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Call of Duty: Black Ops is the latest game of a Call of Duty series that developed by Treyarch CoD and soon will be published by Electronic Arts. This First Person Shooter (FPS) game is reportedly going through some major changes.
Treyarch seems to have become typical for CoD story taken on the battle long ago. Previously, this American game developers have made CoD 3: World at War which tells the battle in World War era. Similar fate would befall even seem BlackOps.
BlackOps will take place on the cold war era, which ranged from 1985 to 1991. In this game, gamers will play as part of the elite troops who would carry out various tasks confidential.
Serve as a reliable soldier, will bring players to a variety of combat experience that is quite impressive. On one particular mission, gamers will have the chance to ride the SR-71, the reconnaissance aircraft operating at altitude. Continue Reading
The battle of older and younger brother. In this review we will doing some test on 2 different generation video cards. HD 4670 came from Radeon 4000-series, which released on Q4 2008, and HD 5670 is on AMD’s latest GPU series, 5000-series. With different technology and fabrication, its almost sure that the Radeon HD 5670 can easily beat the older Radeon HD 4670.
This is the full specification,
| Video Card: | Radeon HD 5670 | Radeon HD 4670 |
| GPU: | Redwood | RV730 |
| Release Date: | 14/01/2010 | 10/09/2008 |
| Interface: | PCI-E 2.0 x16 | PCI-E 2.0 x16 |
| Core Clock: | 775 MHz | 750 MHz |
| Memory Clock: | 2000 MHz (4000 DDR) | 1000 MHz (2000 DDR) |
| Memory Bandwidth: | 64 GB/sec | 32 GB/sec |
| Pixel Fill Rate: | 6200 MPixels/sec | 6000 MPixels/sec |
| Texture Fill Rate: | 15500 MTexels/sec | 24000 MTexels/sec |
Max Power Draw: | 61 W | 59 W |
| Noise Level: | Moderate | Moderate |
| Framebuffer: | 512,1024 MB | 256,512,1024 MB |
| Memory Type: | GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
| Memory Bus Type: | 64×2 (128 bit) | 64×2 (128 bit) |
| DirectX Compliance: | 11.0 | 10.1 |
| OpenGL Compliance: | 3.2 | 2.1 |
| PS/VS Version: | 5.0/5.0 | 4.1/4.1 |
| Process: | 40 nm | 55 nm |
| Fragment Pipelines: | 400 | 320 |
| Vertex Pipelines: | 0 | ? |
| Texture Units: | 20 | 32 |
| Raster Operators | 8 | 8 |
For people those using Smartphone/PocketPC under Windows Mobile operating system can enjoy the benefits of the Firefox web browser features in their mobile devices. Mozilla Foundation has released a browser with the bat’s head logo named Fennec.
Fennec initially created to work on the Nokia Internet Tablet uses Maemo, its own operating system. For Windows Mobile 6 is currently only available alpha version of Fennec. This application is designed for Windows Mobile 6, for other versions though there’s no harm in trying.
Currently, this applications can be used but not still limited in many features. Fennec Alpha version is intended for testing. Nevertheless, the Fennec alpha was completed major features.
Those features adopts the desktop irefox for PCs like the add-ons manager, download manager, bookmarks folder and editing, as well as features to shift and enlarge the view. Mozilla is also buried TraceMonkey which is special JavaScript engine and jemalloc, memory management library. System tab to open many sites on a window like Firefox also provided although modified in the form of thumbnails.
“We hope the developers of applications on Windows Mobile and users join the community of Mozilla developers and users to support the development, testing, and fix of this product,” says Brad Lassey, one of the developers.
Even Mozilla Fennec version also provides a PC / Mac so that developers and users who do not have a Windows Mobile device can still participate. Information, download, and install either from a PC / Mac and Windows Mobile 6 are available on the Mozilla site.
Running Android OS in iPhone 3G? What are you talking exactly?
Yes, its real! I call it iPhoneDroid
A guy nicknamed Planetbeing known as iPhone hacker . He was heavily involved in various efforts in iPhone jailbreaking. However, since mid-2009, Planetbeing seems out of circulation.
Well, as quoted from MobileCrunch, Thursday (22/4/2010), Planetbeing suddenly re-emerged with a surprise. He managed to break an iPhone to be able to run Android operating system. Although, Planetbeing acknowledge his efforts are not perfect and is still in Alpha stage.
As appeared in the video, several things can be done. Functions including touch screen, Wifi access, play music and more. “Well, this is not production quality, I think this is still Alpha quality,” he said.
The interesting thing, the video shows that the iPhone 3G could run two operating systems at once. On the one hand there is the iPhone OS that runs ‘normal’ (the jailbreak version, of course), on the other side is the Android with a rather limited functionality.
In 2009, Planetbeing have demonstrated how to run the Linux kernel on the iPhone. He later confessed to jailbreak iPhone 3GS with other projects.
Planetbeing’s video demonstrating the iPhone running Android can be seen on YouTube.
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