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Magic Mouse Drivers For Windows Now Available
6:00AM Chris Jacob | Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol’ fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Boot Camp update. You can grab them here, report back with results. [Uneasy Silence, thanks Dan!]
Gadgets
High Tech Titanium Golf Clubs May Lead to Hearing Loss
9:30AM Sean Fallon | It looks like golfers may have more to worry about than bad backs and jacked-up knees. Apparently, swinging those new fangled fancy titanium drivers may lead to hearing loss. More »
Software
Official Nvidia Mobile GPU Drivers Available Online
7:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Though mobile graphics drivers have historically been available only from the laptop manufacturer, Nvidia finally posted their official drivers on their site. Say goodbye to those 3rd-party hacked and often buggy drivers! More »
Computers
MSI Encourages Hackintosh, Leaks OS X Wi-Fi Drivers for the Wind
8:30PM John Herrman | Seeing that the need for a warranty-voiding Wi-Fi module switch was the only thing keeping users from easily making convincing mini-MacBooks, MSI has semi-released OS X wireless drivers for the Wind. More »
Software
SDHC Driver for the Palm OS Released
6:50AM Sean Fallon | Palm gets lost in the midst of all the iPhone and Android hype, but if you still love your good old Palm OS, Dmitry Grinberg has finally released an SDHC driver that allows for card support. The program is available for devices like the Tungsten T|C, Tungsten E|2, Tungsten T|5, LifeDrive, Palm TX, Zire 31 and Zire 72, with other machines like the T|T3 and the Zodiac on their way. At $US21, its really not a bad deal for all that extra storage. [TamsPalm] More »
Software
Creative Finally Releases Fixed Vista Drivers For X-Fi
3:20AM Jason Chen | Creative’s finally put that whole driver fiasco behind them and released Vista-capable drivers for their X-FI cards. What took them so long? Who knows, but they’ve added DVD Audio playback, which is nice, I guess. Grab yours now if you haven’t broken your X-Fi in half already. [Creative via X-Fi] More »
Software
Windows 7 Will Have Same Foundation as Vista, Be Mostly Secret Until Launch
7:21AM Jason Chen | Microsoft’s Windows chief Steven Sinofsky gave an interview to CNet News, throwing out some tidbits of knowledge on what’s to come in Windows 7. Of the few details Steven actually gave out, the most interesting one is that it won’t be using MinWin, a tiny Kernel that was supposed to replace the one in Vista. Instead, they’re going to use an “evolutionary improvement” to Vista’s, and have the exact same driver and software support as before. No XP -> Vista upgrade fiasco repeat. More »
Software
HTC Says Software Update Coming, May or May Not Fix Video Issues
6:30AM Jason Chen | The HTC video driver controversy might be coming to an end, as the promised software fix may or may not be released soon. Why the uncertainty? Because HTC themselves didn’t specify whether this update even fixes it, not confirming one way or the other that on it enabling Qualcomm’s 2D or 3D graphics support. Actually, we’re no more informed after reading, other than know HTC is still working on a fix and it’ still coming. [Phone News] More »
Software
The Conclusion: Creative Backs Down Against Driver Modder, Reinstates Posts
7:30AM Jason Chen | The story of Daniel_K vs. Creative reaches a temporary conclusion as Creative reinstates the deleted forum posts by Daniel that helped other users get their sound cards work under Vista. The company did this as a result of angry forum and blog posts (some here as well), mostly all siding with Daniel. More »
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