Why Apple picked Intel

Steve Jobs sent a seismic shocker across the tech landscape in June when he announced Apple would phase out PowerPC chips and put Intel processors inside Macs starting in 2006. To some, the move seemed puzzling: Why would Jobs, the king of cool design, make a deal with half of the empire that conquered the world with cookie-cutter beige boxes? Jobs had an answer at the ready during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote —a switch to Intel chips means better Mac hardware down the line. And analysts agree that the move ensures Apple’s ability to craft unique designs.



But one aspect of the “Why switch processor suppliers?” question hasn’t been answered. Intel isn’t the only X86 chipmaker in town. Why didn’t Jobs, ever the maverick, opt for the scrappy challenger, Advanced Micro Devices, instead of the old-money establishment, Intel?




The reason, industry analysts say, is that Jobs has a clear goal in mind: innovative designs. And such designs require the lowest-voltage chips, which IBM and Freescale were not going to make with the PowerPC chip core—and which AMD has not yet perfected.



“This is a practical, pragmatic Steve Jobs decision,” says Shane Rau, Program Manager, PC Semiconductors for market research firm IDC. Intel serves up the most complete line of low-power chips for mobile and small form factor computers, and a good-looking future roadmap for it. Also, Intel’s mammoth production capacity erases any supply worries.

Intel’s inside advantages

Mac users have come to see that Apple had good reasons for kissing PowerPC goodbye. The company knows trends when it sees them: mobile computing has moved past being a mere fad among a few users to become a way of life for many consumers. Yet PowerPC chips aren’t traveling down this road. Apple also needs faster chips, with more room to grow, and a chip partner with a clear roadmap for the future. Otherwise Wintel PCs could run too many miles ahead of Macs in the performance race.

Still, that doesn’t explain how AMD lost out to Intel. AMD has made a name for itself with super-fast machines, especially popular with gamers and bargain hunters, who value the couple hundred dollars you can often save by buying AMD-based PCs instead of Intel-powered ones. Jobs may have liked AMD’s hard-charging rep—but it’s possible he saw some problems he couldn’t ignore.

“One of the biggest considerations for Apple was getting a roadmap in all possible markets where they may play,” says IDC’s Rau, “and if you look at AMD’s product line, there are some holes.” Most notably, AMD hasn’t invested in creating a line of low voltage and ultra-low voltage processors that competes with what Intel offers.

AMD would need to develop a chip core especially suited to low-power, as Intel did with the Pentium M, a costly undertaking. Plus, the overall sales opportunity for such chips isn’t huge yet, says Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst for Insight 64. Because AMD’s research and development budget pales next to Intel’s, AMD has to pick its battles with Intel carefully—whereas Intel makes chips for almost every market niche. “Intel can afford to dedicate the resources,” Brookwood says.

By choosing Intel, Apple gets access to the highly-anticipated chip code-named Yonah, a low-power chip with a dual core processor, which aims to band together the power of two regular chips. Aimed at notebooks, Yonah should arrive in PCs in the first quarter of 2006; in keeping with its tradition of remaining tight-lipped about future products, Apple has not commented on when Yonah might show up in its mobile line.

“Yonah could have been the tipping point for Apple,” says Kevin Krewell, editor-in-chief of the Microprocessor Report. Yonah can power Apple notebooks that fly past today’s models.

AMD does not have a direct Yonah competitor that would be available in the same timeframe that Intel is discussing. Is AMD working on a Yonah-like competitor? AMD won’t discuss timeframe or specifics, but the company is currently developing a low-power, dual-core chip for thin and light notebooks, company spokesman Damon Muzny says.

Intel also employs a huge cadre of programmers, a resource that could be important to Apple as software gets rewritten for the x86 architecture, says Microprocessor Report’s Krewell. AMD’s programmer ranks don’t compare in size.

Technology behind Free SMS

I am revealing the technology behind free sms which many online free SMS Service providers use it and also may be asking you to buy SMS credits to send SMS.Most of the Online Free SMS Service Providers write their programs in ASP or PHP. The basic model is when you send a SMS to your friend, for example 9849012345, then the web program just emails your SMS content to 9849012345@airtelap.com. This is very simple, easy and for God sake they are also charging you for this.If your are an expert in ASP or PHP then simply write a program with the information I gave below and then now you can offer free SMS from your own website.You can now send SMS to your family members, colleagues, relatives, friends mobiles with free of cost. It is free for the receiver mobile also as all incoming SMS to any mobile in India is free. In India the cellular operators are not charging for incoming SMS. So enjoy funSMS.net service!!!I am here giving all the Cellular Networks , their Phone Number Series and their mobile emails. And so just search the Phone Number series( ex: 9849) of your friend and then email them to their mobile email and it will delivered in minutes.Mechanism : Just send an email from your gmail or kify mail account to the Mobile Email of your friend and it will SMSed to your friend mobile phone.Delivery of the Message : It will be delivered in minutes. If the cell is switched off, then the message will be delivered as soon as it comes to the network. So no probs!Example: If your Friend Mobile No is 9843028370, then your Friend Mobile No. Series is 9843 and so you have to send an email to your friend as 9843028370@bplmobile.com and it will be SMSed to his mobile.ok.

Stopping Unneeded Startup Services and Making XP boot faster

Along with the core operating system and programs that Windows XP runs when it starts, there is also a host of services involved. Many of these services are necessary for Windows XP to operate correctly. However, many of them are for features in Windows XP that you may not use at all. You can peruse the services and disable any service that you do not want to run. The fewer services that run, the more quickly Windows XP will boot.To reduce the number of services that start on bootup, you can access two different areas of Windows XP.o The first is the System Configuration Utility. You can do that by entering the command "msconfig" in the run menu.Start ->Run ■> "msconfig" (without quotes) Hit EnterThe Services tab shows you the services that start when the computerboots. You can stop a service from starting by simply clearing the check boxnext to the service and clicking OK.o However, before you do so, there is another way to disable services that you may prefer because the interface gives you more information about the service in question. Open Control Panel -» Administrative Tools ^Services orStart -> Run -> "services.msc" Hit EnterTake a quick look at common services you may want to live without:Automatic Updates: This service enables Windows XP to check the Web automatically for updates. If you don't want to use Automatic Updates, you can disable the service.Computer Browser: If your computer is not on a network, you don't need this service. If you are on a network, leave it alone.DHCP Client: If you are not on a network, you do not need this service. If you are on a small workgroup, you can still increase boot time by configuring manual IP.DNS Client: If you are not on a network, you do not need this service.Error Reporting and Event Log: You don't have to use these services but they can be very helpful, so I would leave them configured as automatic.Fax: If you don't use your computer for fax services, you can disable this one.Help and Support: Disable if you never use the Windows XP Help and Support Center.IMAPI CD-Burning COM: This service enables you to burn CDs on your computer. If you never burn CDs, you can disable the service without any second thoughts.Indexing Service: Your computer keeps an index of all the files. But if you rarely search for files, the service is just a resource hog. You can stop itWindows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing: If you do not use these features, plz disable.Infrared Monitor: If you do not use infrared devices, you can disable this service.Messenger: This service sends alert messages on a local area network (it is not the same as Windows Messenger). If you are not on a network, you can disable this service.Print Spooler: If you do not do any printing from the computer, you can disable this service. If you print, make sure you leave it as automatic.Remote Registry: This service allows remote users to modify the Registry on yourcomputer. If you are not on a network, you can disable this service.System Restore Service: This service allows you to use System Restore. If you have turned off System Restore anyway, you do not need to turn off the service.Themes: If you do not use themes, you can disable this service.Windows Image Acquisition: If you do not use scanners or digital cameras, you can disable.Wireless Zero Configuration: If do not use wireless networking devices, you can disable.

HACKING XP PASSWORD

1. Open command prompt (Start->Run->cmd),2. Enter the following command, then press ENTER3. Enter the followin command, then press ENTER:compmgmt.mscThis should open the computer management console.4. Go to local users & groups->users. Right click on any user and select "set password".If you get a "access denied" do the following:start>run>cmdthen use following commands1) net user test /add (this command will make test named user)2) net localgroup administrators test /add (this command will make test user as administrators rights)and use net user command to reset your admin. passwordAlternativeWhat if u don't know the password of your admin and still want to hack and change .. yea u can do it ..in a very easy manner.. check this. just follow the steps.. this doesn't require u to know the admin password but still u can change it..Start >> Run >> [type]cmd // this will open your command prompt[type] net(space)user(press enter)[type] net(space)user(space)[windowsloginid](sp ace)*(press enter)// for e.g. : net user HOME *(press enter)[type] new password (press enter) and retype it (press enter).. it will show u confirmation... // caution it wont show u the password u type.. but it still types.. the blinking pointer will b there at the same place.. but it still works// for e.g. : password changed successfully.

Find Every File

When you search for a file in Windows Windows searches only for file types it recognizes. Files that aren't listed in the 'Registered file types' list are ignored. Fortunately, a simple edit of the Registry will make Windows search for every file, regardless of its extension. Open the Registry Editor as described above, and then navigate to and select:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex. Double-click the FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions icon in the right pane, change the 0 in the 'Value data' box to 1, and press Enter.To ensure that Windows XP searches for every possible file, select All Files and Folders under 'Type of file' in the Search Companion pane. (If you don't see this option, click More Advanced Options.) Check Search system folders, Search hidden files and folders, and Search subfolders (as desired). In Windows 2000, click Search Options, check Type, and make sure that (All Files and Folders) is selected in the resulting drop-down menu. Check Advanced Options, and make sure Search Subfolders is checked. Finally, to ensure that Windows 2000 finds system and hidden files, choose Tools, Folder Options and click the View tab. In the 'Advanced settings' list, select Show hidden files and folders. Uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended), click Yes to acknowledge the warning, and finish by clicking OK.

Destroy a WebSite!!!!!

Yeah this sounds crazy at first glance.You have a friend whose site you want to destroy ? Go tonetdisaster.com or destroysites.com,enter the url of the target, select your weapon of choice from (30 / 16) different including gunshots, kisses, ant hills, tomatoes and a haunting. Turn sounds on or off and select to auto destruct the site or manually destroy it. Hit go and the site will face serious damage: Virtually of course. Netdisaster features more weapons like meteors, a razor, god or a chainsaw.I suggest you visit this website if you want to see the full arsenal of weapons.Manual destruction is way harder, you have to find the spots that you can click to execute the action.My suggestion, use auto destruct, lean back and watch how the computer does the work for you..No harm was done to websitesHave Fun, and enjoy destroying the websites.......

Finding a invisible user on Yahoo! Messenge

Many people nowdays prefer to stay offline while using Yahoo! Messenger -mostly done to avoid someone. There are many ways of finding people who are online but yet invisible.First Method: Doodle Method1. Double Click on the user whose status you want to check.2. A message window will open.3. Click IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and click on Doodle.4. The last step and the most important step. After loading the Doodle IMVironment, there will be two possibilities.a) If the user is offline, the Doodle area will show “waiting for your friend to load Doodle” continuously. If the user is online (in invisible mode), after few seconds (it can take up to one minute, depending on connection speed), you will get a blank page. So the user is online!There is a counter attack of this trick:Go to Messenger>>Preferences>>Messages and now uncheck Enable IMVironments. Now this trick is nullified!Second Method: Voice Chat1. Double Click on the user whose status you want to check.2. Click on “Voice” icon on the toolbar, or select “Contact” menu and select “Enable Voice Chat” .3. The deciding part… there are 2 possible results:a) If the user is offline, you will get this message: “Internal server error. Cannot obtain voice token to start voice chat.” If the user is invisible (actually online), you will see the Voice Toolbar.Third Method: Conference Invitation1. Right Click on the user whose status you want to check.2. When the menu appears, select Invite to Conference.3. A window will appear. See at the right pane, the username you selected will be there. Now, click Invite.4. The deciding part… there are 2 possible results:a) If the user is offline, you will get this message: “None of the users in the invite list are available to join the conference. Please try at a later time.”If the user is invisible, you will get a window similar saying: “You are now logged into voice conference - "Fourth Method: Buddy Spy1. Get Buddy Spy fromhttp://www.buddy-spy.com2. Go to configure and enter your login details.3. Now go to Buddy Spy option and enter the username you want to track. You can also check multiple ids also. Not only Buddy Spy tells the status of Chat but also Room Chat and WebCamera status of that user also!4. You can edit other options through Scan Options menu.Now Have a great chatting!

Password protect folders in XP with & without software

Folder lock with software click here http://www.esnips.com/doc/7f993235-e6dc-4ccc-b107-7ee46b69f793/pc-security(reg now download full version by the txt files key............................................Folder lock without software----1 If u have a login passwordfor your account, this can be used to protect yourfolders from other users.Your hard drive must be formated usingNTFS(wich is probablyi is unless your dual booting with another operating system)..........Right click on the folder that u want to make privateand choose"properties"(or alt+double-click). Go to the "sharing" tab ang check the "make this folder private"box. Click applay.If u donot have password on your account, a box will pop up asking if u want assign a password.This must be done if u want to make this folder private, so click 'yes'. You will need to use password to log in to your computer then on. Try a password then conform it.Click the"creat password"button then close the password window..Click ok in the properties box. Now any one login in to your computer can't acces to that files without knowing password..............................................................2 If your folder is zipped then directly u can apenthe file in it and see ADD A PASSWORD. And conform the password and it will B safe............................................................

Saving Real Audio to Hard Disk

You will need the following tools: Real Player, Real Player Alternative or another tool / plugin that plays real audio files. I suggest Real Player AlternativeThere is more than one way to save the files. I try to give an overview on all of them, there are surely more out there but I think its sufficient if you know how to save them, no one needs more than 2-3 ways for the same process.1. Go to a webpage that offers Real Audio Streams, they normally offer a link to a .ram file which you download. The .ram file only contains the link to the .ra / .rm file, and thats what we need. Remember the .ra file contains the audio, the .ram file the location of the audio file.Download the .ram file and open it locally with a text editor. You should see a line with a link to the audio file. If you are lucky the url starts with http:// If thats the case simply copy paste the url into your browser and you are prompted to download the audio file.Unfortunatly most of the time the url does not start with http but with rtsp:// for example. The browser won´t download this files, there is a workaround for this though. Just a quick note, there is an older format as well, just in case, don´t worry if you find a pnm:// link, its just the old protocol. There should not be a lot of those around anymore.You can use the flashget program to which is a download manager to save streams, it is able to handle the rtsp:// format as well as others.Once on your hard disk simply double click to start the audio

To increase the Internet speed

Open Notepad and paste the below code in it.[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]"SackOpts"=dword:00000001"TcpWindowSize"=dword:0005ae4c"Tcp1323Opts"=dword:00000003"DefaultTTL"=dword:00000040"EnablePMTUBHDetect"=dword:00000000"EnablePMTUDiscovery"=dword:00000001"GlobalMaxTcpWindowSize"=dword:0005ae4cNow save this file as speed.reg. Execute it and observe the cha

Reduce The Wait Time

If you use a Point-to-Point Protocol connection over Ethernet (PPPoE), you may notice a delay in using the PPPoE connection after startup. By default, there is a 120 second delay but you can stop this behavior by manually configuring an IP address for the network adapter card. If you do not use a PPPoE connection, you can skip this section.1. Select Start/Connect to/Show All Connections.2. Open the TCP/IP properties for your LAN network interface card.3. Manually set the IP address on the TCP/IP properties to an appropriate IP address and subnet mask for your network.

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No CD patch,hacks for all games

An index to 50,000 files of Rapidshare

Search Filesharing sites for files

Tons of free legal MP3 Sites

32,000 Full Movies on Google Videos

Some Site to Download Freeware

A Crazy site with ROMs to download

Apple Safari Browser now for Windows

CD/DVD Covers Download

List of sites to download subtitles

Download Streaming Music,Videos and flash files

A Great Ebook Site

Video Game Music Website

Best Torrent Search engine

Visit the site Vngrabber

Hope these site come in handy to you....Go give your friends a surprise......

May be due to some heavy load this site seems to display a message 'sever is busy for just few seconds' sometimes.

Visit the site Xeeber

Here is another site that works like the same as Xeeber.VNGrabber is also working good. TESTED. If you know anyother sites like these do add them in the comments section.

Make your Invisible yahoo friends visible

Is your friend always hiding in Invisible mode? Do you want to check out what display image your friend is using eventhough he is offline? Then here is the perfect solution....

Xeeber is one of the very good site that I have came across, accurate all the time. All you have to do is to just enter your friends yahoo id and the site will display the rest. Your friends status and also his display image.

I have tested the site and it is working pretty good. See this is girl is hiding from me....hahahha...

11 Web Design Tips

By John LaSpina ; September 4th, 2007
Tagged: HTML • CSS • Design
Before you start design on a website step back a minute – or two. Think about what a website is REALLY supposed to do for the client as well as the visitor. In its simplest form, a website is there to facilitate a transaction of information between it and the visitor. With this in mind, here are some tips for designing useful web sites:

Professional Web Site Design: 6 Tips Even the Amateur Aficionado Can Handle

By Marci Crane ; October 16th, 2007
Tagged: HTML • CSS • Design
Professional web site design is important but you don't have to be a licensed professional to get an online space that “says” professional web site design with confidence!


The following design tips will help you to achieve the look alike professional web site design that your business or personalize website has been waiting for.

Today I made a chair

Working for a high-tech company can be very frustrating sometimes. Basically, what we all do is actually move virtual text from one place to another.

In all my years of experience I have worked for quite a few companies that developed various products. Products for billing, banking, e-commerce, online catalogs, etc ...

I never felt what I was doing was very exciting, and was never able to show others (family, friends) what I was actually doing. When asked, I usually answered "something with computers." Somewhere deep inside I always wished I was a carpenter, so I would be able to show everyone the new chair I just finished.

A CEO in one of the companies I worked for once told me a nice story. He was working as the VP of sales for a very big media & TV corporation. His daughter asked what he was doing at work and he began to explain all about the large corporation and all the responsibilities he had. The little child got confused and bored, but eventually understood two words: sale & TV. So she asked him very excitedly, "So Daddy, you are selling TVs? That's great!" imagining her Dad going from door to door.

I also have a hard time explaining to my three kids what I do at work. Somehow, Quality Assurance & Tech Support always comes down to – "Daddy is checking and fixing computers.”

All this has changed in SharedBook. Today I can come home and show them all the great memory books we are creating here, which are getting better and more beautiful with each new client. I have even created baby books for all of them, which came out wonderful and were praised by everyone who saw them.

Thanks to SharedBook, today I can finally show my family and friends the “chairs” I am making.

Recipes for Success

OK, so I like a good play on words. What can I say? And on this blog - I'm not alone.

Over the past few months Mor, Ann, and Ben have written a few entries about our Open API. Up until this past week, we have been eating our own cooking and adjusting the ingredients to get things just right. The fruits of our labor were our Blog2Print application and widget.

This past week represents a major step forward with our API - the launch of the AllRecipes.com Create-a-Cookbook. Based on the feedback we've received, there isn't any need for me to write about what a great product this is. Instead I want to point out HOW it was implemented.

This new book was built utilizing our API, and shows the flexibility of the application. And it takes full advantage of many of the features we first built to accommodate Blog2Print.

Take, for example, embedded photos. For each of the recipes, there is a spot for an accompanying image of the finished dish. The text for the details and ingredients print around the (right-aligned) image. Maybe this sounds simple, but what happens behind the scenes is rather complex. And the image itself is just a simple URL placed inside the text that is sent to our API.

We built this functionality using standard HTML formats and the examples of many blogs. Now that Blog2Print can handle this, the AllRecipes.com implementation was a snap.

Add a generous amount of our SharedBook core functions - like the auto creation of page numbers and the corresponding table of contents (what's a cookbook without an index of some kind?). Wrap it up with our customizable soft or hard cover (with your own personal photo) and you have a great pairing!

I expect we will thrill many chefs with a professional cookbook they build themselves. But I also think we will thrill many Webmasters who are looking for a simple way to implement a SharedBook from their site's content.

Welcome to Allrecipes.com!

First we applied the Reverse Publishing concept to commemorative books with Legacy.com and social networking sites like CarePages.com. Then we added travel to the mix by employing our open API with our partner, Regent Seven Seas Cruises. Skeptics have questioned what other categories of content might be applicable and, while we think all content is relevant for Reverse Publishing, we clearly need to prove it, category by category.

Today, we are excited to announce SharedBook's first Reverse Publishing partnership in the food category, with Allrecipes.com. If you have ever tried to use your computer in the kitchen, you'll be able to appreciate the practicality and fun of having your personal and most used recipes in one place in a professionally printed cookbook. Allrecipes' 'Create-A'Cookbook' is a one-click way to self-publish cookbooks from your favorite online and personal recipes. But, like everything else at SharedBook, it doesn't stop there. As with all of SharedBook's products, users can choose to preview and purchase their books immediately or to personalize them further. They can edit the content, upload additional information and photos, and invite family and friends into their personal book making space. SharedBook and Allrecipes together allow the user to simulate the common act of tearsheeting recipes plus have the personalization and collaboration tools of Web 2.0 to be able to add additional content. We welcome Allrecipes to the SharedBook platform and look forward to a great partnership.

What is HTML?

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. A markup language combines text and extra information about the text. The extra information, related to the text's structure and presentation -- things like whether the text is bold, where it is positioned on the page, etc., that information is expressed using markup, which is intermingled with the ordinary text. In the case of HTML, the markup information is contained in "tags," which are easily recognizable by the < > symbols.

Usage
HTML is used to create web pages. No web designer or web developer can do his job without knowing at least some HTML. In the same time, the language is absolutely essential to people who are creating their first webpage or taking their business online.

Although the creation of HTML coincided with the creation of the World Wide Web more than 25 years ago, today it remains one of the core technologies behind the Internet. Virtually every webpage and web application has HTML as its basis. Additionally, HTML can be used on the desktop for formatting help files and documents.

History
HTML has been the standard for creating web pages since it was first introduced in the late 1980s by Tim Berners-Lee, in the form of the first web page and a specification for a collection of tags, or labels, for formatting information for use on the web. The original HTML specification described 22 elements, and 13 of those are valid today.

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium maintains the specifications for the the current version -- HTML 4.01. Work on HTML 5, as well as on CSS 3, is ongoing.

Brief Description

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0, and includes .NET Framework 2.0 service pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.0 service pack 1