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We know, you’ve seen an awful lot of Zuckerberg and crew here lately, and the Facebook news just keeps rolling in. This time the social networking giant is doing some sharing of a different sort by offering public access to the specifications and best practices behind its new, more efficient data center in Prineville, Oregon. According to the company, the center, built in collaboration with AMD, Dell, HP, and Intel, has boosted energy efficiency by 38 percent while lowering cost by 24 percent. The information now available through the Open Compute Project includes technical specs and mechanical CAD files for everything from servers to building design. Basically, if you want to erect your own multi-million dollar Facebook-style data center, you’ve got the go ahead. Full PR after the break.

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This article was written on September 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

While iPods look clean and shiny right out of the box, it doesn’t take long for a few scratches to appear. They tend to scratch fairly easily, even when you try (like I did) to keep it scratch free. Unless you’re using a case or cover of some sort, it’s inevitable that it will happen eventually.  Here are a few tips on different ways that you can fix the scratches on your iPod:

• Remove the "shiny" surface from the back of your iPod using a rough sponge (instructions here). This gives it a "brushed" look (pictured above) which will take away the shine, the fingerprints, and the scratches. Cost: Nearly free! 
• iCleaner – this non abrasive alcohol free cleaner will remove scratches from both plastic and metal surfaces. If you’d like your iPod to look closer to the way it did when you first bought it, give it a try. Cost: $19.95-$35.00
• Brasso – Using Brasso and a dremel with a buffer attachment, you’ll be able to restore your iPod to "near-new" condition. You could also try using Brasso with a soft cloth, it just may take you longer to get the scratches out than using a dremel with a buffer attachment. Cost: About $4
• iDrops – "A simple easy to use, one bottle solution for cleaning, polishing, and removing scratches from you iPod, iBook, White MacBook and more." Cost: $14.95

If you have any other suggestions, let us know!

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This article was written on May 21, 2007 by CyberNet.

It was just a few weeks ago that more rumors were flying around that Dell was planning to launch a Tablet PC towards the end of October. At the time, the rumor claimed that the PC would be based upon a Latitude notebook computer.

As it turns out, it’s true! On Dell’s blog, Jeff Clarke, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dell’s Business Product Group said in a video that he was there to end much speculation about their plans to enter the Tablet PC Market. The rumors were true.

Clarke says that the Latitude Tablet PC was designed for the education, health care, and corporate market place, and it’s an exciting product. In the video, he says that a lot of engineering has gone into it to make it one of the lightest weight, most convertible tablets in the marketplace.

You can watch the video here:

No pricing has been announced, but if it’s based upon the Latitude D420 notebook computer, the price will be at least $1800+. I also wonder what the battery life will be like. Thus far, Tablet PCs haven’t taken off in popularity like I thought they would when they were introduced several years ago. Perhaps Dell entering the market will change that.

Tablet PC Images:

In other Dell News, Michael Dell was recently interviewed by CRN, and he was quoted as saying that they were going to be “quite aggressive” with the retail channel. Now we’re left to speculate what that means. As of now, the closest they’ve come to “retail” has been with their small kiosks in the malls where you can play around with some of their laptops and pick up a brochure or place an order.

When he says aggressive with the retail channel, that could mean a variety of things. I’d assume it means that consumers will be able to purchase Dell computers in-store at some of the major retailers, or they could always follow in Apple’s footsteps and open their own Dell stores. I tend to think they’d be more likely to go with the first route, and maybe you’ll be purchasing your next Dell computer at Best Buy?

Source: Ars Technica

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This article was written on December 31, 2005 by CyberNet.

This has to be one of the most highly decked out laptops that’s out there. Not only does it have the Dual Core AMD processor, it also has two 100GB hard drives, a DVD burner, 17″ screen, and a 256MB video card. This is true power-hungry laptop and it would be interesting to see what the battery is like! Make sure you check out the review to see more pictures of this monster as well as benchmarks on it.

See The Review: Hexus.net

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This article was written on April 16, 2008 by CyberNet.

Remember the Psystar company that we wrote about yesterday? They are the ones who make the Open Computer that is capable of running Mac OS X, and they’ll even go as far as to preinstall it for you. Because their prices are surprisingly reasonable there has been some concern raised as to whether the company is a scam.

Yesterday the Guardian decided to delve into whether the company is real or not. After a little digging things were not looking so good:

The site was registered in 2000, according to whois, but what’s odd is that searches on Google and on Live.com don’t turn up anything about the company before this week. Zip. Zero. Nada.

I called the Miami Chamber of Commerces and its Better Business Bureau. They’ve never heard of it.

I called the company. The automated system asked if I want Sales? Support? Human Resources? Let’s have a laugh and call HR. No reply. (This was 11.45am their time.) Did I want to leave a message? Press the pound key when done. I did. “Error.”

And things progressively got worse. The author noticed that earlier in the day their office was showing up as “10645 SW 112 St, Miami FL 33176” and in the midst of writing his post it had changed to “10481 NW 28th St, Miami, FL 33172.” That’s definitely a little eerie.

Some people were even reporting that they were able to complete the checkout process using false information, and that the process wasn’t at all secure. I wanted to see for myself whether that was true, but immediately after adding the item to the cart I was presented with this notification:

Thank you for visiting Psystar. We’re sorry but the store is temporarily down due to the fact that we are currently unable to process any credit card transactions.

And now it seems as though their entire store is down for the same reason. I was hoping that Psystar would come through, but the question of whether this is a scam is definitely sitting in the back of my head. Hopefully some of these machines will make their way out into the wild so that we can rest easy!

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