29 Ocak 2009 Perşembe

Toshiba Product Design Contest : Hard Disk Drive Revolution

Toshiba Europe has today launched a design competition to find a perfect concept design for Toshiba's tiny 0.85-inch hard drive.The 'Hard Disk Drive Revolution' design competition will see winning designers from design universities and design houses going head to head while Toshiba decides on what will be the winning creation.The hard drive itself is the first drive to have achieved multi-gigabyte data storage at a sub-one-inch size.It's absolutely tiny, being the size of a £1 coin.The idea behind it is supposedly for accelerating innovation in "small, powerful digital products by delivering high storage capacities essential for next generation applications."

19 Ocak 2009 Pazartesi

Introduction

DVD Mate is a well-functional burner software with all the general features provided by any other burner software, such as different modes for Data Disc, Mixed Mode Disc, and Audio Disc. It also supports multiple CD/DVD writers and the RAW Write feature. This software is easy to use, fully functional and requires only a limited amount of hard disk space. It is undoubtedly your best choice for CD/DVD burning solution.In addition, this burner software is incomparably powerful and convenient for creating music disc. Users do not have to extract audio tracks and convert them to WAV files or compress all sorts of music files (MP3, MP4, OGG, APE, etc.) with any other tool or software. By using DVD Mate, users can have all these conversions and disk creation done at once.With DVD Mate, users can copy files from the computer to a CD/DVD writer to have your data saved permanently and the data will be readable on any CD/DVD drives. And, of course, users can create music Discs to play from PC or car CD/DVD player.

Computer

A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions.
The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (1940–1945), although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier. Early electronic computers were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PC).[1] Modern computers are based on tiny integrated circuits and are millions to billions of times more capable while occupying a fraction of the space.[2] Today, simple computers may be made small enough to fit into a wristwatch and be powered from a watch battery. Personal computers, in various forms, are icons of the Information Age and are what most people think of as "a computer"; however, the most common form of computer in use today is the embedded computer. Embedded computers are small, simple devices that are used to control other devices — for example, they may be found in machines ranging from fighter aircraft to industrial robots, digital cameras, and children's toys.
The ability to store and execute lists of instructions called programs makes computers extremely versatile and distinguishes them from calculators. The Church–Turing thesis is a mathematical statement of this versatility: any computer with a certain minimum capability is, in principle, capable of performing the same tasks that any other computer can perform. Therefore, computers with capability and complexity ranging from that of a personal digital assistant to a supercomputer are all able to perform the same computational tasks given enough time and storage capacity.