Right, so Intel's Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 is fast enough for the vast majority of PC users across the globe, but not for Japanese overclocking enthusiast duck. Oh no -- duck decided to pair the chip up with ASUS' ROG Rampage II Extreme motherboard, which facilitates hardware-based OC'ing, in order to reach a top speed of 5510.09MHz. The point of the exercise? Just to say he could, not to mention set the bar for OC Team Italy to try and demolish.Filed under: DesktopsIntel's Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 overclocked to 5.5GHz originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03...
Ed. Note: The following is Boing Boing guestblogger Clay Shirky's first post. Clay's traveling today, so I'm posting this one on his behalf. Image above: "Don't believe the Devil, don't beLIEve his book," a CC-licensed photo by Celeste, a Flickr user in Buenos Aires - Argentina. --XJ Every now and again, there is an essay that is so well written, so cleanly expressed, and so spectacularly wrong that it clarifies something you previously understood only dimly. James Gleick's recent advice to the publishing industry, How to Publish Without Perishing, was that for me. Gleick's thesis is that publishers are...
Admittedly I’m not an Android user so I don’t keep up to speed on current releases of all the applications. One email caught my eye thought and this thread on the forum gave me a little more info. According to my information, the virtual keyboard on a program called “Qsearch” can only be used for specific functions within the application but I believe it shows the promise of future development. Obviously there is much to be said for implementation inside the the design of Android/G1 itself so it doesn’t require 3rd party add ons for a virtual keyboard but...
While I've always practiced reasonable email hygiene, for the last 6 months I've been in near-constant email bankruptcy mode. This concerns me. Yes, it's partly my fault for being a world champion procrastinator, but I'm not sure it's entirely my fault. There are forces at work here, factors that easily outstrip the efforts of any one measly human being, no matter how tenacious and dogged. Or, as in my case, lazy. I've always liked Merlin Mann's explanation of this phenomenon: Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a...
I was having a browse about the Telegraph website. Now and again the videos on the right-hand site start playing. Just a moment ago, I was reading away and caught sight of our very own Mr Whatley talking about the LG Renoir handset. I was wondering when this was going to go public! It appears to be promo’ing in front of most of the Telegraph website vids at the moment, but you can catch all five minutes of joy right here. Or a direct link to the video here. Nice! You can, of course, find James regularly on the...
Twitter yesterday announced the acquisition of small-time Web 2.0 startup Values of N, creator of the utilities I Want Sandy and Stikkit. We’ve covered both companies here previously at Mashable, and I’ve spoken several times about my general love for I Want Sandy as a unique and valuable approach to the virtual personal assistant problem. I Want Sandy is a virtual personal assistant that’s integrated with your email so that keeping track of appointments and such is a slightly less stressful fact of every day life […] I Want Sandy works by offering you your own email address. This...
David Faustino, who you may remember as Bud from Married...With Children, his arrest, stint in rehab, and divorce, has teamed up again with Corin "Corky" Nemec of Parker Lewis Can't Lose to create a web series for this website called Crackle. According to my friend Andrew, Crackle was once called Grouper, but I've heard of neither and am once again amazed at the amount of stuff on the internet that just exists. Anyway, coming soon on Crackle, a web series about the broken down life of David Faustino, called Starv-ing. I'm not sure what in the world is going on...
I spoke with Paul Dunay last night, who is the Global Director of Integrated Marketing at Bearing Point, as well as a B2B technology marketing blogger. During our call, we talked about people’s Google results and what that says about them. Our conversation sparked this post, which deals with identifying your current “Google results” situation and deciding what you want to show up for your personal brand. There are a few main reasons why you should pay attention to your Google results: Journalists are Google’ing topics to find sources for their articles. Managers are Google’ing your name to ensure you...
In what can only be termed as a warm and mushy goodbye post GigaOM has joined the number of big name blogging properties that have left the Federated Media stable for other pastures. As Om Malik said in his goodbye post to the Federated Media crew Progress is often accompanied by a divergence of ideas and ambitions within partnerships. At Giga Omni Media, we have been developing a network that revolves around niche verticals. As our needs became more specialized, we sat down with the folks at Federated to try and figure out how we could continue to...
On Wednesday, a 19-year-old young man in Florida killed himself live on the Internet, broadcasting the event by connecting a webcam in his bedroom to Justin.tv, a lifecasting site. Viewers who tuned in and egged Abraham Biggs on, presuming it was a prank, were shocked to see police arrive on the scene a few hours after Biggs stopped moving. What drives a teenager to swallow a bottle of pills on camera? "It's often rage against a loved one, turned inward," one white-smocked expert told me. Biggs's final post suggests rage against several loved ones, turned against himself in an attempt...
