Freebox Revolution: an infra-red dongle

The Freebox Revolution will have its infrared receiver

At the end of the Freebox Revolution, Xavier Niel had been a pleasure to introduce the new remote control box incorporating a radio transmitter / receiver in place of the infrared, to bring new way to interact with the interface navigation, which was not previously possible with the old model. Free users but many have requested support from infrared to be able to use only one universal remote to control their home theater system via a Logitech Harmony or Tablet Sony S, for example.

Through the voice of Nicolas Pouillon, a developer Freebox, the official Free solution to this request is apparently already ready for a long time. Namely, the receiver chosen is none other than the small IR-605Q can be purchased individually. It can be found in France for twenty euros with a remote control.


This small USB dongle is already supported in the current firmware of the Freebox, and also provides full support for the old remote version 5, except for the lighting of the new Freebox from a deep sleep ... USB ports of the housing in this case being over powered.

The remote control codes used will be identical to the codes of AliceBox V5, already in the foundation of universal remote controls. Knowing that the remote control codes are set, maintaining the consistency over time on future updates will be provided for this receptor, because the support of all infrared receivers on the planet would take too much time.

For now, we have no date of availability of this small USB dongle in the shop Free. We do not know if it will be included soon for new subscribers.

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I' m Watch: The Android watch of the geek!

Disembark early 2012's "I'm watch" shows a touch screen running Android and extended functionality ...

Soon the top of the geekitude will answer the question "What time is it please? "With a nonchalant" Wait, I run the application Android clock my watch and I tell you that in ten seconds "... Joking aside, though, I'm watch is a watch with an Italian multimedia multiple capabilities.

With a capacitive touch screen of 1.54 "(resolution of 240 x 240 pixels at 220 dpi), a processor at 464 MHz Freescale iMX233, 64 MB RAM, 4 GB of storage memory, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, a microphone, speakers, a stereo jack and a battery of 450 mAh, this watch is running a modified version of Android 1.6.

This staffing technology enables it to connect - via Bluetooth - any smartphone running the Google mobile OS but also those running Windows Phone 7, iOS, Symbian, Blackberry, or Bada. It is then possible to consult via its interface applications tailored to your Twitter posts, Facebook, email, weather, calendar, photos, videos and music (MP3 and AAC) and much more ...

You can also answer your calls without having to leave your smartphone in your pocket with the microphone and speakers built into the watch case (as in K2000!). The battery lasts 24 hours announced with Bluetooth enabled, it will not forget to charge it every night.

    

It will be officially presented at CES in Las Vegas in mid-January 2012 and its marketing will be effective soon after for a price starting at 249 euros. Pre-orders are already open against the official website of the manufacturer with 7 colors. So you crack or not? In the meantime here's a video presentation of this little gem tech-geek:

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-10% of PC delivered in December because of the shortage of hard drives

PC shipments should begin to be slowed by the shortage of hard drives next month ...

Floods in Thailand have severely affected the production of hard drives. So that different resellers announced that they will find it difficult to complete orders in the order of 10% for the month of December.


According to information we have, some retailers such as HP, Dell and Acer have stocks of hard drives that can cover applications for computers for about four weeks. Others would do that for a week, which seems fair enough to deliver the orders of November and possibly early December.

The "drought" stock should hit more violently the market in early 2012 when the impact will be from 40 to 50% on the availability of different types of retailers. If everything comes back in order, Thai manufacturers could return to normal production of hard drives around February to March as seen above, with a peak for the expected shortage in the heart of the first quarter of 2012.

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Like Noctua, Cooler Master offers a kit of fixing LGA 2011

Cooler Master also offers free mounting kit for socket LGA 2011. Small problem, it only affects Hyper 212 CPU Cooler and, a priori, the U.S. consumer ...

Like the Austrian Noctua Cooler Master invites you to complete an online form to receive a free mounting kit for LGA 2011 cooler if you have an Evo Hyper 212 or Hyper 212 Plus.


Coolers with boxes did not contain - logically - what to fix new motherboards x79 (eg ASRock x79 Extreme4 or the Asus Deluxe P9X79) ready to welcome a Sandy Bridge-E (Core family i -3000).

To receive yours, simply go to this page bears the serial number of your cooler and the invoice for your motherboard with socket LGA 2011. Unfortunately, this good initiative is available in the United States, Canada and Mexico at the moment, hoping that this program be extended into our region soon.

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Nook Tablet: a true competitor for Kindle Fire

Barnes & Noble Announces Android Touch Pad 7 "at low prices to counter its competitor Amazon Kindle and Fire.

The season may be very busy in the segment of touch pads, entry-level. U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble has announced the availability of its slate multimedia, Tablet Nook, in response to the attack of Amazon and its Kindle Fire.

The two competing models have the same characteristics are: IPS multitouch screen 7 "(resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels), TI OMAP processor double heart 1 GHz, WiFi 802.11 b / g / n ... but the Nook is characterized by a much more substantial RAM (1 GB 512 MB against Kindle for Fire) and a memory of 16GB expandable to 48 GB with SD card slot (only 8 GB of internal memory for Amazon model).

Lighter (412 grams against 499 grams for the tablet competitor) the Nook Tablet offers a range of comfortable 11 hours reading text and 9.5 hours in video mode. This superior technology is paid for by a tariff increase of 50 dollars or 249 dollars against 199 dollars for the Kindle Fire. Pre-orders are now open across the Atlantic, and will be delivered and available for sale only three days after the model of its direct competitor, is November 18.

               

To complete its range of content, Barnes & Noble has entered into various partnerships with Marvel, Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora or Grooveshark, and offer a storage service in the cloud to its users through the Nook Cloud.

Note also that in order not to let Amazon steal market share of reading lights "simple", the American bookseller down the price of its Nook Color (from 249 to 199 dollars) and that of its Nook Touch (from 139 to 99 dollars). We can say that the release of Touch Kindle by Amazon price floor has been beneficial for consumers.

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Modules of DDR3 of 64 Go

Micron is back on center stage with modules of RAM and 64 GB

More and more services in the cloud, so more and more users to manage the servers, resulting in a demand for storage space and RAM especially more important ... To meet this demand, Micron Technology introduces new RAM sticks (more precisely LRDIMMs) of 64 GB


Relying on this small step forward, the parent Lexar also offers smaller modules like the classic 8 GB, 16 GB or 32 GB According to the brand marketing team, this architecture will allow modification of the company to increase capacity by 50% and 30% performance on the server type applications. In addition, better management of the increase in frequency accompanied by a significant discharge of the memory bus will reduce energy consumption by about 10%.

The first RAM chips including the new technology should be available for sale during February 2012.

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The BIOS of Gigabyte passes in “3D”

Gigabyte BIOS upgrades in UEFI motherboard with more interactive when applying changes in parameters.

Gigabyte has just introduced an official BIOS for its next generation motherboards, starting with those equipped with the Intel x79 chipset for Sandy Bridge-E. The latter, called 3D BIOS, is to actually offer two different dual-navigation UEFI, with the ability to switch from one presentation to another by clicking (or pressing the F1 key).

The first presentation is classic, with its sections, lists and traditional menus, while the second (called "3D") adds various visual elements. A graphical representation of the motherboard that can handle provides access in an intuitive way to various components of the machine, like CPU, RAM or SATA controllers. A simple click on these to open a menu related to apply some parameter changes.

This is explained in this video by Gigabyte 3D Presend the BIOS:

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