Just how valuable is the newly appointed CEO, Tim Cook to Apple?

Just how valuable is the newly appointed CEO, Tim Cook to Apple? According to an SEC filing, his continued presence at the helm of Apple over the next decade is worth a cool one million--shares of Apple stock, that is. If you sold a million shares of Apple stock on Friday, it would be worth about $383 million.

The August 24 8-K Filling - which public companies are required to file after a major change that shareholders should be aware of--lists all the news that's been going around over the past few days in lovely legal speak: Jobs's resignation (though the form notes that "Mr. Jobs will continue to serve as an employee"), his election to chairman of the Apple board, and Tim Cook's promotion and board appointment.

Cook's million shares will arrive in two phases: The first 500,000 will vest in August 24, 2016, and the other half-million will vest on the same date in 2021. In other words, Cook will receive the stock grants once he's been CEO of the company for five and ten years, respectively. As incentives to stick around go, it's a little bit nicer than a new company parking spot.

Computer Tools for Stress Testing, Overclock Validation and Monitoring

Hi guys!

I was wondering what to post today - So i thought i would share some good applications with you! Enjoy! All  of these are tested on Windows 7 64-Bit.

MSI Kombustor – GPU Stress Test

This application is a really handy one for testing, if your graphics card are running to hot and might be giving artifacts and to check the temperature of the card at the same time.

It is often used by Overclockers to check if their new OC on their GPU is stable enough.

I am not much of a GPU Overclocker – But I have really been enjoying using this program to stress the GPU on computers that had artifacts and cooling issues.

Link: http://www.geeks3d.com/20110407/download-msi-kombustor-2-0-2/

Prime95 – CPU/Memory Stress Test

This nifty program is developed by George Woltman and was dedicated to find the Mersenne prime numbers.

But for the past years it has also been used to stress memory modules and the CPU, since it takes a lot of calculation power to discover these prime numbers.

There are different types of testing templates you can run in this program, some of them are more CPU intense, and some of them are a mix of both CPU and Memory stress test, and there is also one that will kick the thermal output up a notch to see if your CPU is overheating.

A good program for people who overclock their CPUs.

Link: http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=205

CPU-Z – CPU/Memory/Motherboard Monitoring

Not sure what model your motherboard or CPU is? And you might also want to know how many MHz your memory modules are running at?  And you might also be too lazy to take off the side panel to check?

Then this is the application for you!

Here you can see in-depth information about some of the key components in your PC, CPU, Motherboard and Memory.

For the CPU, you can check Core Stepping, Voltage, Supported Instruction Sets, Cache, Core Speed, Bus Speed, Multiplier, Which nm technology it is based on and etc.

On the mainboard tab you can again find general information regarding your motherboard, chipset information, graphics interface, model/revision and also BIOS date/model.

The last tab is for Memory; here you can see which memory modules you have installed in which slots and also frequency, timings and serial numbers.

It is also used by Overclockers to “validate” their OC.

Link: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

GPU-Z – Graphics Card Monitoring

GPU-Z is really just like CPU-Z, just that it is for graphic cards obviously. Here you can find what GPU model it is, Release dates, amount of Transistors, Die Sizes, DirectX Support, Bus, Bandwidth, Memory Type and Size and so on.

It also displays overclock if available, else it just shows the default clock.

This program can also monitors the temperatures of the GPU Cores and shows the voltages and amperes.

On this you can also use it to “validate” your overclock

Link: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Have you used any of these Applications? What do you think about them? Is there a better alternative? Then please post a comment! :-)

Badly Stuffed Animals! :-D

Hey guys!

Check out this page on Facebook.
I pissed my self laughing by all them pictures of "badly" stuffed animals!

Good stuff!

Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/badlystuffedanimals

Google+ Soon Over 10 Million Users

After some calculations and estimations by Paul Allen, he have got to the number that around 9.5 Million users have joined Google+ and the 2.2 Million of them have joined Google+ in the last 32-34 hours!

Though, this is coming from a 3^rd party source so these data isn’t official!

Accordingly some other News sites have asked Google for a comment about these numbers, but haven’t received any so far.

Google+ Page on Facebook announced earlier that Google+ might hit 20 Million users by Sunday this week.

But I guess that if Google+ is growing so rapidly, I think they are going to be a good competitor against Facebook.

But 10-20 Million users! At such a short period of time, I am really amazed! Good job Google!

I have an account on Google+ myself and I really like!

Especially the chat functions where you can voice/video chat and also send/receive files!

I think Windows Live Messenger might not be as popular at some point when we can do all this online from a Social Networking site where it is obviously common to make contact in those ways.

400 Million Windows 7 Licenses sold.

Microsoft announced this Monday that they have now sold 400 million Windows 7 licenses and also are encouraging users to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7.

CEO Steve Ballmer said that on the 1-Year Anniversary of Windows 7 last year, they had sold 240 million licenses. Microsoft also announced that customer will have 1,000 days until the company will stop support Windows XP.

Senior Director for Windows Commercial Product Marketing Team, Erwin Visser says:

"Windows XP served us well, but in the ten years since it launched, the world has changed."

"It's time to retire Windows XP and move to Windows 7 to take advantage of the last decade of 

innovation in areas such as security, performance and more natural, intuitive interface."

But why is it that Microsoft wants to promote Windows 7 this much when Windows 8 is around the corner?

Tami Reller says:

"Windows 7 is the path to Windows 8. In the future, businesses will be running a combination of Windows 8 devices and apps alongside Windows 7 PCs and apps."

Fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer for microelectronics

Sandia National Laboratories are a big company with a lot of visions and “missions” to do. They are also in charge of ensuring that U.S. nuclear arsenal is safe, secure and reliable.

They are also doing research on killing cancer cells with nanotechnology.

Anyway, they have also developed a new thing for Computer environments.

Sandia National Laboratories have now developed a new technology which has the potential to dramatically change the air-cooling for computers and microelectronics, and now lab officials are seeking for licenses in the electronics chip cooling area to license and commercialize the device.

This new “Sandia Cooler” is also known as the “Air Bearing Heat Exchanger” is developed by the Sandia researcher, Jeff Koplow, who was recently selected to take part in the NAE’s 17^th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium by the National Academy of Engineering.

This Sandia Cooler will significantly reduce the energy needed to cool down processor chips in large computing environments and data centers.

In a regular/normal CPU cooler, the heat transfer bottleneck is the boundary layer of air that clings to the cooling fins. Though with the new Sandia Cooler, the heat is efficiently transferred across a tiny narrow air gap from a stationary base to a rotating structure.

The normally boundary layer of air surrounding the cooling fins is subjected to a powerful centrifugal pumping effect, causing boundary layer thickness to be reduced up to ten times thinner than normal. This reduction enables a dramatic improvement in cooling performance.

Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI now illegal

The people who are responsible for the licensing of HDMI ( High-Definition Multimedia Interface ) are now making a demand for companies that are making DisplayPort-to-HDMI cables/converters, that they need to stop their productions of those and recall ALL products.

The President of HDMI Licensing, Steve Venuti, says the following:

"We are committed to protecting the over 1,000 HDMI adopters and the many consumers who use HDMI products by enforcing the HDMI trademark against counterfeiters."

"It is our goal to have only legitimate and authentic HDMI products on the market and CBP enforcement is one of many strategies we utilize as a part of our larger global strike against counterfeiters."

There have been 32 shipments containing fake HDMI products such as DVD Players, adapters, cables and other electronic projectors since January 2010, all of these have been seized or destroyed at the US ports.

I can understand that it’s not allowed to make copies of a licensed product, but making a converter illegal? I don’t get the point of that!

BREAKING NEWS: NVIDIA 28nm Kepler Delayed! 2012 Launch instead.

It has been announced that Kepler is NOT going to be released Q4 2011, sorry folks.

The reason for this is bad production yields and lower performance than expected. Also TSMC expected to be at full scale production of the 28nm chips in 2011, but because of growing inconsistencies resulting in delays, this is not going to happen.

So it also seems that AMDs Southern Islands are going to be delayed since they are also relying on the 28nm chip production.

I really don’t want to be TSMC right now; I think they are under quite a pressure…!

HTC have bought VIA S3 Graphics technology

The Taiwanese company HTC, have bought VIA Technology S3 Graphics technology for $300 million dollars, which will give HTC an advantage regarding graphics in their tablets and smartphones.

The CEO of S3 Graphics, Dr. Ken Weng said that their S3 Graphics technology has been implemented in over more than one billiom game consoles, mobile devices and computers worldwide.

Also it seems that the deal is going to be settled at late 2011

So it is going to be exciting to see when HTC will start implement this in their products.

NVIDIA: 28nm Kepler chips ready for Notebooks

NVIDIA held a conference or partner roundup in Lisbon Portugal, where some of the people who attended that conference have confirmed that some of NVIDIAs 28nm notebook chips are almost ready for production, maybe even this week!

So we might see some good news later this week or next week, even some more details please! J

Anyway, it seems that NVIDIA might try to start launching these notebook chips along with Ivy Bridge 22nm.

Again it depends on how NVIDIA feels and what the right time is to do so.

As seen earlier when new graphics cards are launching for notebooks, often it is from the low-end to mid-end to high-performance chips.

So the first chips we are going to see are properly just some low- mid-end chips.

But we will have to wait a bit more time!

I will try to gather as much information as possible about Kepler 28nm since it seems to be quite a hot topic around.

But, my personal opinion about this… Umh, I have ATI… so… Hehe! Nah, I have an old ATI 4850x2, and it runs kind of okay still, but well! Not much of a gamer anyway!

Anyway, stay tuned guys!