Sony VAIO Z with auto switching dual video cards
Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Brad
Yo Apple, pay attention! Sony has a new VAIO Z series coming out that has dual video cards (one NVIDIA® GeForce® GT330M graphics chipset with 1GB GDDR3 VRAM and one Intel integrated HD chipset) with a physical switch that has an “auto” mode that allows the system to automatically switch video cards based on usage.
The Sony is proof that the technology is available and my hope is that future MacBook Pros will auto switch as well because my post about how to switch between graphics cards on a Macbook Pro should have never been needed to be written in the first place.
The new Sony’s will be available in March in Europe and hopefully will come stateside sooner than later. Check out the press release for more info!
AdSense for Mobile
Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Jon
Yes, this isn’t a totally new concept, and yes, I just summarized some stuff I’ve read about on the internet. I think it is great that Google is still on their conquest to conquer my toaster though.
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For a few years, Google has offered the selling and purchasing of ad space via their Adsense program. The way it works is a vendor or company purchases ad space from Google, and Google offers to anyone the ability to put an ad on their webpage. The ad is automatically generated by text located on the webpage that best relates to an ad that Google has been charged to sell. Up until just a couple of months ago, ads were designed to be seen on PC’s and were not optimized for mobile browsers, such as those on telephones.
No more cable
Posted on January 11th, 2010 by Jon
I got rid of cable a while back with the idea that I would move solely to streaming/downloaded content. The short story is that I’ve been messing around with this for a couple of months, and there is no great/cheap solution. The search continues…
In an effort…..
Posted on January 11th, 2010 by Jon
…. to make more constructive posts… I’ve dug up the past!
iPhone double tap for period feature
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Brad
Every operating system in existence should have the iPhone’s double-tap-spacebar-to-place-a-period-then-start-a-new-sentence feature. I find myself trying to use it while typing emails and stuff in Outlook at work and other various applictions. It’s a very natural mechanic.