AMD has just announced the new X86 SSE5 (Streaming SIMD Extensions Version 5) instruction-set extensions yesterday for its future product lines. Although the implementation will only take place in year 2009 in its next generation core, codenamed as Bulldozer, but the specification has been released to developer community now. This has marked a meaningful milestone for AMD in the evolution for its processor architecture ahead of its competitor, Intel when defining a new standard for the community. If you recall, Intel has came out with SSE-SSE4 extensions instruction standard for the market since Pentium III to tackle AMD’s 3D Now! capability and now AMD seems to go to release the latest version of SSE5 ahead of Intel.

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10 years ago this day, Princess Diana aka Lady Di was killed in a car crash. At her funeral in Westminster Abbey on 6 September 1997, Elton John, a English pop singer, composer and pianist, sang Candle in the Wind 1997 edition or Goodbye England’s Rose to pay tribute to Diana, remembered by many as Poeple’s Princess. It turns out that the performance by Elton John in Diana’s funeral, where he sang “Candle In The Wind 1997″ in public, was for the first and also the only time in history, and likely to be the final time to hear it sang by Elton John in any public concert, as John swore he would never play that version of the song live again due to the emotion envolved.

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Running low on disk space on Vista system? Vista system accumulates lots of junk items and files during its daily operating especially you frequently browse and surf the Internet. The free disk space on HDD (hard disk drive) will keep decreasing and reducing by each day passed if no cleanup is done. Smaller free space and existence of unused and useless files will likely make system runs slower in term of performance due to fragmentation of data allocation on physical disk.

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Mobile phone? No, it’s a new touch screen based door lock from Samsung, named as Ezon SHS-1110, the cool, stylish and high-tech door lock that created with aluminum alloy and tempered glass finish. It’s a cool and unique electronic gadget, right?

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Microsoft has released a preview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to a small group of testers for evaluation before a broader Beta release via Technet and MSDN, and public download later on. However, this Vista SP1 Beta preview release, which in actual should be named ‘alpha version’ considering possible bugs contained inside it, has been leaked to P2P download sites, and available for download via BitTorrent (BT) and ED2K (eDonkey or eMule) file sharing network. If you really feel that your Vista system needs servicing immediately and can no longer wait, then download and apply this pre-beta SP1 package at your own risk. You will be lucky if this preview beta release doesn’t make the system messier.

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Windows Vista has some new security and functional features with superior, elegant and beautiful visual experience, such as Windows Aero Glass Transparency effect, Flip 3D and etc. But to have and enable all these features, there is price to be paid, as there is limitation to the capability of computer on how fast it can run. However, if you feel that your Vista performance is below par and slow, there is some tricks that can help Vista to run faster, other than applying various updates such as performance and reliability updates and Service Pack 1 (SP1).

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Sony has confirmed on the discontinuity of its famous 60GB PS3 after the recent price reduction of the SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) early last months. The price cut of $100 has able to boost up the sales for the series significantly. With the announcement, it also means that the PS3 SKU will only left with 80GB series, filling up previous 60GB series’ selling price at $599.

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Don’t want any ‘rubbish’ on Vista desktop to spoil the beautifulness of your favorite background wallpaper or animated DreamScene video motion desktop? Recycle Bin icon on the desktop may be an eyesore to some people, especially given the attractive and elegant user interface of Vista. And in fact, Microsoft has made it easy to remove or delete Recycled Bin icon by simply select “Delete” in the right click contextual menu. With Recycle Bin sidebar gadget, a new Recycle Bin icon can be put up Vista sidebar, allowing easy access to Recycle Bin functions such as one click empty the bin while removing the bin icon from desktop.

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