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Weekend Hardware Roundup 10th November 2007

UC Babe Anna (yummy) has a weekend hardware roundup for those of you not playing Call of Duty 3 this weekend

Thermalfly F1-IACSHA Heatsink Reviewed on FrostyTech

"Right now it's time to get back on track as we evaluate the Thermalfly F1-IACSHA, a large fully copper heatsink which combines a 63mm diameter squirrel cage fan and a unique L-shaped copper cooling fin array. This heatsink has a couple attributes we've never seen before in a desktop cooler. The Thermalfly F1-IACSHA is equipped with a four-pin Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) squirrel cage fan that goes one step further than BIOS determined fan speed control. At the base of the F1-IACSHA heatsink is its very own thermistor temperature sensor, taped to the top of the copper processor block with a small aluminum sticker. The thermistor provides accurate temperature readings to the fan, and this determines how quickly it spins at any given moment."

REVIEW URL: www.frostytech.com

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Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" debuts

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The successor to OS X 10.4 which was released in April last year is finally previewed. The official launch date is to be some time in Spring 2007.

Leopard will feature the following improvements over its predecessor:

64-bit Cocoa and Carbon application support, right beside 32-bit apps, all native.
Time Machine - Automatically backs up every version of your files to a hard drive or server. Includes snazzy 3D Time Machine view (pictured) to browse through older versions of folders.
Boot Camp - "Even better." Ships with Leopard.
Photo Booth - With expanded camera support.
Spaces - Apple's term for virtual desktops. Allows you to group different applications together in their own environment for different tasks, and allows movement of windows between "spaces."
Spotlight - Can search other machines over a network. Boolean operations, application launching, and recent items will also be added to the search tool.
Core Animation - Developer architecture to create moving eye candy with little code.
Universal Access - VoiceOver enhancements, Braille support, closed captioning and improved navigation.
Mail - Stationary (templates), Notes (specially highlighted self-sent emails) and To-Do lists all built in.
Dashboard - New Dashcode tool allows visual template-based Widget development. There's also a new Web Clip app that takes any part of a web page and turns it into a Widget.
iChat - Allows multiple logins, invisible mode, animated buddy icons, video recording and tabbed chats (hooray.) There's also photo booth effects, iChat Theater (slideshows, Keynote presentations and videos displayed over video chat), and photo/video backdrops.
Enhanced Parental Controls
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