Neowin News Feed for: Cool

Reuters poll: Microsoft is cooler than Facebook and Twitter

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:44:53 +0000

Microsoft is becoming a "cool" company. At least that's what a recent poll seems to suggest. According to the result the Redmond company managed to rank higher than Facebook and Twitter. Read more...

Cool: Waterproof your iPhone or Galaxy S2 for just $15?

Steven Parker — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:50:52 +0100

A Japanese company has come up with a technology that completely waterproofs your iPhone or Galaxy S2 for a low price, taking a bath or going for a swim need no longer separate you from your device. Read more...

New cool feature enabled in Vista SP1: Hotpatching

franzon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:39:28 +0000

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Windows Vista SP1 enables support for hotpatching, a reboot-reduction servicing technology designed to maximize uptime. It works by allowing Windows components to be updated (or "patched") while they are still in use by a running... Read more...

10 Cool Things about Vista you may not have heard of

Brad Wardell — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:24:17 +0000

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With the release of MacOS X Leopard, the comparisons between Vista and Leopard are out in force. Windows Vista had a rough start and has taken its share of beatings on-line including here at... Read more...

3 Really Cool Tweaks for Windows Vista

Steven Parker — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:22:47 +0100

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Andreas Verhoeven has released three really great Windows Vista tweaking applications, designed to improve some of the visual decisions Microsoft made in Vista without much effort on your part. Download them and load shortcuts to... Read more...

Fast, Cool Intel Chips Ahead

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:26:07 +0000

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While AMD prepares its next set of processors--a multicore design code-named Barcelona and due this summer--Intel has already demonstrated samples of its more-advanced Penryn chip. It's manufactured in a 45nm process that uses hafnium-based high-k... Read more...

Nintendo Is Hot And Cool In The Sand And The Snow

Spartan_X — Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:35:15 +0000

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Marketing Blitz Showcases Nintendo DS and Nintendo GameCube An early spring marketing blitz is bringing Nintendo everywhere teens and college students play. From the beaches to the slopes and college campuses in... Read more...

IBM Looks to 'Nocona' to Cool Off Blade Servers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:23:18 +0000

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IBM next month will start powering its blade servers with Intel Corp.'s low-voltage version of its "Nocona" processor, a move designed to reduce the energy consumption and heat generated by the dense-form-factor systems. Using the... Read more...

New Cool, Quiet Laptop Hard Drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:11:02 +0100

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Mobile hard drives--partly because of their smaller, 2.5-inch size and their need to conserve notebook PC power--have always lagged behind 3.5-inch desktop models in performance and capacity. But a new generation of higher-performance, power-thrifty models... Read more...

What's cool about the upcoming Tablet PC software?

Tom Warren — Tue, 18 May 2004 17:36:40 +0100

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From Channel 9: "Peter Loforte, general manager of the Tablet PC team, shows us what is cool about the upcoming Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 software update (code-named "Lone Star.") ... Read more...

Intel Tries to Keep Its Cool

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:56:39 +0100

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Steve Pawlowski, the director of Intel's Microprocessor Technology Lab, knows Intel has a heat problem. As processors like Intel's Pentium 4 have increased in performance and power, they've also become generators of intense heat. Pentium... Read more...

Asian Linux: Some keen, others cool

NTUsEr — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:12:11 +0100

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Asia could leapfrog Western countries in the development of Linux-based applications, but some governments are not latching on to this opportunity, says a senior IBM executive. "The open-source movement is moving faster here... Read more...

Cool Desk v.3.86

Steven Parker — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:38:40 +0100

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Cool Desk is a virtual desktop manager. Ever wish to have several screens on your computer? Cool Desk creates up to 9 virtual desktops and allows you to have different windows in each of them.... Read more...

Cool Beans System Info v2.0.0.3

Marcel Klum — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 07:37:57 +0100

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It's small but it's an update :) Cool Beans System Info is a small but powerful program that monitors your computer's CPU, physical memory, and swap memory usage. Version 2 was rewritten from... Read more...

Cool Beans System Info v2

Marcel Klum — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:29:28 +0100

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Cool Beans System Info is a small but powerful program that monitors your computer's CPU, physical memory, and swap memory usage. Version 2 was rewritten from scratch, and adds network monitoring, a task manager,... Read more...

HP looks to keep systems cool

configure — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 11:12:45 +0100

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Addressing the growing problem of heat dissipation in chips and systems, Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced it is working on a suite of technologies to address heat generation and energy use in increasingly powerful microprocessors and... Read more...

Hitachi Shows Off Cool New Notebook

configure — Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:21:47 +0100

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Hitachi has announced the commercial launch of its water-cooled notebook PC, a 1.8-GHz mobile Pentium 4-based machine which uses a patented Hitachi system to aid heat dissipation. Most notebooks are cooled by air... Read more...

Cool Desk v.3.83 released

Steven Parker — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 10:56:02 +0000

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Cool Beans System Info 1.0.1.8 has been released.

vincent_inactive — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 07:41:59 +0000

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Thanks to John from Coolbeans for this one. Cool Beans System Info 1.0.1.8 Description: Cool Beans System Info is a small but handy program that monitors your computer's CPU, physical memory, and swap... Read more...

Cool Unreal 2 Wallpapers

Marcel Klum — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:38:22 +0100

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Saw this news when browsing Gamers.nl. The Unreal wallpaper page on PlanetUnreal has been updated with some amazing new Unreal 2 wallpapers. "After receiving many wallpaper submissions out of the blue,... Read more...