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The Dell Inspiron 6400 is stylish and designed with flexibility in mind. The Inspiron 6400 uses Intel Core TM Duo processor or Intel Core TM 2 Duo processors. It also offers entertainment capacity and more useful for the mobility users. You can also use productivity applications and multimedia options. It also offers wireless connectivity using Wireless Card/Intel PRO. The Operating system used is Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic – English.

Inspiron 6400 is compact and slim with 15.4″ Widescreen aspect displays with 1280 x 800pixels of maximum resolution. It has shared graphics technology with new Intel Media Accelerator 950 which provides brilliant visual experience. It can handily control DVDs and Audio CDs by handling front access multimedia buttons. The laptop integrates with a 5-1 card reader which is fashionable Artic Silver and Alpine white design.

The Keyboard features with 88 alpha numeric keys and has a prissy track pad. It also has five LED’s and ON/OFF buttons behind the keyboard. It has 60GB hard disk space with 512 MB RAM and a minimum of 8MB for graphics. Serial ATA is the storage controller type of the hard drive.

This Dell Laptop extended with Wireless connectivity solutions and Video Graphics. Integrated with dual band antenna (80.11 a/b). The network connections with Intel Pro Wireless 3945 or Dell wireless 1500. In addition to this laptop an optional Bluetooth 2.0 wireless solution which is integrated with Dell Wireless 350. Video Graphics is structured with Intel Graphics media accelerator 950 up to 224 MB shared system memory. It has a fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11g data link protocol.

The laptop supports with double layer technology with DVD combo drive or CD – RW optical drives. There are software which includes spreadsheet, database, Project organiser and word processors. The system also has an express card slot which expanding features such as Memory Stick Card Slot, Memory Stick PRO, I/II PC Card Slot Card Slot, Express Card. The Expansion ports such as Fire wire (IEEE 1394), Standards S-Video Port and four built in USB 2.0 interfaces. It uses ITU V.92 Analog Modulation protocol.

Dell Inspiron 6400 – Notebook PC uses smart Lithium ion battery technology. It applies 65W AC adapter power supply. The laptop weighs 2.8 kg and measures 35.6 X 26.5 X 3.7 (WXDXH) in cms. It is supported with warranty for one year.

Some websites in UK offer Dell Computer Discounts with latest deals. You can find latest laptop reviews, best buys and buying guides in laptopreviews.org.uk.

SanDisk company have increased their list of products with new SDHC memory card which capacity is 8Gb. It will allow to user save up to 8000 photos with high resolution. The new Extreme III could save up to 16 hours MPEG-4 video. Cards reading and writing speed is 20 megabytes per second that will allow to get much faster photos saving time and you can faster upload them to your computer. Card’s rating class is 6, the highest that is available in analogs and it guarantees the data transfer speed not less that 6 megabytes per second. The memory card will cost about 200$ and it will be available to buy in November. And you also will get SanDisk MicroMat card reader with USB 2.0 connection.

Many appliances are working with AA type batteries. But most part of these batteries are not rechargeable. But rechargeable AA type batteries need a special charger. But now this situation will make better batteries that you can charge with your computer’s USB port.

This idea is really innovative to make a sensation in AA batteries market because compatibility with USB port makes it an unique – you can charge it plugging it any computer that have USB port and you will not need any special chargers.

One battery from USB fully charges in 4 hours. And can endure about 600 charging cycles. These batteries are compatible with all appliances that uses AA batteries.

You can but these batteries in package of two batteries. One this package costs only 7,51 USA dollars and i think it is very cheap price.

I have heard many complaints about windows vista operational system. Many don’t like that this operational system uses much resources of your computer and it need good computer’s components. And often people are gripes about windows vista price. But most part of people likes windows vista graphic interface. But now there is made Linux distributive that looks like windows vista – Vixta.

Like all Linux distributives Vixta is also for free. And this operational system doesn’t need so good computer as windows vista need.

This Linux distributive is supported by Sourceforge that is home for many opensource softwares. Vixta is comparatively small project. There is very little information about Linux Vixta but we now that it will be built on fedora base.

Looks that Linux Vixta author is A. Paulo Santos because he in forums talked about this the most active and he announced about appearance of Linux Vixta 094 version.

The homepage of Linux Vixta project informs that 095 version will be soon released. The new version target is to make free accessible, friendly for users, visually attractive, easy configurable and widespread distributive.

Microsoft have released patch with code „KB941649” which like said company makes better windows vista compatibility, stability and durability.

You have heard an opinion that users won’t use windows vista before the first service pack for windows vista won’t be released. Many of you definitely remembers windows xp first appearance with big amount of mistakes.

To make this fear lower Microsoft released new patch. It like a wonderful remedy corrects more that 10 windows vista mistakes.

Quote from Microsoft site:

• It extends the battery life for mobile devices.

• It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).

• It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a startup application.

• It improves the stability of Internet Explorer when you open a Web page.

• It improves the stability of wireless network services.

• It shortens the startup time of Windows Vista by using a better timing structure.

• It shortens the recovery time after Windows Vista experiences a period of inactivity.

• It shortens the recovery time when you try to exit the Photos screen saver.

• It improves the stability of Windows PowerShell.

I f you are using windows vista it is recommended to install this update via automatic update or download it here in Microsoft home page

Even if software that made Skype and Kazaa athors are still BETA version, now it is available to all people.

Joost 1.0 that is Beta version is available to Windows and Mac OS users. I think new versions of Joost will realised very soon, because of big downloads amount and new users count. Joost project was started at the beginning of the year.

Joost software you can download here: http://www.joost.com/download/

Microsoft have announced that Office 2008 for Mac will be available for users in January of next year. Overall there will be three office packages.

The first – “Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition” includes “Word”, “Excel”, “PowerPoint”, “Entourage” (multi functional mail client) and mostly will be for home users.

The second version will be simply “Office 2008 for Mac”, without “Home and Student Edition. Probably there will be available “Windows Exchange Server” (that is for professionals).

And lastly the third – “Special Media Edition” that also includes “Expression Media” that is for photos editing and organization.

Company Fuji Xerox in exposition in Tokyo presented a very interesting appliance that we can call photocopier/translator. The new appliance scans the document that is placed in this appliance and does its translate from Japanese to Chinese, Korean or English. Besides it is happening considering all text formating and other features. You can put in it a newspaper or a book and it will be translated. Basically this photocopier or multi functional appliance is connected with computer and the software in computer translates and formates the text. And you can translate the text in the other way round.

1. The nearest computer to North pole: Webcam #1
   USA National oceanography and meteorology government have placed computer very near to North pole to North from Norway. It is placed on iron platform that is placed on in the Arctic Ocean drifting peace of ice and every 14 days it sends 2048 x 1536 pixels photos with its coordinates. It takes power from battery under peace of ice. Web Camera: StarDot Technologies product NetCam XL.
2. The furthest computer from the Earth: space-ship Voyager 1
   This ship started its job 30 years ago. And already for a long time it is out of Solar System. And every day it moves away for 1,6 millions kilometers. Currently it is about 15,44 terametres far away from the sun. To communicate with the ship the orbital net Deep Space Network – an antenna in orbit around the Earth.
3. The most mysterious data center: Google
   The central Google’s data center is located in Oregon staff 128km from Portland. Power it takes from the near HES but for servers cooling there are two four-storey water towers. The count of engineers that maintains the data centre is unknown. But believes that there is about 100 to 200 people. And the total servers count is also unknown (in 25 google data centers are half million servers that total capacity is 25 PB). Center building is highly protected and there is very high privacy.
4. The biggest scientific dispersed computing project: E-sciencE II
   This calculator net started to work in in September of 2006 and it is available to scientists in all world. In net there are combined 36000 processors with total 5PB hard disks capacity (240 super computers and computing net in 45 countries). This computing net helps to do big experiments in physics, chemistry and other science sectors where for calculations big resources is needed. Every day it calculates about 98000 exercises so it is more than one million in a month.
5. The most powerful supercomputer: IBM BlueGene/L
   Dispersed computing system with 65536 two processors computers Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California that is 232 m2 big. It works for scientists experiments computing for example nuclear explosion simulations. The big cluster which capacity is 280,6 Tera flops consume 1,5 megawatts energy. This appliance would cost almost 100 million dollars.
6. The smallest computer with Windows Vista: OQO Model 02
   The miniature pocket computer have 1.5 GHz processor, 30Gb or 60Gb hard disk, maximum 1Gb RAM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections. Valuable keyboard with 57 buttons, mouse buttons etc. Battery allows to work with it 3 hours. Appliance costs one and a half thousand dollars.
7. The biggest impression on corporate software: Linux kernel
   Linux operating system that in 1991. year made Finn Linus Thorvald really endanger Windows hegemony. Linux kernel constructs 8,2 millions lines of code and every hour there are added about 85,36 lines. At the newest version’s producing took part 3200 producers. New versions come out every 2,6 months.

I don’t remember the day when I started to use Mozilla Firefox Internet browser. But since that day i’m using only mozilla firefox. I’m accustomed to mozilla firefox.

400 000 000!

This Internet browser from its first version, that was turned out in 9th November of 2004, was downloaded more that 400000000
times (four hundred millions). Although this don’t shows Mozilla firefox users count but we know that many people have favored Mozilla Firefox.

Firefox fans arranged campaigns.

Firefox is famous with its fans that in honour of their favorite Internet browser are organizing Take back the …” (one of firefox slogans is “Take back the web”) actions.

• Take back the sidewalk – action in honour of Firefox 50 millions downloads. Firefox fans makes big picture with Firefox logo.
• Take back the sky – action in honour of Firefox 100 millions downloads. This time firefox fans are fly a big air ballon with firefox logo on it.
• Take back the field – action in honour of Firefox 200 millions downloads. Browser fans in cornfield make big (diameter ~ 70 meters) Firefox logo.

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