World's Largest Photograph is 70 Gigapixels
How come these massive, record setting gigapixel images are always pictures of towns? Can’t we get gigapixel pictures of the beach or a beauty pageant?
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[H] Enthusiast Archives: July 2010Archive Listing
Most Google Services, Including Search, Blocked in China
It looks like Google’s strategy of knuckling under to China’s demand is working out well. Just kidding, almost all Google’s services are being blocked again.
Several of Google's Web services in mainland China were fully blocked on Thursday (PDT), including Web search, YouTube, Ads, and Blogger. Other services including Google Images, News, Docs and Groups remain "partially blocked," according to Google's Mainland China service availability chart.
80s Arcade Couch
I want this couch! You want this couch! Now all we have to do is wait until it moves from the concept stage to production and we’ll be all set. 
Join The [H] Folding Team!
This is our pre-weekend shout out to all of you out there that aren’t currently folding and could spare a bit of your PC’s resources to help a wonderful cause. Although [H]ardOCP has the #1 Folding team on the planet, we still need your help to stay there. Folding is easy, all you have to do is download and install the Folding@Home program, set your team number to TEAM #33 and you are all set.
If you still need help or have any questions, forum member "Xilikon" put all the Folding guides that a person could possibly need into one easy-to-find location. Hit the link, follow the directions and you’ll be up and folding in no time at all.
Facebook May Put Off IPO Until 2012
A new report, citing anonymous industry sources, claims that Facebook is postponing an initial public offering until at least 2012. I’m not sure how you can "put off" something that hasn’t seen announced before but there you have it.
This comes as no surprise as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has always been very careful on the subject. "At some point along the path, I think it’ll make sense to have an IPO. But we’re not running the company to do that. We’re running the company to serve more people," he said recently.
Redbox Launches Blu-ray Rentals
Redbox, the popular DVD rental kiosk provider, and wholly-owned subsidiary of Coinstar, Inc., today announced it has started rolling out Blu-ray™ titles with availability at approximately 13,300 kiosks nationwide. Redbox will rent Blu-ray Discs® at $1.50 per night plus tax and the company expects to have availability across its network of approximately 23,000 kiosk locations by the fall.
GIGABYTE On/Off Charge Works With iPhone 4
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions is proud to announce that GIGABYTE On/Off Charge technology also works on the iPhone 4. GIGABYTE first announced On/Off Charge in April this year by demonstrating how it speeds up iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch charging from a PC's USB port whether the PC is operational or shut down.
Thursday July 29, 2010
Quote of the Day
The funny quote of the day is brought to you by Steve Ballmer. Speaking to a group of financial analysts, Microsoft's CEO made this comment about iPad sales:
As for Apple and the iPad, Ballmer said, "they've sold certainly more than I'd like them to have sold."
[H]ardware Round-Up II
Cases & Modding
Lian Li PC-7FNWX Case (German) @ Hardware-Mag
Cooling
Gelid Solutions Tranquillo @ Overclockers Club
ETC.
PCPer Podcast #115 PC Perspective
ZFS Benchmarking On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux @ Phoronix
Memory/ Storage
RunCore Pro-V 200GB SSD @ LanOC
Vantec NexStar SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter @ OCIA
Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
I knew it! I knew it! Google is spying on us...in real time!
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine "goes beyond search" by "looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events."
Scientist Create Room Temperature Ice
Room temperature ice? The next thing you are going to tell me is that sex boosts brain growth! Whatever.
Researchers at Spain's Centre d'Investigació en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (CIN2) have studied the underlying mechanisms of water condensation in the troposphere and found a way to make artificial materials to control water condensation and trigger ice formation at room temperature.
Intel Wins Most Innovative Process Awards
Analyst firm, UBM TechInsights announced that Intel has won two of its top awards, including the Most Innovative Logic Process Award for the 32-nm Intel® Core™ processor and the Most Innovative Memory Process for the Intel-Micron Flash Technologies 25nm Manufacturing Process. The 25nm NAND flash memory was recognized as the most advanced process in terms of feature size and for breaking technology scaling barriers.