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First Look: Google Desktop for the Mac
Mac Central - and while I didn t notice a substantial slowdown in using Google Desktop, I did notice that the fans on my MacBook kicked into action. A quick check of Activity Monitor showed the indexing processing taking anywhere from 15 to 85 percent of CPU

Gaming Diversifies: Are You Ready to Cash In?
E-Commerce Times - Granted, there are gamers who prefer to face only the CPU (central processing unit) and never bother to play with or against others; however, the success of several community-based games and gaming services provide ample evidence that many gamers

The Top Five Technologies You Need to Know About in '07
Computerworld - From next-gen CPU architectures to high-powered personal-area networks, we name the five hottest trends in developing technology. It's nice to know that 2007 will finally bring one of the most coveted advances in computing -- the solid-state hard

Inside Event Tracing for Windows
WinInfo - time of the event process ID under which the event occurs thread ID under which the event occurs user-mode CPU time kernel-mode CPU time When you set up a tracing session, you can specify the timestamp's resolution. You can specify from 100 millisecond

The Talking Cure
Slate - Well it seems that Ray Kurzweil's predictions of CPU and MRI technology are tracking pretty well. Given the rate at which technology accelerates - it isn't all that far fetched to think that somewhere between 2025 and 2035, we will have the ability to

ColdWatt Selects Silicon Laboratories' Small Form Factor MCUs
Consumer Electronics Net - The functionally dense C8051F30x combines a fast 25 MIPS 8051 CPU, Flash memory and precision analog in a 3x3 mm quad flat no-lead package. ColdWatt selected the high-performance C8051F30x for its flexible, energy efficient, digital power conversion

AMD Launches Graphics Chipset For Embedded Designs
Information Week - The 690 series moves closer to Fusion by embedding the graphics processor in the motherboard, and closer to the CPU. The product line includes the Radeon X1250 graphics engine, which is Vista compatible; and a video acceleration engine that decodes

Apple Mac
CNet - The bad: No ExpressCard slot or FireWire 800; lacks media card reader; only 90 days of toll-free technical support. The bottom line: The new MacBook, updated to Intel's Core 2 Duo CPU, compares very favorably with Apple's high-end MacBook Pro line

Spy Sweeper Digs Deep for Rootkits
eWeek - However, we were pleased to find that we could throttle CPU usage separately for disk and memory scans, thereby limiting the impact a scan would have on a system in use. New detections for Browser Helper Objects and ActiveX controls are included with

TIP OF THE DAY
PC Magazine - CPU meters are nice, and the gods know there are a ton of such gadgets, but what if you have a dual-core processor? And why should you bother with one gadget as a CPU usage meter and another one for memory usage? Fit more gadgets into your sidebar