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Mozilla released its Firefox 4 Web browser early last week, and the immediate response was almost overwhelming even as a spectator. If you happened to have watched the download counter at Mozilla.com, you would have seen that each refresh tacked on a thousand or more to the total, and after a...

If you're not one for ambidextrous designs, then no, it wouldn't be too comfortable. I don't mind ambi designs, I've used a Razer Boomslang and Lachesis for many years and don't find them too bad. It's only under heavy gaming that they can become a problem, but the same can be said for any...

It's not too often that someone in the game industry with some weight behind their name says something that I completely agree with, but when it comes to Christofer Sundberg, of Avalanche Studios, I couldn't agree more. It's obvious that we at Techgage are not too fond of DRM, and as it appears...

If the biggest companies in the recording industry are to be believed, piracy is ruining both music creation and of course, sales. According to a newly-released paper by American economist Joel Waldfogel, however, those claims couldn't be further from the truth. While piracy does have its...

Kingston has emailed us to get the word out to all SSDNow V100 users about a latent technical issue discovered in the V100 drive's firmware. This issue can cause the drive to become unresponsive at POST or during the booting process. Various posts across several forums allude to the SSD becoming...

1TB drives = more pr0n... i mean, storage... Seriously though, if you store a lot of stuff, or have large files to contend with, higher density storage helps, it's cheaper, more space and power efficiently to go with larger drives. Typically anyway. To defrag a large drive, shouldn't take...

Intel i7 875K - trashed, lost 9.5 caps on the underside, completely unusable now. It was mounted in a box fine, so I am completely at a loss as to how the caps could be 'rubbed' off. Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor X - PCI back panel plate bent to hell and back. Managed to correct it though. Haven't...

A packaged shipped, cross continents, a world separated by many time zones. A week it must arrive, less fortune smile unfavourably. In manner of great haste did the package fly, wings spread wide, land forth on black ribbons a world away. A truck it travelled, a lorry there after, a van placed...

About a month ago, it was found out about that Apple has been working with music companies in order to deliver higher-quality audio on iTunes, but as far as I'm concerned, the direction both Apple and company seem to be going is the wrong one. While they consider 24-bit audio to be a good goal...

Duke Nukem Forever is a game that's no stranger to controversy, and as it's all been discussed to death, there's no point of rehashing any of it. So, onto some fresh stuff! With the game finally coming out this May, Gearbox has begun talking a bit about the multiplayer modes, and in doing so has...

In a quick three-minute video posted to Vimeo, Gtk+ developer Alexander Larsson gives us a glimpse of what's possible with the "Broadway" feature of Gtk 3.0, set to launch alongside GNOME 3.0. Named after an old remote execution plugin for an X Web browser, Broadway is designed to allow people...

According to the Taiwanese industry-tracking website DigiTimes, NVIDIA is set to launch its dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 next Tuesday (March 22). If true, then the glory AMD has been enjoying for the past couple of weeks with its Radeon HD 6990, also a dual-GPU offering, might be short-lived. There...

It's not too often that an MMO developer releases a new security measure that's cool enough for me to think about two seconds after reading about it, but Rift developer Trion has made one of the rare exceptions. Unfortunately, not long after Rift's public launch a couple of weeks ago, the game's...

ASUS recently announced that a number of it's AM3 based motherboards will be able to support AMD's upcoming AM3+ Bulldozer based processors via a BIOS update. While not much of a surprise, it's still great that existing users with one of the selected motherboards will be able to upgrade without...

March is fast turning out to be one of the more interesting months for storage. Last week, Western Digital announced its intent to purchase Hitachi, and earlier this week, OCZ Technology came out of left field with an acquisition of Indilinx. Today? Seagate unveils not one, not two, but four...

When Techgage first launched in early 2005, Microsoft's Internet Explorer totally dominated our usage charts, with Mozilla's Firefox in a somewhat distant second. A mere couple of years later, Firefox's usage sky-rocketed and first matched, then surpassed, Internet Explorer usage. Currently...

A couple of months ago, NVIDIA revived the 'Titanium' branding with its GeForce GTX 560 Ti, and it's now clear that the company had no intentions of letting it die off again soon. The proof? The budget-focused GeForce GTX 550 Ti, a proper follow-up to the GTS 450 released this past September. At...

It rarely takes the folks at iFixit long to tear down the latest Apple product, and the iPad 2 is of no exception. The tear-down guide was posted late last week, and a couple of interesting details were discovered. The most important one? The iPad 2 is even harder to break down than the...

Ok, a tool that'll help map a network share to a Library - called Win7 Library Tool - available here... http://zornsoftware.talsit.info/free-downloads?did=2 My only complaint is that it needs to be installed, but it's functional. Load it up, add existing libraries if you want (first icon)...