Hi everyone, I’ve recently upgraded my Lenovo Y720 RAM to 64GB. This laptop came with 16GB initially, but it’s very easy to upgrade it. I was browsing Amazon and found that the Samsung 32GB DDR4 SODIMM modules were the cheapest available, so I went ahead and ordered 2 of them. Upgrading it was as easy as removing the back cover: We can see the 2x 8GB RAM modules installed in the laptop here: And here they are removed: The part…
Hi everyone, On Saturday, I received the LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray Writer Drive. This is my 3rd Blu-Ray writer and it will replace my LiteOn iHBS112 which was causing several bad burns. The other drive is the Panasonic UJ-260, which is a slim drive that burns discs successfully. This drive is one of the cheapest Blu-Ray XL writers available on Amazon. It is also able to read and burn CDs and DVDs. Here, we will see the drive unboxed and teared…
Hi everyone, In the past few days, I brought a LiteOn iHAS524 C DVD drive on eBay. This drive is quite rare and was being sold as used, but the unit seems to be in good conditions. The reason to have this drive is due to its unique LabelTag feature. This allows you to create labels on the data side of a CD-R and DVD+/-R. It, of course, will consume space, but the advantage is that you don’t have to…
Hi everyone, Today, I took the opportunity to take photos of this squirrel who was in my back yard today, testing the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra camera which has received some updates. The Camera app version used is 10.0.03.2 and the Galaxy S20 Ultra firmware ends with ATD6. It is also the Snapdragon version. The photos were taken in standard mode, in 4:3 ratio, with a zoom of 20x to 26x. Click on a photo to see the larger version:…
Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3.45: This release adds paq8pxd v84 and paq8pxd v85. You can download this release on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 5
Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3.44: This release adds an option to compress individual files without creating the file list. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 9
Hi everyone, Over the past few days, I worked on porting the PAQ8PX compressor for ARM CPUs. Initially, it would not compile because it relied on some SSE instructions that are not available on ARM. This required porting some code to equivalent functions in this architecture. Once this was done, paq8px happily compiled and ran on the Snapdragon 845 and 865 CPU’s from my Samsung Galaxy S9+ and S20 Ultra smartphones: I tested it using the Termux app running Ubuntu…
Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3.43: This release adds paq8px v187. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 2
Hi everyone, Today, I have released SVT-AV1 GUI v1.6: This release changes some encoding flags that will soon be deprecated, removing some warnings that were being printed on the screen, and making it compatible with the latest releases of the SVT-AV1 encoder. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 11
Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.3.42: This release adds the following compressor versions: paq8px v161 and v161fix1. paq8pxd v82 and v83. It also adds the compression levels x0 to x15 for starting on paq8pxd v73: You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 13