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ASRock’s AIWI utility

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

As you probably may know, ASRock has got some really innovative (more commonly referred to as “just weird”) products and technologies in it’s portfolio. Well, guess what – today they announced their latest one – the AIWI.

AIWI

But wait one second, doesn’t that sound a bit like Nintendo’s Wii? Well yes, it does kinda rip-off Wii‘s name and even it’s function… in typical ASRock fashion, that is.

AIWI

“I really, really like the Wii controller, but I’m too darn cheap to buy one for my PC! What do I do? Oh, lookie here – an iPhone, I bet this’ll make an excellent motion controller!”

I’m pretty sure those were the exact thoughts of the ASRock employee who came up with the idea.

The rest of the deal is pretty straightforward – you install the AIWI app on both your iPhone/iPod (and probably iPad, though I really want to see someone use it for that) and PC. And, yeah – you’ve got to have an ASRock mobo. Supported platforms so far are intel’s 1366/1156/775 and AMD’s AM2+/AM3.

AIWI

Official AIWI site is here.

AMD rolls out OpenGL 4.0 compliant graphics driver

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Shortly after the Khronos Group announced OpenGL 4.0, the newest version of the multi-platform graphics API, AMD (or ATi, whichever you like) whipped out a Preview driver that supposedly supports it.

As usual, the driver is intended for the ATI Radeon, FireGL, FirePro, and Mobility Radeon graphics accelerators, and it’s available for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Linux.

With it’s latest revision, OpenGL 4.0 is comparable to DirectX11 and has one major advantage – it runs on Windows XP!

You can download the driver here.


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