Auslogics Duplicate File Finder Helps Declutter Your Disks [Downloads]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/53cOxQG1K-E/auslogics-duplicate-file-finder-helps-declutter-your-disks

Unintended duplicate files can chew up a lot of disk space. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder will help you find dupes even when the file names don't match.

By scanning and compiling the MD5 hash of of each file it scans, Auslogics Duplicate File Finder can dig through your disks and find duplicates with mismatched names. Multiple copies of music and other media, even when oddly named, will be matched up. You can filter by file size and file type. Matching can be contingent on file name, date and size, and the file hash.

If you have a favorite tool for finding duplicate files, let's hear about it in the comments. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is freeware, Windows only.

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder [via gHacks]

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Use Ubiquity to Make Google Voice Calls [Ubiquity]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/4134cD6GsRE/use-ubiquity-to-make-google-voice-calls

It's fairly easy to head to Google Voice's homepage, paste in a number, type out a contact, then click a button to call. It's far easier, however, to use Ubiquity with Firefox to highlight a number and just type "call."

The earth2marsh site posts a Ubiquity command that requires just a little bit of configuration to hook up with your Google Voice account. Once it's set up, however, making a call with your pre-determined default phone is a simple matter of highlighting a number, activating Ubiquity, and using the action verb "call." Need help using or adding commands into Ubiquity? Check out Gina's guide to making Ubiquity your ultimate Firefox commander.

Google Voice Ubiquity Command [earth2marsh]

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Cloud-Generating 1900-Ship Armada to Sink Climate Change [Science]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/bYIc_cG3v1c/cloud+generating-1900+ship-armada-to-sink-climate-change

The Copenhagen Consensus Centre—a respected European think tank which used to be skeptic on climate change—is now advising that we should spend $9 billion in building 1900 cloud-generating ships like the one above. Why? To cool down Earth:

When you spray saltwater into the air, you create nuclei that cloud condenses around, creating bigger and whiter clouds, thus bouncing more sunlight back into space.

That's what David Young, a member of the panel that created the report, says. The fully automated vessels will cross the oceans absorbing water and spraying it into the skies. They say this will help the formation of big, whiter clouds, which will make the sun light bounce, lowering temperatures.

The idea seems neat, but the concept of anyone in planet Earth claiming to understand how climate works to this extend blows my mind. We are still trying to grasp how a complex system like the weather works, but someone wants to put an idea like this in motion, without knowing about the ultimate consequences? Like we say in my home country: Do you experiments with pop soda. [Copenhagen Consensus via Daily Mail]

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Buffalo adds 16GB microSD card / reader to its line of incredibly small USB memory

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/buffalo-adds-16gb-microsd-card-reader-to-its-line-of-incredibl/

We've seen Buffalo shrink USB drives down to preposterous sizes in the recent past, and now the company is throwing a microSD card reader into the mix. Available for ¥15,500.00 (that's $160, give or take) this guy stores 16GB internally, is available in both colors -- black AND white -- and would be right at home in any of your computer's favorite USB 2.0 ports. And just to get you started, this bad boy includes a 16GB card microSD card. How sweet is that?

[Via OhGizmo!]

Filed under: Storage

Buffalo adds 16GB microSD card / reader to its line of incredibly small USB memory originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Faulty GPUs reportedly cost NVIDIA another $119 million

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/07/faulty-gpus-reportedly-cost-nvidia-another-$119-million/

We already knew that NVIDIA had to shell out anywhere from $150 to $250 million last year to resolve issues related to its defective GPUs, but it looks like that may have only been the beginning, with The Inquirer now reporting that the company has also been forced to pay an additional $119.1 million over the past four months to fix a faulty die and weak packaging material used in the affected graphics chips. What's more, NVIDIA apparently won't say whether it expects to incur any further charges related to the defective chips or not, although it simply describes the whole situation as "small distraction," and says it hasn't affected its ability to launch new products.

Filed under: Laptops

Faulty GPUs reportedly cost NVIDIA another $119 million originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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