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		<title>Windows 7 + Intel to give laptops 50% increase in battery life!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7+Intel= "Wintel" &#8212; Well, the mathematical operation in question is not that boring because it holds great benefit for all you laptop users. The innovation from the partnership promises to sort out the most significant annoyance of our notebooks - the battery life. As PCMAG reports,
In a demonstration of two identically configured ThinkPads T400s, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/windows-7-intel-to-give-laptops-50-increase-in-battery-life/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Windows Partiton Manager Software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often we come across a question which is the best way to partition a hard drive on PCs? Well, there could be no specific answer to it, except that it would rely on your requirements of performance reliability and usability. There is no one shot answer to how you should partition hard disks on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-windows-partiton-manager-software/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Linux Backup and Recovery software</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you are running an organization with mission-critical Linux servers in one location and with IT experts. Imagine a situation, if your server goes down. What would be the impact on your business. For worse if you lack a backup, you are thrown for loop without a notice. To handle such gloom and doom you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-linux-backup-and-recovery-software/</link>
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		<title>World&#8217;s First 32GB DDR3 RAM Unveiled by Samsung</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Korean electronic major, Samsung has unveiled the world's highest density RDIMM (Registered dual inline memory module). The DDR3 memory module boasts of an extremely high 32GB memory capacity, designed for server market. The new RDIMM incorporates 72 dedicated DDR3 chip, each with 4Gb memory configuration. This design has been made possible due to the 50nm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/worlds-first-32gb-ddr3-ram-unveiled-by-samsung/</link>
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		<title>Intel takes off Centrino Introduces Core i3, i5, i7 brands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intel has announced the brand name for its new core series of processors. In 2003, Intel had introduced the first x86 chip platform for PCs/laptops branded as Centrino. The term covered a package of CPU chip, chipset and wireless network module. Four years down the line, the world's largest chip maker has decided to phase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/core-i3-i5-i7-branding/</link>
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		<title>An Analysis between SATA, PATA and SCSI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To start geeky things with a straight face (:&#124;), let's get familiar with the full name of the gentlemen we are going to discuss about. PATA stands for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment, SATA means Serial Advanced Technology Attachment and SCSI is Small Computer System Interface. It would have been better if we could stop at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-analysis-between-sata-pata-and-scsi/</link>
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		<title>Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Hard disc Review Hands on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After getting through two hands on reviews, namely  Hands On Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.6 and Hands on Review of 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, we were sent a Seagate FreeAgent Go Portable Hard disc (320 GB). We unboxed it and did a thorough review testing it in different conditions and scrutinized it under [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seagate-freeagent-go-portable-hard-disc-review-hands-on/</link>
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		<title>10 Essential Server Motherboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Server motherboards are a different hardware species altogether. With the rich demands of resources and processes that will run therefrom, server mainboards need to have efficient coolants, better memory sticks, appropriate slots and more. Server motherboards must have a high level of trust value because after all it is the machine upon which crucial and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-essential-server-motherboards/</link>
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		<title>Hands on Review of 1 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After an extensive Hands On Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.6 (Tested on Windows 7) we received a packed Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive of 1 TB capacity and 32-MB cache. Not only that, this model is specifically meant to be a green initiative by Seagate. By combining sustainable Seagate technology and components with industry-leading volume [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hands-on-review-of-1-tb-seagate-barracuda-720012/</link>
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		<title>A Guide to Your Computer Mainboard/ Motherboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Motherboards are said to be the heart of the computer. Its a matrix that holds or connects to all the important devices and peripherals of the computer such as  CPU, hard disk, RAM, SATA, PCI supported cards. Despite being the all important part of the computer, I have seen even the handiest of geeky people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-guide-to-your-computer-mainboard-motherboard/</link>
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		<title>CCD and CMOS technology - A Comprehensive Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CCD and CMOS are two type of image sensors for digital cameras. Both CCD (charge-coupled device) and CMOS (complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor) image sensors have one preliminary objectivity - they have to convert light into electron. While CCD sensors create high-quality, low-noise images; CMOS sensors, traditionally, are more susceptible to noise. There are such differences and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ccd-and-cmos-technology-a-comprehensive-guide/</link>
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		<title>10 Must have USB Gadgets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its hardly been 10 years since USB has come into existence but to talk of its popularity - whenver we buy an external peripheral for our computer they are either wireless or connected via USB. Be it anywhere from computer to TVs to Video Players - USB gadgets have appeared indispensibly, without an exception. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-must-have-usb-gadgets/</link>
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		<title>GE Unveils Optical Disk of 500 GB Capacity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even before settling with the concept of 500GB external hard drives (very few people own them till today), an optical disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. Its a  micro-holographic disc which is of the same size of a DVD but holds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ge-unveils-optical-disk-of-500-gb-capacity/</link>
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		<title>10 Gadgets to take care of your Parents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents are always special. They take care of us and help us reach where we are. But life as it is in today's world, just when they need us to reciprocate the same, we get so busy with our lives that we hardly get time for even ourselves. I am not blaming anyone but that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-gadgets-to-take-care-of-your-parents/</link>
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		<title>10 Birthday Gadget Gifts Under $100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasions are meant for happiness. And in pursuit of happiness there obviously comes gifts too. A good gift can make someone live forever in others' memories through the memento. So its better to choose one carefully. Again, in this period of recession, where do you have money to buy an expensive one for yourself? Forget [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-birthday-gadget-gifts-under-100/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Useful PC Mods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay we have already talked about making your desktop beautiful, choosing the best desktop for you. Now is the time to beautify what is there with your computer. the chassis or the computer cabinet has conventionally been a rectangular tin-box with designs over it. Not much is known beyond that. But we thought what about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-useful-pc-mods/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Wireless Mouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mouses have been so indispensable for our computers that it is almost meaningless to start and write an introduction of it to all you tech-enthusiasts. Left-Right (I was talking about clicks) has been something that is unprecedentedly related to our e-works. With the advent of optical mouse, sophistication and usefulness of a mouse is quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-wireless-mouse/</link>
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		<title>10 Must Have Laptop Accessories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have talked about desktop peripherals yesterday. Now while using my HP pavilion Tx, we thought then why not something for the laptop too? There are hundreds of accessories available in the market that can help you geekify and fashionify your laptops by many folds. Here are 10 of them as gadgetophilia brings you 10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-must-have-laptop-accessories/</link>
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		<title>10 Modern Day Flash Drives for you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flash drives are becoming increasingly important for our techie beings. No matter what you do, you deal with data for sure. Flash drives just help us mobilize them by being a storage of every possible document and file and fits into our pocket. Gigabytes of data are not only stored but also safe and secure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-modern-day-flash-drives-for-you/</link>
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		<title>10 Most Useful External Hard Drives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard drives used to be one that comes with the computer a decade ago. People wouldn't care about it unless its crashed. But now, with a conscious try to mobilize and make any gadget portable (e.g. we have flash drives, pen drives wireless keyboards, mouse etc), hard drives weren't spared too. There came external hard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-most-useful-external-hard-drives/</link>
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		<title>Hands On Review of Seagate Momentus 5400.6 (Tested on Windows 7)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we were sent a parcel from Seagate with their new Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500 GB hard drive for reviewing purpose. After unpacking the hard drive, it was evident that the product was very lightweight and compact. Seagate says, the best part of the hard drive is the areal density of 394 Gbytes per square [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hands-on-review-of-seagate-momentus-54006/</link>
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		<title>Secrets of Google Servers Revealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last Google unveils their Server set ups. After much of the talk from Microsoft boasting about their server set ups and that they have most efficient ones in the market, Google shows why and how they are one of the largest and quickest data centres of the world by its own merits. The motherboard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/secrets-of-google-servers-revealed/</link>
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		<title>Seagate Unveils 6Gb/s SATA HDD for Unmatched Improvement on Streaming and Data Transfers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seagate, teamed with AMD unveiled Serial ATA 6Gigabit/second – for bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications including gaming, streaming video and graphics multimedia at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans this week. The Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second storage interface will deliver the highest performance – burst speeds of up to 6Gigabits per second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seagate-unveils-6gbs-sata-hdd-for-unmatched-improvement-on-streaming-and-data-transfers/</link>
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		<title>SATA vs PATA Hard Disk Drives: A Guide</title>
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With the advent of new SATA drives, as you probably know, there was a big naming issue. The old IDE drives needed a name to distinguish it from SATA drives and so the name PATA was born. The P in PATA refers to Parallel (ATA drives) while the S in SATA is Serial (ATA drives). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sata-vs-pata-hard-disk-drives-a-guide/</link>
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		<title>Seagate Constellation - World&#8217;s Highest Capacity and Power- Efficient SED Hard Drives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today introduced its Constellation™ family of new enterprise storage solutions for Tier-2 nearline storage applications. The two new drive models, the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives, include a combination of features that enable high capacities, increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security. Both drives also include PowerChoice™ from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seagate-constellation-worlds-highest-capacity-and-power-efficient-sed-hard-drives/</link>
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		<title>IBM Introduces New Virtual Desktop PC Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the IBM Virtual Client Solution, users are free to move about their physical surroundings and maintain secure access to their PC desktop from any client device at any time.
IBM came out with their new virtual desktop PC architecture on Thursday. IBM on Thursday said it is working with partners Virtual Bridges and Canonical to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ibm-introduces-new-virtual-desktop-pc-architecture/</link>
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		<title>Seagate Teams up with McAfee, Ships Self-Encrypting Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Powerful, easy-to-use notebook data security is increasingly important as the global adoption of mobile PCs continues to soar and more notebooks are used to store sensitive personal and business information. Lost or stolen notebooks can cost companies millions of dollars in compromised proprietary information and threaten consumers with the high cost of identity theft, yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seagate-teams-up-with-mcafee-ships-self-encrypting-drive/</link>
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		<title>Seagate Releases World&#8217;s Fastest and Shock Tolerant Hard Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading hardware manufacturer Seagate announced Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB hard drive to deliver a  "perfect combination of capacity, speed and durability". They will market the manufacture for Acer Aspire consumer notebook PCs, and the blazing on-the-road performance and shock tolerance of the Acer TravelMate professional notebooks.

The best part of the hard drive are areal density [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/seagate-releases-worlds-fastest-and-shock-tolerant-hard-drive/</link>
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		<title>Cool Your SATA HDD Down with a Built-in Fan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many of us haven't had nightmares with Blue Screen Of death (BSD) in Windows? You can always be sure that one reason for Harddrive crashing is overheating. So SATA Harddisk dock has come up with a new version that has built in cooling fan to ensure your hard drive stays nice and cool. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cool-your-sata-hdd-down-with-a-built-in-fan/</link>
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		<title>Where Thoughts meet Gadgets - Starting of with A Compact PC You will Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Simple Thoughts have always been providing food for the technocrats and geeks in various technical issues, where you have an equal share of thanks to be given for your persistent feedbacks and appreciations. So, this was about time when we could share some really cool stuff with you through a medium. For a start, let's [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/where-thoughts-meet-gadgets-starting-of-with-a-compact-pc-you-will-love/</link>
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		<title>Pros &amp; Cons of Software RAID versus Hardware RAID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my quest to find the better service between Software RAID &#38; Hardware RAID, I was caught RAID-handed among too many points and nitty-gritties of technical specifications and opinions. As a result of my explorations, I have developed a simple point-by-point structure to let you walk through this topic rather easily. First let us know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/which-one-is-better-software-raid-or-hardware-raid/</link>
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		<title>How To Copy Master Boot Record (MBR) Between Hard Disks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Linux you can use the dd command to copy MBR from one hard disk to another. You can also use dd to backup your master boot record to a different (or same) media. One of the common use of MBR copying is to ensure transparent fail-over in RAID-1 hard-disk array, should one  hard-disks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-copy-master-boot-record-mbr-between-hard-disks/</link>
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		<title>Experience with Pentium Dual Core 3 Ghz CPU &amp; Lenovo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have any experience with Pentium Dual Core 3 Ghz CPU? I am looking at an offering from Lenovo, currently in negotiation, for purchasing several PC's. Specifically I am looking to know:
1. With their reputation for heat generation, how suitable are they for east-Indian climate of Kolkata?
2. How is Lenovo's reputation in Kolkata in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/experience-with-pentium-dual-core-3-ghz-cpu-lenovo/</link>
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		<title>Great Deal For Lenovo Desktop PC (India) at Rs. 21,100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lenovo (formerly IBM division) announced very good price for Lenovo H Series (531188Q) Desktop with Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E2140 (1.6 GHZ), 512MB RAM, 80GB  HDD and 17&#8243; Flat CRT monitor.

E2140 Mini Review
E2140 processor has 1MB L2 cache at 1.6Ghz speed. It has 800 Mhz front side bus. Thermal design power is 65 Watts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/great-deal-for-lenovo-desktop-pc-india-at-rs-21100/</link>
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		<title>Terabyte Thumb Drive For Everyone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Arizona State University have developed a low-cost (1/10 of Flash memory), low-power (1/1000 times more energy efficient as Flash memory) computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers' pockets within a few years.

"A thumb drive using our memory could store a terabyte of information," says Michael Kozicki, director of ASU's Center [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/terabyte-thumb-drive-for-everyone/</link>
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		<title>How To Connect Broadband &amp; EPABX on Same Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In small businesses you will often have the ADSL broadband and telephone line from the same connection. You may also need to setup an EPABX on the connection to share the phone line. For example we use an EPABX to provide 16 internal connections over two external lines, one of which also has the broadband. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-connect-broadband-epabx-on-same-line/</link>
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		<title>Converting RAID1 + LVM (Fedora Core) To EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) Experiences&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I currently use RAID1 with LVM on Fedora Core including RAID 1 on boot partition. This provides a fully redundant storage system with the ability to expand volume size in future. However RAID &#038; LVM has to be managed from command line tools like mdadm in raidtools package. EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/converting-raid1-lvm-fedora-core-to-evms-enterprise-volume-management-system-experiences/</link>
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		<title>Hard Disk Crash Recovery Using Bootable SystemRescueCd (Free)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains lots of system utilities (GParted, parted, partimage, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hard-disk-crash-recovery-using-bootable-systemrescuecd-free/</link>
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		<title>Partimage: Free Norton Ghost / DriveImage Alternative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystems (see below) to an image file. It is a free and open source alternative to the popular software Norton Ghost or DriveImage. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported. The partition image file can be compressed with the gzip / bzip2 programs to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/partimage-free-open-source-norton-ghost-alternative/</link>
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		<title>Terabyte Data Storage on Inexpensive Removable Disks in 3D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mempile from Israel has developed a removable optical storage technology allowing for the storage of 1 Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of information on a single inexpensive disc. The device builds on the existing know-how attained through the development of CDs and DVDs, extending it so as to write layers upon layers of stacked information. This quantum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/terabyte-data-storage-on-inexpensive-removable-disks-in-3d/</link>
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