Samsung’s Galaxy S phones already pack Hummingbird, one of the fastest mobile processors around. But their upcoming Orion dual-core ARM Cortex A9 makes it seem positively terrestrial. Among the capabilities Samsung is touting in their next-generation mobile processors: 1080p recording, 30fps playback, and five times the 3D graphics performance of Hummingbird—which was already more than capable. [...]

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Now this is interesting. Nexus One just got a ROM leaked out which is said to be a new update after the FRF91 Froyo update from Google – Nexus One FRG33. This is now available for download, thanks to the folks at XDA forums. There is no changelog present at the moment on the FRG33 build, but I think I’ll load up this ROM on my Nexus One and see for myself what new changes have been made in this [...]

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Google Voice widget has been updated to a newer version, which h as not yet been available to anyone from the Android Market. The lucky T-Mobile G2 users will be getting their hands on it first – not really. Google Voice 0.4.1.19 with widget support has been extracted from the T-Mobile G2 ROM and is now available for everyone to download and give it a try. You can download this new Google Voice [...]

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Windows 7 is a great operating system, but it’s not yet fantastic. Like us, you’ll probably have come up against some of its most irritating shortcomings in the time since you installed it on your PC. Icons are missing, utilities have been dropped and functionality has been reduced in some areas. Certain tools are still as hopeless as they were in Vista, and other long-term Windows [...]

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Courtesy of [H]ardOCP we have been provided with a set of tests with thermal paste. Test setup -Qx9650 -Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme Asus Maximus Forumla 1Gig Corsair XMS2 Geforce 9500 GT 80Gig IDE HDD XP SP3 Stress program -Prime95 Temp monitoring -Sperry Digital 4 Point thermometer attached to the CPU The first thing you will notice is that some cheese has been added into the mix. Why use cheese? [...]

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With anti-piracy outfits and dubious law-firms policing BitTorrent swarms at an increasing rate, many Bittorrent users are looking for ways to hide their identities from the outside world. Here’s an overview of five widely used privacy services. The services discussed in this post range from totally free to costing several dollars a month. The general rule is that free services are generally [...]

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With the release iOS 4 for iPhone and iPod touch, a lot of new features were introduced. Sadly, while these features didn’t make it to iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G because of their low hardware specs, iOS 4 slowed down these devices terribly. These devices performed much better and faster with iOS 3.x installed. Last month Apple has mentioned that the company is looking into the problems that [...]

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Computerworld is reporting that the second iteration of the WiMax 4G technology — known as WiMax 2 or 802.16m — is ready to be finalized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) this November. After approval, the WiMax 2 Forum hopes to see WiMax 2 handsets in the marketplace by the end of 2012. Mohammad Shakouri, the VP of the WiMax Forum, has said that the goal is [...]

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Maya and 3D Max both tools are powerful for 3D modeling, animation, texturing, rendering and visual effects software. These software were developed for the film industry and is now being used for design, visual effects, games, film, animation, visualization and simulation. In this article we present for you a Ultimate Collection of Maya and 3D Max Tutorials and Best Practices for your creativity. Joker Making [...]

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We’ve already heard how some are now disappointed in their iPad screen after using an iPhone 4, but judging by the Samsung Galaxy Tab’s rumored specs, leaked in a firmware release, it could be the same story here. The 7-inch tablet may be a few inches smaller than the iPad, but with a purported resolution of 480 x 800 it will look ghastly next to the 4-inch Galaxy S smartphone it’s [...]

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