Acer’s green, biodegradable notebooks

The computer maker unveiled two new notebooks on Friday that have already received kudos from the international environmental group. The Acer Aspire 3811TZ and Aspire 3811TZG are designed to be energy efficient, recyclable, and biodegradable, thereby winning high marks from Greenpeace, which rates PCs and other electronics for their environmental friendliness.

As part of its green initiatives, Acer said it built the two new Aspires to be free of PVCs (polyvinyl chloride) and BFRs (brominated flame retardants).

PVC is a cheap but durable plastic that has been criticized by Greenpeace for not being biodegradable and for emitting toxic substances into the environment. BFRs are chemicals added to plastics to make them more flame resistance, but these have also been accused of leeching into the environment. Their use in products for babies and children has especially concerned many groups. With the exception of the power cables, all components for both Aspires are free of these toxins.

“The chemical characteristics of PVC and BFRs may generate toxic substances like dioxins and furans at products’ end-of-life, therefore, the reduction of PVC and BFRs in Acer products will help protect our environment from being poisoned by electronics goods,” Acer said in a statement.

The new Aspires are also designed to cut energy use–both models can save up to 40 percent of the energy consumption of traditional notebooks, providing more than 8 hours of battery life, said Acer. Further, the company designed the units to be easily recycled. With more modular parts than in traditional notebooks, users can also extend the life of the Apires by replacing certain components.

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Need For Speed-Shift Ost Soundtrack-2009

Genre…..: Soundtrack
Jakosc:…: 128-320 kbps 44 kHz
Year……: 2009
Format….: MP3
Size……: 96,76 MB
Playtime..: 01:42:38 min.

01. Buraka Som Sistema feat. Pongolove – Kalemba (Wegue-Wegue)
02. Chase And Status feat. Plan B – Pieces
03. Deadmau5 – Ghosts N Stuff
04. Eagles Of Death Metal – Anything ‘Cept the Truth
05. Fort Knox 5 feat. Asheru – Insight (The Nextmen Remix)
06. Gallows – I Dread The Night
07. In Case Of Fire – This Time We Stand
08. Jamal – Pull Up
09. Kanye West – Paranoid (Part 2)
10. Kasabian – Underdog
11. The King Blues – The Streets Are Ours
12. Mala Rodriguez – Te Convierto

13. Mando Diao – Mean Street
14. MSTRKRFT feat. E-40 – Click Click
15. N.A.S.A. feat. Spank Rock, MIA, Santigold and Nick Zinner – Whachadoin?
16. The Prodigy – Run With The Wolves
17. The Qemists feat Mike Patton – Lost Weekend
18. Regular John – Transmitter
19. Rootbeer – Under Control
20. Shinichi Osawa – Electro 411 (Lies In Disguise Mix)
21. Spoon Harris & Obernik – Baditude
22. TOKIO – Dogonim
23. Twisted Wheel – Oh, What Have You Done?
24. Two Fingers feat. Sway – High Life

Download Need For Speed: Shift Soundtrack

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Intel Unveils Fastest Laptop Chips Ever With the New Intel® Core™ i7 Mobile Processor

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Intel Unveils 45nm System-on-Chip for Internet TV

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 24, 2009 – Intel Corporation today unveiled the Intel® Atom™ processor CE4100, the newest System-on-Chip (SoC) in a family of media processors designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players and advanced set-top boxes.

The CE4100 processor, formerly codenamed "Sodaville," is the first 45nm-manufactured consumer electronics (CE) SoC based on Intel architecture. It supports Internet and broadcast applications on one chip, and has the processing power and audio/video components necessary to run rich media applications such as 3-D graphics.

"Traditional broadcast networks are quickly shifting from a linear model to a multi-stream, Internet-optimized model to offer consumers digital entertainment that complements the TV such as social networking, 3-D gaming and streaming video," said Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager, Intel Digital Home Group. "At the center of the TV evolution is the CE4100 media processor, a new architecture that meets the critical requirements for connected CE devices."

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Attach a USB drive to your network

Network Attached Storage (NAS) is cool. Cheap external USB drives are cool. Addonics makes it easy AND cheap for you to hook up an external USB drive to your network and get some cheap NAS.

I was in conflict, spend some pretty big bucks on a full blown NAS device or hang another USB drive off my computer and lug it around. I wasn’t big on the idea of springing for the money that a nice, big NAS was going to run but still, lugging around a USB drive and safely removing it didn’t appeal to me either.

Wow, wouldn’t it be great if I could just hook up a USB drive to the network, that’d solve all my problems. Unfortunately I can’t figure out how to make an RJ-45 network connector fit into a USB receptacle. Of course even if I could it wouldn’t work, two different "languages".

Then I ran into the "NAS Adapter" from Addonics which promises to add any USB storage device onto your LAN so I promptly got one ordered from Addonics. I didn’t pay too much attention to the size when I order it and when it arrived I wondered if something so small could actually "do" anything. After all, the actual NAS Adapter is smaller than the power adapter.

I plugged it in and ran the "discovery" program that immediately identified the device on my network. Logging into that IP address from my browser instantly brought up the administration panel. Set up was easy, I made some quick modifications to configure it to my network specifics; workgroup name, use DHCP, don’t be a DHCP server and the like. Ready to go I attached a drive.

Attaching the drive I found my first "gotcha"; the adapter really wants to format the drive. No, that’s wrong, it’s going to format the drive regardless. I was hoping to cheat and put some really big files on the drive while it was attached to a computer so they’d go faster but no way, the NAS adapter insists that it do the formatting which is did (and quickly as well). It formatted a 1Tb drive with FAT32 in less than a minute. After the drive was formatted by the NAS Adapter it could be removed from the NAS adapter and hooked directly to a PC USB port with access to all the files.

Another disk feature that bears mention is the ability to put the attached USB drive to sleep after a set period of time.

Once formatted the drive was immediately visible to my network. A couple of clicks later and I had ftp up and running which was a bit speedier since it bypassed the overhead of Windows networking. Both worked flawlessly. It couldn’t have been easier.

There were also three other features that bear mention.

There is a "Media Server" facility that apparently works with the X-box for photos, music and video. I don’t have an x-box so I couldn’t test it but I’m guessing this supplies the same facilities as XP-MCE and the Windows Home Server. Again just a guess.

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