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Ofcourse yes!. BOXD5400XS is the motheroard model for Intel’s SkullTrail gaming platform. Lot of companies are selling this motherboard for about ~$700!

As expected, Apple today announced slew of new features and much anticipated iPhone SDK that provides native APIs to write apps for iPhone. Here is the list of new features that are announced today:

• Microsoft Exchange support
• Microsoft ActiveSync support to push email, calendar data
• Remote wipe feature

Support for VPN was mentioned but it appears it will show up in the next release. Other than the above, the rest of the announcement talked about what’s in the SDK. I was not surprised by the announcement that the SDK will run only on Mac. No support for Windows. I hope they will release Windows version of SDK in the future.

The SDK among other things includes iPhone Simulator! Thats really a good news because it will allow developers to quickly try their apps before giving final testing on the device. Notable features of the SDK are:

• Support for Cocoa Touch. The developers have API access to multi-touch controls and the accelerometer! This is a delight!!
• XCode. IDE environment for developing iPhone apps
• Interface Builder for building the User Interface
• Instruments that allows the developers to record the performance of the app. I believe it is something like Intel VTune
• Support for Open GL. Apple demonstrated a game written using Open GL API

What’s next? If you have ideas for killer apps and don’t have a money to spend on development resource, no worries! You can get the fund from iFund! To encourage entrepreneurs, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers announced $100 million iFund to help entrepreneurs!

OK! You got the fund and you have a killer app. Now you need to distribute or sell it, right? No worries! Apple has created “AppStore” to distribute your apps! You can distribute even free applications through it.

And, there was a bad news for prevs. No support for iPorn!

Now, click here to download the SDK. In coming weeks, I will write more about iPhone SDK mainly focusing on gaming.

Have fun!

According to slickdeals.net, GameStop is offering $20 rebate on all Activision games!.

Benefits of Overclocking Your Computer
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Billy_Zype]Billy Zype

There are many benefits to overclocking your hardware peripherals.  It is said to benefit computer owners who have low end models. Overclocking increases the speed of any hardware peripheral more than the limit set by the manufacturer.   By overclocking, the low end hardware is made to perform just as its higher end version does. Some computer enthusiasts who have good and new quality models also overclock their computer hardwares in order to push them to perform much better.  Besides speed advantages, overclocking gives greater signal strength which helps your hardware perform at a maximum level.

Take the 3.0 gigahertz Pentium 4, its owner can overclock it to 3.4 gigahertz. By doing so, he has on his hands now a computer that works exactly like the actual Pentium 4 3.4 gigahertz without having to shell out more money for an upgrade or a new computer purchase. With overclocking, you are also able to test drive an upcoming model or a newly released model you are contemplating on buying.

You can overclock just about everything on your computer, the graphics, memory, and processors. While still on experimentation, PCI, AGP ( accelerated graphics port), USB and serial ports of older computer models have the possibility of being overclocked. However, a person who owns older models of computers might best exercise caution not to overclock their hardware while no concrete success results are documented and while there is still no accurate information regarding specific instructions and troubleshooting processes .

Remember to overclock your system in increasing levels, starting at minimum speed modification. An abrupt system modification thru oveclocking may cause serious damages to your computer. It has been reported that some computers suffered from data loss, frequent boot failure, and even system crashing. By overclocking a step at a time you are more able to assess your computer’s overclocking limit. Increase speed only after you’ve already placed your system thru thorough performance system testing and after you ascertain your computer’s stability on the present modification.  On the web, you can find sites and companies which offer CPU tests for stability. You can easily scout for a reputable site and product to acquire CPU testing from.

Possible overheating problems (which were reported to be the common problem to overclocking) can be prevented from happening by ensuring enough peripheral cooling to maintain low temperatures. Remember to always keep your CPU cool, and most of the time, everything will be alright.

Gaming computers also benefit much from overclocking. Because of a faster and higher performance level, players experience lesser problems (or even none at all) with game loading (and web page loading for online games), game performance, and others. Owners who like to play computer games, eve online ones, would definitely have an increased level of satisfaction with gaming.

Billy Zype is an overclocking expert.  You can check out his website  at http://www.hotoverclocking.com

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Heavy anticipation is building up before Apple is scheduled to announce iPhone SDK next week. What no one knows is that whether the SDK will also support iPod Touch.Support for iPod touch would be really cool. Application developers will have a hugemarket to target.

SkullTrail.com will create a separate section to write about iPhone SDK. The main focus will be how to write games using iPhone SDK. We welcome articles from readers as well. Send your entries to content at skulltrail.com.

Japan launched a satellite to provide 1.2 Giga bits per second broadband access initially to people in asia-pacific region. This is purely experimental technology so don’t hold your hope to get this access soon in your area! You can read about it more here

Stumbled upon Raptr today and checked out their site. Its really cool. Basically, you install Raptr on your machine and start sharing your games, videos and mods with your friends. You can also play with them. It is also a recommendation system. It learns what you play & share and offers recommendation (including demos and trailers!) based on your taste. It updates your games automatically with the latest patches so you are always ready to play!

Check it out here

Intel, AMD, NVidia and Microsoft with others have formed a non-profit organization to save PC gaming. It seems their aim to drive growth of PC gaming. Check it out here.

I see more people using PCs to play games if PS3/XBOX/Wii titles could be run on it. There are plenty of cool titles for those platforms. A hard code gamer would use platforms like SkullTrail instead since it could serve as a media center, a desktop for regular use etc. Also, one can constantly upgrade it with powerful graphics card and more memory etc instead of waiting for 3 years or so for console upgrade to occur.

Intel today released motherboard for SkullTrail gaming platform!. Read it here

According to slickdeals.net, starting from March 15th, Sears will mark down Ninendo Gamecube to $19 from $99!! Hope it is true!