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You might not be getting you hands on that Calpella any time soon, but that isn't a sign that Intel is backing down -- if anything, the company has big things in store, including a newly announced $7 billion plan to upgrade four of its Stateside facilities so they can start rolling out those new-fangled 32nm chips we've been hearing so much about. This is good news for the struggling American manufacturing sector, and great news for fans of smaller, faster gadgets -- but not particularly great news for AMD, who entered the new year with a $1.4 billion loss and an eroding share of the x86 processor market.Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
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Intel demos first-ever 32nm processors originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The open-source project was inspired by the popularity of ad-blocking Firefox extensions—Adblock Plus, the perennial Lifehacker favorite, is downloaded over 250,000 times a week—and a desire to put all those blocked pitches to good use. Artists are selected by a team of curators to have their work displayed, and the roster is rotated every two weeks. An interesting twist to the project is that the artists themselves can target sites with their artwork—it'll be up to you to decide why there are photographs of unicorns wearing party hats during your daily reading of the New York Times. Add-Art won't be too tempting to those who ad-block to streamline for speed or memory use, but for those tired of seeing "ONE WEIGHT LOSS RULE" and the like might just enjoy the web a bit more. Add-Art is free, works wherever Firefox does.
Why would you want to strip down an image file? Ask former TechTV host Cat Schwartz, who in 2003 received a rather embarrassing lesson in the power of metadata. In short, a cropped headshot posted on her blog contained an embedded, full-pic thumbnail with, well, a lot more than just a head and shoulders. Even if you're not cropping your mug out of a nude composition, there are others reasons you'd want to remove the metadata from an image. All sorts of information—like exposure time, aperture settings, camera used, and GPS coordinates—can potentially be embedded into an image.
Since the government program's "coupons" (actually magnetic cards) are only good for 90 days, Retrevo matches up those with spare coupons that haven't reached their 90-day expiration date with anyone looking to get one in the closest ZIP code, so the card can be picked up or mailed quickly, if need be. The needers, as you might imagine, outweight the providers at this point, but due to the ZIP code matching, it couldn't hurt to seek one out on Retrevo's site. The link also provides a handy PDF "DTV Survivial Guide" to hand out to your neighbors or relatives with unanswered questions.
Once you've installed and enabled the screensaver—and stepped away long enough for the screensaver to show up—you'll see RSS items show up on the world map in little balloons indicating the origin of the news story. You can customize the items that show up by creating a free account and choosing feeds or tags to display—or add any of your own feeds.
MappedUp is a free download for Windows or Mac OS X only. If you want to learn something instead of reading the news, you can always use Wikipedia as your screensaver instead.
Why no UPS? According to the updates on Simple Tracking, it seems UPS is particularly stingy in allowing access to their API, despite their competitors openness. For most other delivery services, though, Simple Tracking is streamlined. It recognizes the different tracking numbers you paste in automatically and returns results immediately. You can then subscribe to the feed for that specific tracking number to see updates on the status of your package in your favorite RSS reader. You don't even have to copy and paste from emails or shopping sites—there's a Firefox extension that adds a Track XYZ Package context when tracking numbers are right-clicked upon. There's also a phone-friendly version of the site available for on-the-go checking. If you prefer email-based updates, check out previously reviewed Track My Shipments for stop-by-stop updates. Simple Tracking is free, requires no registration for use.
We've featured this application here before, but the initial release had some stability problems (especially for 64-bit users). The latest version fixes those issues and adds a bunch of new tweaks to make your tweaking tasks just a little bit easier, including more personalization, UAC, performance, and network tweaks. The already-tech-savvy might notice that most of these tweaks are available through registry hacks or complicated dialogs, but this application is designed to put every setting into one easily accessible location—and since the utility doesn't require installation it makes for a handy addition to your flash drive toolkit.
Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a free download for Windows Vista users only. Most Lifehacker readers using XP are probably already using Microsoft's TweakUI utility to customize their system.
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Get Rich Slowly suggestions range from a romantic dinner at home to a photo scavenger hunt. The post details a specific romantic dinner that looks great: chicken piccata, a nice but inexpensive wine, and some homemade butter almond cake. It's a good start, but we wanted to mine the Lifehacker hive mind for a few more creative ideas for this weekend, so let's hear your Valentine's plans in the comments.
Once installed, the extension will take you through a wizard that finds your installed media players and sets each file type to your preferred player. The options panel is chock full of configuration settings to customize playback choices, from adding launcher items to your context menu to automatically replacing the inline player with an icon to launch your external player—very useful so you can restart Firefox without affecting media playback.
MediaPlayerConnectivity is a free download for Firefox, but the current versions only work for Windows users—readers using Mac OS X can still download the older versions, but will probably need the Nightly Tester Tools to make them compatible. Update: Looks like it works in Ubuntu as well.
By unlocking the HTC G1 Android phone to work with your iPhone's SIM card. Discounting the cost of the Android phone, the whole process won't cost you more than $25 and won't take more than a few minutes of your time. The detailed walkthrough at Smarterware is a breeze to follow along with, so if you're dying to make the iPhone-to-Android switch, check it out.
As a sidenote, Smarterware is the new home for the general musings of our very own Gina Trapani when she's not writing her new feature series of the same name here at Lifehacker. We strongly recommend you add a new feed to your newsreader.
For example, if you're staring in the face of numerous duplicate contacts that should represent the same person, the built-in contact merge feature in Google Contacts is a must. Just find the duplicate contacts, tick their checkboxes, and click "Merge these contacts...." Easy peasy. To manage your contacts, either head to the Contacts page in Gmail or to the unadvertised standalone site. Thanks Michael!
Even though Nikon's had the same lens mount for decades, their low-end DSLRs require on-board AF motors for auto-focus, which limits your choices. And any 35mm Nikon prime lenses (the 50mm equivalent for a DX camera's smaller sensor) around before were either too old or too expensive, and the second best choice was from Sigma. You could pick up an actual 50mm f/1.8 for under $100, but on a DX camera, that will get you an 85mm portrait lens and not the 50mm normal you would want.
But here, for around $200, you get a lens that's multiples faster at f/1.8 than, say, the D60s standard-issue f/3.5-5.6 cheapo zoom, that can shoot the limited depth of field for blurred-out backgrounds that are also impossible on the kit lens.
Plus, you'll learn good composition about 10x faster with a prime than you would with a zoom. So, in short, if you have a low-end Nikon DSLR with only a kit lens, make this your next purchase. [Nikon Product Page via BBG & Wired]
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