Archive for 2008

10 Oct 2008

Update: $200 – $1000 cash contest extended

In this contest you need to work hard to win. There is no luck involved here. All you need to do is submit articles which are related to art and creativity (Categories are mentioned below). Best articles will be published on TechTreak.com, with a link to his personal page. But as we have not got any good amount of entries we are going to extend the contest until 25th December 2008 :)

You can see the full post here Win $200 – $1000 cash in August-September Contest for Best Article!

Read full article. Published on October 10, 2008.
9 Oct 2008

Dell Studio 15: Target professionals perfect choice

Dell Studio 15: Target professionals perfect choice

Most individuals are looking for a notebook, which has the maximum features yet it is available at an affordable range. Professionals target their devices to carry out all their necessary utilities without much trouble. Simultaneously, general users look forward to a system having the capabilities of running recently launched tools. Dell Studio 15 is a recent consumer 15 inch notebook, which is adequate for both the categories of users to a great extent. Dell Studio 15 has more of an angular look with the presence of large side hinges that curve its screen to a sharper angle. Studio 15 weighs 6 pounds, which is on the higher side if you are always on the move. However, the model is available at around 6 pounds, if you are looking for the lower end of 15.4 inch scale. With a dimension of 14in x 10.16in x 1.25in, you can get around 3 hours of battery backup from the notebook functioning on full load, which is adequate for a midsize device.
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Read full article. Published on October 9, 2008.
2 Oct 2008

Asus EeePC 901: Excellent substitute to conventional notebooks

Review: Asus EeePC 901 - Excellent substitute to conventional notebooks

Mini-notebook is currently having a large fan-following across the globe for their portability and inexpensiveness. Professionals, who are always on the move, find it to be an excellent substitute to conventional notebooks. Asus EeePC 901 is one of the most recent mini-notebooks to hit the market. EeePC 901’s chassis matches its reasonably tight tolerance. You will also find it’s plastic to be thicker and hinges of the display molded into the body with battery. The notebook has a larger screen along with a complementing touchpad, which is accommodated through deeper dimensions. It has a small keyboard covered under its display. The whole system weighs only 2.1 pounds, which makes it easy for mobile individuals to carry this mobile companion with them.
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Read full article. Published on October 2, 2008.
29 Sep 2008

All in one Media conversion and editor | Blaze media Pro

We all download movies, music, videos from Internet; Problem faced by all of us that these distribution media do not follow any specific standard. This may require you to download and use different players in order to be able to play those files. In such cases media converters play a huge role in allowing to convert and store different media files into a format of your choice. In this post, I am going to provide one stop solution for this problem.
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Read full article. Published on September 29, 2008.
26 Sep 2008

Top 10 Mario Kart Wii Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts

Top 10 Mario Kart Wii Tricks

In Mario Kart you can see six iterations with over 100 tracks and spawning millions of players worldwide. With its name in top the list, you’ll get as many diverse responses are there are gamer types. And yet, most Nintendo fans will agree that the Kart games are enjoyable single-player experiences and addictive multiplayer ones. Mario Kart Wii offers apparently never ending amount of experience like some of you’ll have to play through a second time ;)

So here are the Top 10 Mario Kart Wii Tricks:
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Read full article. Published on September 26, 2008.
26 Sep 2008

Win a Asus Eee PC 2G Surf Notebook from BigBenPatton

Win A Asus Eee PC 2G Surf Notebook

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Read full article. Published on September 26, 2008.
25 Sep 2008

Alienware Area-51 m15x: A delight for hardcore gamers

Alienware Area-51 m15x: A delight for hardcore gamers

Gaming notebooks have become quite popular with hardcore gamers. Their convenient size and advanced configuration along with trendy designs is what lures a gamer towards them. Alienware Area-51 m15x is another gaming notebook, which has very recently hit the market. With Alienware Area-51 m15x, the display you get is provided with a glossy coating with antiglare features. With adequate viewing angle from either side, you can notice crisp details and vivid colors, while viewing images on its displays. Its display can be tagged as appropriate for gaming, as the images (apart from being clear) are not found to be harsh on your eyes. Area-51 m15x has enough real estate with its 15.4 inch screen (TFT active matrix) to open multiple windows for multitasking. The same feature has minimized side-by-side scrolling for viewing websites.

Its 14.6 in x 10.7 in x 1.3 in body is supported by black color, which is the only one used in the model. Alienware Area-51 m15x weighs 7.1 pounds and has a full-size keyboard with a separate pad for numbers. It has more of a silent keyboard, which is necessary for gaming notebooks, as the user might require nullifying every sound for concentrating on strategy games. Again, the touchpad of this notebook is fairly simple and very much sensitive. The battery backup of Alienware Area-51 m15x’s 6-cell lithium ion battery is slightly above ninety minutes. However looking at the load that it undergoes with 200 GB hard drive, 15.4 inch display and a video card, the backup seems to be adequate.

For supporting high-end games, Alienware Area-51 m15x is provided with an Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 Processor (800 MHz FSB). The speed of the processor is 2.4 GHz supported by a 4 MB L2 Cache. The gaming notebook is also provided with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GTX video card. The video card is provided with an SLI enabled 256 MB DDR3 RAM to give a better configuration for high resolution games. Area-51 m15x has 200 GB hard drive for storing as many games as you desire without giving it a second thought. Its 200 GB SATA disk space is complemented with a 4 GB DDR2 RAM (667 MHz), extendable up to 8 GB. The standard operating system for the model is MS Windows Vista Premium Ready. Again, you have the scope of playing games on the web with Area-51 m15x. It has several wireless connectivity options including Ethernet, Intel Pro/Wireless 4965AGN WLAN and an Internal Bluetooth. The standard for WLAN followed in the model is IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, whereas Bluetooth standard is 2.0.

At $1,499, Alienware Area-51 m15x is worth making an investment in, especially for hardcore gamers, as they will get a perfect environment to play high-end games.

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Read full article. Published on September 25, 2008.
22 Sep 2008

Top 10 Popular bloggers at twitter

Top 10 Popular bloggers at twitter

As Twitter is a great micro blogging tool and there are many bloggers using Twitter every minute expanding there network. Here i have listed the Top 10 Popular bloggers with most followers at Twitter :D Checkout the list below:

  1. JasonCalacanis with 34,535 Followers
  2. Scobleizer with 34,384 Followers
  3. macrumors with 30,836 Followers
  4. THErealDVORAK with 30,601 Followers
  5. Techcrunch with 25,668 Followers
  6. ijustine with 22,761 Followers
  7. CaliLewis with 19,092 Followers
  8. chrispirillo with 17,999 Followers
  9. wilw with 17,708 Followers
  10. dooce with 16,203 Followers
Read full article. Published on September 22, 2008.