PowerStrip provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce3 Ti500. A simple menu that pops up from the system tray provides access to some 500 controls over your display hardware, including sophisticated color correction tools, period level adjustments over screen geometry, and driver independent clock controls.
There are no noted changes in PowerStrip 3.14 Beta Build 249.
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There are no noted changes in PowerStrip 3.14 Beta Build 249.
News source: Betanews Download: PowerStrip 3.14 Beta Build 249 (Fileforum - 764KB)
The PC maker has begun equipping its Pavilion desktop PCs sold in North America with Zero-Knowledge security and privacy tools, and customers will be able to purchase additional tools, the company said.
The shift to making a recovery directly from the PC shows the difficulties that PC companies can face when making technology changes affecting consumers. Although HP said it made the switch for the benefit of its customers, the policy generated enough negative feedback that the company decided it needed to make a modification.
The lack of a recovery CD could cause problems for PC owners, according to analysts. Most important, a catastrophic hard-drive failure would put the partitioned mechanism--and the software that came with the PC--out of commission. A less dramatic reason for offering the CD is the relative ease of use it provides to technophobes and others. Many consumers also have gotten accustomed to seeing the CDs when they buy a new PC.
Bruce Greenwood, marketing manager for HP's consumer computing product, acknowledged that the reaction to the no-CD policy was much greater than expected, but he downplayed its significance.
HP gets about "50 calls a day" regarding the policy, Greenwood said, a volume that is "way below 1 percent of our calls."
The number of people considering a call could be 10 times greater, said IDC analyst Roger Kay. "But in the end, even if it's 500, it's not that very many people."
By contrast, "one of the highest call volumes we have had in the past is (from) people losing their recovery CDs," Greenwood said. "It was in the Top 10 of our calls--it was an issue. So in that instance people were going to have a recovery CD sent to them anyway. We think the switch we have is more convenient and it's faster. It is a selective recovery from the hard disk."
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