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17Aug/110

Each kind of popular notebook brand comparison : Apple,Toshiba,hp,Acer…

The notebook brand are getting more and more, fashion, practical, the blue tooth, the wireless surfer, integrates the camera, trades the outer covering as one desires, is getting smaller getting more and more attractive, lets the human select and purchase, has not had the idea. Unifies own experience and the network material, reorganizes each big notebook brand good and bad points, hoped that may help you to select and purchase the performance-to-price ratio highest notebook.

ASUS Notebook

The ASUS China large notebook, insisted that “design, to make, the innate brand sale”. Except the innate chip, the motherboard, China large gives back to other brands to make a generation of processing. For instance SONY VAIO series, SONY PS2. The quality is good, pledged that the screen does not have the luminescent spot (in three months to have may trade). The compatibility is good, radiates the question solution quite to be also thorough, in work when has the fresh idea, is known as “firm, if the rock”, makes some sense.

Acer Notebook

ACER great base notebook,Take the performance-to-price ratio prominent as the main selling point, the achievement has alone obviously and the wireless notebook, the performance-to-price ratio unusual over value. Post-sale also good, the nature guarantees the time to be longest in the similar brand the very convenient global joint guarantee.

HP Notebook

HP Notebook ,The commercial notebook is more fashionable, the performance is not vulgar. HP is in sole possession of 8 big wisdom designs, the ultra bright screen technology and so on, the picture is brighter, clearly, the price has the competitive power. At present the HP notebook mainstream has three big series, simultaneously, HP promotes the new product unceasingly.

TOSHIBA Notebook

Toshiba notebook ,The selling point lies in its exquisite, as well as the Toshiba unique liquid crystal display screen technology, knew that the Toshiba television should be possible to think. The Toshiba notebook by the suitable price, the advanced liquid crystal technology wins the consumer to like! These must use only then to know that heard the distributor benefit is not good, the initiative purchase's person are not many.

Where the best selling notebook from Apple has a street price of about $1100 or maybe a bit more, the most popular Toshiba notebook sits with a street price of just over $500, or half the price of the Apple notebook above.

FUJITSU Notebook

Fujitsu notebook ,High-end brand low price. 11 time, accompanies the friend to buy, business attends to fundamentals the performance-to-price ratio superelevation. Fujitsu continuously very low key. However regarding this Japanese well-known brand, many people are not strange. Actually its brand history is glorious, enjoys “Japanese IBM” the title, with is famous manufacturer Sony compares for the date, Fujitsu is partial to the simple commercial route, has been short several point Sony's gaudiness, for human one kind of thought-provoking feeling. Fuji showers the quality and the quality, but also has writes by hand the function.

IBM Notebook

IBM series. Popular name “small black”, irrevocable color and style. Father of as the modern personal computing, the IBM notebook has the best quality, the status and the price. Accumulates 1000 many kinds of patented technologies in the notebook domain, ThinkPad is the pursue performance, portable, stable, the available notebook amateur's first choice excellent work. The high-end type, the merit are many, looked that the disposition has known, did not need to say. The shortcoming is IBM is heavy, the outward appearance is bad. The people buy the IBM main achievement commercial, is keeping secret and anti-falls the aspect to be able to complete. the ibm quality is absolutely good, but under same level performance expensive.

SONY notebook

SONY notebook ,What SONY walks is “the fashion, the high-end” the route, in the stability, the security, the durability is quite weak, Sony's selling point lies in its outstanding work with the fashionable semblance, as well as splendid liquid crystal kneading board.

DELL Notebook

DELL is the IT industry miracle, 96 year stepping in notebook domain, within the short several years, the sales volume has become the whole world first, but the DELL cost system has also restricted him in the upscale notebook development. Is low price notebook representative. Indeed, its quality anything has not been possible to show off the place, radiates especially, question very much.

SANSUNG Notebook

Radiates well, screen very ultra clear, pastes on the membrane to be able to achieve the pure even effect, LCD is the Tristar biggest selling point. The so fine demonstration only then disposes 4 cores the batteries, goes out when thinks not sufficiently.

APPLE Notebook

Apple machine because of originally only then white, popular name “young Bai”. The apple machine has often represented the tidal current and the fashion, has represented the high-end in the fine industrial design, its product in the graph imagery processing domain, has had the big market share, compared to ordinary computer striving to excel in several times. Entertainment aspect compatible aspect insufficient pc is ideal, many games, the media file is incompatible. Belongs to the high price machine, but has been designed the acme the public figure to love deeply.

The Apple MacBook Pro is the best notebook Apple makes.

Lenovo notebook

The lenovo computer performance is ordinary, the use is convenient, stably, the quality good, the post-sale service, individuality design. The loom radiates is not very good, when use the finger has the warm feeling. The software ability difference, promotion ability are small, the price is high. After the IBM conformity, enterprise's future is not too bright.

11Aug/110

Stocks fall as U.S. credit rating – Warning for NZ

US trading was once again marked by sharp moves on heavy volume. For a fifth straight day, the Dow industrials fluctuated in a range of more than 400 points.

The losses came against the backdrop of recent weak US economic data, the United States losing its triple-A credit rating from Standard & Poor's and the inability of lawmakers to address worries that another recession may be on the way.
New Zealand shares recovered some ground today, having been caught up earlier in another global market slide as fear returned to Wall Street.

Goldman Sachs New Zealand economist Philip Borkin said his US colleagues now saw a one in three chance the United States would fall back into recession.

The fiscal stimulus put in place during the global financial crisis was winding down and fiscal policy would turn quite contractionary, he said.

"Despite the weaker dollar the US current account deficit is deteriorating and is expected to continue to do so. Unfortunately that means a higher New Zealand dollar and as a result we are becoming a lot more cautious about the manufacturing and tourism sectors as a result," Borkin said.

(from:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10743861)

4Jun/110

Rugby World Cup History

The 1987 Rugby World Cup was hosted by both Australia and New Zealand. 32 matches were played from over a period of May 22 to June 20. The tournament featured one African nation, three Americas nations, one Asian nation, seven European nations and four Oceanic nations. One notable omission was the Springboks who were not competing due to the international sports boycott.

Seven places were automatically filled by the IRFB members, with invitations being sent out to fill remaining places. In total there were 16 nations in the competition. France played Australia in the semi-finals and New Zealand, Wales. New Zealand became the first ever World Cup Champions, defeating France 29 points to 9 at Eden Park in Auckland.

Overview
Year Host Final venue Teams Qualifying participants Matches played Winner Runner-up
1987 Australia New Zealand Eden Park 16 Invitation 32 New Zealand France
1991 Britain France Ireland Twickenham 16 32 32 Australia England
1995 South Africa Ellis Park 16 52 32 South Africa New Zealand
1999 Wales Millennium Stadium 20 65 41 Australia France
2003 Australia Telstra Stadium 20 80 48 England Australia
2007 France Stade de France 20 91 48 South Africa England
2011 New Zealand Eden Park 20 - - - -

4Jun/110

Rugby World Cup 2011 Fixtures

Rugby World Cup 2011 Fixtures
Date Time Team v Team Venue
Round Robin
Pool A
Sep 9 8:30 PM New Zealand - Tonga Auckland
Sep 10 6:00 PM Japan - France North Shore
Sep 14 5:00 PM Canada - Tonga Whangarei
Sep 16 8:00 PM New Zealand - Japan Hamilton
Sep 18 8:30 PM Canada - France Napier
Sep 21 7:30 PM Japan - Tonga Whangarei
Sep 24 8:30 PM New Zealand - France Auckland
Sep 27 5:00 PM Canada - Japan Napier
Oct 1 6:00 PM France - Tonga Wellington
Oct 2 3:30 PM New Zealand - Canada Wellington
Pool B
Sep 10 1:00 PM Scotland - Romania Invercargill
Sep 10 8:30 PM England - Argentina Dunedin
Sep 14 7:30 PM Scotland - Georgia Invercargill
Sep 17 3:30 PM Argentina - Romania Invercargill
Sep 18 6:00 PM England - Georgia Dunedin
Sep 24 6:00 PM England - Romania Dunedin
Sep 25 8:30 PM Scotland - Argentina Wellington
Sep 28 7:30 PM Romania - Georgia Palmerston North
Oct 1 8:30 PM England - Scotland Auckland
Oct 2 1:00 PM Argentina - Georgia Palmerston North
Pool D
Sep 10 3:30 PM Namibia - Fiji Rotorua
Sep 11 8:30 PM Wales - South Africa Wellington
Sep 14 2:30 PM Samoa - Namibia Rotorua
Sep 17 6:00 PM South Africa - Fiji Wellington
Sep 18 3:30 PM Wales - Samoa Hamilton
Sep 22 8:00 PM South Africa - Namibia North Shore
Sep 25 3:30 PM Samoa - Fiji Auckland
Sep 26 7:30 PM Wales - Namibia New Plymouth
Sep 30 8:30 PM South Africa - Samoa North Shore
Oct 2 6:00 PM Wales - Fiji Hamilton
Pool C
Sep 11 3:30 PM Italy - Australia Albany
Sep 11 6:00 PM Ireland - United States New Plymouth
Sep 15 7:30 PM United States - Russia New Plymouth
Sep 17 8:30 PM Ireland - Australia Auckland
Sep 20 7:30 PM Italy - Russia Nelson
Sep 23 8:30 PM United States - Australia Wellington
Sep 25 6:00 PM Ireland - Russia Rotorua
Sep 27 7:30 PM Italy - United States Nelson
Oct 1 3:30 PM Argentina - Russia Nelson
Oct 2 8:30 PM Ireland - Italy Dunedin
Quarter-Finals
Oct 8 6:00 PM QF1: W Pool C v RU Pool D Wellington
Oct 8 8:30 PM QF2: W Pool B v RU Pool A Auckland
Oct 9 6:00 PM QF3: W Pool D v RU Pool C Wellington
Oct 9 8:30 PM QF4: W Pool A v RU Pool B Auckland
Semi-Finals
Oct 15 9:00 PM SF1: W QF1 v W QF2 Auckland
Oct 16 9:00 PM SF2: W QF3 v W QF4 Auckland
Bronze Final
Oct 21 8:30 PM L SF1 v L SF2 Auckland
Final
Oct 23 9:00 PM W SF1 v W SF2 Auckland

3Jun/110

Rare white kiwi hatched in NZ

A RARE white kiwi chick hatched at a New Zealand wildlife reserve will have a protected early life - unlike wild kiwis that face nonnative predators that are slowly wiping them out, an official said yesterday.

The chick, named Manukura or "Chiefly One" by local Maori, was born at Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Center on May 1, weighing about 250 grams, Department of Conservation area manager Chris Lester said. Lester said white kiwis are spotted in the wild about every three or four years, but the last one in captivity was released in 1915. The small, flightless birds are usually brown.

Manukura is being hand-reared in the reserve's new kiwi nursery, and will remain closely protected for at least the first year of his life, he said.

Once the bird is able to fend for itself, Lester said one alternative will be that it "remains in a predator-proof environment at the reserve ... or we will release him to take his chances."

Native to New Zealand, kiwis face potential extinction from a range of introduced predators that are also killing many other native bird species.

Rangitane o Wairarapa Maori tribal chief executive Jason Kerehi said the tribe's elders saw the white chick as a "tohu," or sign of new beginnings, and a "taonga," or treasure. "Every now and then something extraordinary comes along to remind you of how special life is," Kerehi said. "While we're celebrating all 14 kiwi hatched (at the reserve) this year, Manukura is a very special gift."

More funny things in NZ --NZ blog

12May/110

Google wants to control your house with Android

Google wants Android to move into people's homes with the open-source software powering everything from smart light bulbs to sound systems.

More than 5,000 software savants at Google's annual developers conference in San Francisco on Tuesday were shown an "Android@Home" software platform for making dumb devices smart and robots manageable.

Among the innovations on display were light bulbs that can be controlled by Android-powered gadgets and a Tungsten sound system that could be synced to Google's freshly-launched internet "cloud" music storage service.

Android light bulbs are to hit the market by the end of the year and developers were invited to turn them into smartphone-controlled alarm clocks for waking people up in the mornings.

"We are extending the Android platform into the home," said Google senior vice president of mobile Andy Rubin.

"It's a lot of fun," he continued. "The power of Android is that it can be used by a lot of people in a lot of different ways. We are going to see some pretty interesting stuff."

The technology has the potential to turn Android smartphones or tablets into remote controls for lights, appliances, irrigation systems, thermostats and more, according to Google.

"It is basically connecting lots of things together that inherently weren't designed that way," Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said of Android@Home.

"So many devices are becoming smart and connected, and Android is looking to become the technology to do that."

While Microsoft has talked for decades about software giving brains to dumb devices in homes without bringing the vision to the masses, Google could succeed due to its open-source model, according to the analyst.

Android is free, as compared to proprietary Microsoft software, and developers can customize it to devices as they wish.

The growth of Android@Home could depend on the availability of tiny, low-cost chips so that innovations are practical to make and affordable to buy, according to Dulaney.

"Android is so strong that it could come together," the analyst said.

Android was intended from the outset to go beyond powering smartphones, according to Google product manager Hugo Barra.

A display area at the conference was devoted to robots powered by Android software.

"We think there are a crazy number of new opportunities for developers to create new software," Google engineering director Joe Britt said after demonstrating Android@Home.

"There is a hydroponic grow system being controlled by an Android device," he continued with a chuckle. "We never would have thought of that."

11May/110

How to Make Your PC More Faster ?

One of the most frustrating things in life is a slow computer.

Every few years, we buy an expensive new PC and love how fast it starts up, runs programs, and loads websites. Inevitably though, it starts to slow down until eventually we are pulling our hair out waiting for it to do routine tasks.

Why is this? It turns out the answer is actually quite simple and you don't even need to be "technical" to understand the causes and solutions.

The good news: It's not the computer hardware that's the problem. In most cases, the hardware you have is perfectly capable of being restored to its original glory and kept in fast running condition with minimal effort.

1. Spyware and viruses

Spyware and viruses are software programs that are loaded on your computer without your knowledge or permission. They have various purposes, including:

Changing the default search engine in your browser.
Tracking your Web surfing habits and showing you targeted advertising.
Using your email program to send out spam to other email addresses.
Stealing your personal information.

Most spyware and viruses get onto our computers through files that we download from the Internet or as attachments to emails. They tend to take up a lot of computing power and, as a result, will significantly slow down your computer.

The simple rule of thumb to follow is to never download any free software programs from companies you do not know and trust, especially screensavers, emoticons, and the like. In addition, you should never open any attachment to an email unless you are 100 percent certain you know and trust the sender. In addition, make sure you have a good anti-virus/spyware removal software running at all times.

2. The most common problem: registery errors

Every time you (or your kids) load a program, game, or file, your PC's software registery is updated with new instructions needed to operate that item. However, when the item is removed, these instructions usually remain on your PC. Every time you run your computer it tries to execute these instructions but, because the related program can't be found, it causes a registry error. Your PC is doing a lot more work than it should be and the result is a significantly slower computer.
Follow the above advice and your PC should stay fast and safe.

3May/110

Google Puts $100M into Shepherds Flat Wind Farm

Google upped its total clean energy spend to $350 million after pumping $100 million into the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm April 18.

Spanning over 30 square miles in Arlington, Ore., Shepherds Flat is expected to cost $2 billion to build and should produce 845 megawatts of electricity, or enough to fuel more than 235,000 homes, when it is completed by developer Caithness Energy in 2012.

That would make it the largest wind farm in the world, said Rick Needham, Google's director of Green Business Operations, in a blog post.

Clean or renewable energy includes hydroelectricity, solar energy, wind energy, wave power, geothermal energy, bioenergy and tidal power.

Google, a massive consumer of energy to power the thousands of computers that fuel its search and Web services, has pumped more than $350 million into clean energy, coming mostly in wind and/or tidal energy.

Google last October invested in the Atlantic Wind Connection backbone to power offshore windmills by connecting undersea cables along the Atlantic coast. Google last May seeded two NextEra wind farms in North Dakota with $38.8 million.

The Shepherds Flat development, easily Google's biggest wind power fund to date, is the first commercial wind farm in the United States to leverage turbines that use permanent magnet generators to boost the efficiency of wind power generation. Such generators are also called alternatives because they generate alternating current.

General Electric, a co-investor in Shepherds Flat along with Google, Japan's Sumitomo Corp. and a unit of Itochu, manufactured the turbines and is the operations and maintenance supplier.

The electricity produced at Shepherds Flat will be sold under long-term agreements to Southern California Edison. This will help Google endear itself to its home state of California, as Needham said the project will help California meet its renewable energy goals.

Google's funding for Shepherds Flat comes less than a week after the company invested $168 million for Brightsource's Ivanpah solar power tower in the Mojave Desert and $5 million for a solar photovoltaic plant near Berlin.

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