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Samsung jumps onto the green bandwagon with its Blue Earth cell phone, equipped with a solar panel on the back that will charge up any time you're out in the sunshine. It is Samsung’s vision for environmental sustainability under the slogan: “The Blue Earth Dream: Eco-living with Samsung mobile”.


Blue Earth is the first solar powered touchscreen phone. It is made from recycled plastic called PCM, which is extracted from water bottles, helping to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions in the manufacturing process. The Samsung Blue Earth handset, including cell phone charger, is free from harmful substances such as Brominated Flame Retardants, Beryllium and Phthalate. The packaging for Samsung Blue Earth phone is designed to be both small and light, made from recycled paper, and comes with a 5 star energy efficient charger which uses standby power lower than 0.03W. As part of the Voluntary Agreement of European Commission IPP (Integrated Product Policy) pilot program, Samsung has agreed to start using rating on energy consumption on the no-load mode of the mobile phone charger.

Watch this YouTube video on how Team Finland made an amazing overclock and set a world record for a 3DMark06 score on a Phenom II X4 using Liquid Nitrogen.

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If your videocard is DirectX9 certified and Windows Aero is activated you’ll notice the new transparency look. Normally in Windows Vista, the transparency only lasts until you maximize a window. VistaGlazz ensures transparency, even when your windows are maximized.

For those who own AMD X2's, this download is for you.

The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.

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The letter "i" is very popular these days. It's popular in the tech industry - iPod, iTunes, iPhoto and now introducing i7. :)

Intel unveiled its new Core processor brand, previously codenamed "Nehalem", it will be called Core i7 now.

i7 “does not have any deeper meaning”, according to Intel representatives, is the successor of the Core 2 Duo.



"The Core name is and will be our flagship PC processor brand going forward," said Sean Maloney, Intel Corporation executive vice president and general manager, sales and marketing group. "Expect Intel to focus even more marketing resources around that name and the Core i7 products starting now."

The new architecture will initially be available in quad-versions only.

Lara Croft is a fictional character and the protagonist of Eidos Interactive's Tomb Raider video game series. Designed by Toby Gard, she has also been featured in movies in which she was portrayed by Angelina Jolie.

Initially, designer Toby Gard focused on creating the settings for Tomb Raider and the main character was essentially an Indiana Jones clone. When this character was deemed unacceptable, Gard placed his attention on designing a new one. One factor that influenced Gard to use a female character was that he noticed his male co-workers often preferred using female characters in Virtua Fighter. The redesigned character was initially a South American woman named Laura Cruz. She eventually evolved into an English woman named Lara Croft. Her name was picked from a phone book for sounding "UK friendly."















The new Lara Croft model is no other than Alison Carroll, a 23-year old professional gymnast who represented Great Britain in the past.

Alison will replace Karima Adebibe, a model from Bethnal Green, London and a self confessed tomboy (pic below).
















Here's the list of Lara Croft Model:

• Alison Carroll (latest)
• Karima Adebibe
• Jill de Jong
• Lucy Clarkson
• Lara Weller
• Nell McAndrew
• Rhona Mitra
• Ellen Rocche
• Vanessa Demouy