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For the past nine months, Intel’s X25-M G2 has been the solid state drive to beat, and manufacture as it might, rival OCZ hasn’t been able to mass produce a SSD capable of matching its fantastic all-around performance. The original Vertex 2 Pro might have done the trick, but the company scrapped it after the speedy SandForce SF-1500 controller was found wanting, and only 5,000 of the 270MB / sec, 15,000 IOPS drives were ever produced. But now, OCZ’s back with SandForce’s cheaper SF-1200 chip, and surprise of surprises, the drives it power are even faster — at least on paper — than before. The new Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSDs boast maximum sequential read speeds of 285MB / sec and 275MB / sec writes, and can perform those all-important 4K random writes at up to 50,000 IOPS on a Vertex, or a very respectable 10,000 IOPS for the budget Agility line. The company expects both drives to ship in the next few weeks in usable capacities of 50GB, 100GB and 200GB (provisioning an extra 14GB of overhead for each 50GB of storage) with 400GB SSDs planned further down the road. Now then, OCZ, how about that price tag?

Update: Though we believe Intel’s X25-M G2 is still considered the front-runner in the consumer space, it is worth noting that OCZ’s new SSDs still have catching up to do in order to match the superb numbers generated by the more expensive enthusiast drive, the Crucial RealSSD C300. We’ll have to see which incumbent OCZ is actually competing with (if not both) when it announces price points. [Thanks, SSD!]

OCZ bids for solid state throne with new Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSDs originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We promise that in two or three more weeks, we’ll shut up about the iPad. Promise. But for now, it’s the Apple of our eye.

Admit it, your love for Firefox is tempered by sometimes sluggish performance and a penchant for perennial plugin crashes. Google did what it could with Chrome to isolate such issues by ensuring the entire browser didn’t crash when Flash (or any other add-on, for that matter) went belly up. Now it looks like the gang at Mozilla are adopting a similar tactic, and if you want to try it out for yourself, the Lorentz beta is now available for download. So sayeth the site, “If a plugin crashes or freezes, it will not affect the rest of Firefox. You will be able to reload the page to restart the plugin and try again.” Whodathunk we’d ever feel actual elation at such a proclamation?

Firefox Lorentz beta doesn’t crash entirely when plug-ins get fussy originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on October 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it’s safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we’ll try to note the paid-only programs).

As you browse the Internet during the day, feel free to post the software updates you come across in the comments below so that we can include them the following day!

–Stable Releases–

The software listed here have all been officially released by the developers.

• MediaCoder 0.6.0.3932 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror] [Review]
  Type of Application: Media converter
  Changes: Minor updates and bug fixes
• SyncBackSE 4.3 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror]
  Cost: $30
  Type of Application: File and folder backup utility
  Changes: Open/locked files can now be copied on Vista x64, no more progress bar flickering on Vista, and Dutch translations
• Winpatrol 12.2.2007.0 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror] [Review]
  Type of Application: Computer monitor
  Changes: Detect changes are made to your Automatic Update settings, detect changes to your default browser prefix, and more

–Pre-Releases (Alpha, Beta, etc…)–

The software listed here are pre-releases that may not be ready for everyday usage.

• ATI Tray Tools 1.3.6.1066 [Homepage] [Mirror]
  Release: Beta
  Type of Application: Advanced ATI System Tray options
  Changes: N/A
• Azureus 3.0.3.5 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror] [Review]
  Release: Beta 4
  Type of Application: BitTorrent downloader
  Changes: N/A
• PSPad 4.5.3.2284 [Homepage] [Release Notes] [Mirror] [Review]
  Release: Beta
  Type of Application: Text editor
  Changes: Bug fixes
• Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.797 [Homepage] [Release Notes]
  Release: Beta
  Type of Application: Instant messenger
  Changes: New look, new skins, Flickr integration, and more

–Release Calendar–

This is a great way to keep up on the upcoming software releases.

• November – Firefox 3 Milestone 9 [Review]
• November – Comodo 3 Firewall [Review]
• November – Vista Transformation Pack 8
• November 1 – Firefox 2.0.0.9
• November 8 – Fedora 8
• November 13 – Zune 2 [Review]
• December 4 – OpenOffice.org 2.3.1 [Review]
• December 15 – Paint.NET 3.20 [Review]
• January, 2008 – Mac Office 2008 [Review]
• January 15, 2008 – WordPress 2.4
• February, 2008 – iPhone SDK [Review]
• February 27, 2008 – Windows Server 2008 [Review] ^NEW
• March 4, 2008 – OpenOffice.org 2.4
• April 24, 2008 – Ubuntu 8.04
• September 2, 2008 – OpenOffice.org 3.0 [Review]

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Face it: Sony’s backed you into a corner. You can’t play PS3 online without downloading the 3.21 firmware update, but if you download, your precious ‘Other OS’ is forfeit — and there may be side effects. You could wait it out, hoping Geohot comes through with a workaround. You could even sue Sony for a refund if you live in Europe. Or, if you’re not terribly worried about the security of your PSN account and personal information, you could instead input just ten digits into your PS3 and magically bypass the entire issue. Though technically minded individuals have been skirting Sony’s firmware checks for years now using private proxies, homebrew developer Aaron Lindsay decided to set up a public server at 67.202.81.137, which allows anyone to piggyback on his success in mere seconds — we tried it ourselves, and it worked like a charm. By doing so, you run the risk of giving Aaron all your credentials… but if the odd identity theft doesn’t break your stride, you can jump right back into that Uncharted 2 session by entering the above number into Internet Connection Settings > DNS Setting > Primary DNS.

Bypass PS3 firmware 3.21 in seconds — at your own risk originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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