22nd Century Technology

Hey all, we have an all-new forum for people to talk about computer-related stuff. Bring you geek on! http://www.freemybb.com/mybb/22tech

Enjoy!

Everybody loves our "Free Software Of The Day" but we havent ben doing it for a while...but now its back!!

B.T.W. It should really be called "Free Software of Every Other Day" Because we normally dont do it every day. ;)
Vixy.net Converter

When i got my ipod video...i thought " what am i gonna do with 30 Gigs? I dont have that many songs!". I had a lot of videos i wanted to add, but they were all on Youtube! But then I found a way- Vixy.net

Vixy.net Converter is a fla to video converter, so basically you can convert Youtube videos to go on your ipod (or your computer). All you have to do is type in the Youtube URL, and the videos converted and you can download it to your computer or ipod!!! Their is a web version ( http://www.vixy.net/ )but you can also download the software to convert here.

p.s. You have to have web access to use it

-Tech Drummer

22centurytech@gmail.com

Hey Everybody! I recently build a "budget" Computer and it turend out great. It Only Cost $800 ! ($680 now that all the prices have droped). If your in the market for a budget computer, i recommend this one. Here are the specs-

Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard-$74.99
Video Card

EVGA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB-$139.99

Ram

2x G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 (so really 4gb) -$89.98 ($44.99 each)

cpu

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Black Edition Processor-$94.99

Case

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case -$99.99CD/DVD Drive

SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner-$29.99

Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive-$79.99Power Supply

Antec earthwatts EA500 ATX12V v2.0 500W Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, CUL, FCC, TUV, CE, CB, C-tick, CCC-$69.99

All These Items Can Be Found On Newegg

Here is a video Of flying fsx on ultra high graphics on this exact computer-

-Tech Drummer

22centurytech@gmail.com

Sorry, we are really late on this, but nvidia's new 9600gt just came out!! :D. It is a card that is priced around MSRP $180. It most benchmarks , it is a little bit behind the 8800gt, and performs on par with a 3870! Now Nvidia finally has a competitor to amd's 3850 and 70! And the future 9xxx seiries look promising :D. So far the only OC'ed 9600gt is evga's 9600gt, which ups it from 650Mhz to 675Mhz, but doesn't budge the memory clock. If I bought my pc now, then I would have an 9600gt instead of a lowly 8600gts now :( .. :P lol.

I have had a lot of linux os' and I have used a TON of operating systems during my 2 yr use of linux. I started with SuSE, Fedora, and a couple others, and eventually I setteled down with Ubuntu. (Ever since 6.06). I was browsing distros, and I found linux mint. Linux Mint is an OS based on ubuntu, but it has a lot of other features. It has a better theme, and it looks great, and it has a lot of applications to make using linux easier. The latest version is Linux Mint Darnya, and is based on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. Try it out!