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Looking At A
Fresh New Start!
O
h snap! Its 2014 already,
feature stories that cover the topics such as what are some of the
things you shouldnt search for on the net, how the internet is
Other than that, we also got to review some very cool stuff this
making them count. As for me, my main resolution for the year
would be to spend less time playing games (dont think itll work
month and we hope this doesnt slow down any time soon.
On top of all that, we also have some very interesting articles in
our Lite and Leisure section. This month, Nazrin and myself share
family and pet doggies and also possibly learning a new skill or
with you our favourite games of 2013 and also the titles we want to
two. On that note, maybe the apps featured in our Lite and Leisure
with film producer, Linus Chung, who doesnt just share with his
like itll blow it right out of the water as we can expect to see some
to say thank you for all the support and we hope you continue to
really exciting new stuff such as new hardware for computers and
satisfy your hunger for tech. Until next time, remember to stay safe
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january 2014
Its the start of the new year and that means new
technology and new devices. Find out our predictions on
what will be this years hottest and coolest trends that
will change the way you use your gadgets
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Obsolescence
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FEATURES
032 LegalTECH
Trademarking is serious
business and it can get you in a
spot of trouble even on the net
078 Reviews
Professionally conducted
reviews following our stringent
tests and benchmarks
106 Read
Cant get enough of sci-fi and
fantasy novels, find out which
are some of the best ones
released in 2013
110 Play
There were loads of great
games in 2013 and we list down
some of our favourites of the
year in a the various genres
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CHIP Downloads
Were back with our monthly dose of interesting, free and handy tools for you to enhance your PC experience. If you want to know how
you can get these files, follow the instructions below:
1. Head on our website @ www.chip.com.my and right at the top, click on the Downloads tab
2. After that, click on the respective months post (eg. January 2014). You will then be prompted for a password. The password can be
found on this page monthly.
3. Navigate using the tabs and pick the categories you want to download the files from. Once you find the file you want, just click on it
and youre good to go!
And its as easy as that!
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Featured Tools
Belvedere Automated File Manager
Manually transferring a large number of files from one
folder to another can be a very painstaking process, and
consumes a lot of time. Belvedere is an automated file
manager software which allows you to set rules and
automatically transfer files from one folder to another. All
you need is a few minutes to set a number of rules for
Belvedere to adhere to, and the software does the rest. It
can also use multiple criteria, such as the length, name,
size or date of creation, each with several options.
Essentials
Our list of essentials consists of programs and software such as graphic drivers, browsers, compression software and even Cloud
storage software that will improve a PC users experience. The links on our website wont provide you with the files, instead it will lead
you to the developers official website, where you can find the right file for you.
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December 2013
The Monthly Ten
Ocster Backup Pro 7
Powerdesk 8 Professional
Smart Defrag
Elementary OS Luna
RocketDock 1.3.5
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local news
Seen here with the new devices are (From L-R): Hon Kar Weng, Manager, Think Business Unit, ASEAN Relaonship Segment,
Lenovo Malaysia; Prakash Mallya, Country Manager, Intel Electronics Malaysia and Singapore; Khoo Hung Chuan, Country
General Manager, Lenovo Malaysia; Foo Mun Yee, Country Sales Manager Smartphone Division, Lenovo Malaysia and Jimmy
Chin, Consumer Segment Lead, Lenovo Malaysia
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Seen here with the lovely model is the sexy Yoga Tablet
that sports a 1.2GHz MTK8389 quad-core processor, 1GB
RAM, 16GB storage and a 6,000mAh baery. It also has an
aordable price of RM999
news
local news
Acer brought with them mulple units of the Iconia W4 and it was a good thing as members of the media couldnt get their hands
o it
Heres Come
Another Icon
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news
local news
Dr. Mark Chia, SAS Malaysias Head of Analycs explains the importance of big data and analycs to the media.
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news
local news
Yap Hui Hui , Country Manager of Fujitsu PC Asia Pacic Pte Ltd. (Right) and Jennifer Toh, Business Development Manager of Fujitsu PC Asia Pacic (Le) showing a few of the notebooks that will be
part of the leasing programme
Making Notebooks
Affordable For
Businesses
Fujitsu unveils refreshed notebooks and new leasing
programme for businesses
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LIFEBOOK AH544
LIFEBOOK U772
news
local news
(From L-R): Datuk Yeoh Seok Hong, Execuve Director, YTL Comms; Tan Sri Dr Francis Yeoh, Managing Director of YTL Group of Companies; Gregory Bryant, VP, Sales & Markeng Group and General
Manager of Intel APAC & Japan and Prakash Mallya, Country Manager for Intel Malaysia and Singapore at the MoU signing to support the 1BestariNet Program
Improving
Education Via
ICT
YTL and Intel Malaysia collaborate to
provide schools with IT and cloud
infrastructure
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available to
all Malaysians, particularly our young
ones. Said Tan Sri Dato Dr Francis
Yeoh, Managing Director, YTL Group of
Companies.
YTL have been working hard to
equip their 10,000 target schools since
2011, and alongside the 1BestariNet
Program that was recently announced
by the Ministry of Education, and its new
partnership with Intel, the company is
looking to reach that target as soon as
possible.
Intel believes in the power of
education to change lives. The right
technology solutions are essential
in order to realize that power. Intel
has been in Malaysia for over forty
years and is proud to work with YTL
news
local news
Yasuhiro Kasai, Country Manager, Epson Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. introducing the new projecon and label devices to the media
Intelligent
Projection And
Imaging Solutions
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news
local news
A New Challenger
Appears
Challenger opens latest concept store in Sunway
Pyramid
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news
local news
Spreading The
Christmas Joy
Line and Pavillion KL collaborate to open
first pop-up store in South East Asia
We have been
receiving very
positive responses
and feedback from
the public with
The store sells a wide variety of limited edion Line merchandise such as pillows, gurines and
regards to our pop
notebooks
up store, Christmas
decorations and
promotions that were currently doing
mugs, head-pillows and notebooks. On
here at Pavilion KL. We believe that
top of that, LINE had also set up a few
our unique decorations have served
promotions, such as free head dolls for
to further brighten up the mood of
the first 300 customers who purchase
shoppers this festive season, said Wind
more than RM300 worth of merchandise
Koh, Head of LINE Malaysia.
at the store. Other promos include lucky
LINEs pop up store has been open
spins for every purchase worth RM120
from 2 December 2013 throughout the
and various happy hour deals.
month till 2 January 2014. Some of the
line.naver.jp/en/
merchandise which can be purchased
at the pop-up store on the sixth floor of
Pavilion KL include figurines, plushies,
League of
Gamers
Over 200 gamers converge to win prizes
in the AMD Gaming League
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as veteran
groups such as
the Malaysia
Battlefield Team
(MBT), Team
Synarchy and
AMD.Mineski, winners of the DOTA 2 tournament at the AMD Gaming League which was held at
Team MAG were
Invasion Cyber Zone cyber cafe.
around to liven
things up for the Battlefield 4 tourney as
eSports, Invasion eSports and nAra
well.
sTacks, who won RM1,000, RM300 and
As the cyber caf was super packed,
RM200 respectively.
Invasion also livestreamed several DOTA
On the Battlefield 4 side of things,
2 matches on the internet, complete with Team Synarchy won first place and
commentaries by Lily Collins a.k.a The
got themselves RM500, whilst Team
Porcelain Lily.
MAG came in as the first runner up and
Team AMD.Mineski won first place
received RM300.
for the DOTA 2 tournament and walked
www.amd.com
away with the grand prize of RM2,500,
with runners up being Lowyat.net
news
local news
A New Level Of
Eco-Friendliness
Fuji Xerox launches 14 intelligent and
environmentally-friendly digital multifunction devices
The Giving
Never Stops
Intel Malaysia presents prizes to Generation
Today winners and also announces a new
trade-in rebate
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Students Forced to
Build PS4
Smartphones
Becoming
Semicircular
Sony unveils
the Xperia Z1
f Mini
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Firefox
OS
Goes
Full
Steam
Ahead
The Mozilla
Foundation
recently
announced the
first large-scale
update for Firefox OS, its mobile
operating system. New devices are
expected to be delivered in parallel with
version 1.1. Smartphones using the
open-source operating system are
particularly popular in developing
countries. The update offers several
improvements in performance, and
boasts features that Android and iOS
have been providing for quite some
time, such as push-notifications.
Versions 1.2 and 1.3 should be here
soon, and LG and Sony are planning to
build smartphones featuring Firefox OS
in 2014.
news
Panasonic
Halting
Production on
Plasma TVs
Beta 31
turns
Chrome
into an appbrowser
Another update
for Google Maps
NVIDIA GRID
vGPU Technology
Now Available
Worldwide
VIDIA is taking remote working to the next level by announcing that the
NVIDIA GRID vGPU technology is now available worldwide with the launch of
Citrixs XenDesktop 7.1 and Citrix XenServer 6.2.
This technology essentially allows employees to remotely use any computing
device, including notebooks and tablets to access all their office productivity and
design applications virtually anywhere at any time.
Prior to GRID vGPU on Citrix XenDesktop,
customers could deploy GRID to virtualize GPU
access to end users on a one-to-one basis. Now,
they can quickly share access on one GPU to many
end users, and easily reallocate access depending
on changing project needs. This technology also
provides the flexibility to reallocate resources to
users based on constantly changing project needs,
making provisioning resources easy and fast.
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First
Bitcoin
ATM Goes
Live
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NSA Servers
Malfunctioning
Retroactive
Focusing for
Smartphone
Cameras
he smartphone
manufacturer Oppo has
become the worlds first
company to use MEMS camera
modules in its smartphones. The
advantages of using the cameras
include extremely fast focus times,
allowing the camera to take
several pictures in a row in a very
short period of time. This makes it
possible, for example, to
subsequently focalise different
objects in a photo the software,
which works in the background,
simply selects the corresponding
subframe. It is not yet known
when devices featuring the new
MEMS modules are scheduled to
go on sale.
Anti-Bacterial 3D
Printers
Intel Delays
Introduction of New
Broadwell CPUs
hen it unveiled its quarterly figures in October, Intel announced that the launch of
its eagerly-anticipated Broadwell mobile processor was going to be delayed by a
period of three months. Although a limited number of pieces have already been
produced for test purposes, the failure rate of Intels first 14-nanometre CPU is still too high.
However, according to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, the defect that led to the delay has already
been rectified, and the new time-table should be on schedule. Broadwells energy
consumption level is expected to be 30 percent lower than that of its predecessor Haswell. It
is also expected to feature performance improvements of up to 10 percent and 50 percent
for the CPU unit and the graphics unit, respectively. Furthermore, the operations of the highresolution retina-displays are expected to be particularly energy-efficient in conjunction with
Windows 8.
etween January and June of this year, Microsoft received about 37,200
official queries from the worlds law enforcement agencies. Customer data
was handed over in about 79 percent of these cases, and 77 percent of these
instances involved the disclosure of login credentials such as names or addresses.
2 percent of the cases also involved the handover of data that was created by the
customers, such as documents. What is noticeable about the recently-published
report is the fact that the following five countries are responsible for three-fourths
of all queries: the USA, Germany, France, the UK and Turkey. Microsoft is not
allowed to disclose the number of requests it receives through the American FISC
(Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court), which is the court that channels requests
from agencies like the NSA. Attempts are currently being made in collaboration
with Google, Facebook and Yahoo to secure this right in court.
LOGIN CREDENTIALS,
ACCOUNTING DATA
NO DATA AVAILABLE
REQUEST REJECTED
SOURCE: MICROSOFT.COM
Quanta Computer
Joins Futuremark
to Develop new
3DMark and PCMark
Benchmarks
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security report
Data Theft Of
The Month
ADOBE: MILLIONS OF CUSTOMER
DATA STOLEN
Obstacles to anonymity
Tor users will have to use a special trick if they want to be truly secure when surng
NSAs Super
Cookies Scout Tor
Networks
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security report
A New Approach to
Cybercrime
Danger Barometer
12,000 PCs are
globally affected
by Bitcoinmining malware
- according to an
observation done
by Trend Micro
High risk
Medium risk
Low risk
USA
38
CHINA
37
EUROPA
8
SOURCE: SYMANTEC
ANDROID MALWARE AT
THE TOP OF THE LIST
Since the end of 2012, there has been more
malware for Android than for Symbian.
The statistics make it plain and simple: In
terms of security, Google has a lot of work
to do for the security of their mobile OS
before the start losing users
MALWARE FAMILIES OR VARIANTS
800
750
700
650
600
550
500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
SYMBIAN
ANDROID
2004
2009 2010
SOURCE: F-SECURE
US$209,400
(RM689,554) was the total researcher
James Forshaw received from
Microsoft for discovering weak spots
and bugs in their products.
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BRASIL
Kaspersky
Forecasts 2014
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During our preview session at the showroom, we got to meet Robert Wong, Managing Director, Stareld Enhance (M) Sdn. Bhd. (le) and H.F. Tsang, owner of Stareld (HK) and Teamwise Ltd.
(Dongguan, China) who were very happy to give us details on their home automaon system
Smarter
Enhancements For S
Home
Starfield Enhance proves home automation can be
affordable and hassle-free
Seen here is Darion Hong, Business Development Manager, Stareld Enhance Sdn. Bhd. giving us a demonstraon of the app and
how it can also be used as a TV remote control
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These stylish touch switches oered by Stareld Enhance actually feature a lightning
arrestor to prevent power surges and also act as wireless signal repeaters
installation can be
completed in mere hours
instead of days, weeks
or months. By adopting
the retrofitting method,
this also gives consumers
the flexibility to choose
the rooms they want the
system to be installed with
and even when they move
homes, they can even take
the switches and plugs
with them.
Like most home
automation systems,
The ENHANCE Sales Gallery in 8 Trium, Bandar Sri Damansara is ed with the
ENHANCE Lifestyle Automaon system so guests can have a more hands-on
this also provides users
experience with the system
with the ability to control
pay a hefty sum for a system like this
and monitor the system via apps on
but to our surprise and we are sure it
Android and iOS devices. The app is
will be to many consumers as well, the
free to download on both respective
ENHANCE Lifestyle Automation system
app stores and gives users access to a
is much more affordable compared to
full suite of controls and it can be used
other home automation solutions. The
for more than just turning switches on
company has recently struck up a deal
and off, as it can also be used as a TV
with Maybank to give their credit card
holders a very attractive deal. Their
Retrofit Starter Pack only costs RM4,999
and this includes installation. Other than
Maybank, Starfield Enhance Sdn. Bhd.
is also looking at forming a partnership
with Hong Leong bank come February
2014 and even Harvey Norman.
Finally, other than just partnering
with banks and also electronics retail
outlets, Robert Wong, Managing
Director, Starfield Enhance (M) Sdn.
Bhd. also mentioned that they have
approached developers and we may
soon see new houses already equipped
with the ENHANCE Lifestyle Automation
system.
e-enhance.com/catalog/
Displayed here are the many accessories consumers can have installed in their homes including security cameras, infrared
blasters and even mounts for their smartphones and tablets
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legaltech
Trade Mark
and the
Internet
As sort of a continuation from his last months article, our resident
law practitioner decides to shed light on trade mark laws on the
Internet and why we should be very careful of the things and services
we offer online By Edwin Lee Yong Cieh
A practicising lawyer specialising
in telecommunications, media
& technology law, Edwin is in a
constant effort to educate users
on the many legal happenings in
the IT world
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the Internet.
However, in this Internet age where the use of trade mark
(whether authorised or unauthorised) is becoming so prevalent,
registering trade mark alone is not enough when it comes to
protecting and enforcing trade mark rights. The Internet presents
many opportunities and challenges to brand owners. Brand owners
will need to develop and implement a strong brand management
and protection strategy, alongside continuous monitoring,
protecting and enforcing their trade mark rights to prevent
misappropriation of the goodwill and reputation in their trade
marks.
This article outlines several forms of trade mark infringement
that currently takes place on the Internet.
Cyber Squatting
Cybersquatting is a form of trade mark infringement. It refers to
an act of registering, trafficking in, or using a trade mark belonging
to someone else with bad faith intent to profit from such act. For
example, in 2008, an individual from Ipoh registered www.google.
my as his domain name. When Google Inc. found out about it,
Google Inc. filed a complaint against that individual and won the
case because Google managed to prove that the domain name was
identical with its trade mark and that the individual had registered
and/or used the domain name in bad faith.
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Auction Sites
Trade mark owners have brought legal suits against large auction
sites for allowing their users to misappropriate legitimate trade
marks on their sites to attract buyers to buy counterfeit goods. In
Tiffany v eBay (2010), Tiffany brought a trade mark infringement
suit against eBay for the sale of non-genuine jewellery of the
auction site. The US Court of Appeals rejected the claim of direct
infringement on the basis that eBay used the mark to describe the
genuine Tiffany goods offered for sale on the site. The court held
that eBays alleged knowledge of the availability of counterfeit
goods on the site was not a basis of such a claim and to impose
liability on such grounds would unduly inhibit the lawful resale of
genuine Tiffany goods. The fact that eBay also removed those
listings involving sale of counterfeit goods upon being notified by
Tiffany and suspended repeat offenders showed that eBay had not
contributed to the infringement.
Similarly, in LOral v eBay (2009), the UK court decided that
LOral failed to prove that eBay had procured sellers particular
acts of infringement and that eBay was not under a legal duty to
prevent infringement and that mere facilitation with knowledge
and intention to profit was not enough to establish a joint liability
trade mark claim. These two cases show that, while there is no
doubt that the individual sellers have infringed the trade mark
rights by selling counterfeit goods online, it is difficult to also argue
that the auction sites are jointly liable with the sellers.
Virtual World
Trade mark infringement also takes place in virtual world online
games such as Second Life, an online social community created by
Linden Labs. Second Life facilitates and encourages user generated
content, which can be sold to other users for virtual currency,
which can in turn, be exchanged for real currency. There is a real
risk that users may create and sell digital content which infringes
the trade mark rights of real life brands. For that reason, many real
life brands have established themselves within Second Life.
In the US case of Taser International Inc. v Linden Research Inc.
(2009), Taser filed a trade mark infringement suit against Linden as
Second Lifes users have created and sold virtual guns bearing the
Taser brand in Second Life. The case was settled out of court
subsequently. This case goes to show that brand owners will now
have to also monitor the unauthorised use of their trade marks in
both physical and virtual worlds.
Social Media
The popularity and the use of online social networking sites such
as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn have grown
exponentially across almost all jurisdictions around the world. The
To protect their very own trade mark and brand, many companies have set up their very own
accounts on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twier. By doing so, this enables
them to keep an eye on those who may infringe on their trade mark
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tech spelunk
Tech Spelunk
Sony PlayStation 4
Bells and Whistles
The PlayStation 4 requires you to be connected to the
Internet in order for you to make full use of its
capabilities, and as such, comes equipped with both a
RJ-45 LAN port, as well as support for Wi-Fi a,b,g and
n. As data becomes larger with every passing day,
Sony also had the foresight to equip the PlayStation 4
with USB 3.0 ports that provide users with blazing fast
transfer speeds when used with USB 3.0 flash drives
which are very common these days. The PlayStation
Camera, which is a remodelled PlayStation Eye can
also be bought as a separate accessory for the console.
Compute Power
If youve read our Tokyo Game Show event
coverage in our September 2013 issue, you would
know by now that the PlayStation 4, and all the
next-gen consoles in fact run on AMD processors.
s
Specifically, the CPU powering the Sony console is
an octo-core processor codenamed Jaguar that
is clocked at 1.6GHz. This customised 28nm chip
allows users to do a wide variety of background
processes, such as game and firmware
downloads, gameplay recording and even online
streaming.
Graphics Matter
Just like the CPU, the PlayStation 4s graphics
processing unit (GPU) is also powered by AMD,
which is an 800MHz chip with 1152 cores that
utilises the companys Graphics Core Next
architecture to provide the best in graphical
fidelity that a gaming console can offer. Sony
has promised that PlayStation 4 games will be
able to be played on 1080p natively, but also
said that it is powerful enough to output videos
in 4K resolution. Unfortunately, at launch time,
there is no support for games in 4K resolution.
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tech spelunk
Sonys PlayStation 4 officially made its arrival here in Malaysia last month, much to the
jubilant cheers of many Malaysian gamers, most likely because its the first time that
we actually are able to get our hands on the console way before Japan, Sonys home
country. The PlayStation 4 is certainly an awesome-looking gaming console, and in this
months Tech Spelunk, we strip down the PlayStation 4 and take a look at what makes
this console tick By CHIP Team
Sharing is Caring
Cross-device Compatibility
If you own a PS Vita, or are thinking of getting one, Sony has announced that
the Remote Play feature will be mandatory in PlayStation 4 games that do
not require peripherals such as the PlayStation Move or the Camera. This
feature allows you to stream your PlayStation 3 and 4 games on your
handheld console, in case someone else wants to use the television. If you
have multiple TVs, the PlayStation Vita TV also does exactly the same thing,
so your console can be in a different room, but you will still be able to play
your games in another.
DualShock 4: Not
Just a Controller
The DualShock Controller has seen
relatively very few changes ever since its
inception when the PlayStation first came
out so many years ago. No matter how
you cut it, the DualShock 4 is by far the
biggest upgrade seen in the Sony
controller, which now includes features
such as a touchpad where the Start and
Select buttons used to be, a headset jack
and an LED player identifier in between
the shoulder buttons. Did we mention
?
that it has a small speaker built in as well?
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chip maps
RANK
3
The Fastest
Super
Computers
SEQUOIA USA
Computing power
(TeraFLOPS)
Elec. performance
RAM
No. of cores
OS
17.173
7.9 Megawatt
1.572 TByte
1,572,864
Red Hat Linux
(Enterprise)
SOURCE: TOP500.ORG
100.000.000
100.000
1.500
100
1995
2000
2005
2010
RANK
2
NUMBER OF SUPER
COMPUTERS
1
Industry
Research
Science /Education
Government
4%
Others
3%
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23 %
17 %
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Computing power
(TeraFLOPS)
Elec. performance
RAM
No. of cores
OS
17.590
8.2 Megawatt
710 TByte
560,640
Cray Linux Environment
SOURCE: TOP500.ORG
SOURCE: TOP500.ORG
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NUMBER OF
RANK
7
SUPER
COMPUTERS
PER COUNTRY
RANK
1
TIANHE-2 CHINA
JUQUEEN GERMANY
Computing power
(TeraFLOPS)
Elec. performance
RAM
No. of cores
OS
Computing power
(TeraFLOPS)
Elec. performance
RAM
No. of cores
OS
5.008
2.3 Megawatt
459 TByte
458,752
Linux
33.862
30252
17.8 Megawatt
1.024 TByte
3,120,000
Kylin Linux
1929
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY AND NVIDIA CORPORATION; DPA/PICTURE ALLIANCE; FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JLICH; IBM; RIKEN RESEARCH; TACC
2013 ILLUSTRATION: HARRY FUCHSLOCH; ANDREA GRAF
718
RANK
6
STAMPEDE USA
Computing power
(TeraFLOPS)
Elec. performance
RAM
No. of cores
OS
RANK
4
RANK
5
5.168
4.51 Megawatt
192 TByte
462,462
Linux
MIRA USA
Computing power
(TeraFLOPS)
Elec. performance
RAM
No. of cores
OS
8.586
3.945 Megawatt
786 TByte
786,432
Linux
46
K COMPUTER JAPAN
Computing power
(TeraFLOPS)
Elec. performance
RAM
No. of cores
OS
10.510
12.7 Megawatt
1.410 TByte
705,024
Linux
13
NO
DATA
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focus
AVERAGE MONTHLY
EXPENDITURES
$ 20
$5
SHARE OF PAYING
GAMERS
10 %
40 %
$1
50 %
FREELOADERS
(CA. 8 PERCENT
OF GAMERS)
DO NOT PAY
90 %
$4.66
3 BIL.
SOURCE: DISTIMO
70 %
60 %
50 %
0
JAN. 2012 FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEP. OCT. NOV. DEC. JAN. FEB. 2013
Browser games, online services and apps are increasingly banking on the freemium model.
The basic functions are free, while revenue comes from additional features
By Mario Rubenzer
75
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focus
CURRENCIES
In free apps, one often pays in
virtual currency. These
currency units can be won,
earned via recommendations
or purchased.
SUBSCRIPTION
RETAIL SALES
Individual functions can be
purchased for several apps.
They could be levels, items or
navigation maps.
SPOTIFY
VANITY ITEMS
POWER ITEMS
BOOSTER ITEMS
Currency packets
cost between
US$0.99 and
US$99. Users
can use them to
buy three types
of items in the
apps, two of
which affect the
progress of the
game.
ANDROID
Android does not permit the deactivation of inapp purchases. The only available protection
comes from the Google password, which has to
be entered for each purchase. You can activate
this option in the Play Store settings. Those who
occasionally make in-app purchases end up
controlling the costs by purchasing credit
balances instead of providing their credit card
details.
IOS
If you want to avoid incurring the costs associated with in-app purchases, you can block them
altogether on your iPhone or iPad. All you have
to do is go to >>Settings<<, go to the >>General<< menu and select >>Constraints<<. Once
there, you activate the respective constraints
and use the slider to deactivate the in-app
purchases.
SKYPE
ITEMS
HOW TO DEACTIVATE IN
APP PURCHASES
CREDIT
AD-FREE APP
Many free apps finance
themselves through
advertisements. To avoid
these, you must subscribe or
buy the full version.
feature
timeline
1960
Daniel Ellsberg
Mark Felt
1972
1994
Award
1999
WikiLeaks
2006
Bradley Manning
2010
Vatileaks
2012
Future
2015
1971
Supreme Court
1984
1998
Genetic Engg.
2002
2009
Protective law
2011
EU Court of Justice
2013
Edward Snowden
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timeline
WHISTLEBLOWER
For some they are heroes but for others they are people fouling their own nests:
whistleblowers expose misconduct of companies and governments and thus uncover
numerous scandals
By Christoph Sackmann
PHOTOS: DPA/PICTURE ALLIANCE; FOTOLIA/GRAFIK & ART; NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY; REUTERS/KEVIN
LAMARQUE, OSSERVATORE ROMANO, BOBBY YIP; THINKSTOCK/ISTOCKPHOTO; US ARMY; US GOVERNMENT
An American speciality
The most spectacular whistleblowing cases originate in USA.
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg revealed documents that proved that
several US governments have kept the public in the dark about
the purpose of the Vietnam War. He brought 7,000 pages in 47
folders to New York Times and Washington Post. US President
Nixon prohibited the release till the Supreme Court declared
whistleblowing to be legal as per a leading decision. Ellsberg
was still accused of espionage and faced charges carrying a
total maximum sentence of 115 years. However, the trial was
thwarted since Nixon illegally ordered the FBI to break into the
office of Ellsbergs psychiatrist. The FBI team that was
responsible for this break in was the same team that doomed
another famous whistleblower: Mark Felt, Associate Director of
the FBI. In 1971, he passed on confidential information about
the Watergate scandal to journalists on the condition that his
identity should be kept under covers. Felt revealed himself to
be the Watergate scandals whistleblower, Deep Throat,
after 33 years.
The responses to the unmasking of the ageing Felt were the
same as most of the cases involving his comrades. Many
considered him to be a hero; someone who had exposed the
illegal behaviour of the government. For many, however, he
was someone who fouled his own nest; an unfaithful employee
and traitor. Something similar happened to Chelsea Manning
around the same time. In 2010, the US soldier, known as
Bradley Manning then, passed on secret documents about the
A double-edged sword
There are also opinions that whistleblowing need not be a
good thing: in 1998, the Hungarian-British chemist rpd
Pusztai secretly published a study that proved that genetically
modified potatoes weakened the immune system of rats
which lead to their death. This was a big blow to the
agribusiness, which had just started to promote cultivation of
genetically modified plants. But it is debatable till today
whether Pusztais study holds water. Many recognised
scientists, like those from the Royal Society in London,
criticised the methodology of the experiments and thereby the
validity of the results and as many scientists supported the
whistleblower. The case causes quite a stir even today. Four
documentary films narrate about the study and Pusztai even
received the international whistleblower award.
This award has been given out every two years since 1999.
The Federation of German Scientists wants to honour
whistleblowers and encourage others to do the same. The
award winners include two German whistleblowers: in 1994,
vet Margrit Herbst went against her employer and disclosed 24
cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in
Germany, thereby triggering the discussion about the bovine
disease. In 2005, Brigitte Heinisch exposed the deplorable state
of affairs in a nursing home for the elderly, after which she
was dismissed without notice. The case was taken to the
European Court of Human Rights, which ruled in favour of
Heinisch: whistleblowing is at least in the private sector
protected by the freedom of expression. For the public sector,
there is a rule in the Civil Service Law in Germany since 2009
that allows whistleblowing. The State Office of Criminal
Investigation, Lower Saxony has set up an online portal for
anonymous tip offs.
Last year, Edward Snowden received the international
whistleblower award he was not present for the occasion. At
the moment, the former NSA employee is in Moscow without
a valid American passport. His predecessors Martin and
Mitchell voluntarily surrendered their citizenship in 1960.
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technic lexicon
TPM IN DETAIL
CHIP
ARCHITECTURE
BROKEN DOWN
FLASH MEMORY
CPU
1
comprises:
Signature engine
(symmetric
encryption)
Signature engine
(asymmetric
encryption)
Hash engine
Random number
generator
Execution unit
2
The TPM chip has a CPU as
well as a volatile (RAM) and
non-volatile (Flash) memory.
3
The Flash memory contains
4
seeds among other things;
seeds are the big random
5
numbers, which serve as input
for encryption algorithms.
They are processed in
arithmetic units, separately for
symmetrical 1 , , asymmetrical
2 as well as Hash methods 3 .
The generator 4 calculates
large random numbers which TPM
are the basis for the attackChecks the individual
proof encryption method. The components when
execution unit 5 is responsible the computer starts
for examining keys and for the
initialisation of the chip.
WINDOWS
START WITH
TPM CHECK
When Windows starts, the TPM
chip compares the checksums
for individual components with
the values stored in the
memory. The UEFI executes the
boot process only if these values
correspond. When the computer
is switched on, the UEFI
firmware and the Windows
bootloader are checked first. If
both are intact, Windows loads
its Kernel modules, which in
turn start a signed driver for the
virus scanner. The TPM check
ends here and the virus scanner
takes over the task. It checks all
drivers from third party
suppliers for viruses and passes
on the boot process to the
Windows services.
UEFI FIRMWARE
activates the
hardware
RAM
Contains volatile, currently
used keys, open sessions and
register contents
WINDOWS
BOOTLOADER
starts the
operating system
WINDOWS
KERNEL
is loaded in the
memory
WINDOWS
SERVICES
boot the operating
system
HARDWARE
DRIVERS
are examined by
the scanner
ANTI-MALWARE
turns on the virus
scanner
TPM 2.0
Cryptoprocessor for Windows
The encryption module TPM is being refreshed and will be present in every PC in the
future. This means more security and less supervision for the user
By Jrg Geiger
here has been silence on the subject of TPMs for a long time.
Trusted Platform Modules are small security chips, which
have been installed in computers, gaming consoles,
smartphones, tablets and set top boxes for years now. Currently,
about one billion devices are equipped with TPMs 600 million of
which are PCs, which are often used at workplaces. Since 2001,
conspiracy theorists have classified these chips as a surveillance
instrument of the industry for curtailing users rights: theoretically,
TPMs could be used to limit the illegal copying of films and music.
However the modules have not been used for this purpose in the
last 12 years; they have instead been used by Windows to ensure a
secure start and for encrypting hard disks via BitLocker. TPM
provides additional security against malware and skimming
despite being a potential master key for the NSA.
Yet, the library specification of TPM version 2.0 has caused
quite a stir because the TPM chips need to be activated ex-factory.
User had to activate the crypto chips manually. Moreover, the new
standard does not make it mandatory to have an Opt-out. It
would soon become difficult to buy devices without TPM 2.0
because Microsoft has modified the certification criteria for
Windows. Thus from 2015, TPM 2.0 would be mandatory
otherwise hardware manufacturers will not get a certification label.
starts. If the ELAM driver passes the test, it validates the remaining
drivers. At this stage, it is no longer possible for rootkits to creep
into the Windows start and take advantage of the fact that installed
virus scanners have not been loaded yet.
The current TPM specification 1.2 makes use of old technology
with the encryption algorithms RSA-2048 and SHA-1 that are
implemented in the hardware. The latter has come to be
considered as insecure. Instead of assigning fixed algorithms that
become outdated after a few years, TPMs in version 2.0 can be
flexibly equipped with symmetrical and asymmetrical encryption
methods such as SHA-2, HMAC, ECC and AES. In addition, TPM
2.0 can learn new crypto algorithms through updates. Thus, TPM
chips would also sell in China or Russia, where the use of regional
encryption algorithms is preferred. Even the way in which keys are
handled is different in version 2.0. So far, two fixed cryptographic
keys were used as the basis for all offered services. But TPM 2.0
works with very large random numbers called seeds. The required
keys are generated by the seeds as input via mathematical
functions. Therefore, TPM 2.0 also makes it possible to generate
keys only for one-time use.
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http 2.0
APPLICATION LAYER
In the Application Layer, the HTTP protocol regulates how
the browser and the server communicate with each other
SECURE LAYER
The Secure Socket Layer ensures protected connections
via SSL/TLS encryption.
TRANSPORT LAYER
The Transport Layer uses the TCP protocol to determine
how data packets should be sent.
ADDRESS LAYER
All devices connected to the Internet can be accessed via
their IP addresses.
HTTP
SSL/TLS
NSA-SAFE
TCP
IP
Future Of The
Internet
June1999
HTTP 1.1 was
introduced
2000
044
March 2012
First call for
suggestions for
HTTP 2.0
2012
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Sept. 2012
First draft of
HTTP 2.0
July 2013
August 2013
First
The test
implementation
phase starts
plan for HTTP 2.0
2013
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November 2013
Revision of the security
model due to the NSA
scandal
2014
April 2014
Final
suggestions will
be accepted
Nov. 2014
HTTP 2.0 will
be introduced
as standard
2020
feature
http 2.0
ENCRYPTION (HTTPS)
ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGIES
ENCRYPTION QUALITY
HEADER COMPRESSION
MULTIPLEXING: parallel
processing of several enquiries/
responses
FULL DUPLEX: data is transferred
in both directions at the same
time
PRIORITISATION OF DATA
PACKETS
PUSH-MESSAGES FROM
SERVER
CONNECTIONS PER PAGE LOAD
HTTP 1.1
HTTP 2.0
optional
continuous (planned)
involves compromised
methods
(RC4, Dual_EC_DRBG)
several
one
YES NO
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http 2.0
Starting from 4Mbps, websites do not load faster. Whats more important
is how efficiently the server provides the data.
Loading time (ms)
3.500
Elliptical curve:
3.000
2.500
2.000
R=P+Q
1.500
1.000
More security
SSL V2.0
SSL V3.0
TLS V1.0
TLS V1.1
TLS V1.2
==
26.9 %
15.4 %
==
3.000
2.000
99.3 %
1.500
17.8 %
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99.7 %
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9
10
Bandwidth Mbps
1.000
200
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
Latency (ms)
feature
http 2.0
TCP
UDP
ERROR DETECTION
ERROR CORRECTION
20 - 60 bytes
8 bytes
slow
fast
OVERHEAD
huge
less
HEADER SIZE
SOURCE: MICROSOFT
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dangerous searches
Search Terms
rch
Spammers and hackers misuse Google to trigger the search
for malware. We find out which search terms are the mostt
dangerous
By Jrg Geiger & Claudio Mller
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dangerous searches
are
Malw
ar
Toolb
HERES WHERE
MALWARE LURKS
PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED IN SEARCH
RESULTS
PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED IN
GOOGLE ADS
TROJANS / SCAREWARE /
ADWARE INSTALLED
BROWSER MANIPULATION
(TOOLBAR/ START PAGE / SEARCH
ENGINE)
BROWSER PLUG-INS INSTALLED
ADDITIONAL DESKTOP LINKS
CREATED
NEW AUTO-START ENTRIES/
WINDOWS SERVICES
SYSTEM ERRORS
SCAMS
ins
Plug-
Wallpaper free
GTA gratis
Breaking Bad
Stream
Free Music
Downloads
Hacking
passwords
Dubious
Dubious
//
//
//
//
//
//
//
//
//
//
13
1/0
2/0
3/2
3/2
S
SCAM
are
Adw
Spam
HERES WHERE
SCAMS LINGER
PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED IN SEARCH
RESULTS
PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED IN
GOOGLE ADS
TROJANS / SCAREWARE /
ADWARE INSTALLED
BROWSER MANIPULATION
(TOOLBAR/ START PAGE / SEARCH
ENGINE)
BROWSER PLUG-INS INSTALLED
ADDITIONAL DESKTOP LINKS
CREATED
NEW AUTO-START ENTRIES/
WINDOWS SERVICES
SYSTEM ERRORS
SCAMS
Making money
online
2/0
Varying error messages,
system becomes slower
IQ test subscription for
seven Euros per week
Credit without
Schufa
Insurance
comparison
Cheap flight
Mallorca
Dubious
//
//
//
//
//
//
//
//
//
//
0/0
0/0
2/0
0/0
0/0
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ATTACKER WEBSITES
60.000
SOURCE: GOOGLE
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dangerous searches
30.000
0
2007
2009
2011
2013
May 2010
An SQL injection attack on the server of an
ad banner module infects over 100,000
websites
April 2011
An attack on the web shop software
osCommerce infects about 5 million
websites worldwide
October 2011
The Blackhole Exploit Kit is infiltrated
into 106,000 websites and spreads
malware
April 2013
An attack via Java and Adobe security
loopholes infects 7,500 websites
August 2008
Approx. 2 million websites of the
web host GoDaddy are hacked
and spread malware
June 2010
The LizaMoon attack manipulates
around 500,000 websites
worldwide
August 2011
Through a security loophole in
Microsofts ASP.net framework,
hackers infect over 600,000
websites
July 2012
The DarkLeech Exploit Kit infects
over 20,000 websites
June 2013
<meta name=keywords>
<iframe src=site.
php>
<a
href=http://
werbung.html>
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dangerous searches
webhelps.
Earlier, spammers very cleverly optimised sites so that they
appeared as results for incorrectly written search terms, for
example, Fotoschop instead of Photoshop. Thats hardly
possible today because Google corrects many typing errors in the
search field. Even the significance of keywords has been reduced
over time, especially because websites were loaded with these.
Panda (April 2011) and Penguin (April 2012) are two examples
of such updates. With these, Google has targeted SEO spammers,
who are getting more and more professional by the day. The
updates primarily aimed at rating reliable, self-created and unique
contents higher. Sites with copied contents on the other hand are
penalised. Even the origin of the links for a site is being assessed
differently. Therefore, link farms hardly contribute in improving the
rating.
All these updates helped tremendously to reduces the number
of spam sites in the search results, which is fundamentally a good
thing. However, the new method used by spammers, of hacking
genuine sites, is more difficult to identify for the users. And this
makes it all the more dangerous. Nevertheless, browsers have
become better at identifying dangerous sites and undesired addons. In our test, Chrome and Firefox informed us multiple times if
they had installed new toolbars. Read on to find out how you can
avoid and also remove spam.
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dangerous searches
Avoiding Spam
1
Removing Spam
1
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programmed deterioration
LCD-Monitor
Service life:
3600 hours
Defect:
Wrongly-positioned
capacitor defective
Inkjet printer
TV set
Service life:
Service life:
5000 pages
2 years
Defect:
Print head does not
work
Defect:
Board, no spare
part
Programmed
Deterioration
Electronic devices often break down sooner than they should. Could
the system be behind it?
By Christoph Schmidt
t took the three-year old notebook less than ten minutes to crash
after each boot. When the owner brought the device to a
service centre, she suspected it may have had something to do
with the very silent fan. One of the staff volunteered to solve the
problem and although he was an IT technician who primarily
repaired notebooks, it took a good 20 minutes for the device to be
fully disassembled. Only by disassembling it could he access the
fan. It was immediately clear to everyone why the notebook wasnt
working any more: The fan was blowing against a thick outlet grid
that had collected a lot of dust. Over time, a lump of dust was
formed, which blocked the fan blades. The processor began to
overheat, and had to shut itself off after a brief period of time.
Apart from that, the technician noticed that the tiny little bolts
that fastened the stiff display-hinges into the base plate had been
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Tablet
Service life:
2.5 years
Defect:
Agglutinated battery
die
BLOCKED FAN
This notebook fan, which is extremely hard to access, blows directly
against a thick outlet grid. It will inevitably get blocked as a result of
day-to-day use.
certain products and determine the reasons for the said failures,
you need a gigantic database. In Germany, theres a club called
Murks? Nein Danke! (Botches? No thanks!), which was founded
by the Berlin-based business economist Stefan Schridde, which
collects and publishes defect reports. However, it only offers a
rough overview of the issue at hand, since it only involves the
reporting of defects by users. Also, it does not set a benchmark for
how many keep working in a defect-free manner.
Schridde coined the term planned obsolescence, which he
uses to level the accusation at the manufacturers that they use
flaws and repair-unfriendly designs to ensure that their products
age and break down at a much faster than possible. The industry
and manufactures of course vehemently denies the allegation. The
consumerist Schridde, however, counters that argument as
follows: Things like undersized and heat-sensitive capacitors are
placed at hot locations, firmly-entrenched batteries and pasted-up
casings prove beyond all doubt that the devices are intentionally
designed to have short lives.
Either way, its not exactly in the individual manufacturers
financial interests to create devices that can last an eternity that
would increase the costs associated with development, testing, the
materials and production. And in a time of shrinking revenues, the
customers would hardly ever have to buy new devices. Each
manufacturer wishes to remain economically competitive is
practically compelled, during the design phase itself, to ensure that
the device is attractive and valuable enough to be sold, but also
that the owner of the device will sooner or later have to or choose
to buy a new one. Furthermore, the customers keep asking for
more and more features in ever-smaller (or, in the case of )
smartphones, larger) devices which the manufacturers also
contribute to with their advertisements and short product cycles.
When it comes to marketing, designs and features are usually
more important than quality and longevity.
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Electrolytic capacitors are sensitive to heat and are often
unnecessarily positioned at particularly hot locations.
PRINTER
BREAKS DOWN
ON SCHEDULE
The buttons on modern
printers often hide
counters that report nonexistent errors after a
certain number of print
operations have been
executed.
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programmed deterioration
Measured Deterioration
So now that you know a little more about programmed deterioration, we decided to re-test some older devices at the CHIP Test Centre
after they had been used for a few years, in order to determine the level of deterioration and here are some of our findings
APPLE IPAD 1
Power no longer
sufficient
LG IPS225V
Slight
deterioration in
contrast
The monitor, which features LED background
lighting, withstood two years of intense
office-based operations and came out almost
totally unscathed the contrast value was the
only thing that exhibited a measurable
deterioration. The LG monitor could turn out
to be a device that stands the test of time for
several years if the mechanics and the
electronics hold up. This shouldnt be taken
for granted for monitors in general.
1ST/2ND
CHANGE
MEASUREMENT
BRIGHTNESS
240/243
(CD/M2)
CONTRAST 189:1/176:1
COLOUR SPACE
101/102
(% SRGB)
= +1.1 %
6.9 %
=
= +0.9 %
(CD/M2)
CONTRAST 132:1/134:1
GOOGLE NEXUS 7
Lifespan
decreases
The battery life of a Google Nexus 7 that had
been used extensively for about a year and a
half decreased by ten-percent, when
compared to our initial measurements. Even
so, it amounted to eight hours and 33
minutes, which was still quite high. The
display was just a little darker, but the
contrast value went up by about ten percent,
on account of the deeper shades of black.
The casing can be taken apart quite easily
with a spatula. Unlike the newer iPads, the
battery is fastened in place without using an
adhesive, and can be replaced quite easily.
The only flaw is that a splintered glass cover
can only be replaced if the display is replaced
along with it. That is expensive, but it also
prevents dust from getting into the device.
1ST/2ND
CHANGE
MEASUREMENT
= +1.5 %
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0.7 % =
= +11 %
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OLED Weakens
PHILIPS 42PFL9900D
Brightness deteriorates
For four years, the Philips LCD TV was kept in the lobby of the CHIP
Germany editorial office, where it was kept running on a daily
basis from 1,000 hours to 1,800 hours. And it held up well, too.
However, the maximum brightness of the display, which was backlit using conventional fluorescent tubes, decreased by 23 percent.
The maintainability is primarily limited by the availability of
spare parts. Due to the short product cycles of television sets, this
availability is often limited to a period of two years. The results
generated by our test-TV, which was manufactured in 2008, cannot
unconditionally be carried over to the latest Philips devices, as the
development and production domains have been completely
transferred to the Taiwanese company TPV.
1ST/2ND
MEASUREMENT
BRIGHTNESS (CD/M2) 505/387
BLACK LEVEL (CD/M2) 0.24/0.18
CONTRAST 155:1/163:1
1ST/2ND
MEASUREMENT
CHANGE
23.0 %
25.0 %
=
=
= +5.0 %
APPLE IPHONE 4
Worn-out battery
Display
deteriorates
For about a year, the gaming notebook was used on a nearcontinuous basis. Throughout most of this time period, it was
connected to the mains adapter, which didnt exactly benefit the
battery: The run-time for the office-mode decreased from six hours
ten minutes to four hours nine minutes. The number of charge
cycles could not be read out in a manner that would facilitate a
comparison with a business device, but the constant recharging
did weaken the
battery.
During operation,
the display was
usually downregulated, which is
why the background
lighting and the
maximum brightness
level did not
deteriorate to a
significant degree.
1ST/2ND
MEASUREMENT
BRIGHTNESS (CD/M2) 299/285
CONTRAST 162:1/154:1
LIFE SPAN (H) 6:10/4:09
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CHANGE
4.7 % =
4.9 % =
32.7 %
=
CHANGE
=
45.0 %
40.0 %
=
11.0 % =
1ST/2ND
MEASUREMENT
LIFE SPAN (H) 5:42 h
BRIGHTNESS (CD/M2) 451/376
CONTRAST 146:1/140:1
CHANGE
2.0 % =
16.6 %
=
4.1 % =
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EPSON EH-TW6000W
Weakened lamp
Reduced reaction-time
For about a year and a half, the Epson beamer was placed in a
conference room and used in conjunction with long PowerPoint
presentations. As expected, the brightness of the lamp decreased,
and the magnitude of the decline was as high as 25 percent. Unlike
flat-screen displays, this precipitates a comparable drop in the
projectors contrast value. Replacing the lamp should lead to
results that would be identical to the results generated during the
initial test, but at 250 euros (RM1,130), the original spare part also
costs about a seventh of the price of the device.
This SSD was used in a private PC for a good two years, during
which time it stacked up 1,800 operating hours. Due to its almostnew condition, the transfer rates have suffered practically no
decline whatsoever. However, the number of operations per
second, which is of decisive importance in terms of the SSDs
speed, took a dramatic decline.
However, this problem can be rectified by creating an image of
the drive and securely deleting it in the Samsung Magician
software application. After this has been done, the SSD will be as
fast as it was when it was brand-new, and it will even stay that way
after you play back the image.
1ST/2ND
MEASUREMENT
CHANGE
LUMINOUS FLUX
1.659/1.250
(LM)
CONTRAST 74:1/53:1
BRI. DISTR. EQUIP.
5,9/6,9
(%)
24.7 %
28.4 %
1ST/2ND
MEASUREMENT
Minor losses
The Intel SSD suffered only minor performance-related losses
after almost three years and 2,700 hours of operation in a test
PC. The transfer rates were practically unchanged, within the
context of the measuring tolerance. Furthermore, the decline in
the number of operations per second was not as pronounced
as it was in case of the Samsung device.
The secure erase trick (in case of Intel SSDs, the Intel SSD
Toolkit application is to be used) works just as well as it does
with the Samsung SSD. However, in this case, the incentive to
go through the somewhat complicated procedure is not as
compelling, given the minor losses.
1ST/2ND
CHANGE
MEASUREMENT
0.0 %
0.3 % 1=
=
62.5 %
1.0 % 9=
CHANGE
Slow writing
After the first measurement was carried out, the OCZ Vertex had to
withstand about 1.4 terabytes worth (which is six times its
capacity) of write-access operations. While that exerted no
measurable negative influence on the sequential reading rate, it led
to a significant decline in the writing-related performance.
However, this is only moderately important when the device is
used as a system disk.
The decrease in the number of input/output operations per
second (IOPS) was similar to the decline exhibited by the reading
rate. In practice, a secure erase operation would be helpful,
although the difference may hardly be noticeable.
1ST/2ND
CHANGE
MEASUREMENT
0.0 %
2= +0.2 %
27.5 %
3= +0.4 %
37.9 %
38.1 %
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know it all
Both launched around the same time, these next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony are
highly-anticipated devices by gamers and are on manys wishlists. Here are their differences
and similarities By Pirmin Moselewski
SONY PLAYSTATION 4
Microsoft
Xbox One
Primary markets of
PS4:
RM1,799
USA, UK Europe,
PS4
Asia
12
853
1.75 GHz
,a
500GB
hard disk and
8GB RAM
1.6 GHz
,a
500GB
hard disk and 8GB
RAM
800
Mhz are installed
in the PS4 graphics card
DVDs
Blu-rays
DVDs
Blu-rays
and
176Gbps
and
33
for
are supported
22 Ghosts
and Forza
Motorsport 5
76 Mil
launch titles; 18 of
these will be purely digital.
These include
costs RM249
RM129
is the monthly fee for the
of Xbox Live
Microsoft has not implemented
not
support older games
Region Lock
for games in Xbox One
8
wireless controllers
with a range of more than 9
metres
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videos
per year is the fee for
Plus
and
76 Mil
Region Lock
for
games in PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 does not support older games
Remote-
The Xbox
SmartGlass
app turns a tablet into a
Watch
Dogs
Assassins Creed IV
subscription to PlayStation
060
is
equipped with infrared
technology and a microphone
Gold membership
Kinect HD camera
camera
RM23
GPUs with
68.3 Gbps
18
Share key,
which posts videos of the
current game online
RM2,250
cover story
Upcoming
Trends In 2014
Virtual reality, flexible displays, 8K cameras next year promises to be loaded with
technological innovations. Even computers and networks will be significantly faster,
better and safer
By Markus Mandau
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cover story
trends of 2014
24
CONTROL GATE
ISOLATOR
CHANNEL
2
READING HEAD
WRITE HEAD
Turbo memory in PC
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1
2
Curved smartphones
The webcam
recognises the
gesture
Flutter then
controls the
computer
SITE.COM
064
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High-quality 3D printers
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2
DATA MANAGEMENT
Split data
Encrypt data
Distribute
data
Amazon S3
Amazon
Azure
Connector
Microsoft
Azure
Google
Google
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test lab
test bed
Here at the CHIP Test Labs, we adhere to the high requirements set by the CHIP International
Testcenter standards. This means that everything here -- from our own personal knowledge and
to our trusted tools of the trade -- are meant to provide the most optimised, unbiased and
comprehensive review to every product that comes through our doors. As thus, our test bed
tools are specifically picked to get the most out of every test we perform
Intel Platform
Motherboards
Intel DZ77GA-70K
Intel DZ87KLT-75K
Graphics
Processing Unit
MSI GeForce GTX
680 Lightning
Processors
Intel Core i7-3770K
Intel Core i7-4770K
Storage
Western Digital
SiliconEdge Blue 256GB
SATA
Western Digital My Book
Motherboards
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX
MSI A75MA-G55
Graphics
Processing Unit
ASUS AMD Radeon HD
6970
Processors
CPU Cooler
Cooler Master X6
AMD Platform
Live Duo
Memory
Kingston HyperX
KHX1600C9D3K4/16GX
Kingston HyperX
KHX1600C8D3K4/8GX
AMD FX-8150
AMD A8-3850
CPU Cooler
Cooler Master Hyper 212
EVO
Benchmark Software
Operating
System
Windows 7 Ultimate
(64-bit)
Futuremark
PCMark 7
PCMark 8
3DMark 11
3DMark
Powermark
Industry
Standard
Benchmark
Tools
AIDA64
SiSoftware SANDRA
Speccy
Unigine Heaven
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CM Storm Reaper
ASUS Fonepad 7
MSI GTX 780Ti Gaming
Cooler Master G750M
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Each product review is rated on a scale
of 1 to 5 for different key parameters:
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CHIP Awards
CHIP Editors Choice Award
Awarded to products that receive unanimous
endorsement from all CHIP editors for its overall
brilliance
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Going White
The printing industry is a large and complex one, where many types of printers are used
to print different products and materials. Some of these printers, especially the white
printer segment are not only bulky, but theyre slow to print as well, often costing
company a lot of money and time to use. OKI, with their newly announced C711WT
model, aim to fix that with new and innovative technologies. Instead of using inkjet,
dye sublimation or transfer film-ready technologies, the C711WT printer uses toners
instead, which is much more cost effective. It offers 4-colour printing (cyan, magenta,
yellow and white) at 8ppm using special media and 34ppm with plain paper. The colour
toner yield is 11,500 pages while the white toner capacity is 6,000 pages. it also features
flexible handling of a broad range of media including photo printing, layout proofs, film
printing, packaging, POS and T-shirt transfers at low running and printing costs.
OKI C711WT
Price: RM10,999
Contact: OKI Data (S) Pte Ltd.
Phone: (03) 2287 1177
Info: www.okiprintingsolutions.com.my
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RM1,399
Contact: Build Technology Supply Sdn. Bhd., ECS Astar Sdn. Bhd.
Phone: (03) 7955 3699, (03) 6286 8222
Info: asus.com/my
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Mor
More Phones From Ninetology!
Who doesnt love a good, functional and affordable smartphone? If youre in the market
for a new Android-based smartphone that does not break your bank, Ninetology has
recen
recently announced the availability of the Ninetology U9 P1+. Powered by a dual-core
1.2GH
1.2GHz processor, this five inch smartphone also comes with a 5MP camera and 4GBs of
stora
storage space which is expandable up to 32GBs via MicroSD. The P1+ runs Android 4.2
Jelly Bean, which is one of the latest versions of the Android mobile operating system.
Nine
Ninetology U9 P1+
Pric
Price: TBA
Con
Contact: 9 Care Hotline
Pho
Phone: (03) 5569 3233
Inf
Info: www.ninetology.com
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Opal-certified SSD
Despite being prohibitively expensive several years ago, SSDs are now used in almost
every user situation, be it for home, business or enterprise. Corporations do require the
burst of speed SSDs can provide, but are often worried that the data stored within these
drives can be compromised. This is where Kingston comes in with the Kingston SSDNow
KC300. The KC300 has recently been tested for compliance with TCG Opal 1.0, which allows
IT administrators to manage security policies, password recovery, compliance logging,
automatic updates and user creation/deletion. The self-encrypting drive also provides
organizations with strong, easy-to-use and high performance built-in security and works with
a number of popular endpoint software applications that give users both flexibility and ease
of mind knowing that their data is secure.
Kingston SSDNow KC300
Info: Amble Action Sdn. Bhd., Convergent Distribution (M) Sdn. Bhd., Ingram Micro Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.
Phone: (03) 7665 3939, (03) 2144 1881, (03) 7952 8188
Contact: www.kingston.com
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Samsung
GALAXY
Tab 3 Kids
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM799
Samsung Malaysia Electronics
1 800 88 9999
www.samsung.com/my/
Specifications
Operating System: Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
Processor: 1.2GHz Dual-Core Processor
Screen: 7.0-inch WSVGA (1,024 x 600) TFT
Connectivity: Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct,
Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB 2.0, 3.5mm Stereo
Others: 3-Megapixel Rear Camera,
1.3-Megapixel Front Camera, Kids Case, C Pen
Dimensions: 111.1 x 188 x 9.9 mm
Weight: 302g (without cover)
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Cute and colourful
Comes bundled with
Kids Case & C Pen
Decent performance
Good features
A bit pricey
Tablet is still plasticky
BENCHMARK RESULTS
AnTuTu:
11,075 points
3DMark (Ice Storm):
2,154 points
3DMark (Ice Storm Extreme): 1,124 points
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ASUS Zenbook
UX301
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM3,799
ECS Astar Sdn. Bhd., Build
Technology Supply Sdn. Bhd.,
Servex (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
(03) 6286 8222, (03) 7955 3699,
(03) 8024 6688
www.asus.com/my
Specifications
Exuding
Impeccable
Allure
ASUS once again pulls out all the stops with the
Zenbook and it is a thing of beauty inside and out
By Jeremy Cheong
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Stunning design
Decent performance
Good range of
features
Super portable
Price
Limited on-board
ports
BENCHMARK RESULTS
PCMark 8 (Home):
2,795 points
PCMark 8 (Work):
4,359 points
PCMark 8 (Battery Home): 4 hours 23 minutes
3DMark (Cloud Gate):
4,466 points
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Phone
Info
Specifications
Lens Mount: Canon EF Mount
Image Processor: DIGIC 5
Effective Pixels: Approx. 18.00-megapixels
ISO: ISO 100 12800 (Standard)
Built-in Flash: Retractable, Auto Pop-up Flash
LCD Monitor: 3-inch Capacitive Clear View
LCD II
Storage Type: SD / SDHC / SDXC
Connectivity: Digital A/V Out, mini HDMI,
Eye-Fi, RC-6 (remote control), 3.5mm
microphone-in
Dimensions: 116.8 x 90.7 x 69.4mm
Weight: 370g (Body Only)
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Superb portability
Very easy to handle
Responsive touch
screen
Good image quality
Small battery
Harder to handle with
larger lenses
Price
080
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MSI GP 60 Gaming
Notebook
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM2,999
Media Forte (Malaysia) Sdn.
Bhd., AMT PC Distributors Sdn.
Bhd., Eternal Asia (M) Sdn. Bhd.
(03) 7960 6868, (03) 3344 1124,
(03) 5569 2200
my.msi.com
Specifications
CHIP CONCLUDE :
Considering its specs, the MSI GP60
is one of the more affordable gaming
notebooks out there in the market
right now. It functions perfectly well
as a desktop replacement machine, at
a fraction of the space.
4,235 points
3,524 points
2,421 (2 hours
15 minutes)
1,042 points
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Dell Latitude
E7240
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
TBA
Dell Asia Pacific Sdn. Bhd.
1 800 88 0301
www.dell.com.my
Specifications
CPU: Intel Core i5-4350U
RAM: 8GB DDR3 RAM
Storage: 128GB SSD
Graphics: Intel HD4400
OS: Windows 8 Professional
Display: 12.5-inches @ 1,920 x 1,080
Interface: USB 3.0 x3, HDMI x1, RJ45 LAN x1,
SD Card reader, Docking port
Extras: 720p webcam
Dimension: 310 x 210 x 20mm
Weight: 1.36kgs
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Excellent performance
A lot of I/O ports
Below average battery
life
Loud fan
Cover smudges easily
BENCHMARK RESULTS
PCMark 8 (Home):
PCMark 8 (Creative):
PCMark 8 (Productivity):
PCMark 8 (Battery - Home):
3,828 points
3,245 points
4,159 points
2,782 (2 hours
48 minutes)
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ASUS Matrix
Platinum R9 280X
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM1,499
Servex (M) Sdn. Bhd., Build
Technology Supply Sdn. Bhd.
(03) 8024 6688, (03) 7955 3699
www.asus.com/my
Specifications
Chipset: AMD Radeon R9 280X
Core Clock: 1,000MHz
Memory Size: 4GB DDR5
RATINGS
Tweak It Like
You Mean It
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Powerful
Wide array of
overclocking features
LED workload
indicator
Fan is very loud at 100
0
percent speed
Will not fit in every PC
system
BENCHMARK RESULTS
3DMark Fire Storm:
3DMark Fire Storm Extreme:
7,758 points
3,879 points
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Sonic Gear
Pandora 3
RM149
Leapfroglobal Distribution Sdn.
Bhd.
(03) 7803 6703
www.mysonicgear.com
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
Specifications
Frequency response: 40Hz 20KHz
Speaker driver: 2x 2-inch
Subwoofer driver: 3-inch
Input/output: Bluetooth, 3.5mm AUX-in jack
Dimension: 290 x 103 x 121mm
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Bluetooth connectivity
Works as a hands-free
device for smartphones
Audio quality
No built-in batteries
Almost Pitch
Perfect
084
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Fujitsu
LIFEBOOK E743
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM5,650 (Estimated)
Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
(03) 7728 4868
www.fujitsu.com/my
Specifications
It Means
Business
BENCHMARK RESULTS
PCMark 8 (Home):
PCMark 8 (Creative):
PCMark 8 (Battery Home):
3,628 points
2,644 points
3,085 (3 hours
35 minutes)
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Norton 360
Multi-Device
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
Specifications
Operating Systems Supported: Microsoft
Windows (XP/Vista/7/8), Mac OS X (v10.7 or
v10.8), Android 2.2. or later, iOS 5.0 or later
Minimum Hardware Requirement (Windows):
300MHz (XP), 1GHz (Vista/7), 256MB of RAM,
300MB of hard disk space
Minimum Hardware Requirement (Mac): Mac
system with Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2GB
of RAM, 1.5GB of hard disk space
Device Requirements (Android): 1.8MB of
storage
RATINGS
Party Of Five
Performance
Features
By Jeremy Cheong
Design
Value
Protects multiple
devices
Easy to set up on all
platforms
Intuitive interface
Plenty of features
Free 25GB backup
Limited options for iOS
No support for
BlackBerry or Windows
Phone
086
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BenQ RL2455HM
Gaming Monitor
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM899
BenQ Marketing & Services Sdn.
Bhd.
(03) 7954 7800
www.benq.com.my
Specifications
Resolution: 1,920 x 1,080 @ 60Hz
Screen: 24-inches
Response Time: 1ms (GTG)
Contrast Ratio: 1,000:1 (Native), 12M:1 (DCR)
Stand: Tilt
Connectivity: VGA, DVI, HDMI x 2
RATINGS
A Feast For A
Gamers Eyes
Performance
Features
Design
Value
RTS presets for
Starcraft II and Dota 2
eQualizer feature
Expensive for a
24-inch monitor
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Canon
imageCLASS
MF8280CW
Multifunction
Printer
RM2,800
Canon Marketing Malaysia Sdn.
Bhd.
(03) 7884 6000
www.canon.com.my
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
Specifications
Printing Resolution: 1,200 x 1,200 dpi
Printing Method: Colour Laser
Feeder Capacity: 150 pages
Dimensions: 432 x 485 x 429 mm
Weight: 23.6kg
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Superb print quality
Ink dries fast
Slow print times
Noisy
Small paper feeder
capacity
088
Print Quality
Matters
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RM7,199
Media Forte (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
(03) 2287 1177
my.msi.com
Specifications
Uncompromised
Performance
The AG2712 is a stunning AIO from MSI that packs a
punch in features and performance By Nazrin Zain
4,098 points
3,828 points
2,161 points
1,055 points
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Acer Liquid E2
Price
Contact
RM749
Acer Sales and Services Sdn.
Bhd.
1 800 88 1288
www.acer.com/my
Phone
Info
Specifications
Operating System: Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean)
Processor: 1.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Frequency: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900MHz,
HSDPA+ / EDGE / GPRS
Screen: 4.5-inch qHD (960 x 540) IPS LCD
Connectivity: Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with
EDR, USB2.0, 3.5mm Stereo
Others: 8-Megapixel Rear Camera,
2-Megapixel Front Camera, Dual-SIM
Dimensions: 131 x 68 x 9.9mm
Weight: 140g
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
By Jeremy Cheong
Value
Affordable
Dual-SIM
Decent performance
Limited internal storage
Weird design
090
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CM Storm Reaper
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM269
Ban Leong Technologies Sdn.
Bhd.
(03) 7956 6300
www.cmstorm.com
Specifications
Interface: USB2.0
DPI: Up to 8,200
Response time: 100Hz-1,000Hz
Features: Profiles, On-board memory, clutch
button
RATINGS
Performance
The Fragging
Reaper
Cooler Masters first premium gaming mouse has all
the right features to keep the most demanding
gamers happy By Nazrin Zain
Features
Design
Value
Rubber grip ensures
comfort
8 customisable
buttons
Complicated macro
software
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ASUS Fonepad 7
Price
Contact
RM999 (16GB)
Build Technology Supply Sdn.
Bhd., ECS Astar Sdn. Bhd.,
(03) 7955 3699, (03) 6286 8222
www.asus.com/my
Phone
Info
Specifications
Operating System: Android 4.2 (upgradable to
Android 4.3)
Processor: Intel Atom Z2560 @ 1.6GHz
Screen: 7-inch LED Backlight WXGA (1,280 x
800) IPS panel
Connectivity: Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, USB
2.0, 3.5mm audio, microSD
Others: 5 megapixel HD rear camera, 1.2
megapixel HD front camera
Dimensions: 120 x 196.8 x 10.5 mm
Weight: 328g
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Excellent performance
for its price
Support for mobile data
a
connection
Impressive battery life
Plasticky build
BENCHMARK RESULTS
Antutu:
3DMark:
17,719 points
6,373 points
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Phone
Info
RM2,719
AMT PC Distributors Sdn. Bhd.,
JW Power Marketing Sdn. Bhd.,
MediaForte (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd
(03) 3344 1124, (03) 2148 1307,
(03) 7960 6868
my.msi.com
Specifications
Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780Ti
Core Clock: 980MHz (Boost Clock 1046MHz)
Memory Size: 3072MB DDR5
Ports: 1x Dual-link DVI-I, 1x Dual-link DVI-D,
1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Overclocked out of the
box
Impressive
performance
Twin Frozr IV cooler
Good overclocking
headroom
Noisy when fan is set
to full speed
BENCHMARK RESULTS
3DMark (Fire Strike):
10,293 points
3DMark (Fire Strike Extreme): 5,238 points
Unigine Heaven (1,920 x 1,080,
4xAA, Ultra Quality, Normal
Tessellation):
92.5FPS
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Cooler Master
G750M
Price
Contact
RM379
Ban Leong Technologies Sdn.
Bhd., SDS Distribution Sdn.
Bhd.
(03) 7956 6300, (03) 7782 4700
www.coolermaster.com
Phone
Info
Specifications
Type: Intel ATX 12V V2.31
Input Voltage: 100-240Vac (Full Range)
MTBF: >100,000 hours
Fan: 120mm intelligent fan
Dimensions: 150 x 140 x 86mm
Just A Tad
Neater
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Near silent operation
Good load balancing
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MSI Z87I
Gaming AC
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM799
Media Forte (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd,
ScanArt Data (M) Sdn Bhd
(03) 2287 1177
my.msi.com
Specifications
CPU Support: Intel Core Processor
CPU Socket: LGA 1150
Chipset: Intel Z87 Chipset
Memory Type: Dual Channel Memory
Diminutive In
Size, Big In
Performance
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Performance is as
good as full-sized
ATX-boards
Using large aftermarket CPU coolers or
graphics cards will
block ports and slots
BENCHMARK RESULTS
PCMark 8 (Home):
PCMark 8 (Creative):
4,311 points
3,792 points
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Corsair
RM1000 PSU
Price
Contact
RM770
Cudo Technologies (M) Sdn.
Bhd.
(03) 2148 1177
www.corsair.com
Phone
Info
Specifications
Type: lntel ATX 12V V2.4
Input Voltage: 100-240Vac
MTBF: 100,000 hours
Fan: 120mm
Dimension: 150 x 180 x 86mm
The Sweet
Sound Of Silence
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Fan does not move on
idle to medium
workload
Fully modular design
No manual fan control
096
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ASUS Maximus
VI Gene
Price
Contact
Phone
Info
RM799
Build Technology Supply Sdn.
Bhd., Servex (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd
(03) 7955 3699, (03) 8024 6688
www.asus.com/my
Specifications
CPU Support: Intel Core Processor
CPU Socket: LGA 1150
Chipset: Intel Z87 Chipset
Memory Type: Dual Channel Memory, Up to
32GB DRR3
RATINGS
Performance
Features
Design
Value
Pedigree Genes
5,500 points
4,558 points
5,183 points
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Philips
Brilliance 231C5
Price
Contact
RM1,499
Ban Leong Technologies Sdn.
Bhd.
(03) 7956 6300
www.philips.com.my
Phone
Info
Specifications
Panel type: IPS LCD with 10 point touch
Backlight: W-LED system
Panel size: 23-inch
Optimum resolution: 1,920 x 1,080 @ 60Hz
Connectivity: 1x VGA, 1x DisplayPort, 1x
HDMI, 1x MHL-HDMI, 2x USB 3.0, 1x PC
Audio-in, 1x Headphone-out, Sync input
Extras: 1-megapixel webcam, microphone, 2x
2W speakers
Weight: 5.16kg (with stand)
Dimensions: 563 x 406 x 72mm (with stand)
RATINGS
Performance
Brilliant MultiTasker
Features
Design
By Jeremy Cheong
Value
098
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THINK
Im sitting in bed with a bad case of the flu a million miles from home, in the darkest depths of winter with
a steaming mug of ginger tea beside me, when thoughts turn to... Drones By Tim Lee
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PEOPLE
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If you
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given
e sum
large
of money
and asked
esign
to design
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be and
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sense into people, something to disallow
technology to take such a big stranglehold
on peoples time and remind them that life
is about loving, smiling, experiencing and
living. Not mere hash-tagging or
Facebooking. Actually, come to think of it,
this thing already existsits called a dog.
TOUCH
To Live Is To Learn
the best apps to spice up your day
This year, instead of making resolutions that hardly get fulfilled, why dont you learn something new
instead, you never know, it could change your life By Jeremy Cheong
014 is here and by now Im sure many of you have already whipped up a resolutions list. But let me ask you a question, does that
list actually help? Do you really achieve what you set out to do? Well, maybe this year, instead of doing things according to your list,
why not learn a new skill instead? Its not hard and thanks to your smartphone and tablet, you wont even have leave your home
and go for lessons. Here are some very handy apps for those of you who have an urge to learn.
Instructables
Price: Free
Platform: Android, iOS
Developer: Autodesk Inc.
Instructables is easily one of the apps that you have to have on your
smartphone or tablet especially if you love Do-It-Yourself projects. This
app has over a 100,000 tutorials that range from the most simple of
creations to the outrageous. Want to impress your friends by cooking
them a delicious steak and irresistible dessert? Just check the app. Want
to be the talk of the Halloween party with your insanely detailed Iron Man
costume? Check the app.
You never know what you will find in the app as its collection is made
up of DIY-addicts who are very happy to share step-by-step tips on how to
make really cool stuff. On the other hand, if you have a very special project that you would love to share with others, this app also allows
you to document and share them.
Duolingo
Price: Free
Platform: Android, iOS
Developer: Duolingo
When it comes to language, we Malaysians are already quite an impressive
bunch as most of us can speak at least three different languages and on top of
that all the various dialects as well. So, if you are looking to add yet another
language to your already impressive repertoire, Duolingo is the go-to app as it
is an app that provides you with college-quality education for free.
Another great thing about Duolingo is the way it teaches you as instead of
boring
assignments, it
provides you with
challenges much
like a video game.
For now the app
offers you lessons in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and
English.
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lessons on how to tie a perfect tie for different occasions. The app is filled with 27 different types of knots and comes with simple and
illustrated pictures. If you prefer animated tutorials, you can always opt for the Pro version. The app also features a virtual mirror that
shows you what needs to go where.
But other than just ties, the app also has lessons on how to tie bowties, ascots, pocket squares folds and even scarves. With this app,
instead of looking like a country bumpkin the next time theres a soiree, you will now be one of the most dapper looking chaps.
Gorilla Workout
Price: US$0.99
Platform: Android, iOS
Developer: Heckr LLC
Working out in the gym, getting fit and living a healthier lifestyle is probably
one of the most common resolutions in many of our lists. But as always
though, we tend to come up with excuses that stops us from doing so. If
youre one of those who prefers to work out at home, then Gorilla Workout is
a great app as it is packed with over 40 fast-paced and no-equipment
exercises.
It has four fitness levels so it doesnt matter what shape youre in and
theres also an easy to follow day-by-day workout regimen containing
hundreds of unique routines. If you are one of those who want to know if you
are doing a workout right, the app even has real life video demonstrations
and detailed text descriptions for each exercise.
TED
Price: Free
Platform: Android, iOS
Developer: TED Conferences
TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design and it is just
filled with some of the most fascinating people from all over the world,
who share their ideas that are life changing and encourages every
individual to think and look at things differently. These talks are usually
conducted by education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks,
business gurus and even music legends.
If you need inspiration or just want to learn to look at life differently,
then this app will have you covered as it has over 1,500 TEDTalk videos
and audios of very inspirational stories and ideas. These videos and
videos are also constantly updated every week so you will never run out of
stories.
HowStuffWorks
Price: Free
Platform: Android, iOS, Windows Phone
Developer: Discovery Communications, LLC
HowStuffWorks started off as a website and is great for those who just love
reading and learning about new things. Now with the app, you can gain
access to over 30,000 articles, podcasts, quizzes and videos wherever you
are. The app even gives you the ability to tweet the HSW crew while you
are listening to one of their podcasts.
This app is just a must-have for those who are constantly looking to
better themselves with knowledge and want to find a more relaxed and
entertaining way of learning. Some of the interesting shows include Stuff
to Blow Your Mind, Stuff Mom Never Told You, Stuff You Missed in History
Class, The Coolest Stuff on the Planet and much more.
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READ
Like many other things, 2013 was also a great year when it came to sci-fi and fantasy novels. These are
some of the books you should definitely read if you love either one of those genres By Jeremy Cheong
Publisher: Mulholland
Books
Released: 16 April 2013
According to author,
Austin Grossman, You
was written with his very
own experiences in the
game development
industry and also used
the movie Tron as an
influence to create this
thrilling story. The story
revolves around average
joe, Russell who takes a
job offer at the
prestigious Black Arts
games that is at risk of
being closed down if their
next game wasnt a chart-
American
Elsewhere
Author: Robert Jackson
Bennett
Publisher: Orbit
Released: 12 February
2013
Horror and sci-fi are two
genres that go together
like peanut butter and
jam. With American
Elsewhere, this marriage
of genres was done to
perfection by the author
as he gives the American
dream a twist with by
incorporating a tale of
alien invasion.
The story is set in a
little town called Winx, North Mexico, which doesnt exist on
maps and records. However, former police officer, Mona Bright
inherits her late mothers house in this seemingly perfect town
and due to her curiosity to learn more about her mothers past,
she decides to take up residence at said home. Little does she
know that the town of Winx harbours plenty of dark secrets
and the residents plan to keep it hidden from the world.
Bennett does a great job with the story as it may start out a
little odd but it quickly turns terrifying and haunting due to the
intimidating townfolk of Winx.
You
Author: Austin Grossman
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topping hit.
The company was created by two of Russells closest
friends but one of them has a death surrounded by mystery
that might have been related to the companys first big hit.
Things get even weirder when a game-breaking bug is
discovered in the games engine, WAFFLE. Russell is then
tasked to find the source
of the bug, which leads
him to explore the history
of the company, its
founders and his very
own relationship with
them. The further he digs,
the more Russell realises
that he is putting his own
life at risk.
have been waiting for the authors next novel for adults (his
first was Anansi Boys, released in 2005), this is it. What was
supposed to be a short story, ended up becoming this
beautiful masterfully written story that follows an unnamed
narrator who returns to his hometown for a funeral and gets
pulled back into an event that started forty years ago during
his childhood.
The main story begins when the narrator remembers the
day his fathers car was stolen and the perpetrator had
committed suicide in the back seat. His death allowed a
supernatural being to gain access to our world, leaving money
for people in most unpleasant ways. From then on, readers are
then thrust into a magical adventure that sees childhood
innocence tested, what happens when an individual gets
between mystic forces and what can be gained from the power
of true friendship. Even if you have never read Gaimans
previous works, this one will draw you in and make you a fan.
The Violent
Century
Author: Lavie Tidhar
Publisher: PS Publishing
Released: 1 November
2013
Were sure many of you
already know that we
love us some stories with
superheroes involved and
what could be better than
a story that features
superheroes set in an
alternate history and a
different version of World
War II and the Cold War.
But thats not all as the
story is also filled with
time travel and political
intrigue.
The Violent Century is about Oblivion and Fogg, both
guardians of the British Empire for seventy years. There were
inseparable friends, bound together by shared fate, that is until
that fateful night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second
World War, and a secret tears their friendship apart. After the
war, when they thought their past would be forgotten, it
catches up to them and they must now face up to the terrible
war and answer an impossible question: What makes a hero?
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WATCH
Inspiring Technological
Advancements In
Movies
Much like our gadgets, movies have come a long way in terms of technology and this month, we take a
look at titles that made breakthroughs in the technological aspects of movie-making By Nazrin Zain
Star Wars
Release date:
1977
Director:
George Lucas
Widely
considered as
the great
granddaddy
of sci-fi
movies, Star
Wars was one
of the first few
movies to
incorporate
special
effects, which
combined
with George
Lucas then
visionary
directing and
story-telling,
made the
movie trilogy
not only one
of the best movies of its time, but one of the most visually
compelling and technically astounding as well. As if thats not
awesome enough for a movie that came out in the 1970s,
Lucasfilm also developed the THX sound reproduction
standard for Return of the Jedi, which is now used as the
audio/visual reproduction standard for movie theatres,
screening rooms and various other audio/visual setup.
Jurassic Park
Release date: 1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Factual inaccuracies aside, Jurassic Park, featuring dinosaurs
that came from mostly the Cretaceous period was one of the
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most
celebrated
titles of the
1990s. The
movies very
realistic use of
both
animatronics
and computergenerated
graphics was a
cornerstone in
movie-making
technology.
Jurassic Park
would go on
to earn Steven
Spielberg
US$1 billion
and win over
20 awards,
distinctions
mostly
awarded for
the shows
prowess in
usage of visual effects. There are three movies in total in the
Jurassic Park franchise, with a fourth theatrical release set for
2015.
Avatar
Release date: 2009
Director: James Cameron
James Camerons second epic after Titanic was the movie that
was responsible for the boom of 3D movies that were
currently going through today. Double vision shenanigans
aside, Avatar is a visual feast for the eyes. The concept behind
for Avatar was conceived all the way back in 1994, where
Cameron wrote an 80-page screenplay for the movie. Actual
development of the movie however started in 2006, where the culture for the
Navi was first created. Cameron also described the filming process of the movie
as 60percent CG and 40percent live action, with the live action portion filmed
using a proprietary digital 3D Fusion Camera System which was developed by
Cameron and Vince Pace. Motion capture was also a major part of the movie,
with the entire process taking up 31 days to finish, which included capturing and
lighting the world of Pandora, and the various Navi characters of the movie.
The Hobbit
Release date: 2013
Director: Peter Jackson
The Lord of The Rings trilogy
had some excellent CG elements
thrown into the mix with
astounding cinematography, but
still used many traditional filmmaking techniques to bring a
very deeply satisfying story to
life. The Hobbit, the prequel to
the epic trilogy has Peter
Jackson use more of the same
methods and techniques, with
one very big difference. The
Hobbit was to be filmed in 48
frames per second (also known
as HFR) using 48 RED Epic cameras which are modified to allow Jackson to shoot
in 3D. Not only that, thanks to the RED cameras, he was also able to shoot the
film in 5K, which is the RED
Epics native resolution. If youre
wondering the kind of storage
need to store the recorded
footage, each camera has a
128GB memory card inside to
record the numerous scenes captured throughout filming.
Life of Pi
Release date: 2012
Director: Ang Lee
Based on a book by Yann Martel, Life of Pi tells of a story of a boy named Pi
Patel, who is stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a tiger named
Richard Parker. The story itself delves into many aspects of spirituality and the
need of a person to survive the harshness of the sea alone, but what sets this
movie apart as a technological marvel is the fact that for the most part, the tiger
Richard Parker is actually made entirely from CGI. Hyper-realistic art is taken to
a whole new level in this movie as the tiger looks, moves sounds and acts
exactly like how a real tiger would. Rhythm and Hues, the studio which was also
responsible for creating the lion in Narnia, spent a year in research and
development in order to harness the skill set necessary to bring Richard Parker
to life. It was also the first time the studio used something that is called remote
rendering, which utilises what is called CAVE, which stands for Cloud Animation
and Visual Effects.
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Jeremys Pick
State of Decay
Developer:
Undead Labs
Platform: PC, Xbox 360
If youve read my review
of State of Decay, you
will know why I love this
game. Yes, its another
zombie survival horror
title but it has quite a few
elements to it that sets it apart from the others. The game truly
makes you understand what it is like to have to survive by needing
to scavenge for food, ammo and other resources while also
doing your best to maintain order among other survivors. This
open-world game looks great and the setting and surroundings
really add to the overall dread and feeling of hopelessness.
Nazrins Pick
The Last of Us
Developer:
Naughty Dog
Platform: PlayStation 3
Post-apocalyptic games
are a dime a dozen,
but they dont elicit
the kind of emotional
response this game did
to us. The Last of Us, a
brainchild of the geniuses at Naughty Dog, is not only breathtaking in terms of graphics, it also has a gameplay mechanic
that is both fresh and infuriating at the same time, making it
feel like a mix between survival horror and an action adventure
game. The characters feel humane and are very relatable,
which adds to the experience when playing the game.
Jeremys Pick
Shadowrun Returns
Developer: Harebrained
Schemes
Platform: PC, Mac,
iOS, Android
Sadly, in 2013, I didnt
spend that much time
playing RPGs as I was still
lost in the wastelands of
Fallout: New Vegas. But the
one RPG I did manage to play however, was Shadowrun Returns.
Being a Kickstarter game, it wasnt as impressive in terms of
graphics and audio quality but it was still a very immersive game.
While the bundled campaign that came with it was quite good, it
was also quite short. However, there are plenty more to download
and you can even make your own campaign using the editor.
FIRST PERSON SHOOTER
Jeremys Pick
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Developer: Ubisoft
Montreal, Ubisoft
Shanghai
Platform: PC,
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Ubisofts Far Cry 3 was
one of the best FPS I
played this year and
when Blood Dragon was
announced, I thought it was all a big joke (it didnt help that it was
announced so close to Aprils Fools day). But little did I know,
that this would actually become my top-pick for shooters. The
game retained much of the same great controls, mechanics and
impressive graphics of the original game. What changed was the
setting as the game was filled with corny one-liners and overthe-top action. It was a beautiful homage to action movies from
the 1980s and 1990s. Plus its protagonist Rex Power Colt was
voiced by Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese in the original Terminator).
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Nazrins Pick
Final Fantasy XIV:
A Realm Reborn
Developer: Square-Enix
Platform: PC,
PlayStation 3,
PlayStation 4
This is an MMO per
se, but personally I feel
that FFXIV: ARR is the
first RPG in a couple of
years that has actually managed to capture both my attention
and time to the point that I sacrificed a tonne of sleep to play.
The gameplay mechanics in this game are amazing as there
is always the game content is always challenging regardless
if youre a newcomer or a veteran. The constant update of
content from the developers also mean that there is always
something new to do regardless of your level as well.
Nazrins Pick
Battlefield 4
Developer: DICE
Platform: PC,
PlayStation 3,
PlayStation 4, Xbox
360, Xbox One
When it works properly
and doesnt suddenly
disconnect you from
games for no apparent
reason, Battlefield 4 is THE go to game for first person shooters.
The single player campaign is a visual spectacle which shows
off what the new Frostbite 3 engine is capable of, and the
multiplayer segment has you pitting yourself against others
in a showcase of teamwork, fragging and explosions that will
leave you begging for more, that is until the game decides
to throw in a few game-breaking bugs to frustrate you.
2013 was definitely a great year when it came to gaming. There were blockbusting triple A titles
released throughout the year for almost every genre. So here are our picks for our favourite games
of 2013. Do keep in mind that while this list only consists of games that we actually played and if you
dont see your favourite title here, its probably because we havent played it yet By CHIP Team
STRATEGY
Jeremys Pick
Civilization V: Brave
New World
Developer: Firaxis
Games
Platform: PC, Mac
Civilization is a series
that you either love or
hate and for me its like
a drug. The moment
I start, I cant stop. It
starts with just a single turn that leads to another 50 turns at 4
a.m. The fifth entry in the series was already a very good game
but the two expansions made it what it was supposed to be in
the first place. With Brave New World, you dont just get new
content but also a revamped Cultural victory that made the game
a little more challenging for those who wanted to win a game
without having to go to war with neighbouring countries.
Nazrins Pick
Fire Emblem:
Awakening
Developer: Intelligent
Systems, Nintendo SPD
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
One thing I love about the
Nintendo 3DS is how a lot
of old games come back to
life on this platform. Fire
Emblem Awakening is one
such game, where both RPG and strategy elements combine to
bring some truly challenging and satisfying gameplay. The story
and character development in this game is amazing as well, as you
can develop meaningful relationships that also helps you a lot in
battle. If youre up for even more challenges, play in Classic mode,
and see your characters die permanently if they die in battle.
HANDHELD
Jeremys Pick
Soul Sacrifice
Developer: Marvelous
AQL, SCE Japan
Studio, Comcept
Platform: PS Vita
Business is really
starting to pick up for
the PlayStation Vita.
While it didnt have a
constant stream of great
titles released for it, it still had a few notable titles such as Soul
Sacrifice. For Vita owners who were hoping for Monster Hunter
to arrive and want to get that itch of hunting large monsters out
of their system, Soul Sacrifice is your best alternative. Instead
of being limited to a certain weapon type, this game lets you
bring six spells into your battle against grotesque demons.
Single player is fun but it is definitely much better with friends.
Nazrins Pick
Pokemon X & Y
Developer: Game Freak
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Many would argue that
the Pokemon series is
the raison detre for
Nintendos DS handheld
consoles. While well
argue that the statement
is a bit of an over
exaggeration, it is true that the game is one of the very few
big name system sellers that Nintendo has, apart from Mario
and Zelda. Pokemon X and Y continue the tried and tested
formula of collecting Pokemon from one specific region, to
breed and battle, only this time the game features upgraded
graphics (finally!) and new battle mechanics that make breeding
and exploration even more fun and rewarding than before.
MOBILE
Jeremys Pick
Real Racing 3
Developer:
Firemonkeys Studio
Platform: iOS, Android,
BlackBerry 10
Quite frankly, the biggest
mobile game of the year
had to be Candy Crush
Saga but I never really got
in to it. What I did get into
however was Real Racing 3. It had sleek graphics, a catalogue of
cars I can only own in my dreams that had realistic handling and
physics and a slew of real life tracks. While it didnt really have
a multiplayer mode, I could still challenge my friends due to its
Time Shifted Multiplayer system that still allowed me to challenge
them. If you love racing, this is a must-have in your app list.
Nazrins Pick
Plants vs Zombies 2
Developer:
PopCap Games
Platform: iOS, Android
If you have never ever
played Plants vs Zombies,
you must surely have
at least heard about the
game before. PvZ2 is a
sequel to the popular
vegetables vs zombies tower defence game, which garnered
millions upon millions of downloads on the iOS and Android
stores respectively. The sequel features more locations, more
enemies and more powerups as well as you and your neighbour
Crazy Dave travel through time to kill zombies and eat tacos.
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Now that youve seen our picks for our favourite games for the year 2013, heres a look at
some of the games that we cant wait to get our hands on later this year By CHIP Team
Titanfall
Transistor
Developer: Respawn
Developer: Supergiant
Entertainment
Games
Platform: PC,
PlayStation 4
gameplay mechanics
releasing a massively
modified first person shooter genre with rocket packs and mech
Transistor, Supergiants second project combines the actionadventure portion of Bastion and combines it with a bit of turnbased strategy mechanics for a new twist to a pretty old genre
Thief
Platform: PlayStation 4
Release Date: Q3
3, Playstation 4, Xbox
that introduced an
element of stealth
this game will be an FPS in the same vein as that of Killzone. Set
story where an old order of knights keeps the world safe from
more of the same, but this time with improved graphics and
Destiny
Developer: Tango
Developer: Bungie
Gameworks
3, PlayStation 4, Xbox
3, PlayStation 4, Xbox
Release Date: 9
September
popular Xbox
out at Capcom, such as the first few Resident Evil games and
his games. The Evil Within aims to achieve more of the same,
bring you a game that is grim, creepy and very very scary.
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BATTLEFIELD 4
By Nazrin Zain
Bugfield 4
Despite how pretty the game looks and
how great it plays, it is also riddled with
bugs. such as severe lag, buggy audio
and graphics, and even game crashes
that make the game almost unplayable.
However, DICE have been hard at work
patching these bugs up.
The Battlefield series of games have long
On Point
Pretty Things
storyline.
DEVELOPER
DICE
INFO
270X.
www.battlefield.com/
battlefield-4
FPS
Battlefield 4
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
PLATFORM : PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360,
Xbox One
Graphics
Sound
RATINGS
Gameplay
game.
Replayability
Breathtaking graphics, excellent
gameplay, Various modes and maps
Lots of bugs, including lag, netcode
issues, crashes and reset campaigns
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practice
detailed xxx
landscapes
More Details
From Landscape Photos
With a few clicks in Photoshop, boring landscape photos can easily
be transformed into atmospheric eye-catchers
The author of this tutorial writes
for CHIP PHOTO-VIDEO and is
also a successful fashion and
beauty photographer. When it
comes to finishing touches for
photos on the PC, he is definitely
the go-to guy.
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By Sebastian Lang
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HOW IT WORKS
Enhance The Rocks Hide the saturation and gray layer, select
[Ctrl] + [J]. Right click on the new layer and select Convert to
smart object. Then go to Image | Corrections | Shadow/
Highlight and select a value of 7 for Depth to restore the
drawing in the shadow areas.
setting layer of the type Curves. Raise the upper area of the
diagonals and lower the lower part to enhance the contrast. Then
create another layer Color Balance and move the colors of the
Mid-tones and Lights towards Blue and Cyan to balance
the color cast.
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practice
file management
PROFITIPP
Managing Files
In Windows
Tasks are often repeated while managing files.
If you have the right resources, you will save a lot of time
By Dr. Peter Posse
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Click on the left Plus sign and navigate to the desired folder for
monitoring - for example G:\Download. Then select it with OK
and mark it in the list. Now click on the right Plus sign to define a
rule. In the Rule options, initially skip Enabled till the action is
tested. Instead activate Confirm action at the start for
confirmation. The option Recursive ensures that the subfolders
are also included. New rules must be confirmed with OK and
then opened with Edit Rule to finally try out the settings with
Test.
practice
file management
8
HOW IT WORKS
Rename Files You can rename files with the help of Rename
file - say to insert the current year. It is better to then move the
file to avoid multiple changes.
Tips
Tricks
JANUARY 2014
MOBILE
01
iPHONE
Marking a place and finding it
again
SOCIAL NETWORKS
FACEBOOK
Identifying friends who can help
you in times of need
03
01
02
03
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02
ANDROID
Finding your smartphone and
resetting it if required
04
WINDOWS
WINDOWS 8
Automatically log on to your
Microsoft account while starting
the system
05
FACEBOOK
Assigning pictures to your
comments
04
Comments are no longer restricted to text; you
can directly add images and emoticons in them
06
WINDOWS 8
Use Google Chrome correctly as
an App under Windows 8
06
05
Logging into Windows via the Microsoft
account can be automated with the correct
access data
07
WINDOWS 8
Integrating Google Search as a
comfortable App in Windows
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07
Start searching from the Google App, browse
through the search results as usual and then
switch to the browser
08
WINDOWS 8
Hide certain Apps from the search
function
09
WINDOWS XP/VISTA/7/8
Setup a practical guest access in
WLAN
10
WINDOWS 7/8
Calibrate your monitor easily with
the help of built-in tools
08
09
10
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11
12
13
POWERPOINT 2007/2010
Using Windows Media Player in
Presentation
OFFICE
11
WINDOWS 7/8
Scroll directly under the mouse
pointer
12
FIREFOX
Control and update Plug-ins
13
You can integrate videos as object of the
Media Player and allocate a file via the object
properties
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WORD 2010
Convert file format DOCX back
to DOCX
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DOCX files from Word 2007 and Word 2010 are
not the same. You can convert documents into
the new format.
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ULTRABOOKS
Operate SSDs at maximum mode
to speed up the system
16
After years of operation, your multifunction device often draws several pages
in the feeder at the same time. Most
printers today, have instructions which
you should follow to clean the rollers and
separators. This can be done best with
a fine, lint-free microfiber cloth. Do not
use any detergent or solutions as they
could damage the surface of the rollers.
Use only very little water to moisten
15
16
17
18
LCD DISPLAY
Get rid of colour cast after
damage caused by heat
NOTEBOOK BATTERIES
Keep unused batteries in the
fridge so that they last longer
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LCD crystals that have suffered under
excessive heat, can be restored to their old
form by keeping them in a deep freeze.
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With news that the NSA has finally cracked the Tor Network and countries clamping down on
the use of Bitcoin, we take a look at what is increasingly looking to be the end of days for
Darknet, which has long since been the den for digital unsavoury.
Technic Lexicon:
Syncing Mobile To
Desktop
In next months Technic Lexicon, well show you how
you can synchronise important data between your phone
and various email apps on your computer, thanks to a
nifty little software called MyPhoneExplorer.
Timeline: From
Walkman to
Spotify
If you grew up in the 90s you will definitely know about the
boom in portable media players that was started by Sonys
Walkman and Discman music players. Next month, we take
a look at these devices that paved the way to what would
eventually become a cloud-based service that you can use
to listen to music via your PCs and smartphones without
having to actually have the files with you.
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