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Hi, XSReviews have posted a new review. Whoopty has reviewed the *Cyber Snipa Stinger gaming mouse** **Title:* Cyber Snipa Stinger Review ( -at -) XSReviews *Review Link**:* http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/peripherals/cyber-snipa-stinger/ <http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/cpu-coolers/scythe-zipang/> *Small Thumbnail:* http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/images/thumbs/sting.jpg *Large Thumnail: *http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/images/thumbs/sting-l.jpg *Quote:* "While most of the gaming peripheral world is dominated by the big names like Razer and Logitech, there is a growing number of smaller companies that are bringing their own range of gaming products to the table. Cyber Snipa is one such name, and today I'll be testing their Stinger mouse. With adjustable DPI and weights, how will it fair against it's competitors? Let's see." *A news post on your site would be very much appreciated. We would also love you to add us to your news list, so if you are interested in us posting your news on our site, then please send all news to the email below! If you like our site and would like to swap links and become a site affiliate then please email us as well. RSS Feed: * <http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews>http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews'>http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews>http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews <http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews>* <http://feeds.xsreviews.co.uk/xsreviews-Our_reviews> *Thanks Jon "Whoopty" Martindale www.xsreviews.co.uk <http://www.xsreviews.co.uk>

Hi, It's Kristofer from DragonSteelMods, and I have a new review today that I think your readers might find interesting. Title: Otterbox 7030 Laptop Case Accessory Kit Review ( -at -) DragonSteelMods.com Review Link: http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7152&Itemid=38 Review Snipit: "I've got, in my opinion, the best laptop case on the market today, at least for protection of my laptop. The Otterbox 7030 Laptop Case protects my laptop from dust, dirt, water, shocks and even from being crushed but there isn't really any space to carry anything else with you but your laptop in the case, there are no pockets or anything like that. Recently Otterbox released an accessory kit for their 7030 Laptop Case, which allows you to now carry pens, pencils, business cards and documents easily inside your Otterbox 7030 laptop case. " Review Picture(200x150): http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/Images/reviews2/otterbox-access/otter-access10.jpg Main site link: http://www.dragonsteelmods.com A post in your news would be greatly appreciated. Any and all news sent to me will be posted! If you would like to be added to our 'News Feeds' page please feel free to send me your http link to the feed and I will gladly add it ASAP. If you'd like to swap links for affiliation, I'd be happy to, just drop me a message...

Hello Everyone, As many of you know, ATI has been particularly aggressive with their FireGL workstation graphics card lineup over the past six months. While their flagship R600-architecture was the basis for the solid (but ultimately underwhelming) Radeon HD2900XT for the gaming market, our tests have shown that this particular GPU architecture is much more competitive in the workstation market. While the R600 may not be the best choice for a high-end gaming rig, it is indeed a powerful chip for high-end OpenGL work, and as such, has led to a revival of sorts for ATI's FireGL lineup. With an excellent performing workstation GPU in tow, ATI finally took the steps to get their latest generation of FireGL cards out to the market fast - much faster than we've seen from them in the past. ATI now has a number of R600-based workstation products out on the market, and is competing quite well with NVIDIA in terms of both price and performance. ATI's cards generally offer nearly all the bang for the buck as the QuadroFX lineup, but ATI has some unique models as well which give them their own following of users. One of their newest models, the FireGL V8600 1GB, has finally hit the market. And this is the card we'll be looking at today... Article URL: http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/ATI_FireGL_V8600_1_GB Site: http://www.hothardware.com/ As always, a link in your news sections would be much appreciated! If you'd like us to return the favor, please don't hesitate to send your press

TechwareLabs has published a review of the AMD Phenom 9850 Quad Core CPU. Here's a clip from the review: Quote: AMD's release of the Phenom 9850 means an end to the TLB errata problem it also ushers in a new level of affordable quad core computing and gaming. Ruffy tests out the Phenom 9850 and manges to get it running at 3.1Ghz on air! We show you the performance of this affordable computing beast and give you our analysis on this new CPU. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/processors/amd_phenom_9850/ Title: AMD Phenom 9850 Quad Core CPU Review ( -at -) TechwareLabs Image: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/processors/amd_phenom_9850/images/CPU-Z_CPU3100MHz.jpg A news post would be greatly appreciated!

Title: In-Win B-2 Stealth Bomber Case Review ( -at -) HardwareLogic Quote: "While not a name often heard in the enthusiast market, In-Win has been in business for 22 years, focusing primarily on PC enclosures. In-Win mainly caters torward OEMs, but does have experience in the retail market. Previously we've examined three of their small form factor offerings, the Mt. Jade <http://hardwarelogic.com/news/135/ARTICLE/1310/2007-08-15.html>, the Alpha 360 <http://hardwarelogic.com/news/135/ARTICLE/1291/2007-01-28.html>, and the F430 <http://hardwarelogic.com/news/135/ARTICLE/1294/2006-02-06.html>." Link: http://hardwarelogic.com/news/135/ARTICLE/3162/2008-04-16.html

MoneyWell 1.3 Adds Scheduled Transactions and Multiple Currencies - Published on 04/16/08 No Thirst Software LLC is excited to announce the release of MoneyWell 1.3, its popular personal financial application for Mac OS X. MoneyWell gives users powerful personal finance organization and analysis tools in a simple, single-screen solution. Version 1.3 improves MoneyWell's "envelope-style" budgeting interface by adding scheduled transactions, multiple currencies, reports, exchange rates, and dozens of other enhancements. The Woodlands, Texas - April 16, 2008 - No Thirst Software LLC is excited to announce the release of MoneyWell 1.3, an important update to its incredibly popular personal financial application for Mac OS X. MoneyWell gives users powerful budget, cash flow, and analysis tools in a simple, single-screen solution. With this newest release, MoneyWell has simultaneously become more powerful and more international, with four new reports, scheduled transactions, and multiple currencies with user-defined exchange rates. In addition to the two dozen new features, much of the existing functionality has also been improved, including more detailed cash flow graph visuals, added intelligence to allocate income, and better duplicate matching on OFX and QIF imports. Additional Improvements: * Repeating transactions with Apple iCal ease of use * Drag and drop sequencing of accounts * New smart bucket to view last imported transactions * Reconcile improved with "smart date" technology * Income buckets can be grouped for income allocation * Context menus added for accounts, buckets, and transactions * Detailed graph column tool tips adding money flow and rollover values * Quick pick report filters by transaction date and active views * Ability to hide seldom used accounts and buckets * Many, many more visual and flow improvements Minimum Requirements: * Mac OS X Version 10.4 Tiger or higher * Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel * 6.9 MB Hard Drive space Pricing and Availability: MoneyWell 1.3 is a free upgrade for all 1.x users and is still available to new users at the introductory price of $39.99 USD through the No Thirst Software website. Users may download a free trial that is limited to 200 transactions and try MoneyWell before buying. In its first month on the market, there were more than 140,000 downloads of the MoneyWell trial. "This incredible immediate interest in MoneyWell shows that people are hungry for a better way to manage their finances," said Kevin Hoctor, president of No Thirst Software LLC, "Our response to this demand has been to quickly turn around new releases containing the top requested features as well as post video tutorials to teach users how to get the most out of MoneyWell." No Thirst Software: http://kevinhoctor.blogspot.com MoneyWell: http://nothirst.com/moneywell/ Download: http://nothirst.com/downloads/MoneyWell_1.3.zip Purchase: http://nothirst.com/moneywell/buynow.html Screenshot: http://nothirst.com/images/MoneyWell-Automobile.png MoneyWell Icon: http://nothirst.com/images/MoneyWell150.png Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, No Thirst Software LLC was founded by Kevin Hoctor in 2003. Its first product, Debt Quencher, was released in October, 2006 and has received rave reviews for its clean interface and functionality and has been a labeled a "Staff Pick" on the Apple downloads site. Within a week of its release, MoneyWell was also chosen as a "Staff Pick" and a featured product. Kevin has over 25 years experience as an entrepreneur developing software products for business and personal use on the Mac platform. Copyright 2003 - 2007 No Thirst Software LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. ### Kevin M Hoctor President 832-236-3592 kevin ( -at -) hoctor.com ******* *******

Hello, Please consider the following press release for inclusion on your site. Thank you very much! http://www.zenoss.com/news/archive/zenosspressrelease.2008-04-16.1700964817 Regards, Sharon Smith Marketing Assistant http://www.zenoss.com SugarCRM Manages End-to-End SaaS Offering with Zenoss Market Leading ISV Manages Networks, Servers and Applications with Open Source IT Management Solution ANNAPOLIS, MD, April 16, 2008 – Zenoss Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source network, systems and applications management software, today announced that SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, has deployed Zenoss for Service Providers to monitor and manage its end-to-end Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, including networks, servers and end-user application performance through synthetic transactions. “We evaluated the leading IT management solutions in the market and concluded that Zenoss offered the best combination of functionality, price and flexibility,” said Lila Tretikov, CIO of SugarCRM. “With Zenoss, we’re able to monitor and manage our entire hosted service offering through a single solution. Because it is commercial open source, it’s much more affordable than proprietary solutions and gives us the control to develop specific value-added capabilities for our customers.” SugarCRM delivers its CRM solutions to customers in several ways including SaaS, on-premise and appliance-based. Under its SaaS model, SugarCRM maintains instances of its application on networks and servers within enterprise-class data centers. Because its application is so important to the day-to-day operations of its customers, SugarCRM commits to high levels of application performance and uptime. In order to meet its service level agreements (SLAs) across a rapidly expanding customer base, SugarCRM selected Zenoss as its enterprise IT management solution. Zenoss proactively alerts SugarCRM IT management personnel of potential issues based upon performance trends or outages and helps them to isolate root causes via a consolidated event console. SugarCRM personnel then remediate issues, typically before customers experience any service impact. “We know first-hand the unique challenges service providers face,” said Bill Karpovich, Zenoss CEO and Co-Founder. “Zenoss for Service Providers is a new alternative that provides the right combination of functionality, flexibility and economics.” Organizations interested in learning more about Zenoss for Service Providers and/or getting a free trial of the product should visit http://www.zenoss.com/product/service-providers. About Zenoss, Inc. Zenoss Inc. delivers open source IT management solutions to organizations across the globe. Flagship product Zenoss Core is a complete network monitoring and systems management platform that discovers networked IT resources, monitors them for performance and availability, and tracks changes through a configuration management database (CMDB). One of the ten most active projects on SourceForge.Net, Zenoss software was downloaded over 350,000 times in 2007. Recent product accolades include Network World's Clear Choice Award, Enterprise Open Source Magazine Readers' Choice Award, and a nomination for Best Technical Design in the SourceForge 2007 Community Choice Awards. Zenoss' customers include some of the world's largest corporations as well as Federal and State government agencies. Zenoss, Inc. is privately held and headquartered in Annapolis, MD. For more information, please visit www.zenoss.com. Press Contact: SS|PR for Zenoss Tony Keller 719.634.8279 tkeller ( -at -) sspr.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

Jumsoft Releases Pages Clipart 2.0 for iWork - Published on 04/16/08 Jumsoft is pleased to announce the release of Pages Clipart 2.0 for Apple's Pages. Pages Clipart 2.0 includes 50 clipart illustrations from our previous version and extends your options to 50 more. Pages Clipart 2.0 allows you to make your ideas more attractive and noticeable for any occasion and on any topic: the academic world, communications, people, entertainment, the business world, and much more. Vilnius, Lithuania - Jumsoft is pleased to announce the release of Pages Clipart 2.0 for Apple's Pages. Pages Clipart 2.0 includes 50 clipart illustrations from our previous version and extends your options to 50 more. Pages Clipart 2.0 allows you to make your ideas more attractive and noticeable for any occasion and on any topic: the academic world, communications, people, entertainment, the business world, and much much more. All of our clipart backgrounds are transparent, so you can use them anywhere, on any colored or patterned background. Professionally drawn, these illustrations are appropriate for business and client documents. They are also great for virtually any situation, including school presentations, invitations, posters, websites, newsletters, e-greetings, labels, notices, reminders, and other occasions. Suitable graphics are difficult to find, so Jumsoft clipart includes something for everybody, from food and drinks to communication symbols and a lot more. All these clipart illustrations can also be resized effectively, without fear of sacrificing quality, because all Pages Clipart 2.0 images are in .pdf format. And, you can use this clipart in Apple Keynote, MS Word, Power Point, and other graphics programs. Three simple steps get you started - download, open, and insert them where you want them. Make your documents or presentations more colorful, more interesting, and more entertaining with Pages Clipart 2.0. System Requirements: * Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger and later * Apple iWork 06 or later Pricing and Availability: Pages Clipart 2.0 may be purchased for $39.00 USD. Customers may upgrade for free. Jumsoft: http://www.jumsoft.com/ Pages Clipart 2.0: http://www.jumsoft.com/clipart/ Purchase Pages Clipart: http://store.esellerate.net/jumsoft/clipart Pages Clipart 2.0 Samples: http://www.jumsoft.com/clipart/samples A dedicated group of Apple Macintosh experts launched Jumsoft in 2002 with the goal of creating and marketing exciting, easy-to-use and powerful applications for Mac OS X. Jumsoft most recently focused its attention on maximizing the potential of Apple's iWork, quickly becoming the leading provider of Keynote themes and objects. Copyright 2002-2008 Jumsoft. All Rights Reserved. Apple, Pages, the Apple logo, and the Pages logo are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. ### Algirdas Unguvaitis Owner 37065510612 algirdas ( -at -) jumsoft.com ******* Member wishes to have this product reviewed by the media *******

TechwareLabs has published coverage of Grand Island Computers's Plagiarism of several well known sites including ours . Here's a clip from the coverage: Quote: You might say Grand Island Who? And you would be right, they are no one, with no alexa, no links, and a guy named Shawn Sinner (I can't make up that Part) running it all. He owns a store, with no products, and a blog, with no readers. We still feel that our intellectual property has been stolen and would like the content removed. We would appreciate your support on this issue and have contacted the website owner who refuses to remove our content. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/community/showthread.php?t=15422 Title: Grand Island Computers Plagiarizes TechwareLabs, TechWorld, Engadget. Image: http://www.techwarelabs.com/images/grand-nothing-tn.jpg Please Digg our coverage: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Grand_Island_Computers_plagiarizes_TechwareLabs_com A news post would be greatly appreciated!

Hello, Please consider the following press release for inclusion on your site. Thank you very much! https://www.osscensus.org/4.16.08.php Regards, Sharon Smith Marketing Assistant http://www.pageonepr.com GLOBAL OPEN SOURCE CENSUS LAUNCHES TO COUNT ENTERPRISE USE OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OpenLogic, IDC, Open Source Organizations and Others Sponsor Industry- Wide, Collaborative Initiative BROOMFIELD, Colo. April 16, 2008— The Open Source Census, a new global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced its founding sponsors and launched the Census. With this announcement, companies and individuals are now able to anonymously submit data on their use of open source though The Open Source Census web site: www.osscensus.org. Participants in The Open Source Census will also gain access to reports that benchmark their open source usage. The Open Source Census is a project established by OpenLogic and a wide range of sponsors – including IDC; CollabNet; Holme, Roberts & Owen LLP; Navica; Olliance Group; Open Solutions Alliance; Open Source Business Foundation; O’Reilly Media; and Unisys - to provide improved data on how open source software is used in the enterprise. The Open Source Census also has enlisted advisors from the open source development community, including Jim Jagielski, Chairman of the Apache Foundation and Tony Wasserman, Director, Software Management Program at Carnegie Melon West. Goals of The Open Source Census The overarching goal of The Open Source Census is to paint an accurate portrait of open source usage in the enterprise. Until now, many enterprises did not know what open source software is installed on servers and desktops -- making traditional market research methodologies insufficient to identify what open source projects are gaining traction in the enterprise. Enterprises Can Benchmark Open Source Usage Yet the demand for this information is great, as enterprises struggle to sift through thousands of open source projects to determine what might work for them. Using OSS Discovery, an open source tool, enterprises or individuals can now scan any of their computers and contribute the scan results back into The Open Source Census database -- anonymously and free of charge. Once they have contributed scans, participants will have access to reports that summarize their own open source usage and provide comparisons to other similar companies. These reports will enable companies to benchmark their own open source usage and identify opportunities to leverage the benefits of more open source software. Aggregate Census Data Available on the Web Aggregate, anonymous data collected through The Open Source Census will be provided for free on a web site. This aggregate data will list the number of times each project has been installed on computers across all participating enterprises and individuals, enabling open source communities and developers to track usage of their projects. “IDC is pleased to be the industry analyst sponsor of the Open Source Census,” said Matt Lawton, Program Director, Open Source Software Business Strategies at IDC. “Open source software continues to grow in deployment, but until now the industry has relied on downloads or best guesses from enterprises as a rough measure of adoption. The Open Source Census will provide the industry with much more granular information about where downloads are being installed, enabling both customers and IT solution providers to better understand the true impact that open source software is having. IDC will be helping to ensure such data is interpreted consistently, as well as combining this information with other IDC research to present a more complete picture of open source adoption.” “We are thrilled to see so many other open source organizations and vendors both big and small, research and academic groups, and community leaders and members get behind The Open Source Census,” said Kim Weins, Senior Vice President of Marketing at OpenLogic. “To make The Open Source Census successful, requires this type of ongoing industry-wide cooperation. We are all excited to see The Open Source Census start counting enterprise open source installations, so we can then share these results and further enable adoption of open source in the enterprise.” Open Source Census Sponsors Sponsors include OpenLogic; IDC; CollabNet; Holme, Roberts & Owen LLPNavica; Olliance Group; Open Solutions Alliance; Open Source Business Foundation and O’Reilly Media. Serving as advisors to the Open Source Census are Jim Jagielski, Chairman of the Apache Foundation and Tony Wasserman, Director, Software Management Program at Carnegie Melon West. CollabNet "The acceptance and adoption of open source software has accelerated in the past 18 months, both in large enterprises and SMBs," said Martin Doettling, vice president of corporate marketing at CollabNet. "The Open Source Census project will not only generate valuable data about the actual usage of open source, it will also provide insight into the growing adoption of open-source development practices in the enterprise. The CollabNet platform, which hosts the OSS Discovery project and associated community, was designed to bring the benefits of open source development to the enterprise, enabling development organizations to drive innovation through open collaboration." Holme, Roberts & Owen LLP “Sound open source governance means making each use of open source software a knowing and compliant use. This process starts with understanding what open source software is installed and in use in your organization,” said Jason Haislmaier, a partner with the law firm of Holme Roberts & Owen LLP and the head of the firm’s Technology and Intellectual Property Transactions practice. “The Open Source Census will help businesses take the first step by uncovering what’s actually installed on their machines.” Jim Jagielski, advisor to the Census “As open source adoption continues to grow, so does the community that is so integral to its success,” said Jim Jagielski, Chairman of the Apache Software Foundation. “The Open Source Census will provide new, invaluable feedback that developers and community members can use to improve their projects.” Navica “The enterprises Navica works with all want to know what peer companies are doing with open source. In the past, there was only anecdotal evidence. With the Open Source Census, there is finally an objective resource to help companies understand how they can take more advantage of open source,” said Navica’s CEO Bernard Golden. Olliance Group "Today's launch of the Open Source Census is a big step forward in understanding how much open source software is being used in enterprises and in government today,," said Andrew Aitken, CEO of the Olliance Group. "We encourage enterprises to participate as there are many benefits in seeing how other similarly sized enterprises are deploying open source software." Open Solutions Alliance “As the home to some of today’s most successful commercial open source companies, the OSA is confident about the inroads that open source is making in the enterprise,” said Dominic Sartorio, president of the Open Solutions Alliance. “Since we’re in the mainstream phase of open source adoption, The Open Source Census will give us a better idea of what type of open source software is being used now.” Open Source Business Foundation "The spread of open source is pretty universal-we're a European network of companies, institutions and individuals concerned with the commercial use of open source software" said Frank P. Sempert of the Open Source Business Foundation. "So much of open source software code has originated in Europe - it will be great to see how much open source adoption has taken place." Unisys “We help our enterprise clients use open source technology to achieve their business goals,” said Anthony Gold, Vice President and General Manager of Open Source Business for Unisys Corporation. “Corporate users of open source will see value in data from The Open Source Census including being able to see what projects are being used by other corporations in their respective industry and geography. We hope this will lead to even greater adoption of open source technology since the data will illustrate the many applications of open source and in turn, its tangible benefits.” How The Open Source Census Works Using an open source tool created by OpenLogic called OSS Discovery, IT teams can automatically scan a sampling of machines to identify which open source packages and versions are installed. These scans gather completely anonymous data on which open source packages and versions are installed. Scan results can then be automatically submitted to a repository on The Open Source Census web site. Participants can review the actual results of the scans before they decide whether to submit the data. The Open Source Census member organizations can distribute OSS Discovery under a dual license – either the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or a commercial license. Each enterprise that contributes scans to The Open Source Census receives online access to a summary of their own open source usage, as well as comparisons to industry benchmarks, which can help enterprises uncover new opportunities to leverage the functionality, quality and cost savings associated with open source software. To contribute data to The Open Source Census, go to www.osscensus.org. About The Open Source Census: The Open Source Census is a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software in enterprise. Founded by OpenLogic, the Open Source Census has a number of sponsors including OpenLogic, IDC, The Open Source Census initiative has open source tools designed to scan individual enterprise computers for all installed open source software. The results of these scans can then be contributed anonymously to the Open Source Census, where the aggregate data is published. About OpenLogic: OpenLogic is a leading provider of open source solutions that enable enterprises to safely acquire, support, and control open source software. OpenLogic provides enterprises with a certified library of open source software that encompasses hundreds of the most popular open source packages via OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX), a free web site where companies can find, research, and download certified, enterprise- ready open source packages on demand. With the broadest open source coverage in the industry, OpenLogic offers indemnification; updates; and enterprise-grade technical support backed by the OpenLogic Expert Community. OpenLogic also provides solutions for open source governance and to automate the integration and deployment of open source components -- reducing the risk and maximizing the cost savings associated with using open source software. For more on OpenLogic, go to www.openlogic.com. ### Bret Clement Page One PR 303.462.3057 bret ( -at -) pageonepr.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

Today we have the Antec Mini P180. SNIP: design and construction, and today's examples are a nice departure from the vanilla rattle boxes of days gone by. Increased cooling capabilities, quieter operation, and style are just a few of the advances - and with these often come increased size and weight. Recognizing that many PC enthusiasts actually like to be able to move their systems, Antec has come up with a smaller, more portable case with this in mind. Enter the Mini P180 Advanced Super Mini Tower - the newest member of the Antec Performance One series of cases. http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1246 A post on your site would be great if you can. Thank you, Scott -----------------------------------------

Hi all, We have just published a review of *Thermaltake's Toughpower 1500W power supply* - if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated. *Link:* http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/04/16/thermaltake_toughpower_1500w_w0171_psu/1 *Picture:* http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/04/thermaltake_toughpower_1500w_w0171_psu/fp_img.jpg *Quote: */"It's difficult to ascertain the value and the worth of 1,500W -- while Thermaltake makes the only one worth buying for far less than the very few competitors sell for, the value of 1,500W is certainly questionable. Even if we wanted to kit out the baddest rig under the sun, we'd still opt for other units on the market. After all, if you think you need one you're already splashing out several grand for the best hardware on the planet, so at least complement it with something that's as super high end."/ * *Cheers guys! Tim Smalley www.bit-tech.net

Hi everyone! There can be little doubt without even running the usual gamut of benchmarks that NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GX2 is the fastest single card graphics solution on the market right now, but is it worth the £400 it currently retails for in the UK? Not only have we taken a look at XFX's reference-based GeForce 9800 GX2 part, but we've also investigated the performance on offer from what could easily be considered an enthusiast's dream solution - An XFX nForce 790i Ultra SLI coupled with two GeForce 9800 GX2 boards in Quad SLI. XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB and Quad SLI review "Each of these G92 cores has its full complement of 128 Stream Processors available to it, giving the GeForce 9800 GX2 as a whole a total of 256 Stream Processors. These shader units are clocked at 1.5GHz in their own clock domain, while the core clock itself (affecting dispatch and texturing units together with the ROPs on-board) is set to 600MHz. Each core also has a full complement of ROPs, meaning sixteen on each core (giving thirty-two in total) and sixty-four each of texture filtering and addressing units (for 128 of each in total on the board). This choice of specification means that although each core on the GeForce 9800 GX2 matches those on a GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB in terms of shader, texturing and ROPs units, it finds itself with lower clock speeds than the 650MHz and 1.625GHz core and shader clocks on the latter." http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=561&Itemid=27 As always, a news post on your site would be hugely welcome, and we guarantee to reciprocate by posting any news items received from yourselves. Many thanks! Regards, Hanners Elite Bastards ------------------------------------- Elite Bastards News Letter www.elitebastards.com

We PC enthusiasts have been co-opting enterprise-class hardware for our own personal systems for years now. We got our first taste of the creamy smoothness of SMP on dual-socket workstation boards long before you could get two cores conveniently packaged on the same chip. Tempted by lightning-fast access times and 10K-RPM spindle speeds, we adopted Western Digital's Raptor hard drive. And who can forget AMD's Toledo-based dual-core Opterons—overclocking marvels compatible with the same 939-pin socket as Athlon 64 X2 desktop chips. I've had what was a relatively inexpensive Opteron 165 designed to run at 1.8GHz happily chugging away at 2.4GHz on a standard desktop motherboard for a couple of years now. Although they share the same architecture and performance characteristics as their desktop counterparts, server and workstation processors like the Opteron typically undergo additional validation testing and run at lower operating voltages. In a sense, chips that make the grade for the enterprise world are the best of the breed. That doesn't guarantee overclocking success, but it at least hints at untapped potential. When that potential plugs into a standard desktop motherboard loaded with overclocking options, we just can't resist. It's no wonder, then, that Intel's Xeon X3320 caught my eye recently. This LGA775 chip features a 45nm Yorkfield core running at 2.5GHz with 6MB of L2 cache, making it the Xeon equivalent of the Core 2 Quad Q9300. What's more, while the Q9300 has been in short supply of late, the X3320 has been more consistently available at roughly the same price. Few things make us happier than forcing normally conservative enterprise-class hardware to jump through flaming enthusiast hoops, so we scored an off-the-shelf Xeon X3320 retail box from the folks at NCIX to see what kind of overclocking headroom we could find. Read on for the surprising results. http://techreport.com/articles.x/14555 Thanks, Geoff --- Geoff Gasior The Tech Report http://techreport.com -- To unsubscribe from: TR-News, just follow this link:

Popular Photoshop Webpage Creation Plug-in Ready for Mac OS X Leopard - Published on 04/16/08 Premier provider of webpage creation technologies, Media Lab, Inc., today announced the full compatibility of its award-winning product, SiteGrinder 2, with Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. A powerful and easy-to-use plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, SiteGrinder 2 effortlessly lets users convert their Photoshop designs into CSS-rich, standards-compliant webpages from within Photoshop with just a click of the mouse. Longmont, CO - Premier provider of world-class webpage creation technologies, Media Lab, Inc., today announced the full compatibility of its award-winning product, SiteGrinder 2, with Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. A powerful and easy-to-use plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, SiteGrinder 2 effortlessly lets users convert their Photoshop designs into CSS-rich, standards-compliant webpages from within Photoshop with just a click of the mouse. Moreover, SiteGrinder 2 does it all without the user having to write a single line of code. SiteGrinder 2 provides all the tools a professional graphics designer, photographer, or web engineer needs to generate superior, compelling interactive web experiences, including the ability to build automated photo galleries, Flash slideshows, CSS-driven menus, and much more. Best of all, pages generated by SiteGrinder 2 retain the exact look and layout of the parent Photoshop file from which they were created. "We're very excited to be releasing SiteGrinder 2 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard," said Thomas Summerall, co-founder and President of Media Lab, Inc. "SiteGrinder 2 puts extremely powerful and easy-to-use webpage creation capabilities in the hands of our customers, letting them focus exclusively on their designs rather than on confusing webpage code. SiteGrinder 2 lets customers take ownership of their websites like never before, and at an extremely reasonable price point." Priced at $349.00 USD for SiteGrinder 2 Pro and $129.00 USD for SiteGrinder 2 Basic, both are available directly from the Media Lab website. SiteGrinder 2 for Mac OS X is Universal and requires Mac OS X 10.1 or greater. Also required is Adobe Photoshop 7 or greater, including Adobe Photoshop CS3 on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs (Mac OS X 10.5 or greater required for use on Intel-based Macs). SiteGrinder 2 is also compatible with Photoshop Elements 3 or greater. Visit the Media Lab website for complete details and to download SiteGrinder 2, as well as other popular Media Lab products. Media Lab Website: http://www.medialab.com SiteGrinder 2 Information: http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/ SiteGrinder 2 Download Link: http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/downloadthedemo.html SiteGrinder 2 Purchase Link: http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/ For over a decade, Longmont, CO-based Media Lab, Inc. has specialized in creating tools that bring Photoshop designs to life as compelling webpages and Macromedia Director and Flash movies. Media Lab's award-winning webpage generation tool, SiteGrinder 2, has enjoyed an array of favorable reviews and accolades since its April 2000 debut under the then name of PhotoWebber. Moreover, the company's innovative multimedia design tools, PhotoCaster, PSD2FLA, and AlphaMania, were used to create pioneering special effects seen at Disney World's EPCOT Center in Florida, as well as in numerous popular music videos and motion pictures, such as "X-Men 2", "Spiderman 2", "Air Force One", and "Armageddon". For complete information on Media Lab and its products, visit their website. ### Ed Prasek Founder and CEO, Spin Studio LLC (for Media Lab, Inc.) 408-839-6737 eprasek ( -at -) spin-studio.com ******* Member wishes to have this product reviewed by the media *******

Hello Webmasters and News Posters, NEW CONTENT (Visual) - ASUS EN9800 GTX 512MB Graphics Card QUOTE: "While the 9800 GTX might not be the revolutionary jump that we had hoped for, it’s still a very good card for someone looking at buying a new graphics card with this kind of budget. The first retail 9800 GTX we’re going to look at comes from ASUS and doesn’t carry with it any extra acronyms such as TOP. With the 9800 GTX in hand we took the time to see how it goes up against other high-end retail cards like the HD 3870 X2 from ASUS and the 9800 GX2 from Zotac. While Dual GPU cards are good in theory, if the application isn’t able to make full use of the power then high-end single core cards can outperform them. Let’s find out how the 9800 GTX goes against these Dual GPU wielding cards." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1389/asus_en9800_gtx_512mb_graphics_card/index.html Best Regards, The TweakTown Team http://www.tweaktown.com

Hello Technology News Community, I4U NEWS reviews the ASUS EN9600GT Top Video Card. Quote from the review: "Today we are checking out another overclocked 9600 GT. This card is the ASUS EN9600GT Top. ASUS promises a 10% overclock right out of the box and provides applications to let you overclock even more. The only real sore point for me with the ASUS EN9600GT Top is that the custom heatsink makes the card very thick. You can still run the ASUS EN9600GT Top in SLI mode, but you are likely going to give up the slot right below where you put the ASUS EN9600GT Top." Full Review: http://www.i4u.com/full-review-413.html Photo: http://www.i4u.com/images/2007/en9600gttop-stock.jpg Homepage Link: http://www.i4u.com We would very much appreciate if you post this news story/review on your site. As always I4U News is open to cross-post your technology stories. Please visit http://www.i4u.com for more stories. As long as you provide credits and links to the original story on I4U News we appreciate any cross-posting of our content. If you don't want to receive review and news submissions from I4U News please just reply to this email indicating that or use the unsubscribe link below. We appreciate giving us a chance to inform you about our latest reviews and please apologize if this email reaches you in error or does not meet your interest. best regards, Chief Editor Luigi Lugmayr :: I4U Technology News Network :: http://www.i4u.com - Technology News http://shop.i4u.com - I4U Shop http://pricewatch.i4u.com - Shopping Guide http://www.wristdreams.com - Technology Wrist Watches :::

A news post would be great. OCC has published a new review of the ECS GeForce 8800 GT Here is a quote from the review: Quote: "I have to be honest, I went into this review with high hopes but very concerned whether or not the lower memory clockspeed was going to affect performance, and the fact that the firmware needed to be flashed in order to reach 512MB. I was wondering where the other 256MB would come from; was it on the card or used as shared memory from the system? All sorts of things were going through my mind, but no matter what, as a reviewer you have to maintain the objectivity with any product you go into testing. So I started on it looking back and forth between the ECS 8800 GT and other 8800 GTs. I started to notice little things during the review, like the memory on the ECS board was the same brand as the ones on the ASUS card and that there were the same number of chips. So I started to think if it is so alike physically, then it should perform close to the same. Boy was I surprised! At 256MB, the card was behind, but that was expected for half of the memory buffer as the 512MB cards, but man, after that update the decrease in the memory clock did not seem to be that big of a deal." Title: ECS GeForce 8800 GT Review Link: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/ecs_8800gt/ Img: http://www.overclockersclub.com/siteimages/articles/ecs_8800gt/8_thumb.jpg

Hello, OCIA.net has posted their review of the Sanyo Xacti CG6 Digital Camcorder. Below is a direct quote from the review: "The size of the CG6 is perfect. It is small enough to fit into a purse or pocket, yet large enough that you don't feel like you are going to break or drop it during use. The camera uses a pistol-grip style which works perfectly for both left and right-handed users. The fact that the camera is so small also means it is extremely lightweight." Direct Link: http://www.ocia.net/reviews/xacticg6/page1.shtml Image Link: http://www.ocia.net/images/icons/279.jpg Site Link: http://www.ocia.net A news posting on your site would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your support! Thanks, OCIA.net Staff http://www.ocia.net

Hi all, When Creative publicly called ASUS out a few weeks ago over their fake EAX support, we had an idea to compare both true EAX along with the DS3D GX 2.0 engine from ASUS to see if real-world differences could be heard. So we picked up three Creative-recommend games and did just that. Though true EAX ultimately came out on top, the GX 2.0 performed so well, that Creative now has a true reason to become worried. Title: Creative EAX vs. ASUS DS3D GX 2.0 ( -at -) Techgage Link: http://techgage.com/article/creative_eax_vs_asus_ds3d_gx_20/ Quote: Not long ago, we received word from ASUS that they had managed to incorporate EAX effects into the drivers of their Xonar cards. Soon afterward, Creative told everyone that was false, and that ASUS "EAX" was not true EAX. Who's telling the straight story, and will you even notice a difference?

When thoughts combine, big ideas are created. Microsoft Office Live Workspace makes it possible to collaborate with coworkers and friends because you can: Access documents online no matter where you’re working. Share documents with others. Open and save files directly from Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint when you download the Office Live Add-In. Synchronize contact, task, and event lists with Microsoft Office Outlook software. Create something amazing in Microsoft Office Live Workspace. Sign up today <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8719922> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8719912 ====================================================================== If you would prefer to receive the HTML version of this newsletter, reply to this e-mail message, type HTML in the subject line, and click Send. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to legal residents of 50 U.S. (includes DC) 18+. Sweepstakes ends May 11, 2008. See the Official Rules <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8719921>. To stop receiving communications of this type, reply to this message with the work UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. You can also revise your contact preferences online. Legal Information Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, MSDN, the Office logo, and Visual Studio are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 ( -at -) DreamWare Computers Quote: "Although it's been popular on Mac's for quite some time, Bluetooth is something that is finally starting to make a very slow introduction into mainstream PC computing. With more bluetooth keyboard and mouse sets becoming available, end-users are finally starting to see the advantages that this platform has to offer. At the same time, many bluetooth peripherals and cell phones are helping to bring the bluetooth platform into a mainstream limelight as well. Today we're taking a look at a notebook mouse from Microsoft, the Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000; a compact and sporty looking bluetooth mouse for your laptop." Link: http://www.dreamwarecomputers.com/reviews_2008/microsoft_notebookbluetooth5000/index.htm Thanks for the post, -- ------------------ Steve Blackwell Founder, www.dreamwarecomputers.com steve ( -at -) dreamwarecomputers.com ------------------

Good day, Today Neoseeker launched our new video sub-section, aptly named 'Neoseeker Videos.' It can be accessed here: http://videos.neoseeker.com/ If any members of the gaming public, or hardware reviewers, need a place to host a video, Neoseeker can help out! We support all sorts of video upload formats -- you can upload wmv, avi, mpeg, quicktime, flash videos, and more, and then embed the videos for your own use on your blogs and sites. The playback quality of our videos is superior to many video hosting websites, and are offered at a 640x480 resolution. Thanks for your time, Neoseeker

NVIDIA Hybrid SLI Interview at NVNews. Review Link: http://www.nvnews.net/articles/hybrid_sli_interview/index.shtml Review Quote: "We have posted an interview with NVIDIA's Director of Technical Marketing Tom Peterson concerning their exciting new Hybrid SLI Technology. Although this question and answer session only skims the surface of Hybrid SLI, it does serve as general introduction to the technology and is supplemented with visual aids." A news post would be appreciated. Cheers, Mike Chambers NVNews.Net

Papers 1.8, an update to your personal library of science - Published on 04/15/08 Mekentosj BV is pleased to announce the availability of Papers 1.8, the award-winning application that helps scientists on the Mac manage their personal library of scientific articles. Among the more than 70 improvements, Papers 1.8 brings additional built-in support for some of the most popular online article repositories, automatic detection of metadata in websites and PDF files, and full localisation in French and German. Aalsmeer, Netherlands - Mekentosj BV is pleased to announce the availability of Papers 1.8, the award-winning application that helps scientists on the Mac manage their personal library of scientific articles. Among the more than 70 improvements, Papers 1.8 brings additional built-in support for some of the most popular online article repositories, automatic detection of metadata in websites and PDF files, and full localisation in French and German. With Papers 1.8 mek and tosj continue to expand the number of online article repositories that scientists can directly search from within their Apple Design Award winning program. Papers now includes an official plugin for the popular interdisciplinary archive JSTOR. It also comes with an official plugin for Scopus, Elsevier's high quality scientific webresource. Both plugins were developed in a close collaboration with the people behind the repositories. Together these new plugins open up Papers to an even larger group of researchers on the Mac, from alpha to beta and gamma scientists, including those studying arts, language, politics, music, and economics. Another exciting new feature in Papers 1.8 is the automatic detection of article metadata in both journal publisher websites and PDFs files. In a collaboration with Crossref Papers will now recognise DOIs (digital object identifiers) while the user is browsing the internet or importing a PDF file, and transparently retrieves associated metadata like author names, article title, publication date and more. This makes it even easier to manage, organize and search your personal library of science. Finally, we are very pleased to announce that Papers 1.8 has been completely overhauled to support multiple languages, and now comes fully localized in French and German. And we hope to bring a number of additional languages in the near future. Papers Features: * easily and elegantly organize and manage your entire library of scientific PDF files * built-in support for searching online article repositories * built-in webbrowser for browsing publisher websites * automatic downloading and archiving of PDF files * tabbed and fullscreen reading of your PDF files * razor fast spotlight searching of your entire library * and much more... Papers has built-in support for the following online repositories: * ACM portal - Computer science * NASA-ADS - Astronomy * arXiv - Preprint repository * Citeseer - Computer Science * Google Books * Google Scholar * IEEE Xplore - Engineering * JSTOR - Social sciences NEW * MathSciNet - Mathematics * Project Muse - Social sciences * PubMed - Biomedical sciences * Scopus - All sciences NEW * Web of Science - All sciences Minimum Requirements: * Mac OS X Version 10.4 or higher * Universal Binary for PowerPC & Intel * 1.5 Ghz or faster G4, G5 or Intel Processor Pricing and Availability: Papers is priced at $42 USD for a single-user license. (Under)graduate students can apply for a 40% discount. A 30-day trial is available. Mekentosj BV: http://mekentosj.com Papers 1.8: http://mekentosj.com/papers Direct Download Link: http://mekentosj.com/papers/papers.dmg Purchase Link: http://store.esellerate.net/mekentosj/papers/ Screenshot: http://mekentosj.com/papers/images/screenshot.jpg App Icon: http://mekentosj.com/papers/images/papers_300_pixels.jpg Alexander Griekspoor is an independent software developer who writes innovative software for scientists. After a PhD in Cell Biology he switched fields and joined the European Bioinformatics institute as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. Alexander is perhaps most well-known as "Mek" from the duo "Mekentosj". Together with his friend Tom "Tosj" Groothuis he developed a number of scientific Mac applications, two of which won Apple Design Awards for best Best Student and Best scientific Mac OS X application, respectively. What started in his spare time became his passion and has now also become his work: mekentosj Inc. He aims to create new and innovative Mac OS X applications for scientists, of which his recently released new program Papers is a prime example, it recently won Alexander's third Apple Design Award. ### Alexander Griekspoor PhD 00441223242475 mek ( -at -) mekentosj.com ******* Member wishes to have this product reviewed by the media *******