Category: Utilities
Released: Aug 30, 2008
Price: Free

Description:
UPDATED: Units has now been updated to include 35 user selectable currencies, volumetric flow conversion, a clear button on text fields, more UK volume units and several bugs have been fixed! Units is a really useful app that lets you easily convert from various units into lots of others. Units can convert Area, Currency, Energy, Temperature, Time, Length, Weight, Speed, Pressure, Power, Volume & Data Storage. Units can even help you find out exactly how much data storage you really get when buying computer peripherals, by converting "Literal" Gigabytes (as used on store boxes) into real Gigabytes. (eg. a 16GB iPhone has 14.9 Gigabytes of actual storage!) As an added bonus, Units also has a built in ruler, for doing small, quick measurements when the need arrises.

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Alright, I have a pair of Sennheiser HD555s, and they are plugged directly into my motherboard, a gigabyte P35-DS3L. It has a really decent audio chip, and to me the sound quality is better than anything else I have heard personally so I am quite happy with it... super clean sound, very good frequency response curve from what I can tell.


The last few weeks I have noticed that the left speaker is getting slightly quieter though... I have to adjust the balance either in winamp or with the windows volume control window. I'm sure its not my ear itself, because I have put the headset on backwards to test.

Anyone else experience this somewhat? I hope my headset isnt dieing :(

Gigabyte a fait la présentation d’une nouvelle carte Radeon 4850 qui a la particularité de bénéficier d’un refroidissement passif (GV-R485MC-1GI).

Legit Reviews posted a review on the Gigabyte GA-EP45T-Extreme Motherboard ...

With the advancement of technology, USB devices can store gigabytes of data and have become very small in size. This makes it very easy for a person to walk into office, copy confidential data onto the USB Drive and walk away without anyone even knowing about.

Digit-Life has posted a review on the Gigabyte MA78GPM-DS2H Motherboard...

Researchers at Foundation for Research and Technology in Heraklion, Greece - that hotbed of Facebook research - have created a small Facebook application that causes a DDOS on a certain website. The application masquerades as a “picture of the day” app and shows an image from National Geographic. When someone clicks on it, however, it makes a request to a victim’s website, ultimately pulling down about 248 gigabytes of malicious data a day and essentially shutting down the server.

Obviously this application needs a perfect storm to be useful: you need to have a target and create a popular enough application that would encourage multiple installs. While one or two clicks won’t take down a site, the entire population of Facebook clicking on something definitely could.

The researchers wrote about the application in a detailed paper [PDF] and, by extrapolation, were able to tell how hard they could hit target servers provided, of course, the application was as popular as Super Wall or Bumper Sticker. They also recommend shoring up Facebook’s API to prevent this sort of mischief in the future.

Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

Thanks to the sharp eyes of [H] forum member AuDioFreaK39, we have a handful of pictures of the Gigabyte X58-Extreme motherboard. You will notice that this board not only sports Intel’s LGA 1366 socket but also four PCI-E slots (2 x 16, 2 x 8) and 6 DIMM slots for “triple channel DDR3.” Hit the link for more information.

Trouver une carte graphique puissante et à la fois silencieuse n'est pas une mince affaire. Rare sont les modèles disponibles sur ce secteur, vous aurez à faire votre choix entre des Radeon HD 3850/3870 de chez Sapphire et HIS ou bien à importer une 8800 GT de chez Sparkle. Le reste des cartes fanless étant décliné en entrée et milieu de gamme.

Notre confrère HomeMedia vient de mettre en ligne un test de la GV-NX96T512HP de Gigabyte, une GeForce 9600 GT équipée d’un système de refroidissement passif, ce qui ne l’empêche pourtant pas d’être overclockée d’usine.

In a not-so-surprising turn of events, Microsoft hacked down Xbox 360 prices, with the Arcade model going even cheaper than the Wii. One analyst believes that the PlayStation 3 might be on the losing end this holiday season. But is Sony concerned? No, not really.

Sony's Julie Han explains: "We'll obviously see the natural lift [in sales] with the price cut, but how sustainable is that in the long term?" In case you're wondering: no, they still don't have any plans to cut prices for the PlayStation 3. Han explains:

We know PS3 offers that value across the board, with the built-in Blu-ray player the broadest and deepest software lineup in the industry, with LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, Motorstorm [Pacific Rift]... we're quite confident our holiday sales will be good.

[...] We feel the PS3 offers the value at that price point. More than anything, you'll see with the 80-gigabyte announcement at E3 as well as with the recent 160 gif, consumers are telling you they want more storage for photos, music... new games are also getting quite a bit of pickup through PlayStation Network.

There's also our new video download service that consumers are going to want to do. It's showing that we're moving in the right direction.

So even if Sony doesn't come in first place for the holidays, they seem pretty confident that they'll have the upper hand in the long run. Now if I had to guess what Nintendo is thinking about this whole price cut thing, it's probably: "yeah, whatever."


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Les cartes passives se developpent de plus en plus, la preuve avec notre comparatif de 3 9600 GT passives. De plus, ces cartes arrivent maintenant à offrir une puissance plus que raisonnable, et sont même overclockées, tel le modèle Gigabyte que vient de tester Home Media. Puissance et Silence, deux termes qui intéresse notre confrère dans le cadre d'une installation Home Cinema.