div style="FLOAT: right"img title="Nyko Media Hub+ For PS3 Owners" alt="Nyko Media Hub+ For PS3 Owners" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/10/nyko-media-hub-plus.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pPS3 owners who want to expand on their console's connectivity options can look to Nyko's latest release - the a href="http://www.nyko.com/nyko/products/?i=142#"Media Hub+/a which features three more USB ports and a multiple memory card reader (SD and Memory Stick). This makes it a snap for you to juice up additional DualShock or SIXAXIS controllers while you're busy saving the world from an alien invasion, or even keep your PSP primed for use when you head outdoors right after you complete the current level. I see the Media Hub+ to be more relevant for 40GB PS3 owners due to limited USB ports on that model. You can pick up the Nyko Media Hub+ for a href="http://www.nyko.com/nyko/products/?i=142#"$19.99/a./p pa href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/nyko_media_hub_for_ps3_owners.html#comments"Add a comment/a | From: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/nyko_media_hub_for_ps3_owners.html"Nyko Media Hub+ For PS3 Owners/a | Visit a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081006214507" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081006214507?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081006214507" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081006214507amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2Fnyko_media_hub_for_ps3_owners.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/rByJ2MLlU5QOwDkaOO_ojQ1mep0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/rByJ2MLlU5QOwDkaOO_ojQ1mep0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=KdwLBGVU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=VJIfWJRn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=VJIfWJRn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=qigPDbbf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=scYfOVOm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=scYfOVOm" border="0"/img/a /div

div style="FLOAT: right"img title="BerryStore Caters For All BlackBerries" alt="BerryStore Caters For All BlackBerries" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/10/berrystore.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pBlackBerry owners, rejoice! BerryStore will not only provide applications for the upcoming Storm, but will cater to the other BlackBerries as well, including much older handsets. This is definitely a smack in the face for RIM's official a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/blackberry_application_center_could_give_app_store_a_run_for_its_money.html"BlackBerry Application Center/a, and will be able to see past the type of carrier your BlackBerry is attached to. As with anything new, content in the BerryStore isn't anything to shout about, concentrated mostly on location based services, Google-related applications and bookmark icons for news services, but I'm sure these will grow in due time. Everything is free at this point in time, althought future applications will take on a paid model./p pa href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/berrystore_caters_for_all_blackberries.html#comments"Add a comment/a | From: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/berrystore_caters_for_all_blackberries.html"BerryStore Caters For All BlackBerries/a | Visit a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081006213253" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081006213253?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081006213253" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081006213253amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2Fberrystore_caters_for_all_blackberries.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/3Sa_iZ-cVZscGemkkLuCKOOZj2o/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/3Sa_iZ-cVZscGemkkLuCKOOZj2o/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=s0rjnuh9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=XvjM2AVk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=XvjM2AVk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=XjbQX5nk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=ZQLDKaGZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=ZQLDKaGZ" border="0"/img/a /div

Out-law.com has an interesting discussion with a so-called "anti-piracy expert" where he a href="http://www.out-law.com//default.aspx?page=9461" target="_new"tries to make the point that pirates are not the "enemy" but are "competition."/a This is a step in the right direction -- though, one ignored by many industries threatened by unauthorized file sharing. As the MySpace Music offering a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080912/1514312256.shtml"shows/a, very little thought is given to actually icompeting/i with piracy. Most of these solutions simply try to pretend it doesn't exist -- which is a pretty difficult way to compete. br /br / But it's important to recognize that the market shift goes further than just seeing unauthorized file sharing as icompetition/i. To succeed in the marketplace, it shouldn't even be viewed as competition, but as a itool/i that can be used to your advantage. The business models that iembrace/i file sharing and use it to drive business to other parts of a business model are doing great, realizing that file sharing isn't the enemy and isn't competition, but is a great, efficient distribution mechanism that reaches a lot of people very quickly and effectively. Ignoring ways to make use of that seems pretty dangerous. br /br / a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080929/0135452397.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20080929/0135452397.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20080929/0135452397op=sharethis"Email This Story/a br / br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=9c418bb296b5d144c857638868998eee" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9c418bb296b5d144c857638868998eee" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=x9Jzm"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=x9Jzm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/413447055" height="1" width="1"/

div style="FLOAT: right"img title="iPod Nano 4G Clone Shoots As Well" alt="iPod Nano 4G Clone Shoots As Well" hspace="5" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/10/ipod-nano-clonecam.jpg" vspace="5" border="0" //div pIf the a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/revamped_nintendo_ds_lite_confirmed_announced.html"Nintendo DSi/a is getting a camera, why not the iPod nano? Apple has not yet taken that route with any of its iPods, but that has not stopped a Chinese manufacturer from coming up with a href="http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/202463693/2_4_TFT_color_display_PMP.html"a clone model/a, sporting a 4 megapixel camera (and I thought 4 was an inauspicious number for the Chinese), 2GB of internal memory, a 2.4" QVGA display and a miniSD memory card slot. It is available for A href="http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/202463693/2_4_tft_color_display_pmp.html"wholesale only/A, so you won't be able to snag one of these individually unless you have another 999 friends or so who want one./P pa href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/ipod_nano_4g_clone_shoots_as_well.html#comments"Add a comment/a | From: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/ipod_nano_4g_clone_shoots_as_well.html"iPod Nano 4G Clone Shoots As Well/a | Visit a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081006210141" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081006210141?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081006210141" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081006210141amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2Fipod_nano_4g_clone_shoots_as_well.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Bg29zF1r5YRaTR_YWmIpdpNwU_s/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Bg29zF1r5YRaTR_YWmIpdpNwU_s/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=N2Kk7qL0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=PzvRH6c8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=PzvRH6c8" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=Si5AaHSr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=DG9y17Q1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=DG9y17Q1" border="0"/img/a /div

pBack in March the press went crazy for Martin A. Nowakrsquo;s study on the value of punishment. A Harvard University mathematician and biologist, Nowak had signed up some 100 students to play a computer game in which they used dimes to punish and reward one another. The popular belief was that costly punishment would promote cooperation between two equals, but Nowak and his colleagues proved the theory wrong. Instead they found that punishment often triggers a spiral of retaliation, making it detrimental and destructive rather than beneficial. Far from gaining, people who punish tend to escalate conflict, worsen their fortunes and eventually lose out. ldquo;Nice guys finish first,rdquo; headlines cheered./ppIt wasnrsquo;t the first time Nowakrsquo;s computer simulations and mathematics forced a rethinking of a complex phenomenon. In 2002 he worked out equations that can predict the way cancer evolves and spreads, such as when mutations emerge in a metastasis and chromosomes become unstable. And in the early 1990s his model of disease progression demonstrated that HIV develops into AIDS only when the virus replicates fast enough so that the diversity of strains reaches a critical level, one that overwhelms the immune system. Immunologists later found out he had the mechanism right [see ldquo;How HIV Defeats the Immune System,rdquo; by Martin A. Nowak and Andrew J. McMichael; Scientific American, August 1995]. Now Nowak is out to do it again, this time by modeling the origin of life. Specifically, he is trying to capture ldquo;the transition from no life to life,rdquo; he says./p a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=can-math-solve-origin-of-life[More]/a

The epitome suite consists of several discrete pieces that provide storage deduplication services. Deduplication is defined as the elimination of redundant data. The idea behind epitome is to provide a WORM-based archive/backup mechanism that is lossless and offers permanent storage with inherent data protection properties. Additionally, it provides several metadata formats and back-ends to meet several usage models. It provides a number of services to enable three major archiving technologies: CAS, SIS, and DEDUP. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/xRpV-I27UAvJswPxJjHiJv-vkXI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/xRpV-I27UAvJswPxJjHiJv-vkXI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freshmeat/feeds/fm-releases-global/~4/sGdXcFbhLMg" height="1" width="1"/

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centerimg title="Sony Releases iPod Marine Headunits" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Sony Releases iPod Marine Headunits" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/10/sony-cdx-h910ui.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pSony has unveiled its first marine CD receivers that are compatible with iPods, two generations of iPhone as well as other compatible portable media players thanks to the use of USB connectivity. The two CD receivers are the CDX-H910UI and CDX-M60UI head units that also have Sonyrsquo;s MemoryBackup and ZAPPIN features. Both models also sport DM+ technology that makes your MP3s, non-DRM WMA and AAC format files sound much better by enhancing the audio quality of compressed audio. You can pick up the CDX-H910UI and CDX-M60UI for $350 and $200, respectively when they're available next January./p pa href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/sony_releases_ipod_marine_headunits.html#comments"Add a comment/a | From: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/10/sony_releases_ipod_marine_headunits.html"Sony Releases iPod Marine Headunits/a | Visit a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081006204133" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081006204133?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081006204133" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081006204133amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2Fsony_releases_ipod_marine_headunits.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/SRDkTtfiDnjkrCARaagaZBhBJAE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/SRDkTtfiDnjkrCARaagaZBhBJAE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=SOPhodQ0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=ostCHZ1P"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=ostCHZ1P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=956V3szz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=d6VgMe0t"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=d6VgMe0t" border="0"/img/a /div

pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/sony_reader.jpg" alt="image" align="right" width="160" height="219" /We're in e-book leapfrog mode ... the third generation of *Sony's* Reader Digital Book (PRS-700BC) offers a 6-inch touch screen with built-in LED lighting, a stylus, a virtual keyboard and a faster processor. Priced at $400, $50 higher than the Amazon (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=AMZN" class="ticker" title="AMZN"NSDQ: AMZN/a) Kindle, it should start shipping mid-November. Sony (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE" class="ticker" title="SNE"NYSE: SNE/a) has filled in some of the Kindle gaps and looks sleeker (that's not hard) but still lacks wireless. This reader is for people who aren't interested in impulse buying from the runway. Steve Haber, president of Sony's Digital Reading Business Division, a href="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20081003/ap_on_hi_te/tec_sony_reader" title="told AP "told AP /a a wireless unit is in the plans but it has to work with the multiple vendors that are now part of Sony's more open strategy. /p p Sony has the same kind of trade-in offer it has for laptops with the current generation of Readers, offering $100 off for anyone turning in the first generation. A similar program for the new model hasn't been posted yet but this one runs through January 2009. /p p Meanwhile, one of the favorite iPhone claims lately is how a free app called Stanza transforms the Apple (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=AAPL" class="ticker" title="AAPL"NSDQ: AAPL/a) device into a Kindle-Sony killing e-book. I've used Stanza and it's no Kindle. It will appeal to people who want the iPhone to be a Swiss Army Knife. br / /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-sony-opens-up-e-book-reader-to-other-online-stores-still-limited"Sony Opens Up E-Book Reader To Other Online Stores; Still Limited/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-borders-preps-for-sole-control-of-online-bookstore"Borders Preps For Sole Control Of Online Bookstore; Considers Selling MP3 Downloads/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-borders-set-to-unveil-co-branded-online-ebooks-store-with-sony"In Latest Bid To Push Ebooks, Sony Partners With Borders On E-Commerce Store/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/sony-reader-reviewed-ebooks-still-hard-to-cozy-up-to"Sony Reader Reviewed; Ebooks Still Hard To Cozy Up To/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/sonys-e-book-device-and-store-to-launch-next-month-six-publishers-on-board"Sony's E-book Device And Store To Launch Next Month; Six Publishers On Board/a/li /ul piOur mobile application for Blackberry and other Smartphones brings you the latest headlines when you're on the go. Go a href="http://m.paid.mwap.at/"here to download/a./i /p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=0ckYtG"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=0ckYtG" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=XUSOM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=XUSOM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=aSjVM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=aSjVM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=0F9zm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=0F9zm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=IaIKM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=IaIKM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=7kneM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=7kneM" border="0"/img/a /div

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Remember Broken Lizard's Beerfest? Whatever you thought of that 2006 comedy, it's difficult to dispute how incredibly astute the filmmakers were with rattling genre expectations in just a single scene. See, the American team's greatest beer guzzler, "Landfill", has passed away under shady circumstances, and right when everyone's ready to throw in the towel, in walks Landfill's identical twin brother, who they knew nothing about but who happens to have been told everything about each of them. Better yet, he's more than willing to even adopt Landfill's name, in an effort to bypass that whole awkward 'getting-to-know-you' stage.

It's every end-of-second-act "what do we do now, coach?" dilemma from an inspirational sports movie mercifully condensed to a couple of rapid-fire beats, and even if the rest of the film otherwise adheres to said sports movie formula, it's nice knowing that audience and actors alike were not going through the paces entirely unaware of how clichéd the entire narrative was.

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Gas gas hovers around $4 a gallon, your Prius-driving neighbors are cruising smugly all the way to Whole Foods. Sure, you could join their self-satisfied ranks. Or you could commute in style mdash; on a horse (if your city's ordinances allow it). The timing is good: Equestrian gear recently got some serious and long-needed upgrades. High tech, Silver, away! 1 // Bitless Bridle Robert Cook's Bitless Bridle is an evolution of an ancient pony-friendly design. It steers with straps that crisscross under the muzzle: To turn left, draw the left rein away from your steed's neck, applying pressure to the right cheek and turning its head in the direction you want to go. 2 // Ultralight Helmet Old-school hats were just velveteen-sheathed plastic. Today's models, made of high-density polystyrene, are almost half the weight of the classic style yet can withstand several hundred Newtons of force. 3 // Carbon-Fiber Saddle Leather seats have all the give of a two-by-four, and a bad fit can cause your horse's vertebrae to dip. The Swedish company Linear has designed a modular seat (for a custom fit) with a carbon-fiber core to spread your weight as evenly as possible. 4 // Polyurethane Wraps To better protect tendons and joints from accidental hoof slaps, wool wraps are being replaced by boots padded with gel and carbon fiber. An outfit called Veredus molds its shells from 54-Shore TPU, a tough polyurethane mixture that stays flexible down to 5xB0F. 5 // Springy...br/ br/ Wired.com pa href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?a=lYPrzr"img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/index?i=lYPrzr" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~4/413448832" height="1" width="1"/

raingrams version 0.1.0 has been released! Raingrams is a flexible and general-purpose ngrams library written in Ruby. Raingrams supports any non-zero ngram size, text/non-text grams, multiple parsing styles and open/closed vocabulary models. Changes:

The Toshiba E105 was announced a few days ago, and it is already available for pre-order online at BestBuy for $1,200. The laptop has a reasonable price and fair specs, but there are a few details that could be improved, maybe we'll see that change in the next model.

Anyway, the Satellite E105 is a 14.1-inch laptop with a hard-drive of 320GB, a DVD burner and a card reader that supports various formats. The technical stuff includes an Intel 4500MHD integrated graphics, which will surely make the 1280x800 resolution a good one. The processor is a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo, and the RAM memory is pretty good at 4GB of DDR2.

On the wireless connectivity options it offers WiFi (a/g/n) and bluetooth. Obviously, there are also 2 USB ports, and as an extra you get a fingerprint reader.

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Today’s cell phone users are constantly bombarded with new models; additional services and features have transformed this very popular device. Buyers need help with this problem so they make the corr… Source:Cell Phones - Bombarded With New Models

MacSpice 3f5 2.10.14

MacSpice 3f5... Circuit simulation is a way of building and testing virtual models of electronic devices. It is usually cheaper and quicker to simulate a design than to build a prototype. MacSpice, like most circuit simulators, requires a text-file description of the circuit as input. This netlist is a list of components and the nodes they connect to. Users may prepare netlists with a text editor, or derive them from a circuit diagram using a third-party schematic-capture application. MacSpice then builds a numerical model of the circuit and analyses this.

A command interpreter (shell) is used to specify the types of analyses that are required and how the results should be processed, saved or displayed. The high quality of the MacSpice command interpreter makes the automation of tasks straightforward.

MacSpice has native support for both PowerPC and Intel architecture Apple Macintosh computers. It is derived from, and compatible with, Berkeley Spice 3f5. MacSpice incorporates many improvements to Spice 3f5 - from simple bug-fixes to entirely new commands, algorithms and solution strategies. For example: the memory leaks that affected Spice 3f4 have been cured; new algorithms have been developed to facilitate the simulation of large circuits, and to reduce simulation time; MacSpice provides a robust multi-parameter optimizer and facilities for inter-process communication with other applications.

WHAT'S NEWVersion 2.10.14:

Enhancements:

• Graph cursors behave better.
• AC Sensitivity analysis now positions grid points accurately and can resume after interruption.
• Improved pole/zero analysis - negligible complex components are rounded to zero.
• Vectors use memory more efficiently.
• Better frontend performance when large numbers of vectors are in existence.
• The big_endian/little_endian flag is now implemented for rawfiles written in batch mode.
• Case-insensitive string comparisons are performed faster.
• A warning is now issued when breakpoints are being ignored, e.g. because pulse rise-times are shorter than the value of MINBREAK.
• var_free() and ctl_free() procedures re-coded to avoid potential stack overflow in extreme cases.
• Improved display of mutual inductance parameters by 'show'.
• Improved numerical stability of interpolate() frontend function.
• Improved 'rusage' statistics for interrupted transient simulations.
• Improved default behaviour of 'xd' and 'alpha' parameters for MOS3 devices.

Bugs fixed:

• 'shift' no longer causes a crash when it is given invalid arguments.
• 'goto $foo' when $foo has no value no longer crashes.
• Cured potential history list corruption when 'set history = 0' is used.
• Cured some minor memory leaks occurring during:
  • conversion of circuit parameters to vectors;
  • destruction of parse nodes referring to user-defined functions;
  • tokenization of models with zero-length parameters.
• AC sensitivity analysis now works with non-linear devices.
• Correct evaluation of lists containing empty lists.
• Variables 'numdgt' and 'rawprec' now unset at the first attempt.

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South African bloggers were among the first to report on South Africa's first electric car. On the blog Urbasprout, Glen was among the first people to post pictures of the car and detail on the company that made the car, the designer, design specifications and expected availability dates.

Battery range has previously been the biggest limiting factor with electric cars, but that looks set to change. The Joule will sport two lithium ion battery packs that will ensure the car has a range of 400km. The recharge time will be approximately 7 hours so it can be charged over night. Regenerative braking, where the battery is charged by the energy generated in braking, will add to the car's range.

As for where the car will be manufactured, Glen notes that:

Predictions are that 50 percent of the Joule's materials will be local and that it should be available towards the end of 2010 at a cost of R200 000. It is likely to be manufactured in Gauteng, but will also be available in Durban and Cape Town.

Laura of the Treevolution blog points to the IOL story, highlighting the description of the car by Edwin Naidu
a compact six-seater that looks like an uncluttered mix of a Renault Scenic and a Citroen Picasso

She notes that the general public will have to wait until the Paris Motor show in October to see the electric car.

Carl of Greencars.za.net adds more detail on the Joule, answering important questions regarding the availability of electricity to power electric cars in South Africa.

Independent analysis of Eskom, the country’s sole electricity provider, has confirmed that the South African grid has enough capacity to supply electrical energy to millions of cars without affecting its customer base or requiring any additional infrastructure. Eskom has vast amounts of excess energy between 11 PM and 6 AM (GMT +2); this will be the recommended recharging time. Electric cars only require about 20 percent of the energy that conventional cars require; this means that the total emissions are much less, even if Eskom’s coal dominated electricity is used. With the global trend of electricity generation becoming more renewable and cleaner, total emissions caused by electric cars will continue to shrink.

He also includes more information regarding the cars' battery, brakes, body, chassis, integrated vehicle computer, propulsion system, performance styling and suspension.

Last but not least, Rory of Carbon smart reminds readers that the factors that ‘killed the electric car decades ago' are still in play. He wonders how far this local initiative can get. He considers the recent article by wired magazine about Shai Agassi's model of selling electric cars. Rory points out that this model deals with the power storage problem that prevents wider adoption of electric cars.

Power storage is the biggest technical issue preventing rapid adoption of electric vehicles - primarily the weight of batteries, and the recharge time - and that's what this proposal addresses. The gist of it is that companies could be set up to sell electricity along with the cars. Buy yourself a contract that allows you to recharge your vehicle from a grid of power points, or simply by swapping batteries. The batteries are owned by the power supplier, making a battery swap an easy way to eliminate recharge time if you need to extend your travel range over one day, thereby eliminating the need for a costly backup internal combustion engine. And if you are not travelling far, you can keep fewer batteries on board to reduce weight. The car itself could even be free with a five-year contract for people who travel a lot, while others might buy the car and get electricity on a pay-as-you-go arrangement. Sound familiar? Yep, it's the cellphone contract model.

Hey guys. When I first bought my 20-inch alu iMac (higher model 20-inch) it was DEAD SILENT. But after about a month I start hearing the fans quite a bit more, and the hard drive clicks quite a bit. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix I could do myself for this, or would I have to bring it in to my closest certified Apple repair shop?

Thanks!

Filed under: Aftermarket, SEMA, Tuners, Coupes, Sedans/Saloons, Sports/GTs, Supercars, Bentley, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota

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Toyo has tapped a handful of tuners to produce six SEMA creations to highlight its range of track-ready and dirt-friendly tires. Unfortunately, we've already seen the 800 hp, Bentley Continental-based Tetsu GTR, but joining that rolling abomination to tasteless consumption are a handful of rides that better represent what SEMA is all about.

To begin with, Bulletproof Automotive is trotting out a customer-owned Nissan GT-R, wearing limited edition (and GT-R specific) BBS LM-DBK-P wheels wrapped in Toyo's 20-inch Proxes R888 tires. An Amuse Super Tough Titanium exhaust, Endless monoblock six-piston front and rear brakes and a smattering of carbon fiber aerodynamic parts round out this track- and show-friendly package.

Vivid Racing will be joined by several other firms bringing tuned Mitsubishi Evolution Xs to the show, but Vivid should stand out with its Porsche GT3 RS paint job, 18x10-inch AME Tracer 02 wheels and 650 hp on tap. We'll be on hand in a few weeks to find out how Vivid went about freeing those extra 350 ponies.

Additionally, an unnamed sixth vehicle will be accompanied by a 2009 Toyota Tundra CrewMax SR5 built by Two Brothers Custom Trucks, along with Choppin' Block Custom Fab's four-door 1931 Studebaker Model 54, riding on a custom air suspension, Centerline Smoothie wheels and powered by a Chevy 350 fed by a trio of two-barrel carburetors.

Hit the jump for all the details and stay tuned for our SEMA coverage beginning the first week of November.

Gallery: Toyo Tires at 2008 SEMA