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The Scorpion range is based on two different brands previous laptops, the Sager NP2090 and the Compal IFL90. The Sager and the Compal is essentially the same machine just assembled by different companies. Sager managed to box up the finished product without the super clear WSXGA+ screen for a little cheaper but offered a shorter warranty. The Scorpion has also opted for the same basic components including the WSXGA+ screen, and offers 1-3 warranties depending on the specific part.

The Scorpions are no doubt geared for gaming. They come with powerful processors, high performance graphics cards, ample RAM and super clear screens, the perfect combination for any avid game or graphics buff.

All five Scorpions come with a 15.4 inch WSXGA+ LCD screens with a resolution of 1280 x 800, the picture is glossy and clear and makes for a good gaming or movie experience. There are also a few other components that remain the same throughout the range. An 8X DVD ± R/RW/ 4X +DL Super-Multi Drive can be found on all five models as well as a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512MB graphics card.

The NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Card is a powerful graphics card that has support for both Microsoft DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for, unparalleled levels of graphics realism and performance. The GeForce 8600 also runs Windows Vista 32-Bit with ease and the PureVideo HD2 technology provides excellent Blu-ray and HD DVD picture quality.

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Whether you’re buying a new monitor or replacing the display on your existing machine, there are a few points to consider. Technology has progressed quite a lot in the recent years giving users a lot more options when it comes to monitors. First it’s important to know if you require a CRT monitor, an LCD or a new HDTV.

CRT - Cathode Ray Tube Monitors

CRT or Cathode Ray Tube Monitors are big and bulky and have been used in conjunction with PCs for many years. They are relatively cheap compared to newer LCD and HDTV monitors, and are compatible with all PCs. Resolution is high quality and can be changed to suit screen size or the users preferences, but as the signal is analog, CRT monitor will not have a DVI port and therefore will not directly support High Definition. If you have an up-to-date graphics card graphics card you may be able to connect your HD cable, satellite box top or HD-DVD to your computer however you will loose quality as the HD signal is converted into analog to be displayed on the CRT.

LCD - Liquid Crystal Displays

LCD or Liquid Crystal Displays were first produced in the US back in 1972; however it took quite a few years before LCD monitors were available on the consumer market. Over the last 10 years Flat Screen LCD monitors have become increasing popular as they save space and have better options for newer digital connections like HDTV, plus they usually have more audio option for home theater style set-ups. LCD monitors can produce crisper images than CRT monitors but they can only do so in their native resolution. Attempting to run LCD panels at non-native resolutions can result blurriness and multiple kinds of HDTV Blur. In general LCD monitors can not truly display as many colors as a CRT. LCD’s can also cause migraines and eyestrain problems due to flicker from fluorescent backlights fed at 50 or 60 Hz however this quite rare.

Plasma Screen Monitors

Plasma Screen Monitors are commonly used for large TV displays. Plasma Displays were introduced around the same time as LCD monitor but due to the nature of the components; they are the most expensive type of display monitors. They produce a much crisper image at a higher resolution than LCD monitors. They also support a wide array of video and audio connections for digital or analog use. The superior brightness, faster response time, greater color spectrum, and wider viewing angle of a plasma monitor makes them one of the most popular forms of display for HDTV, however recent improvements in LCD technology have narrowed the technological gap.

We have started adding some pretty amazing big LCD and Plasma screens to our stock. To View 800Hightech’s Range of Monitors Available on Finance For Military Service Members, Please Click Here>>>

Specifications to consider when choosing between the different types of monitors:

Resolution: This is the amount of pixels that can be displayed horizontally x vertically. A higher resolution means bigger and better quality graphics. Standard and most easily viewed CRT resolutions are usually:

• 15″-800 x 600 / 1,024 x 76817″
• 17″-1,280 x 1,024
• 19″-1,280 x 1024
• 21″-1,600 x 1,200

Plasma technology enables bigger screens and higher resolutions in excess of 1920 x 1080. LCD screens also come in large sizes but will have a native resolution for optimal viewing.

Refresh rate: The refresh rate is the measurement of the number of times per second the screen is redrawn. This measurement is measured in hertz, the faster the refresh rate the better quality the picture.

Dot Pitch: This measurement is found on most monitors. It defines the amount of space (in millimeters) that separates two adjacent pixels that are the same color, the smaller the Dot Pitch, the sharper the image.

HDTV Compatible: If you’re looking for a monitor to incorporate your full home theater then HDTV compatibility is certainly something you should look for.

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This eye-catching 17 inch Onyx Blue Metallic laptop has been redesigned with new half-pipe casing and Toshiba imprint on the lid. It’s powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66GHz processor, 1024MB of DDR2 RAM and the hard drive has a capacity of 80GB.The Media Satellite comes with Windows Vista, the new updated Windows Operating System. Vista is faster, safer and more efficient, if you haven’t tried it out yet then it’s definitely worth a look.

You also get great 3D graphics performance from the Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100. This VGA card has 256-bit graphics core running at 400MHz producing high quality graphics, suitable for both corporate and consumer needs.

The sound quality is crisp and clear, thanks to the Harman Kardon speakers and onboard Sound Card Speaker with 5.1 High Definition. Its not often you get good quality sound from a notebook, but the quality from the Media Satellite is noticeably better than most.

Some other features of the Media Satellite include Intel PRO/Wireless (802.11a/b/g), the built-in Ethernet Controller and Fax/Data Modem Sound, Integrated Sound Card Speaker with 5.1 High Definition, 4x USB 2.0 Ports and Firewire and the 17 inch TruBrite Wide Screen (1400 x 900) XGA. Plus this model comes with a carry case to transport your notebook around with less worry.

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Remember how when you were a kid you were always told to sit up straight? “Stop slouching, it’s bad for your back!” Well, in a study last year, Scottish radiologists confirmed that a 130-degree angle of recline between torso and thighs reduces pressure on the discs in the lower back.

Office chairs like the Aeron designed by Herman Miller and Humanscale, have been around since 1994, considering recent findings, these chairs were really quite revolutionary. Despite the array of levers and knobs that help adjust the chairs recline tension, lumbar support, seat-pan depth and forward tilt, designers have found that most users only use the height adjustment.

This neglect has manufacturers such looking toward the next frontier: a self-adjusting chair. Humanscale’s Freedom chair includes uses a counterbalance system that automatically adjusts to the sitter’s weight as he or she reclines, eliminating the need for recline controls.

Designers have also brainstormed that the future office chair may not be a chair at all. According to the National Institutes of Health, chairs contribute in part to the high rate of back pain which affects approximately eight out of 10 Americans. Asian traditions of kneeling or squatting on the floor have shown to have great ergonomic benefits, Cameron Campbell a designer for Herman Miller recently said,

“Our notion of a machine for sitting may not make sense in a globalized world.”

Perhaps in the future one worker may sit in front of their workspace on a self adjusting recliner, whilst the next may kneel amongst a pile of cushions.

Don’t throw away your dead laptop batteries, check out this video and see if this laptop battery hack works for you. Great way to save money on having to pay for new battery replacements for any notebook pc.

If you try this out, please remember we can’t be held responsible for your actions so please be fair leaving comments if anything goes wrong! It is for information purpose only!

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British defense researchers have invented a means to cloak tanks and make them invisible tank. London’s Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Sun all report on tests conducted by the Ministry of Defence last week in which a tank rolled across a field, completely invisible to observers standing at a certain point.

“This technology is incredible,” an unnamed soldier was quoted by the Daily Mail and Sun. “If I hadn’t been present I wouldn’t have believed it. I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun.”

Although as you first heard this topic, it is not as mystical as it might seem. The technology relies on heavy use of camera and projectors. Basically, a camera films the background, which is then projected upon a special surface applied to something in the foreground in this case, a tank.

You can see the similar technology in the following video that has gained a lot of popularity on the internet

Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London, one of the world’s leading experts on surface reflectivity and lead author of a widely reported paper last year that said:

“Cloak of invisibility is theoretically possible. The drawback at the moment is the dependence upon cameras and projectors,” the Sun quoted Pendry, who did not confirm an implied connection with the defense project. “The next stage is to make the tank invisible without them which is intricate and complicated, but possible.”

Hackers are getting assistance from a female stripper by the name of Mellisa. She is a digital girl that is helping spammer hack a security measure that has helped slow the spamming community.

To help solve the mystery and security behind Captcha text images, the spammers enlisted the help of Mellisa. By inserting and deciphering the text, users get to see explicit images. Seems like a fair enough trade-off. In the past many viruses have tricked people into opening booby-trapped attachments with the false promise of seeing explicit images, but this was one of the first to actually show people more images if people respond.

This software by Trend Micro and Panda Security that is helping to defeat the anti-spam security check is a Windows game that arrives on machines that are already infected with malicious software. The program comes to life when the Internet Explorer browser is used on infected machines. The Captcha-busting program can run on Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, and Server 2003. You win (getting to see the explicit image) by correctly typing the text shown in an accompanying image. This seems like an easy enough game with great rewards. The creators of the game in turn take the deciphered text that stop spam robots from automatically signing up to create accounts that can be put to illegal use. By getting people to type in the text the spammers can are also able to take over the accounts and use them to send junk mail.

This online anti-spam security measure of using a image of text is known as Captchas or “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. Typically they feature a disfigured word or one overlaid with static that make it difficult for anyone but a human to decipher.

Since its fist arrival, many spammers and hackers have been vigorously working to defeat the system and regaining acess to net-based resources, such as e-mail accounts or blogging tools, they are designed to protect. Although this game seems like a bunch of fun and gaining popularity, it is likely to increase the annoyance of spam and weaken our hold in the War on Spam.

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Ever since I was a little kid, I knew this type of technology would eventually surface if it hadn’t already. Below in the video by General Dynamics you can see Trophy Active Defense System in action. It offers an invisible force field for military vehicles that disables incoming RPG rounds.

The system can simultaneously engage several threats, arriving from different directions, is effective on stationary or moving platforms, and is effective against short and long range threats (such as RPGs and ATGM). Trophy was designed to be effective in open or closed terrain, including urban area and can be operated under all weather conditions

Quickly gaining popularity and taking back the web, Firefox is lighting up the internet with personalize browsing that is safer, faster and more powerful. When Firefox first emerged not many expected much since there were already other browsers, like Netscape, Opera, and Eudora, that had been out for a long time already and were no where near being as popular as Internet Explorer. This has caused Microsoft to start paying attention and listening to the users - but still falling short in keeping users loyal. Microsoft is synonymous with closed-code with only Microsoft add-ons at Microsoft prices.

For those of you who are not familiar with Firefox, prepared to be awaken to the revolution taking place on the web and quickly become converted to a Mozilla Firefox user.

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A gift that at the same time was a curse, the Digg effect took us down back on September 11, 2007 - ironic date I know. However, we did survive and we are in the process of improving the blog and posting articles that were missed during the month of October. Thanks to Girls Of The Israeli Army post done back on August 5, 2007 we got well over 2000 Diggs before our MySQL database could take no more connections.

For those of you who do not know Digg, it is best to just head on over to the community to sign up and start clicking around. Start viewing the Digg review of our page that created a lot of traffic for us and then begin exploring Digg. It is somewhat of an easy concept to grasp but here is what the ol’ mighty internet resource has to say about it:

A community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control

According to Wikipedia. Basically that all means that the readers vote - “Digg” - webpages, blogs, photos etc. that they like. The more Diggs you get the higher your ranking in the community. Voters do not all carry the same vote. People who are reputable and have the most friends get more say and weight. This helps when an average Joe trys to cheat and vote his webpage up.

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Talks of a phone from Google dubbed the Gphone, have recently been causing a stir on the World Wide Web. There are articles mentioning deals between certain high profile companies with expected release dates and even articles from people claiming they have already seen prototypes. Whether or not we can believe everything we read, Google are on the up and up so a move into the wireless industry is not out of character.

There have been a few reports that Google are making a big push in the development of their own handset. High Tech Computers, a Taiwan-based smart phone maker are rumored to be designing the Linux device which is said to incorporate a Texas Instruments edge chipset. There have been a number of specifications listed in these reports and if all of this turns out to be true, Google may revolutionize the way we use our cell phones.

Reports suggest we can expect a handset that provides Wi-Fi, 3-G and GPS capability, a user friendly browser such as Linux or possibly one designed by Google, access to VoIP, Gtalk or even Skype, a 2 Megapixel Camera, Mp3, a predictive Qwerty Keyboard and of course, a large color screen.

The Gphone is apparently scheduled for release early 2008, with T-Mobile and Orange tipped to be providing services it may seem like everything is almost decided. If Google can come up with a handset that can incorporate all these features then they really will have a rival to the Apple iPhone.

The iPhone is a great device and certainly did take mobile technology to the next level; however some felt it did not quite live up to the hype. All this talk of the Gphone is setting the stage for something really spectacular but with no sign of any official concept designs, it is difficult to really predict what is on the companies mind.

Note: All images are Unofficial Concept Sketches; designs are artist impressions of what the Gphone may look like.

The release of Google Docs and Spreadsheets, the highly anticipated free office suite application available through the internet by download, threatens to topple Microsoft’s dominant position as the leader in desktop software offering services delivered over the Web supported by advertising and/or subscriptions. So much so that Microsoft set to the drawing board and immediately began developing a rival project.

Tip: Be sure to check out the link at the end of this article for a link to a listing of various free and open source software programs for download that is having the executives at Microsoft shaking in their boots and thinking about ways to counter this!

The aim is to offer a free version of Microsoft Works which will be pre installed in desktops and will display advertisements stored in cache, the advertisements that help support the application will be refreshed when the computer establishes an internet connection.

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