play everything. The new RealPlayer gives you the ability to download them all to your personal video playlist. Grab videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click. Watch them whenever you want and wherever you want. You can even burn your greatest hits to DVD. Find the Web video you want - and Real it in. Most major formats are supported, including Real, Windows Media, Flash, and QuickTime.

Features:
1- Innovative, single-click process to quickly download and save videos for later enjoyment.
2- Download multiple videos simultaneously with RealPlayer, allowing people to save time and easily multitask. Users can also start downloading in the middle of watching a video, and the entire video will be captured.
3- The new RealPlayer supports videos created in the most popular formats, including Flash, Windows Media, QuickTime, and Real.
4- Easily burn videos to CD (or to DVD, using RealPlayer Plus). The Video CD format used by RealPlayer can be played in most DVD players.
5- Send links of their favorite videos to your friends with a convenient "Share with a Friend" feature. The link that arrives in your friends' email will direct them to the online source of the video content their friend downloaded.
6- RealPlayer supports both downloading and recording for popular streaming format (Windows Media, Real, and QuickTime)
7- RealPlayer will only download/record video that is not protected by DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems.
8- RealPlayer features an improved look and feel, a streamlined installation process and faster video playback.
9- RealPlayer will first be released for Windows, and will work with both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Real plans a version for the Mac to be released later in the year.

Download RealPlayer 11 now:

Or http://software-dl.real.com/free/windows/installer/R41R02F/RealPlayer11GOLD.exe

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