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Matty from Melbourne Australia surfed the net using Safari for 30 minutes yesterday night on his Macbook, after which he close the lid put it on sleep mode and left it on the bookshelf for charging. However at 3 a.m. all hell broke loose as his girlfriend heard the Macbook hissing like a steam valve, then smoke started pouring out of it and a couple of seconds later, a very large flash fire started. On hearing her loud screams and the dog barking Matty raced to the scene.
As I was running I saw a fire. At first I thought that the lamp had fallen and set fire to the curtain. As I got closer I realised it was my mac book .... burning! I picked it up and blew on it and swung it around to put the flames out. The book shelf it was sitting on was burnt and there were a couple of magazines that were on fire too. I quickly put those out and calmed down.

The battery is swollen and burnt so it's definitely the battery that exploded and caught fire. The macbook is melted on the bottom and severely charred (along with my bookshelves, books, magazines and the wall). The space bar is melted as is the track pad. The screen has been damaged a little too.
Matty had purchased the Macbook in June last year and it is still under the 12 month warranty. He is looking for an efficient service center in Melbourne and is hoping that his hard drive data will be recovered.

- Source: [NewLaunches]

You may already have a widget for everything under the sun, but PC users, you might want to try this Systemetrix desktop software tool that not only tells you the time, but lets you know a whole lot of other stuff about your system as well.

This clean-looking clock is not the only skin you can put on this sucker, and it can show you hundreds of things about your system, such as e-mail stats, system resources used, drive space left, your IP address and lots more. Wee loaded it up and it works great. Best of all, it's absolutely free.

For more details go here

- Source: [Xymantix.com]

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CeBIT'07 new product avalanche is about to hit us like a hundred walkyries brandishing bratwursts, cellphones dipped in sauerkraut and RAM modules like the new Corsair XMS2 Dominator. This 2 Gbytes DDR2 module is now available in PC2-9136 and PC2-10000 speeds and they come with more acronyms than a NASA launch checklist: they have DHX (Dual-path Heat Xchange) with a dedicated heatsink for the PCB (printed circuit board). On top of that, they are NVIDIA SLI ready and feature EPP (Enhanced Performance Profiles), which enhances SPD (Serial Presence Detect) and apparently is great for over-clocking. OK, Corsair. WEE (whatever). I'll be waiting for the gold version myself. I don't care about overclocking, I just want the bling-bling.

[Source=http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/corsair/corsairs-new-xms2-dominator-ddr210000-ram-doesn't-include-leather-pants-243480.php]Gizmodo[/Source]

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Microsoft has admitted that its Live OneCare security suite has been accidentally deleting some users’ Outlook and Outlook Express e-mails.

According to postings on Microsoft’s OneCare forum, erasures have been caused when the antivirus programme finds a virus in an e-mail attachment. Instead of then quarantining that single e-mail, users have reported that entire .pst or .dbx files -— the personal folder where non-Exchange Server users’ messages and other details are kept -— have been quarantined or, in some cases, even deleted.

One user commented on the forum: “Is there a chance to recover it? If not, OneCare will have done more damage than any virus in my 30 years of active computing.

Thanks to Zingaburga's RCO Editor 1.12 wee have entered (again) into a new era of XMB customizing *overexaggerate* ;p

Some people may already saw my thread over at ... QJ (...)

So this is what I've found out so far [for the topmenu_plugin.rco (xmenu) but it should be valid for the other RCOs which contain MIGs too]
1. Horizontal position. 0=center, minus=left
2. Vertical Position, 0=center, minus=down
3. Zoom
4. Strength of Red Colour Channel (0 to 1; doesn't affect xmenu)
5. Strength of Green Colour Channel (0 to 1; doesn't affect xmenu)
6. Strength of Blue Colour Channel (0 to 1; doesn't affect xmenu)
7. Strength of Alpha Colour Channel (0 to 1; doesn't affect xmenu)

8. Width    \ draws a
9. Height   / white boxed cursor

10. ?

11. Stretches icon including text in width \ stable
12. Stretches icon including text in height / even if entered somewhere

13. Zooms in/out the main icons as a whole. Also stable, doesn't include the text though

14. ?

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In the hex values
15. ?
16. ?
17. Tells how many main menu icons there are! 7 seems to be the only one which doesn't freeze the PSP besides the default 6. « very interesting!
18. ?
19. Action command for X button. 64=enter
20. ?
21. Action command for Triangle Button. 1C=option menu
More info

Some other examples

Normal:


Zooooom:


Reach for the sky:


Volume bar up high, battery icon down low ;>



Note, for XMB positions, they reset after accessing any submenu.  Info on a possible fix here

edit: god my english ...

Edit by |-Anubis-|: Cleaned up some of your English. (its not that bad)
Edit by ZiNgA BuRgA: just adding some more info :P

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Even if you usually skip over dull PC articles, this one's worth reading. Earlier this week, Intel announced their plans to mass produce phase-change memory (PCM or PRAM) by the end of 2007.

So why the hell does this matter to you, oh searcher for the USB bust-enhancer? From Intel:

    The phase-change memory gets pretty close to Nirvana...


PRAM is the Chosen One in a world where volatile, evil flash memory has invaded our homes. That's because Flash memory relies on trapping and releasing electrons to store information. This process takes long 10 nanoseconds, but more importantly, leads to a limited number of read/write cycles.

But PRAM technology works on a the principles of chemistry, changing a substance like chalcogenide from solid to liquid and measuring that state (similar to RW optical media, interestingly enough). Not only does this process take less time at 5ns, but it supports around 100 million write cycles. Plus, Intel is claiming their test models have a 10-year data retention rate at 85-degrees, making it feasible for archiving your pornography.

Unfortunately, it looks like Intel plans to phase in (no pun intended) the memory as RAM, not as a storage device. Tear. Wee want some awesome solid fluid state hard drives. Now!

- Source: [DailyTech]

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No, wee are not teasing you with the headline. Robots officially kill people.

Developed by Elbit Systems Ltd for Israel's army to avoid hand-to-hand combat, the VIPeR is about the size of a small television and easily rolls up stairs and down into trenches (ok, with that trenches part wee kinda went freestyle, but the real list includes dark alleys, caves and narrow tunnels).

And when you are bored of its standard bomb disposal functions, the VIPeR can carry an Uzi and grenades that can be controlled (unleashing hell) from a remote location via camera feed. Wee knew it was just a matter of time until videogames got this good.

But our favorite part is the small "e" in VIPeR, as if Elbit Systems wasn't quite committed enough to go with the name "VIP3R" and really do some serious pwnage.

- Source: [Gizmodo]

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Ok, I admit it, the iPod part was just the shameless hook. But that doesn't make the possibility any less true.

According to Seagate's projections on hard drive capacity:

[Wee show] a 2.5-inch drive reaching 1TB by 2013. Using that calculation and assuming 40% growth stays as the annual growth rate, a 1.8-inch would reach 1TB by 2014.

On one hand 1TB seems so close, but maybe Seagate would be a bit more inclined if they knew just how many Cher CDs Brian Lam* has in his closet.

- Source: [Gizmodo]