Kaz Hirai the president of Sony Entertainment confirmed that the new PS3 will be smaller and quieter, the reason is because of the new 65nm cell processor which will be used rather than the older, more expensive and less efficient 90nm silicon. He also mentioned that they are cutting costs by using a lesser amount of components, and that the plans are set that by autumn the graphics processor of RSX “Reality Synthesizer” which is developed by Nvidia will be changed from 90nm to 65nm.
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June 30th, 2008
I know that earlier I have said that Buzzword is great and questioned why is Zoho and Google and others are so fixated on using AJAX and so on. I have used nearly all sort of online word processors like Google Docs and Zoho Writer and Buzzword and others, I also was invited to try some private betas of other services. All have their pros and cons, but today I found out that Zoho Writer is the best.
I was helping a friend editing an essay, so there was big number of documents going back and forth, some from MS Office and some from Open Office and so on. On my Toshiba Qosmio G30 NoteBook I have not installed anything of this sort, I was depending on using an online application.
So when I started my browser Zoho Writer was not my first choice, a mistake I will never fall in again sure, anyway so after trying some of those web services, they were either slow or did not have all tools I wanted. So after all that horror and time wasting I “remembered” Zoho Writer, and you just do not know how thankful I am for doing so, Zoho Writer REALLY knows what you need in a word processor.
I was in a hurry so speed was an issue and Zoho was just amazing, fast and full of tools and the saving and exporting to many formats was so simple and hassle free. So If you are looking at doing some serious work USE ZOHO WRITER.
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April 7th, 2008
Google Docs, Zoho Writer and now Adobe Buzzword. Since the start of the rise of online document editors, I always asked myself, why those websites do not use flash instead of Ajax and I still don’t really get it. I always thought "FLASH" would be better and faster. I know that "Live Documents" will also use the FLASH technology.
Adobe Buzzword although came a bit late to the game, but there are couple or more things that makes it better than the others. Obviously being in FLASH is the first that comes to mind, it really makes it super fast. Buzzword is far more simpler and easy on the eye’s too. It works on any operating system, your computer just needs to have Adobe Flash installed, which is available in most computers by default anyway.
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As soon as you finish your registration you are quickly switched to the main page. In the main page you can basically either create a new document, open a saved document in Buzzword or open a document from your harddisk.
The beauty of Buzzword, being in flash, the menus are smooth and fast. And nicely organized, and on your first look you would get the wrong impression that BUZZWORD lacks features and options.
But you will be very mistaken to think so, just click on any of the icons and it will slide revealing various features. The picture below shows some of them.
We shouldn’t forget the pull down menus too, which also hold a number of different kind of options.
The "History" feature keeps track of different changes that you make on a document so you can switch between them easily.
In Buzzword you can also insert Pictures and Comments.
Document sharing, you can make a document private or share it with others in a very simple way, setting a role for the person you are sharing the document with. There are three roles. Co-Author where he can do anything with the document, Reviewer where he can read and comment on the document, and Reader where he is only allowed to read the document.
There are other great features also, such as Zooming, using a slidebar you can zoom the document in and out which automatically resize everything in it. You can also insert special characters, and Offcourse, the automatic word count is useful when you are limited to number of words.
Now that is all great stuff in BUZZWORD, but there are couple of things that I found negative in it, nothing is perfect in this world. Anyway, the first thing that bothered me is the limited number of fonts available, which are only seven fonts.
The second thing is what happens sometimes when you upload a picture, it took me three tries to upload an image, a message keeps coming up stating that "Buzzword could not contact the server to complete our action". I tried doing this using IE, Firefox, FLOCK which is Firefox anyway, and I tried it from my Toshiba G30 Notebook and My Desktop PC. Sometimes the image is uploaded from the first time, but the error window do appear quite often.
For a full help guide for Buzzword Click Here.
In the end I would like to say that Adobe Buzzword is a good, easy and fast Word Processor. Couple of enhancements here and there and it will defiantly become THE web REAL Word Processor.
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December 4th, 2007
If you are a Firefox user who opens endless amount of tabs, like me, you must have realised how Firefox eats up memory. The reason is that Firefox caches the website you visit for some time to allow smoother navigation between tabs, which leads to more memory usage.
It just takes couple of hours of heavy use of Firfox to start seeing really high usage of memory and processor, which makes it really unbearable and the only way to fix this is to restart firefox which is not easy especially when you are in middle of something important.
Although Mozilla say they are going to try to improve this in Firefox 3, until now (Gran Paradiso Alpha 8) it doesn’t show that its going to fully fix the problem. And here comes a new Add-on only for Firefox 3 from Stuart Parmenter called RAMBack.
RAMBack basically adds an option “Clear Caches” in the tools menu or you can also add a button in the toolbar, when clicked RAMBack will clear most of Firefox caches thereby clearing part of your memory.
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November 15th, 2007
