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Posted by on May 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
While many Web savvy folks today run Firefox or Google’s Chrome browser, that doesn’t mean that Microsoft’s Net Explorer is dead. The software giant has just released another platform preview of Web Explorer 9 (IE9) in the design of IE9 Preview 2 and that latest incarnation scores 68 out of 100 on the Acid3 pop [...]
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Posted by on April 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Adobe has just released Gala, the first version of Flash for the Mac that supports GPU-based hardware acceleration, taking advantage of OS X 10.6.3’s hardware video decoding API, pushing the task of decoding H.264 videos to the graphics chipset rather than the main processor, easing the strain on the system and helping to preserve battery [...]
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Posted by on April 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Just when you thought that Apple and Adobe could not get along, we have word from a discovered technical document that points toward a new Video Decode Acceleration framework within Mac OS X 10.6.3. In layman’s terms, that framework will offer developers with low-level access to the following GPUs – NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M [...]
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Posted by on April 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
While graphics cards aren’t the first thing you think about for computers that don’t focus on gaming or media playback, it might become more relevant to the casual Net surfer in the future. Mozilla is currently busy working on coming up with a new Direct2D feature for Firefox, which would offer the popular browser hardware [...]
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Posted by on March 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Zotac is first off the blocks to offer an ION upgrade kit from NVIDIA, where it comprises of a tiny profile factor motherboard alongside a Zotac ION graphics card with 512MB of DDR3 RAM, 16 shaders as well as DirectX 10.1 support. You won’t find the ION upgrade kit to be lost in any way [...]
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Posted by on January 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Hmmm, chipsets are getting more and more complicated by the day, and InvenSense’s offering is no different with their MPU-3000 that is touted to be the first motion processing unit in the world. It comes with an integrated digital 3-axis gyro as well as digital motion processor hardware acceleration engine, basically allowing smartphones and other [...]
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Posted by on December 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Boxee has made its new user interface design official and it does look very good. From what we can see, it looks well thought-out as well. The global menu leads you quickly to the most accessed features and the social aspect (recommendations and so on…) is very readable on the left. The other critical element, [...]
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