• The impact of the iPhone 3GS RAM increase

    The most significant thing that Apple’s been touting about new iPhone 3GS is its speed. Generally, when you think about speed improvements, you think of faster CPUs, faster GPUs, and such. But one very important difference in the 3GS that’s contributing to the overall performance is the increased RAM and that’s pretty much gone under the radar.

    […]

    CPU (central processing unit):

    • original iPhone: ARM 11, 412 MHz
    • iPhone 3G: ARM 11, 412 MHz
    • iPhone 3GS: ARM Cortex, 600 MHz

    GPU (graphics processing unit):

    • original iPhone: PowerVR MBX Lite
    • iPhone 3G: PowerVR MBX Lite
    • iPhone 3GS: PowerVR SGX

    RAM (random access memory):

    • original iPhone: 128 MB
    • iPhone 3G: 128 MB
    • iPhone 3GS:256 MB

    via tap tap tap ~ 256÷128=10?! The impact of the iPhone 3GS RAM increase.

    Just goes to show, once again, that you can ALWAYS do with more RAM, regardless of whether you’re upgrading a computer or an iPhone – especially when you’re doubling the original amount of RAM to begin with.

  • Living with First-Person Shooter Disease

    Duke Nukem’s disease is a scary one, Gene brings you the story of the life of a First Person Shooter.

    via YouTube – Living with First-Person Shooter Disease.

  • The secret app that’s on every iPhone…

    DemoApp is that mystery application that coexists in the iPhone’s Applications folder along with all the standard apps like Google Maps, Calculator, Stocks, and so forth. We’ve known for a while that it had something to do with movies but until today, we weren’t sure what it did. Today, I can confirm that it does what most people have suspected: it plays a single movie over and over in a repeat loop. It does not, as others hoped, allow you to play video out through your dock. Here’s the down and dirty on DemoApp.

    via How I got DemoApp to Work on the iPhone.

    Ssh! It’s a secret! 😉

  • Of course! So obvious, yet full of genius.

    megan fox wonder woman

    via YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF.

    It’s so obvious, yet so genius in every way imaginable – not casting Megan Fox as Wonder Woman for Warner Brother’s seemingly drawn-out series of superheroes (Iron Man, Nick Fury, The Hulk, Superman (?), Batman, etc) would just have been a bad move.

    It’s one of those things that make you go “Why didn’t I think of that?”.

    I for one look forward to the next couple of installments of superhero movies – and to think it all started with Nick Fury (portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson) right at the end of Iron Man…

  • What is the meaning of cricket bats in L4D2?

    There’s a cricket bat in Left 4 Dead 2, and after pondering how such an instrument could find its way to the southern United States (we certainly don’t make them here, and every American knows that we don’t allow people with them to enter the country), we’ve come up with a few theories…

    via Thwack! Left 4 Dead 2 survivors play a bit of cricket.

    The REAL reason there’s a cricket bat in L4D2 is that the Ashes is currently being played in England, and the cricket bat symbolism in L4D2 is simply Valve’s way of saying that Australia (as represented by the Infected) are going to be beat silly by the English, as represented by the Survivors.

    Or something.

    I don’t really know, I’m just speculating 😉

  • Blast into Space, Spectacular Fall to Earth

    Onboard cameras capture the amazing journey of Atlantis into space, and the dramatic return of the solid rocket boosters.

    via YouTube – Blast into Space, Spectacular Fall to Earth.

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