The “Break it Down” Blog

Take Google Search 2.0 for a Spin

In an attempt to compete with the oncoming shit-house that is Microsoft’s Bing, Facebook’s real-time Search and everyone else generally wanting a piece of the Google pie, Google has pulled version 2 of Google Search out of the garage for some beta test runs while they tighten the screws over the coming months. You can give [...]

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Screenshot Tour of Windows 7: Libraries, Taskbar, IE8 and the New Paint Application!

Introduction When the public beta of Windows 7 was announced, we did like everyone else and ran over to the Windows 7 site to download it (ISO Download Links: 32-bit, 64-bit). After getting it installed and spending some time with it, our overall take away so far are the following things: Windows 7 is a “finished” Vista. It’s [...]

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Huge Playstation Home Screenshot Tour

After our initial snag of getting into the Playstation Home Beta, we finally got in and wanted to give you guys a heads-up with regard to what you can expect, if it’s worth a PS3, and what we thought of it. Introductory Thoughts Given how this service is designed (explained below) it looks like these worlds will [...]

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The Best Water in a Video Game Title Could Pass to Resistence 2

Almost a year ago we wrote an article analyzing the Evolution of Water Effects in Games and gave the award to Halo 3. Just to clarify, the award was given to Halo 3 at the time because it had the most physically-feeling real water we had ever seen in a game. Some readers pointed out that [...]

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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Screenshots

Not much to say, a whole crap load of screenshots from the closed beta of World of Warcraft upcoming expansion: Wrath of the Lich King. So if you are still playing WoW, these are tasty. If you never got into it in the first place, you look at these and wonder why anyone plays it I’m [...]

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ReadyNAS RAIDiator 4 Beta

For the NAS folks out there with a ReadyNAS device, the RAIDiator 4 beta releases are up to Beta 3 now. From the quick scan of the long thread, things seem pretty smooth so far. So the hot item included in RAIDiator 4 for me is: Embedded UPnP AV service now supports streaming to Xbox360 and [...]

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