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The PC Game Market is Not Dead

Sunday, July 20, 2008

You remember that old saying “Follow the money?” whenever you wanted to find the answer to something? It still applies… For years now PC Gaming has “been dying” and giving way to consoles; the more locked down, publiser/advertiser friendly, vendor lock-in-encouraging devices that have meant to replace the 20 billion PC gamers on the planet. Yea after [...]

Computer Mouse to be Extinct in 5 Years… Again

Sunday, July 20, 2008

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Remember 10 years ago when voice-recognition and Dragon Naturally Typing was going to replace the keyboard? Yea that didn’t quite pan out how we all thought… I think at some point we were going to replace the mouse with eye-tracking lasers on the monitor and then some sort of brain-tie-in that would tell when you “clicked” [...]

Review: SpinRite 6.0

Sunday, February 24, 2008

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A friend this week had her laptop give her the dreaded blue screen every time she booted. After a trip to the Theif Geek Squad who told her if would be $1500+ to recover the data from the drive, I gave SpinRite a try first. I booted to the disk and ran a [...]

Windows Server 2008 as a Super Charged Desktop OS

Friday, February 15, 2008

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Apparently it’s Microsoft Friday around here… anyway Laurence Hartje sent in a link (via Neowin) to Vijayshinva Karnure’s Blog where he describes exactly how to use Windows Server 2008 as a “SUPER workstation OS” by adjusting services, themes, etc. The big appeal seems to be that Server 2008 is a much more stable core and overall [...]

Infrant ReadyNAS Adds BitTorrent Support

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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Grant Gochnauer sent in news that Infrant is releasing a new Beta of their RAIDiator 4 firmware (really the OS the ReadyNAS systems run) that will be adding the precursor infrastructure for BitTorrent support. In the current build being able to set the download directory isn’t working, but will be fixed in the next beta [...]

DDR2-800 vs DDR3-1333, Does Speed Matter?

Monday, February 11, 2008

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Summary: NO (Incase you don’t want to read further) I set out to build myself a new desktop recently and one of the decisions I had to make was “Do I go with DDR3, or stick with DDR2?”, then of course if you stick with DDR2, do you go with oldie 800 ram or shoot for [...]

ASUS Motherboard + Crucial Ballistix = Lockups on Boot

Friday, February 8, 2008

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NOTE: This post pertains to ASUS Maximus boards hanging during POST at the DET RAM and COUNTMEM stages. UPDATE: Update #6 at the bottom of this post explains that the latest BIOS update from ASUS fixes this issue finally. I was up until god-knows-when last night troubleshooting what was wrong with my new computer that I’m trying [...]

Western Digital Raptor or Seagate? RAID 0 or No RAID?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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Are you getting ready to build a new PC and trying to figure out which hard drive to get? Have you always heard your friends talk about the “10k Raptor” from Western Digital as the defacto fast hard drive to get regardless of if you are putting together a work or gaming machine? Does the [...]

CES: $200 Sony BDU-X10S Blu-ray PC Drive

Monday, January 7, 2008

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For the HTPC nuts out there or hard core folks that have been waiting for this, Sony has released it’s $200 Blu-ray reader drive for PCs everywhere along with bundled CyberLink PowerDVD BD Edition. So for folks still wanting to burn Blu-ray disks, you’ll still need to cough up the $400-500 for a reader/writer. Still, it’s [...]

NVIDIA GeForce 9 Cards in Feburary and June

Friday, November 30, 2007

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Wow… DigiTimes is reporting (via Engadget) that NVIDIA isn’t planning on releasing it’s revised GeForce 9 series cards until February ‘08 with the initial D9E high-end card, and then rounding out the offering with value parts in June. While not much is known at this point what the new cards will bring, a few goodies [...]

Motion Capture Technological Evolution

Monday, November 26, 2007

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MIT has developed a kick ass new mo-cap technology that involves wearing a suite that emits radio frequencies in addition to recording acceleration and directions of the limbs. This allows for mo-cap in previously unavailable situations, like driving a car, where traditional mo-cap relies on video cameras capturing key points on character’s bodies and faces [...]

Shuttle XPC: Step Aside Mac Mini

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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For those that haven’t caught it yet, have a glance at the new Shuttle XPC X100 Mini PC: The stats on this are surprising powerful and to boot, Vista capable, have a gander: Intel Core Duo 1.6Ghz - 2.0Ghz Intel 945PM Chipset Up to 2GB DDR 533 Ram 250GB 7200 RPM SATA Drive ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 Intel HD Audio Realtek 8110 Gigabit [...]

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The PC Game Market is Not Dead

Computer Mouse to be Extinct in 5 Years… Again

Review: SpinRite 6.0

Windows Server 2008 as a Super Charged Desktop OS

Infrant ReadyNAS Adds BitTorrent Support

DDR2-800 vs DDR3-1333, Does Speed Matter?

ASUS Motherboard + Crucial Ballistix = Lockups on Boot

Western Digital Raptor or Seagate? RAID 0 or No RAID?

CES: $200 Sony BDU-X10S Blu-ray PC Drive

NVIDIA GeForce 9 Cards in Feburary and June

Motion Capture Technological Evolution

Shuttle XPC: Step Aside Mac Mini

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