Special Vista Keyboard and Mouse

Finally when Vista software is out on the market the M'zoft Corporation has released its new wireless mouse and keyboard. The M'zoft Wireless Entertainment desktop 7000 is a set of a keyboard and rechargeable mouse.

The mouse is the M'zoft’s first rechargeable mouse and they have made it great. First of all, the mouse and the keyboard work using Bluetooth technology. They can work from up to 30 feet away from you computer. Not bad for a keyboard, huh.

Why is it made for Vista? Additional buttons like multimedia and some gadget buttons are placed on the keyboard. These buttons will work only with Windows Vista because only Vista has a "gadget" side-bar. And there are a lot of them, in addition to multimedia buttons that have become usual for a keyboard. The multimedia buttons will let you remotely control all the devices that are connected using Windows Media Center; this makes your keyboard a cool remote control.

Mouse keys are specially created for Vista too. For example, pushing the middle button (scroll) will let you see the thumbnails of all the windows that you have opened. The other cool function that is added: You can magnify a portion of the screen. This will help you when viewing some pictures, or reading small fonts.

Being made in grey colors the keyboard and the mouse will match any computer white or black. Besides, the keyboard is made thin and the buttons are pressed easily and don't make much noise.

The first rechargeable mouse made by M'zoft? Yes it is. The mouse has a rechargeable battery and you can charge it when you do not use the mouse. I think that would be at night, or when you are at work.

A vending machine that makes… pizza?

You can purchase all sorts of things from vending machines these days, from soda and candy to iPods and cell phones. But freshly made pizza? That just doesn't seem to make any sense. How can you make pizza in a vending machine? Has the whole world gone mad?!

Well, guess what? It's coming. Wonderpizza vending machines provide you with a 9-inch pizza in 2 minutes without you having to worry about humans touching it at any point in the process. That is unless the secret of the Wonderpizza machines is that they have very small people inside making pizzas very quickly. In which case I would feel pretty bad about buying pizzas from them.

Gadget Trak finds your stolen stuff for you

Getting your electronics stolen really sucks. You spend all this money on a new iPod or laptop only to have some sleazebag swipe it from your backpack on the subway — it just hurts. Until now, there wasn't much you could do to get your stolen toys back. But a new company is looking to make it easier to retrieve your stolen goods.

GadgetTrak is a small piece of software you can load on any portable USB device. When you report it as stolen, the software then loads itself on any computer it's plugged into, starts gathering data, then lets you know where it is. It's like lowjack for gadgets. The best part? The software is free. Yep, you can go download it now and load it on any devices you'd like. Now you have no excuse to worry about getting your stuff stolen, so go ahead and flaunt that gadget in any bad neighborhood you want.

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Healing Moon

Can the moon heal you of whatever ailments you're afflicted with? And even if somehow I could, would a replica of the moon share the original's healing properties? I highly doubt it. But hey, who am I to judge? But no, seriously, I'd judge you if you believed that.

OK, let's just call this e-Revolution Healing Moon a nightlight then. That should keep things civil. It's a neat light that automatically turns on when it's dark, and it has programmable cycles. It might not cure cancer, but it could be a soothing presence in a child's bedroom, or hey, even in your bedroom. But seriously, it doesn't have healing properties. Trust me.

The e-Revolution Healing Moon is available now for $100.

Man Tries to Cash $50K Check From God

Man Tries to Cash $50K Check From God
Mar 1, 6:14 AM (ET)

HOBART, Ind. (AP) - Kevin Russell found out it's not easy trying to cash a check from God. The 21-year-old man was arrested Monday after he tried to cash a check for $50,000 at the Chase Bank in Hobart that was signed "King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant," Hobart police Detective Jeff White said.
Russell was charged with one count attempted check fraud and one count intimidation, both felonies, and one count resisting law enforcement, a misdemeanor. He could face prison time.


Police were called to the bank after Russell tried to cash the check, which was written on an invalid Bank One check with no imprint, White said. Russell had several other checks with him that were signed the same way but made out in different dollar amounts, including one for $100,000.
Russell struggled with police as they tried to detain him, White said, and then threatened police as they transported him to the Hobart Police Department.
"I've heard about God giving out eternal life, but this is the first time I've heard of him giving out cash," White said.
No court date has been set for Russell. He was being held Wednesday at the Lake County Jail on a $1,000 bond.


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Israeli minister in vision gaffe

Israeli newspapers have printed photos of Defence Minister Amir Peretz trying to watch military manoeuvres through binoculars with the lens caps still on.


Mr Peretz was inspecting troops in the Golan Heights with the Israeli army's new chief of staff, Gen Gabi Ashkenazi.

According to the photographer, Mr Peretz looked through the capped binoculars three times, nodding as Gen Ashkenazi explained what was in view.

According to the daily Yediot Ahronot newspaper, US President George W Bush and former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have both done the same thing.

David Copperfield Laser Illusion

This is by far the best real life, full perspective illusion he did, next to his teleport to Antarctica with a member of audience illusion, which might I add I was and SAW at his Las Vegas show when he did it!!!

Man spends year searching for the actual source

Serenity is in Burlington.

It's true. A Vanity Fair journalist discovered it there.

After an exhaustive search that almost brought New York-based Nick Tosches to his knees, sifting through sources from Lake Como in Italy to Colborne, Ont., in Southern Ontario, he finally found what he was looking for.

Turns out the leaf-littered lane that stole his heart one afternoon when he first glimpsed it on his computer – it's the default desktop wallpaper in Microsoft's XP operating system – is just west of Toronto in the Burlington suburb of Kilbride.

"It was insane," Tosches says. "Something that would appear very simple at first probably turned out to be one of the most difficult searches of my life."

It took Tosches just over a year to pinpoint the exact location of calm – actually a photograph called Autumn that popped up on his computer screen after a tech-nerd configured his new machine.



An experienced investigator, who once conned the Vatican into giving him a doctorate so he could gain access to hidden archives, Tosches, 58, was confident he'd find the object of his desire.

He documented his search in a recent article published in Vanity Fair online.

"I was so absorbed by that picture," he says. "Autumn is my favourite time of year. I got lost in it. I figured I'd just ask Microsoft where it is."



He made hundreds of queries to Microsoft, public relations agents, inn owners, horse farmers, realtors, small-town librarians and tourism departments of various countries.

Tosches wrote emails, made countless phone calls and followed up on "feelings" he had that placed the scene in horse-friendly states, such as Vermont.

"Fifteen years ago, we had telephone, postal system, the library. ... It seemed easy to get information," he says, musing about the time he spent searching.

"Now we have huge, intertwined, monolithic conglomerations with all their wires tangled. I did have the feeling of congestion. It really doesn't make things easier."

Stymied at every turn, Tosches painstakingly sifted through 5,000 photographs in a database labelled Autumn, praying to find a match.

He did. But unlike the other pictures in the Corbis database, a library with more than 70 million images for sale, it didn't contain pertinent, locating info.

Then he got an email from Microsoft placing the scene in Campbellville, Ont. But, it was a false lead.

Fortunately, and probably by "magic," a Vanity Fair researcher was able to track down the name of Autumn's photographer. Peter Burian shot the picture along with hundreds of frames in October 1999 while he was testing lenses for a photography trade magazine. He sent it to Corbis, where Microsoft probably purchased it for $300. Burian's cut was $45.

The Milton man says it was a treat to get Tosches's call.

"I was more shocked to find out that one of my photographs is available to hundreds of millions of people," he says. "I didn't think anything of it when I took it."

The lane in the picture leads to an unspectacular farmhouse once owned by the Harris family, one of the first settlers in the area, Burian says.

Tosches says he's going to see it with his own eyes. He's hoping to make the trip sometime this year. "I know where it is now and it's not going anywhere."
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COMPUTER COOLERS

Buying a new computer involves buying a new powerful and big cooler. Especially for those who are crazy about overclocking and upgrading your machine to the limits. Of course, the best way to cool a powerful machine is to buy water or liquid nitrogen cooling systems and these gadgets will dost you a fortune. However, for those of you who don't want to waste so much money on that we present you two of the top coolers nowadays. Eclipse from Cooler Master and Big Typhoon VX from Thremaltake are one of the best in their class.



The Eclipse

Cooler Master has shown itself as very good cooler producer and the names of their coolers are unique too. Remember the old Mars coolers. Well, the Eclipse is one of those interesting names; I wonder why they named it like that.

Eclipse is the best air cooler that is made by Cooler Master as it says on their web site. It is a very unusual looking cooler and it is bigger than most of its analogues. Its special construction of the fan built into the radiators and its form allows the fan to blow the cold air not only on the processor itself but on the other parts of you computer as well. This fan will make your whole system cooler.

Its weight is not small, I would say it is pretty heavy because it weighs 23,5 ounces (670 grams). Moreover, they used aluminum to make; so imagine how big it is.

The fan is one of the most important parts of a cooler and this one has a 66 x 68 mm turbine fan. They used a long-life bearing that should serve you very long. It says that it will work for 40,000 hours which is four and a half years of 24/7 work. I guess that it would be enough for you.

The package that the cooler comes in is the biggest cooler package I have ever seen. It has everything you need there: even the thermo paste to install it on.


The Big Typhoon

I do not need to tell you how effective the Big Typhoon VX is. It is a better version of one year old Bit Typhoon (no VX). Many people liked it very much and now the Thermaltake Company has created a newer version of it.

This new Big Typhoon VX measures 122 x 122 x 103 mm and it is obviously smaller then the Eclipse cooler. Well, we will compare them later.

The fan is the part that Big Typhoon can be proud of. It uses a 120 mm fan that blows not only on the radiator but on the base of the cooler itself and the surrounding area of the motherboard. (There are thermal tubes there on my motherboard that come from the chipset.)

They used thermal tubes on Big Typhoon however the distance between the tubes is 1 mm and it is crucial that there would be no dust. Otherwise the gaps will be all dusty and the tubes will not work properly.

Big Typhoon VX comes in a smaller box and it also has the thermo paste included.


Comparison

So what is better the Big Typhoon VX or the Eclipse from Cooler Masters? Let us check some of the parameters first.

1. Installation and size
First of all you need some place to install it because some motherboards have not that much space to install such a big cooler as Eclipse. Big Typhoon VX on the other hand has a very compact base that you can attach to virtually any processor it supports.
Eclipse is much higher although it is thinner then the Big Typhoon VX so you should choose what you need and weather you can fit it into your case. However, the cases nowadays are big and wide so you should have no problems with that.
2. Weight
Weight becomes crucial when you install the cooler on the vertically standing motherboard. Although I think that most of the motherboards will hold such a weight but I am not sure.
Eclipse with its aluminum radiators and thermal tubes weighs about 670 grams however the Big Typhoon is much heavier and weighs 827 grams. The difference in 160 grams can play a big role for somebody.
3. Cooling
Cooling our system that is what we all want from our coolers. We have tested the two cooler stars and now we present you the results on that.
On the low RPM which is under 1300 the best cooler is the Big Typhoon. The thermal emission practically has not changed when we have lowered the RPM. Besides, at these RPM the Big Typhoon VX has got the lead in cooling the motherboard around the processor. Eclipse is not much weaker but it will still cool your system worse than it would do the Big Typhoon VX.
How about the medium and high RPM? Well the situation is not much different here either. Eclipse is not as powerful as the Typhoon.
4. Noise measurement
Nobody likes noisy coolers and this sound frustrates me very much. At the very low RPM the Eclipse cooler is the quietest. However this cooler cannot cool a powerful processor rotating that slowly. The maximum it can do is to cool down an office 50% load of Conroe 3.2 GHz. However, on the medium RPM of 1900 it does a great job of cooling the same processor with 100% load and demonstrates the noise of 26 dB. It is pretty good. However, on the high RPM the Eclipse cooler is one of the noisiest ones and you do not recommend you to use it at high RPM.
Big Typhoon creates the same 26 dB noise on minimal RPM which is 1300. However, the thermal emission of this cooler is much higher at this state. On the highest RPM the noise becomes 32 dB and the thermal emission is not very different from the low RPM one. I think that there is no purpose of using this cooler at high RPM.

It is up to you to choose which one you would like to buy. Can we recommend you a $ 60 Eclipse from Cooler Master if there is $ 27 Hyper TX with about the same productivity (However the noise level is higher)? Choose from a more productive Big Typhoon that costs $ 40 and les productive but quieter at lower RPM Eclipse

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