Mixing ATI Radeon HD Graphics Cards in CrossFire

When it comes mixing and matching different types of graphics card and running them in either SLI or CrossFire mode, you are bound to have a number of problems. You will not find too many people advising in trying this, but the video card companies are working hard at making this work. Today, we are looking at ATI's budget friendly Radeon HD 3850 and Radeon HD 3870 graphics cards to seeing how they work together in CrossFire.

Sony announced today its intention to completely revamp its Cyber-Shot W series of compact cameras. Four new models – the W120, W120, W130, W150, and W170 – provide replacements for the popular Cyber-shot W55, W80, and W90, and add one new unit to Sony's broad range of compact digicams.

In the release, Sony also announced the culmination of several technological developments impacting some or all W-series models. Sony's Smile Shutter system, which prevents the camera from firing until subjects are smiling, has been upgraded to include a "child/adult priority" function. Users can now specify if they'd like the system to give priority to making sure either children or adults are smiling in a particular shot; improved face detection technology allows the camera to distinguish between the two.

LG, you get the impression, is a company that likes to cover all the bases. In recent times it has delivered full HD TVs, Freeview Playback TVs, and high-style designer TVs. And today, with the 32LC46, it's adding to the list that most beloved of things: ‘a bloody cheap TV'.

At under £400 it really does get down and dirty with 32in TVs from the budget-specialist likes of Goodmans and Bush. Yet there's really nothing in its on-paper specifications to suggest exactly how LG has managed to sell it for so little.

The first mockups of theme that will be used as default in Firefox 2 have been released.

Three vendors (Meta, Radiant Core, and Raiz Labs were asked to submit proposals for a new theme. They were given the criteria that the new theme had to

* respect OS native look and feel
* appear modern and contemporary with current web and client apps
* appear consistent across platforms
* have minimum to zero code impact requirements (ie: all CSS and icon work)

The head of the One Laptop per Child project, Nicholas Negroponte, says he must be doing something right if he is upsetting Microsoft and Intel

The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab.

Speaking on the final day of Red Hat's annual user summit in Nashville, Negroponte told an audience of Linux enthusiasts and technology professionals that the OLPC project will lead to mass adoption of the operating system, if the software that powers it is efficient and usable enough.

When Apple announced a 17-inch version of its MacBook Pro (Best Current Price: $2749.95), many thought that the performance of this larger laptop would match that of a custom-built 15-inch MacBook. After all, both machines run on a 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo processor.

For the most part, that assumption proved to be right—our initial tests of the 17-inch MacBook Pro produced comparable results to Macworld Lab’s benchmarks of the build-to-order 2.16GHz 15-inch configuration. However, in many of the tests, the 17-inch model managed to eke out a little more performance than its 15-inch counterpart.

Unveiled at last month’s National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, the 17-inch MacBook Pro shares many of the specifications of the higher-end 15-inch model. The notable exceptions include the extra two inches of diagonal screen space, a FireWire 800 port, 20GBs of extra hard disk space, and, of course, the 2.16GHz processor as a standard option (as opposed to a $300 add-on).

Search giant Google has announced a free, Web-based 'shareable' calendar service called, appropriately enough, Google Calendar, which allows users to post up events and share them with others.

Calendar owners can send out invitations to their chums and keep track of their responses and comments (like, "Bog off weirdo - we're not coming to your party").

Conveniently, friends can still receive and add responses to your invites even if they don't use Google Calendar themselves.