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Intel & Apple: Chipping away

While Qualcomm had been the dominating force in ARM market for some time now, this past week established Apple as a competent SoC designer, while proving that Intel can outclass ARM and its partner if

Intel & Apple: Chipping away

While Qualcomm had been the dominating force in ARM market for some time now, this past week established Apple as a competent SoC designer, while proving that Intel can outclass ARM and its partner if

Beam them up, Scotty!

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If you’ve gone out and bought yourself, or someone else, a Nokia Lumia, there’s an interesting app (and website) for you.

Compress and encrypt with 7-zip

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For a long, long time, there’s always been a very powerful compression utility alongside WinZip and WinRAR, called 7-Zip. 7-Zip is an open source file archiver that supports a wide variety of formats and algorithms, provides lots of options to tweak, and achieves very high compression ratios.

Virtual Mouse: Logitech Touch Mouse

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If you own an Apple iPod Touch or iPhone, Logitech offers a cool new app to control your PC.
Called Touch Mouse, this software gives you a software keyboard and trackpad on your device which allows you to control your PC’s mouse cursor and keyboard over Wi-Fi.

Run Android apps with BlueStacks

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If, for some reason there’s an Android app that you want on your PC, BlueStacks App Viewer is a good way to go about it.

Do APUs make sense?

2010 onwards we saw a slow fusion of the traditional CPU and the GPU, which AMD decided to call an APU, or an “Accelerated Processing Unit”.

Should You Care about TSX?

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I’m not aware of whether multi-threading is a part of any university or not, but concurrency is covered in database management courses, so I’ll relate to that here.

Is all well with Haswell?

Intel launched its 4th Generation Core Processors in the country on the 26th of June at a press event in Delhi. I went there, had some nice food and came back. No, seriously, the food was good.

A Trip to Malta

AMD last week announced the official launch of its flagship graphics card, the Radeon HD 7990 (code named Malta).

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.