Intel Processor Identification Utility – Know Your Intel Processor

How much do you know about the Intel processor you are using in your computer? Well here I am suggesting a useful utility software from Intel itself which will help you find out the properties of your processor and its capabilities. Intel PIU Just download the software from the Intel website given below. Install it to your system and start the program. http://www.intel.com/support/processors/tools/piu/ Intel PIU Frequency Test

The first thing it shows is the frequency test. In the above image I have used a sample T2250 processor. The expected frequencies are the ideally laboratory tested ones. The reported ones are the currently operating ones.  Sometimes we can find that the expected and the reported may differ in some points. If the difference is more then you need to go for servicing.

Intel PIU Technologies

The next tab will show you the advanced technologies that are integrated to your CPU.  The Intel Virtualization technology is needed for running virtual Operating systems. Well if you are planning to install Windows 7 RC version and running Virtual XP then this technology is needed. It also shows the total number of streams of Simple Instruction Multiple Data extensions present in your CPU. Intel PIU CPUID DATAThe last tab shows you the details and features of your CPU. The capacity of your Level 1 and Level 2 Cache are shown. The other details can also be noted. At last you can even save the details of your CPU to a text file. The thing why I thought of writing this post is that many of us are naive about our processors and expected it to run in the expected details. But we can find out more like the CPU BUS speed, Virtualization and HT technologies which are very much required when some critical operations are to be done.

Adsense now allows you to change font size of ad units

Google Adsense in a recent program update, has announced the introduction of new option that lets users to change the size of the fonts in ad units, which was previously available only to premium Adsense publishers.

Change Font size Adsense

The above picture which has been taken from Adsense Blog Post(Link) shows how this new option looks like.You can select any font size ranging from Small to Large.To see this options navigate to My Account>>and open Ad Display Preferences.

More Experimenting:

Adsense team has announced that the default ad font which is now ‘Small’ for all the publishers will soon be changed to ‘Medium’ .

We’ve heard from some of you that the current font size can be too small, and our testing also showed that slightly larger font sizes improved performance.

Techrena wants to hear from the Adsense publishers who have implemented this.Do comment about this new Adsense here.

Microsoft’s Bing is Buzzing on Internet

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing (Yes, Live search is gone and Bing is here instead).Microsoft’s efforts to bring this ‘Bing’ [http://www.bing.com/]are paying off as of now.Reports are out already that suggest that Bing has overtaken Yahoo as the second preferred search engine in the U.S.

Bing has been set as the default search engine on Internet Explorer 6. bing logoBing is also censoring search results for the searches like ‘sex’ on the search engine.

Microsoft has also started publicizing Bing among mobile phones users worldwide by releasing mobile ring tones called ‘BingTones’.

Has Microsoft delivered something up to Google? Primary tests show that Bing even though may not be a Google spoiler, but definitely a much better product from Microsoft.

Bing is changing it’s background picture daily so that users don’t feel bored.

Reports confirming that Bing has been well received by the internet users worldwide reached even Google which is set to review Microsoft’s new search engine tomorrow.

Good start ,Microsoft!!

So how are you Binging?? Share your views

Google SEO Starter Guide now in 40 languages

Google logo Search Engine giant Google had released Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide way back in November 2008.It includes a list of best practices that are being used inside Google that many webmasters would want to know.Now Google made this SEO guide to be available in 40 languages.

The languages include Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US & GB), Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuania, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (BR & PT), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese