Google Olympic Page with Snow View
Google released a web page dedicated to Vancouver 2010 olympics.
There's information on venues, medal count, news, events, and a cool 'snow view' on Whistler.
Check it here
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Windows 7 “GodMode” Easter Egg
By creating a specific folder name in Windows 7, you have one interface to do everything from changing the mouse pointer to changing drive partitions.
To enter this mode, we just create a folder and rename it to:
Anything.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Anything can be any word you want.
Once that is done, the folder's icon will change to resemble a control panel and will contain dozens of control options. It is a handy way to get to all kinds of controls.
This is an old feature dating back to Windows 95:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135893
[Special Folders]
You can put the contents of Control Panel or other special folders on
your Start menu (or in any folder). Create a folder by clicking New on
the File menu, and then clicking Folder. Then, paste in the
appropriate name as shown below:
For Use This Name
----------------------------------------------
Control Panel Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
Dial Up Network Dial Up Net.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}
Printers Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
Of course, the above class IDs only work in Windows 95. One needs to 'google' the Windows 7 class IDs.
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What is Advanced Format Technology?
Whenever I buy a new hard drive such as 1 terabytes (TB), put it into my computer and format it, it's usually less than 1 TB of usable data. There is a new type of formating technology that increases the sector size from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes. The larger 4k sectors can yield disk space increase of 7 - 11%. So for a 1 TB drive, it can potentially yield an additional 100 GB.
Western Digital is the first hard drive manufacturer to implement this technlogy. It's supported natively in Windows 7 and MacOS but also works for Windows Vista and Windows XP. It will be implementable with a clean install only, as the actual sector allocation occurs at very low levels, which means that current drives won't be able to enact such a formatting procedure via firmware.
Depending on the configuration, users may have to make use of the WD Align utility and apply a jumper on pins 7-8 (for windows XP).
As an additional benefit, Advanced Format can increase data integrity by providing a more efficient error correction scheme using longer ECC code words. This improves error correction by 50% according to WD
More information, with the exact procedure for each OS, as well as a download service for the WD Align utility may be found here.
An indepth article is located at Anandtech.
The whitepaper is found here.
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Google Offers Free GPS Nav System for Smart Phones
On Wednesday, Google revealed its latest GPS nav system for the Google Android smart phone that will be available in the next 2.0 mobile operating system. It will first debut on the Verizon network next week and will be supported on other carriers. It will definitely be a cause for concern for the market leaders, Garmin and TomTom which cost upwards of $100 for similar apps on the iPhone. GPS app vendors will need to cut their prices drastically, offer ad-supported free versions or trot out amazing new features to warrant their high costs. The free Google nav system is not a half-baked version either. As this demo video illustrates, the nav program is a useful tool that deftly blends Google's map and street views with traffic information and voice commands. Google said it would also like to support the iPhone with Maps Navigation but it would depend on Apple who recently rejected Google Voice app (most assumed it would cut into the phone carriers profits). But the one major disadvantage is that you always need to be connected to the internet. That might cost a lot on data roaming charges especially if you were to use this in USA. The ones such as Navigon, IGO and TomTom for the iPhone all have the maps loaded on the phone so you don't need a 3G internet connection. It might be cheaper in the long run than Google's free GPS system. I have an iPhone and I use IGO and Navigon and it's as good or even better than my in-car GPS system.
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Google Street Maps Arrives in Canada!
It has finally arrived, high-res Google street maps. I was amazed at the clarity when I looked up my house. It even showed my Voyager van covered in tree droppings. It must have been taken during middle of spring cause the Oakridge sky train station and intersection was just about to be completed.
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