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Adobe Illustrator CS3 software allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, while timesaving features such as easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. Improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications also help you produce extraordinary graphics for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs.

-Explore new paths with the essential vector tool
Discover new ways to experiment with color; work faster with new drawing tools and controls; and produce artwork for print, web, mobile, and motion designs with Adobe Illustrator CS3 software.

-Reasons to upgrade
Live Color
Integration with Adobe Flash
Drawing tools and controls
Improved operating performance
Control panel

Eraser tool

New Document
Profiles
Crop Area tool

Isolation mode

Symbols for Flash

-Live Color
Explore, apply, and control color variations using Live Color, which lets you select any artwork and interactively edit the colors to see results immediately. Use the Color Guide panel to quickly choose tints, shades, or harmonious color combinations.

-Live Trace
Quickly and accurately convert photos, scans, or other bitmap images to editable and scalable vector paths using Live Trace.

-Drawing tools and controls
Draw in Adobe Illustrator more quickly and fluidly than ever. Easier and more flexible anchor point selection, improved operating performance, and a new Eraser tool help you create artwork efficiently and intuitively.

-Integration with Adobe design applications
Speed your way through graphic designs and print production thanks to tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat software.

-Live Paint
Easily paint any closed or partially closed area of your artwork with the Live Paint Bucket, which automatically detects and corrects gaps and lets you interactively select colors from a Swatch palette for faster work.

-Advanced typography
Easily create and control type with over 100 OpenType fonts, paragraph and character styles, paragraph composition, underline and strikethrough, transparent effects, and more.

-Control panel
Discover more options faster and free up screen space by accessing anchor point controls, clipping masks, envelope distortions, and more from the context-sensitive Control panel.

-Custom workspaces
Work more efficiently using custom workspaces that display only the panels you need for a specific task. Save, share, or access any workspace at any time, or use workspace presets.

-Adobe PDF file creation tools
Create native Adobe PDF files, including multipage PDF files, so clients and others can easily review your artwork using Acrobat or free Adobe Reader software.

-Web and interactive tools
Easily create for the web and mobile devices using vector-based slicing tools, robust integration with Adobe Flash software, New Document Profiles for web and mobile designs, the capability to preview mobile content in Adobe Device Central, and more.

Label: Adobe illustrator

Internet Explorer 8 Beta,
With Internet Explorer 8promised to arrive in 2008, Microsoft has taken a huge step forward this week by announcing the first public beta of the new browser.
Predictably named 'Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1' the browser won't be the radical (and much needed) overhaul seen between IE6 and IE7. Instead the primary difference will be 'Acid2' compatibility - in a nutshell: compliance with universal web standards so that everything on a web page looks and works as it should. This sounds obvious but, with designers constantly having to configure sites to work with multiple browsers, it isn't and should solve a vast array of programming problems and speed web page design. Firefox 3 will also pass Acid2 tests.
In addition to this, IE8 will also add ACR (automatic crash recovery) - saving your web pages in event of a crash -something most other browsers have had for years, expand its phishing filter (and rename it 'Safety Filter') to encompass malware threats and add a context sensitive right click menu (postcodes offer map searches, etc).
Grab it from the link below and for those obsessed with the minutiae check out the full release notes. Having tested out the beta myself, Firefox and Opera fans have nothing to fear, but IE users will get a little closer to knowing what it feels like to use a decent web browser.

Label: INTERNET EXPLORER 8 BETA

GIGABYTE has introduced their GV-NX88T512H-B, graphics card equipped with NVIDIA's latest GeForce 8800 graphics processor, the Gigabyte 8800GT graphics card. It supports PCI Express 2.0, Microsoft DirectX 10and OpenGL 2.0, equipped with SLI and PureVideo HD technology and features dual DVI-I / D-sub.

-RoHS Compliant

As a citizen of the global village, GIGABYTE exert ourselves to be a pioneer in environment care. Give the whole of Earth a promise that our products do not contain any of the restricted substances in concentrations and applications banned by the RoHS Directive, and are capable of being worked on at the higher temperatures required for lead free solder. One Earth and GIGABYTE Cares.


-Dual-link DVI
Able to drive two of the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560×1600.

-CineFX 4.0 Engine

Through CineFX 4.0 engine that allows developers to create unique 3D game features and effects in both game animation and high-definition video. Gamers can get plus benefit from CineFX 4.0 that streamlines the creation of complex visual effects.


-Intellisample 4.0
The industry's fastest antialiasing delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. Visual quality is taken to new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern, advanced 128 Tap sample coverage, 16x anisotropic filtering, and support for transparency supersampling and multisampling.

-UltraShadow II
Enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games, like id Software's Doom 3, that feature complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects. 2nd-generation technology delivers more than 4x the shadow processing power over the previous generation.


-nView Multi-Display Technology
Advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexibility and control for multiple monitors. NVIDIA GPUs are enabled to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary.

-SLI Technology
Delivers up to 2X the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on 60 top PC games.


-Microsoft Windows Vista
NVIDIA's fourth-gereration GPU architecture built for Windows Vista gives users the best possible experience with the Windows Aero 3D graphical user interface.


-OpenGL 2.0 Optimizations and Support
Ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 2.0 application.

-Microsoft DirectX 10
World's first DirectX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realims and film-quality effects.


-HDCP Support

High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of copy protection technology designed to prevent transmission of non-encrypted high-definition content as it travels across DVI or HDMI digital connections.

-GigaThread Technology
Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.

-Quantum Effects Technology
Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU-all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI.

-PureVideo HD
Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs, high-definition movies are bringing an exciting new video experience to PC users. NVIDIA®PureVideo(tm) HD technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and Blu-ray movies with low CPU utilization and power consumption, allowing higher quality movie playback and picture clarity. PureVideo HD technology provides a combination of powerful hardware acceleration, content security, and integration with movie players, plus all the features found in PureVideo.

-65nm Process Technology
Delivers higher performance through blazing clock rates.
The Gigabyte 8800 GT graphics card is available for $ 269.

Label: GIGABYTE GV-NX88T512H-B

Digital Cowboy has launched CRF-102 notebook cooler, The notebook cooler is designed to elevate the notebook at an angle, increasing airflow and dispersing the heat from underneath, hence avoiding overheating. The powerful 22cm square fan with 600 rpm is powered from the computers USB port, avoiding the need to carry around any bulky AC adapters. The noise level is 18to 20 dB only. The design is very ergonomic and lets the wrists align more naturally when typing, increasing user comfort.


The Digital Cowboy CRF-102notebook cooler measures 300x 270 x 25mm, weigh 750 g and is 15 degrees and 32 degrees in two stages tilt angle adjustable. Lightweight, portable, and stylish, this makes the Digital Cowboy CRF-102 a perfect companion for your notebook when on the go or at home..The cooler is available in Japan for approximately 5,000 Yen ($45).

Label: Digital Cowboy Notebook Cooler

OCZ Technology Group has announced new 1800MHz Intel Extreme Memory modules, a performance solution that implements a specification predefined and specially tailored for the Intel X48 chipset. Designed to significantly increase performance levels of the entire platform, OCZ 1800MHz Intel Extreme Memory modules, feature Intel Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP), an exclusive set of SPD (Serial Presence Detect) settings that act as an integrated "plug and play" overclocking tool. Configured to Intel's defined specification, these XMP-Ready memory kits will be configured to run CL8 latencies at 1800MHz. Furthermore, each OCZ XMP module also features CL7 latencies on a second profile that is qualified by OCZ for the extreme enthusiast seeking tighter timings.
The new OCZ PC3-14400 Intel XMP memory will be available in 1GB modules and 2GB (2x1024MB) dual channel kits. Combining the blazing speeds and incredible bandwidth of DDR3 with the power of Intel's latest chipset, these top-speed modules are the ideal solution for enthusiasts looking for the extra performance gains optimized memory offers their system.

Label: OCZ DDR3-1800

OCZ DDR3-1800 Intel Extreme Memory modules
(December 2007)
OCZ Technology Group has announced new 1800MHz Intel Extreme Memory modules, a performance solution that implements a specification predefined and specially tailored for the Intel X48 chipset. Designed to significantly increase performance levels of the entire platform, OCZ 1800MHz Intel Extreme Memory modules, feature Intel Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP), an exclusive set of SPD (Serial Presence Detect) settings that act as an integrated "plug and play" overclocking tool. Configured to Intel's defined specification, these XMP-Ready memory kits will be configured to run CL8 latencies at 1800MHz. Furthermore, each OCZ XMP module also features CL7 latencies on a second profile that is qualified by OCZ for the extreme enthusiast seeking tighter timings.
The new OCZ PC3-14400 Intel XMP memory will be available in 1GB modules and 2GB (2x1024MB) dual channel kits. Combining the blazing speeds and incredible bandwidth of DDR3 with the power of Intel's latest chipset, these top-speed modules are the ideal solution for enthusiasts looking for the extra performance gains optimized memory offers their system.
Link: OCZ DDR3-1800 Intel Extreme Memory modules.

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ASUS Lion Square CPU Cooler

Asus has announced the latest Square Series CPU Cooler - the Lion Square. Inspired by the Sword Lion shield, the Lion Square borrows the character of the shield - the impressive face of lion totem, and its spirit, symbolizing strength and courage, to represent the outstanding efficiency of the new launch. The Asus Lion Square incorporates a nickel-plating copper base, four Φ8copper heat pipes, aluminum wave fins and a 9cm LED inner fan to efficiently lower processor temperatures by 30%. In addition, the Inner fan directs airflow created by the 9cm LED fan to surrounding VRM (voltage regulation modules) -which is critical to processor operations and overall system reliability. These features enable gamers to enjoy safe overclocking of up to 180 W.
The Asus Lion Square deliver quiet and high-performance heat dissipation from the Intel Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Quad Quad-Core CPU and AMD Athlon 64 FX/X2 Dual-Core processors.

Label: Asus