When it comes to hardware for computers, the first questions are: How
much dough to spend and what will I get for it. Now it is true that there are
many hardware testing magazines online which take time to analyze the new
hardware parts for you upon suitability for your project.

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While AMD has already some High-End GPUs on the market, NVidia’s top
speed card, the NVidia GeForce 690GTX still is using the “old” structure
size for it’s die. The Radeon HD7990 for example builds on the 28nm struc-
ture, while the 690GTX uses the Kepler GPU based on the 32nm structure.

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Yes, I know, it’s boring to read again about some copyright infringement.
And yes I am also bored, too. But maybe this is a way to show why money
still rules the world and why people are willing about to give up their soul
for something that usually isn’t worth fighting for.

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The World Wide Web has lots of real useless crap on it, mostly spam! But
there alre also some gems out there which should be mentionned. That’s
why I take focus on Captain Campus’ blog today which will be a new source
for fun stuff filtered out for you. Welcome to the Blogger’s community, pal!

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Sede Vacante it will be on February 28th, 2013 when Pope Benedict XVI. is
officially receding from his position as Pope. The decision came today and
instantly spread around the world. The resaon is easy: Ongoing health issues
the reason for his recession. So the Vatican has to select a new Pope now.

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Whenever we hear something about Flash, one’s mind is automaically set on
security issues, Flash has brought up in the last years. While Adobe tries to
fill these security holes, new ones are already being searched for. But what
once was only directed on Windows PCs now also is aimed on Mac machines.

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Nature offers many spectaculous moments. Due to global warming however
there are also frightening events when glaciers split ice plates that have the
size of Manhattan Financial District. One such Glacier calving has been held
on camera and shows imoressively what happens upon such a giant ice drift.

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If it comes to the mind of the Australian Health Organisation, birthday
candle blowouts in australian kindergardens are no longer recommended.
Reason for this is a study that points out that most of the infections of kids
occur at birthdays when the birthday child is blowing out the candles.

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When it comes to freaky, funny, useless or eyecatching gadgets, then they’re
mostly from asia. The newest gadget is a iRoomba for your smartphone or
tablet PC. Setting up the little cleaner, it cleans the suface of your tablet in
8 minutes or then smartphone in 4 minutes. For 15 US$ it is obtainable.

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Some people never learn when to behave. For instance when being at court
for a felony. In this case, a young girl was sentenced to a penalty fee of
5000 US$ for possession of Xanax and B.A.R.S. – both pharmaceutics are
categorized as drugs as they can make you dependent of them quickly.

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Ever wondered how solid wood can be? Well, an austrian architects team has
planned an office building with 24 metres height and 7 floors over ground.
The building today is now operating as usual. Not only is the construction of
this building less CO₂ emmiting, it also is of regeneratiing materials.

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Of course there are devices who have a builtin charging status indicator.
But few to none have an indicator showing the actual power demand when
charging. In this case I am showing you a charging cable that not only
serves as a data cable but also shows the current flow into your device.

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After 14 months it seems as if the small family cafe in Bonn, Germany finally
can stick to their logo without having to fear the wrath of the computer
and smartphone primus Apple. In October 2011, the owner of the small café
in Bonn got a not-so-friendly letter from Apple’s attorneys at law.

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The USA and Barack Obama have ratified an agreement to raise the debt
limit as long as needed without any upper limit. This way, the USA is trying
to ensure it’s full liquidity. However there’s some stale taste with this as the
actual 16.4 trillion DS$ debt equals 100% of the annual US economic power!

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Known usually from western films in silent situations, these rolling bushes
also known as tumbleweed, seem to have developed an ability to block the
road. This phenomenon is seen when the tumbleweed plants get mature and
detach from the roots. blown away by wind, they roll and spread their seed.

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Unbelievable: What looks like a plot for “Hidden camera: Fun with you” is in
fact the bitter truth for a clerk in Tel Aviv who parked her car on a free
parking lot. However the city authority of Tel Aviv was a bit consternated
about her parking there and decided to make her an official parking violator.

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It has been one of the most criticized traffic optimization projects: Stutgart
21, formerly known as the new central station allowing train pass through
instead of a terminus. Now it seems as if the projected costs of 4.5 billion €
cannot be stuck to and are recalculated to up to 6.8 billion €.

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If you ever wondered, what it’s like to play “Teacher”, then this game might
probably give you the chance to do so. I a fun way, that is! For once you
have to fool your fuzzy logic in order to recognize the errors in the given
texts. Your goal is to make the students and their essays a big fail.

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Long time, iOS6 was claimed to be the first unjailbroken iOS for the iDevices.
But Evasi0n seems to have made the impossible come true: Evasion has finally
jailbroken iOS6 family (and even in Untethered mode!). So while most of us
iDevice users are just fine with the basic iOS, experimenting users can rejoice.

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It seems as if Apple has an internal problem with the Spell checking routine that
is serving many programs in OS X to use the correct words. However a simple
string may crash exactly this routine as the string ends up in a procedure that is
not supported properly and thus crashing every application using Spell checking.

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In New York, one of the biggest train station is now 100 years old and still
withstanding old and new age. With 67 tracks of which no far-distance trains are
leaving, it is for sure the biggest suburb-connecting train station. Opened on
February 2nd, 1913 at exactly 12:01AM it marked a new train traffic era.

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Remember my post about Gigabit WLAN (a.k.a. WLAN 802.11ac standard)?
The problem was that I couldn’t get hands on a gigabit adapter to connect with
802.11ac standard. But already the a/b/g/n performance is already freaking!
272 MBit/s is possible with the builtin WLAN of my notebook. Fast already.

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Long time it did not work out well for RIM according to the last smartphone
sales. However the new Z10 smartphone with the new Blackberry OS 10 is a
highly anticipated device. Now it seems as if the new gadget will be available
soon. But how does the new smartphone perform. Can it outwit the iPhone?

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The half time has been reached! Finally! Enjoy a nice video this morning!
I like it when young animals behave strange in order to achieve everyday
things like emptying a food bowl or trying to drag one’s attention. This
eyecatcher is also very darling. That’s why I have added it here. Enjoy!

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So while the rest of the world has already been cartographed and also made
available with satellite images, North Korea was a simple plain white spot as
there were no satellite pictures allowed or cartographic material made in the
past. Now North Korea has also reached the digital cartographic age.

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It seems as there are still some truck drivers underestimating their rig’s
abilities. In this movie, the driver seems to have taken the curve with too
much speed resulting in his cargo containment to drop off the trailer and
slide over the intersection towards to wating cars and a motorcyclist.

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HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), which became a division of
Western Digital in March 2012, has announced that SAS-based server disks
in the 2,5″ form factor section have now a capacity of 1200 GB which equals
a doubling of space to the actual maximum capacity disks available.

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Seems as if cell providers in the USA had it with their “cheating”  customers.
According to a new law that will be active from January 26th 2013, SIM-
unlocking is considered a felony and will be punished after a trial period of
90 days. Penalties of 2500 US$ or even up to multiannual imprisonment!

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It seems as if the Nokia Lumia 920 is a big success. Based on this, Nokia is
most likely presenting a successor completely aluminum-hulled. The only
problem of the aluminum hull might be theGSM/UMTS/LTE signal, NFC
and induction charging. But for now, nothing else is known about the tech.

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China is one of the countries with the highest poulation density. But not
only poor people are living next to each other on small room. A new bulit
villa village in Lingshui, Hainan (China) has been built in only two years.
Over 1000 new villas are ready to be rent by wealthier citizen of China.

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Being a model can be a hard job. Not only do they need to have a good look
but also do they have to obey the rules, the catwalk sets. But what happens
if nature’s law collides with the laws of the catwalk? Well… then you’ll see
some funny moves of the models. But they also seem to be painful…

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So Tina Turner finally has decided to get the swiss passport and also become
swiss citizen. Living for over 20 years in Küsnacht (Zurich), Tina Turner has
enjoyed the decent respect she got in Switzerland. No picturehunters at her
doors waiting for a shot. And swiss fans didn’t bother her every time.

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