Great news !! Apple has just introduced its latest iPod mp3 player, iPod Nano, a revolutionary full-featured iPod that can store up to 1,000 songs with the thickness of just a standard pencil and less than half the size of competitive players.

The iPod Nano features an ultra-portable, lightweight design with a gorgeous color screen and the interface of the device will be the classic Apple’s patent pending Click Wheel.

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“iPod nano is the biggest revolution since the original iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPod nano is a full-featured iPod in an impossibly small size, and it’s going to change the rules for the entire portable music market.”

iPod Nano Features :-

• Only 3.5 x 1.6 x 0.27 inches and 1.5 ounces
• Bright 1.5-inch color LCD display
• Up to 14 hours of battery life
• Holds up to 1,000 songs and full-color album art
• Holds up to 25,000 photos
• Supports AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, AIFF

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Apple iPod Nano

A stunning blog entry by VOIPWiki revealed that a Chinese company have successfully reverse engineered the famous VOIP software, Skype. Charlie Paglee, blogger of VOIPWiki, received a call to his Skype from his friend who is working in the Chinese company and told him that the call is made through the cloned Skype software.

Picture taken from VOIPWiki.

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We talked (on the cloned Skype) for a little over nine minutes before the call dropped. Then I called him back using my Skype and we spoke for another three minutes.

This cloned Skype client is able to use Skype’s network and act as one of the Skype clients. Doing so would possibly cause the current Skype Super Nodes and the network to deteriorate once too many non-Skype clients are being used.

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Skype Cracked (Actually Reverse Engineered)

If you still do not know what is YouTube by now, probably you do not live on the Internet. You sure know this free online video hosting service if you are a frequent online surfer. Well, YouTube just announced on Sunday, 16 July, 2006 that there are more than 100 million videos viewed on its site in every single day. Besides, close to 20 million unique users per month is using YouTube and I’m one of them.

YouTube has been the leader in such service since last year and is still holding the leading position with 29% of the U.S. multimedia entertainment market. Meanwhile, they are serving for around 60% of all videos watched online beating close rivals like Google Video and MetaCafe with huge market share.

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100 Million Videos Viewed On YouTube.com Everyday

Seagate Barracuda 750GB

Seagate Technology has just announced the release of the world’s first 750GB desktop hard drive. The first shipments of this huge capacity internal hard drive was yesterday (April 26, 2006). The external model with the same capacity will be released this coming Monday, May 1, 2006.

Seagate’s latest 750GB harddisk is part of the new Barracuda 7200.10 family which currently having 2 models ST3750640AS and ST3750840AS. Barracuda 7200.10 harddisks are built on perpendicular recording technology, a new technology that increases data density while decreasing moving parts for a more dependable drive.

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Perpendicular recording technology stands data bits vertically onto the disc media, rather than horizontal to the surface as with traditional longitudinal recording, to deliver new levels of hard drive data density, capacity and reliability.

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Seagate Releases 750GB HDD

The Turion X2 processors will be launched in early May 2006, The Inquirer reported. So, what’s so great about Turion64 X2, you might ask. Well, Turion64 X2 is the upcoming AMD’s dual core Turion64 mobile processor, which has two separate core in one mobile processor die.

As reported, there will be 2 groups of new Turion X2 processors :-

• 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz and 2.0GHz models (with 2x 512KB L2 caches)
• 1.6GHz low-end model (with 2x 256KB L2 caches)

I have written a short introduction to Turion processor some time back.

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Turion64 X2 Is Coming In May 06

So far, all the harddisks in our computers are sealed with solid metal. So we can’t really see what are the major components inside unless we break it. I was lucky to know what is actually inside a harddisk because I used to be a technician in Komag while waiting for my SPM result and I was in the production floor. Komag is one of the major suppliers of harddisk platter (the disk) in the world to all harddisk manufacturers, such as Western Digital, Seagate, etc.

If you have not seen what’s inside a haddisk, now you have the chance to take a glance of the major components, at least from the top view. Western Digital Corp. (WD) has just introduced the world’s only harddisk with a see-through lens on top of the harddisk, labeled WD Raptor X. Now you are able to see the moving parts via the lens which the read and write action of the drive’s head and disk assembly can be viewed while the drive delivers data. Basically, you will see the movement of read/write head and the platter spinning when the harddisk is running.

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WD World’s Only See-Through hdd