Alapage permanently down the curtain

One of the pioneers of French e-commerce sites, Alapage.com, turns the page and drop the curtain finally.

Old old who experienced the beginnings of the public Internet with modems 33. 6 K and strident sounds to the connection to the network of networks, Alapage.com site cannot but recall the memory of their first purchases online.

Indeed, established in 1996, Alapage French e-commerce site was a true pioneer in France before to know difficulties one competition affutée (Amazon and Fnac among others). The site is then first again by France Telecom in 1999 that the then gives to street of trade in 2009.

The Alapage mark is therefore abandoned from this day, Monday, March 26, 2012, and the content of the site is now integrated Rueducommerce.com site which will of course honor all orders placed via the site Alapage.com before its closure.

A page of the internet French to tourne…

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EVGA offers GeForce GTX 680 brackets

The American brand EVGA offers high airflow for customers of its GeForce GTX 680 of brackets.

Happy owners of a GeForce GTX the new brand 680 of the EVGA mark, hurry! Indeed, the brand offers free a bracket high airflow at the first 200 purchasers who have a member on the EVGA site account and register their product online.

The offer is valid for customers in Europe and North America and allows for the fastest of them receive a rear bracket with a larger number of vent holes than equipping the reference map to earn up to 3 ° for the GPU cooling.

This bracket will be soon sold other than on the site of the constructor, but for free, it is here that it happens.

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XBMC is full of what's new in version 11.0

For all platforms market, XMBC version 11 offers support for ISO Blu - ray, the AirPlay and a polished interface files for a better navigation.

Available for download, the famous media-center software for all the bones of the market out in its "Eden", the 11.0 version. The menu of the improvements, XBMC 11.0 somewhat reviews its interface called "Confluence" happening in the horizontal format, more suited to our HD TV. A new file Explorer is also the part that combines the library mode and classic mode by folders. Also note that the module will seek information online for all the titles of the library has been reviewed.

The manipulation of the interface with a mouse or a trackpad was retouched to display a bar of finally accessible elevator, which facilitates navigation among the numerous files of the library. In the continuity of the development with version 10.0 "Dharma", XBMC has added many formats in its list support, with hardware decoding for some.

One of the new formats supported is the Blu - ray in its form of backup, as ISO file or BDMV, adding M2TS format already present in the previous version. For hardware decoding, XBMC developers worked on supported graphics cards AMD, chips OMAP4 for Linux, as well as the Apple A4 which team the Apple TV. For our readers on Mac OS X, XMBC also tweaked its module hardware acceleration for the support of all graphic cards of the system to the Apple.

         

A last feature not anticipated but that will delight the iOS users, it is the AirPlay compatibility mode target. That XBMC will support playback of video and viewing photo from all platforms supported by the software, with more reading music for the Mac OS and Linux platforms, but not for Windows at this time.

A version of XBMC in LiveCD mode is also available for download and called XBMCbuntu Live, which is based, as its name indicates, on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. From a CD or a USB key, the interface of media-center will launch without installation. However, it is possible to launch a desktop mode under the graphical environment LXDE with Chromium and its extension Flash Player installed for Web navigation. Under this mode, software installation will go through the usual package manager of distribution, it takes just a little more room on the USB key. It not miss more than the popcorn.

> XBMC 11.0 Eden for Windows

> XBMC 11.0 Eden for Linux

> XBMC 11.0 Eden for Mac OS X

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Antec saves 40 ventilos TrueQuiet Pro 120 on Facebook

An Antec France Facebook contest to win a TrueQuiet Pro 120 fan.

Spring is officially here since a few days and if the temperatures do not yet Pack, it announces the summer and the heat that will be put to evil the cooling of our bécanes. Following the launch, a few days ago, its new TrueQuiet Pro 120 fan, the Antec manufacturer launches a contest on his Facebook page to win copies of this small that silent as efficient turbine.

The idea used this game to the name well found "Fans for fans" is a competition based on points. Antec fans therefore gain 2 points, 1 point in "loving" the Facebook of Antec France page by posting a link to the contest on their wall and 3 points for each invited friend. In each country where this contest is launched, the 40 first will win a TrueQuiet Pro 120 fan. A reminder, it is equipped with silicone grommets and an anti-turbulences blade.

> Enter the Fans for Fans of Antec on Facebook

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Free Mobile called to reimburse its customers and to better inform

The UFC-Que choose application Free mobile to compensate its customers and better informed on sustained networks failures.

Free Mobile has been in default by the French Union (UFC-Que choose) consumers to explain to its client on the reasons for different dysfunctions that occurred on its mobile network, but also that it is compensation for harm suffered by some subscribers.

Alain Bazot, President of the consumers association, believes that the fourth operator Mobile does communicate enough on the technical problems he meets daily from 18: 00 to 20: 00 or on large outages occur and affect a large number of subscribers through the entire France.

The UFC-Que choose suggests, therefore, that something must be done to compensate customers who have suffered these problems because it is not normal to pay for a deficient service that the tariff is low or not. Free Mobile has promised to increase the technical means put in place to deploy its mobile network and must today, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, meet Orange to take stock of their roaming agreement.

The troublemaker of the Telecom must therefore show greater transparency to its clients and partners to not get everyone back to continue to offer low-cost mobile packages but also quality if possible. Because if it can be lenient with the newcomer for a while and accept some shortcomings the time he put in place, the lack of communication and repetitive problems becomes quickly tiresome and can tarnish the image of brand in the long term. When Xavier Niel intervention as he knows so well do to calm this restlessness?

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Two small boxes aluminium in Lian Li

Lian Li presents two new small boxes. One clearly oriented storage data, the other a little more comprehensive, but all two Compact Aluminum...

Lian Li aluminum housings specialist has presented two new references of enclosures directed towards data storage. Small in size, they are indeed presented as being perfect to sin... but not only. Both integrated into the manufacturer's Q Series, they are known as PC - Q12 and PC - Q18 and could make the happiness of the fans of no bulky computers. They support two motherboards mini-ITX format and offer USB 3.0 front ports.

Minimalist, the PC-Q12 can be positioned vertical to horizontal. It proposes four bays 2.5-inch, which is rather a lot given its dimensions (8.8 x 36.5 x 20.8 cm). On the other hand, cannot associate with an on port PCIe graphics card or an optical drive internally. PC - Q12 integrates a 300W power standard 80 more and cooling is provided by a small 80 mm top fan. This box will be available in silver or black for sale price $ 159.

The PC-Q18 leaves him the possibility to mount a more advanced configuration. It is in fact an aesthetic evolution of PC - Q08 which has four bays 3.5 "hotswap, not to mention the lower grid that allows you to add up to two drives, 3.5" additional or three 2.5 "disk. However, the chassis keeps the compact dimensions of 19.9 x 29 x 36.5 cm. There is room for an optical drive 5.25 "and the PC - Q18 can accommodate a dedicated VGA up to a maximum of 34 cm. On the heatpipe, it will be up to 16 cm high. Cooling is provided by two 140 mm fans, one on the front blowing directly on the disks to cool and the other being placed in extraction on top. There, two colors silver, black, and planned for a sale price of $ 159.

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Orange is considering a cut of homelessness with Free Mobile

Orange evokes a possible cut of interconnection with the Free Mobile network. A real threat that the incumbent operator could implement?

AFP indicates that an Orange spokesperson said this weekend that a suspension of the contract of roaming between the incumbent operator to Free Mobile is not possible if the problems encountered by the latter disturbing quality of the service it provides to its own subscribers. Is it a real threat that Orange intends to weigh on Free Mobile or a somewhat abrupt way of presenting things? Hard to say, but these words are not gone unnoticed.

In any case, it is in this way that Orange has chosen to meet the Chairman of Arcep, Jean-Luc Silicani, explaining a few hours earlier that the technical difficulties encountered relate essentially the interconnection between the Free and Orange networks. Statements which are at the same level two operators, which has the gift of ruffled feathers Orange which the spokesman said: "Contrary to some assertions to Orange in fault occurred on the network of Free Mobile these days, the Group declines any responsibility in these dysfunctions".

Arcep reiterated, however, that the two operators have the opportunity to renegotiate the contract of homelessness if, finally, he does seem them more viable. Given the turn that take events, it is not impossible that this case lead to a renegotiation of homelessness. Recall that according to Bouygues Télécom, Free Mobile - which has not confirmed this figure - count approximately 2.2 million customers. And that half of the Free Mobile traffic would according to Arcep, in 2 G, and therefore only via towers of Orange, not counting the volume of traffic in 3 G which also through the network Orange, Free Mobile not covering antennas for the time that less than 30% of the population.

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