Nvidia yesterday announced it’s new graphics card based on GF100 architecture. The GeForce GTX 465 is a third card based on GF100 (aka Fermi) architecture after it’s elder siblings, GTX 470 and GTX 480. From the specs, this card can be considered as “stripped-off” version of GTX 470. However, it remains to be seen whether Nvidia will benefit by positioning it against ATI’s 5850, especially as they have kept tad higher price than ATI Radeon HD 5850. So, here are the features and specifications of this card.

• Based on 40nm fabrication process
• 352 shader units
• 607 MHz graphics clock
• 802 MHz memory clock
• 256-bit memory interface
• 102.6 GB/s memory bandwidth
• GDDR5 memory
• 200W TDP

Apart from these specifications, additional features for this card includes NVIDIA PhysX and CUDA, support for Blu-ray 3D with GPU decoding and Nvidia SLI. Initial reviews put this card in direct competition to ATI’s Radeon HD 5850. But in price/performance ratio, ATI still has an upper hand over this one. Nvidia has recommended titles like Metro 2033 and Just Cause 2 as well as upcoming Mafia 2 and Lost Planet 2 for this card.

In India, SMC International has put the price of Rs. 16,500 for MSI GTX 465. You can check this out over their official website.

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Apple’s new iPad device is all a craze nowadays. Although it provide an option for charging from USB port, most USB ports on Windows PCs can’t provide enough juice to iPad due to device’s charging specification. Thankfully, Gigabyte motherboard owners can now enjoy iPad USB charging by performing a simple driver update.

Gigabyte’s driver update covers motherboards with Intel’s X58, P55, H55 and H57 as well as AMD’s upcoming 800 series chipsets. With the provision of iPad charging facility, Gigabyte became first of motherboard brands to provide this feature.

As a background check, let’s decode what’s troubling iPad while USB charging. While iPad is in use, most Windows USB ports can’t provide enough power due to motherboard USB power output and device’s charging specifications differences. But this new driver update brings capability for Gigabyte motherboards to serve more than the 500mA power for iPad charging.

You can download the driver from Gigabyte’s official website.

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You may find Google sponsored links everywhere on web. Gmail also displays sponsored links aka web clips at top in email accounts. If you are annoyed with these targeted ads popping every now and then in your Gmail account, you can turn them off. Here is a little tip that will help you do this.

To turn off these ads,

• Open your Gmail account.
• Click on “Settings” at  top right corner.
• Select “Web Clips” tab.
• Uncheck the “Show my web clips above the Inbox” check box there. That’s it. You’ll not show any ads from now on.

This little trick turns off ads displayed at top of the mailbox. However, you will also find ads at the right side of your mail content. Thanks David for pointing this out. This another tip targets those ads. For this trick to work, all you need is a Mozilla Firefox browser and a  GreaseMonkey script. Follow these simple steps to remove those annoying ads.

• Start Mozilla Firefox and install GreaseMonkey add-on from here if you haven’t already.
• Now, install “Gmail Without Ads” GreaseMonkey script from here.
• Just activate that script and you are all set to go.
• Login to your Gmail account and enjoy the neat look of your mailbox.

You can always restore these settings when you like to display these ads again. But hey, who wants them anyway?

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Google has rolled out some really cool features with Google Search. They are now offering real time search (competing Twitter, Google?), Search Options, Wonder wheel and many more. Calling this as event Searchology, Google want people to get more sophisticated at search to solve more complex problems.

Google’s Vice President of Search and User Experience Marissa Mayer called this improvement as a way to organize ‘universal search results’ that Google introduced two years ago. To start with, Google search result displays “Show options…” link at the top of the results. Just click on that to see available options. There you can filter your results in forums, videos and reviews.

Next up are options to display search results according to content recency and then comes Wonder wheel, a cool way to visually search Google. It displays related keywords around your search topic and lets you further narrow down results visually. And there is Time line to help you track the evolvement of the topic you are looking for. Check this official video out to get the idea of new features.

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Virgin Mobile, aiming to have 5 million subscribers in India from youth segment by 2011, has rolled out its music-centric phone called vJazz at an attractive price tag of Rs. 4250. It comes with vMusic, which allows users to download unlimited music up to 1,00,000 songs at no extra cost for one year. Here is the feature check of this phone.

• A 1.3 MP Camera
• 1 GB SD Card
• FM Radio
• Music Player with dedicated music keys
• WAP, Bluetooth and phone as modem
• 262K TFT color screen
• Video capture & Playback
• Speaker phone

However, the main attraction of this candy bar phone is vMusic, a music client in phone by which users can choose and download up to 1,00,000 Bollywood, Regional and International tracks for free for one year. Also, users get lifetime validity and prepaid connection, two cool Virgin T-shirts, free 1000 SMSes, free 1000 local minutes and a mobile holster. All this for just Rs. 4250. The phone is currently available in two colors: Wine red and black.

[ Image courtesy: Mobiletor.com ]

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Let’s assume for some time that you are customization junkie like me. You have customized almost every part of your Windows XP GUI and showing it to your friend(or girlfriend for some of you lucky guys!!). Your pals left awestruck by your beautiful GUI. But, while the time of shutdown, you get that mind numbing Windows XP default blue dialog box with those dull icons. I am sure you want to change this part also.

Sure, you can change that dialog box by editing system files shell32.dll and msgina.dll. But this could end up with your system messed up until you know what you are doing. Also other software like WindowBlinds provides skinnable dialog box, but are not free and you have to rely on the skin that author has created. So, here is the cool free utility that will do this work for you, Shedko sShutdown (Skinned Shutdown).

This utility intercepts a Windows function call of shutdown and applies a selected skin to the shutdown dialog box. You can apply various skins to this dialog. It supports PNG for themes and fully supports transparency. And best of all is you don’t have to patch your system files, its absolutely safe to use.

Upon installing for the first time, start this applictaion from Start Menu or from Desktop. Now select “Run sShutdown at Windows startup”, save and restart your system. After restart you can configure its various options like skin selection etc from tray icon.

Take a look at my screenshot below.

Download Shedko sShutdown from here.

You can download various themes for Shedko sShutdown from here.

If you want to create your own theme, you can grab a Theme editor from here. 

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Motorola unveiled an Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) phone called i465 which features a full QWERTY keyboard. Marking Motorola’s first step towards Pust-to-talk technology, this device is designed for texting purposes. Here’s its factsheet.

This phone is made to withstand extreme conditions like shock, vibration, dust, and solar radiation. That’s why hailed as Clutch. As stated above, it would be mainly targeting masses who love messaging. So, it offers IM-style messaging means users can handle incoming and outgoing messages stream at the same time, thanks to iDEN technology. However, with present flurry of high-end phones, this one seems bit out of place. Just check its features below to get an idea of this.

• 1.79-inch TFT display with 128 x 160 pixel resolution
• 64K colors
• Bluetooth 1.2 and micro USB connectivity
• 3 MP camera with 4x zoom
• 2.5 mm mono audio jack
• MIDI, MP3 and WAV ring tones
• 20 MB internal memory

But the coolest thing about this phone is its weight. It weighs only 96 grams. It provides 205 minutes of talk time and up to 100 hours of standby time. Nothing announced about its release and price officially yet. But it could arrive in Q2 of 2009.

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Ever wanted to make your social networking profile stand out of the crowd? Then how about making your profile name funky a bit? Here is a little tip which will help you do this.

NameFunk is a site which lets visitors generate cool text with different text generators available there. You just need to type your message and it will automatically generate that entered text in 5 different modes namely Funky text, Arabic text, Hacker text, Flipped text and Changed case.

That’s not all. You will also find a Random Name Generator and cool quotes there. So what are you waiting for? Just head on to that site using link below.

NameFunk.com

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Samsung has entered Android market with the announcement of its first Android phone, Samsung I7500. With this, Samsung became the first company among the global top three mobile phone manufacturers to unveil an Android-powered phone. This phone will be available from June 2009 in European market. Here’s its features check.

The Samsung I7500 offers users access to the full suite of Google services like Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk etc. Also available will be Integrated GPS with Google Latitude, Street View, local search and detailed route description. The phone is having features as below.

• A 5-megapixel camera with Auto Focus and Power LED
• Touchscreen with a 3.2-inch AMOLED.
• 8 GB internal memory. Expandable up to 32 GB.
• MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, RA Audio formats support.
• MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV Video formats support.
• 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 and MicroUSB.
• EDGE / GPRS
• 11.9mm thick

Guess what lacks here? Yes, a full fledged physical keyboard. Not all users are used to virtual touchscreen keyboard. A physical keyboard could have been a worthy addition. But all in all a good phone with nice features. Prices have not been declared yet but expect it to be less.

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As was announced, Bluetooth Special Interest Group rolled out Bluetooth 3.0 on 21^st April, 2009. This new release is faster, safer and backward compatible. With this announcement from Bluetooth SIG, consumer electronics and device manufacturers can now build their application according to Bluetooth 3.0 specification. Here is a synopsis of features this new version is going to provide, taken from SIG press release.

Bluetooth 3.0 gets its speed from the 802.11 radio protocol. The inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) provides increased throughput of data transfers at the approximate rate of 24 Mbps. In addition, mobile devices including Bluetooth 3.0 will realize increased power savings due to enhanced power control built in.

This newest version of Bluetooth technology builds on the inherent qualities of the current 2.1 EDR version, including Simple Secure Pairing and built-in, automatic security. And as with all versions of the Bluetooth specification, Bluetooth 3.0 HS provides developers, manufacturers and consumers with the benefit of backwards compatibility, enabling both the expansion and enhancement of this technology with every new specification release.

Looks like this new version is primarily aimed at speed improvements, as their application area includes bulk transfer of videos, music and photos between user’s devices and the trusted devices of others, without the need for cables and wires. And what about those devices for general availability? It is expected to see consumer products in the market in 9 to 12 months.

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