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For those looking to get into photo editing, or any type of image manipulation, Adobe's Photoshop is always the quickest-recommended solution. But to most people just starting out, Photoshop can seem a bit overwhelming, and it's of no surprise... it is a professional tool, after all. That...

For those who want to be able to rent and watch the latest Hollywood blockbusters without leaving their couch, there are options. For those who want to do the same with adult content, there's few. We're taking a look at the FyreTV BoXXX, a set-top device that sets out to be the best...

AMD and NVIDIA released $250 GPUs last week, and both proved to deliver a major punch for modest cash. After testing, we found AMD to have a slight edge in overall performance, so to see if things change when OCing is brought into the picture, we pushed both cards hard, and then pit the results...

For some reason, the older version of HD Tune wouldn't detect the SMART information properly on a couple of my drives, but I upgraded to 4.x and that's been fixed. But, I have a couple of warnings, and I am wondering whether it should be a reason for concern or not. If I recall, I had...

Intel yesterday made quite an impact around the Web, but not in a good way. The company of course announced that most of its shipped H67/P67 chipsets include a SATA-related fault, and immediately, news sites all over reported on it, and consumers who either just built a Sandy Bridge rig, or had...

Looking to build or purchase a Sandy Bridge PC? After an announcement made by Intel today, you may want to hold off. According to the company, the chipsets that support Sandy Bridge (H67/P67) have launched with a fault that can cause storage issues down the road. Whether that means the SATA...

AMD last week released a 1GB variant of its popular Radeon HD 6950 graphics card, and to see how the performance would be throttled with the GDDR cut, we benchmarked both versions with the latest Catalyst 11.1 driver. Does the 1GB card and its $20 savings prove too hard to ignore, or should the...

Gaming... fun for most, but a target for others. In the case of the horrible bombing that occurred at the Domodedovo International airport in Moscow earlier this week, the Russian media are blaming video games, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the hotseat. This brings us back once again to...

Ever go to a restroom during a LAN party, only to come back and find your peripherals missing? Me either, but that shouldn't be a reason to not look into better protecting your goods while at such events. Thanks to NZXT, a great solution doesn't cost much at all. It's called the Bunker, and...

After being hidden for the past eight years, NVIDIA has brought back the "Ti" name for its GeForce GTX 560 Ti. The GeForce4 Ti 4200, introduced in 2002, was a card that offered both great pricing and superb performance. NVIDIA looks to recreate the same sort of excitement with its GTX 560 Ti...

So, picture a nice house... priced at around $109,000. Would you buy it? Well, would you buy it if it were infested with thousands of snakes? http://consumerist.com/2011/01/man-cuts-price-on-snake-infested-home.html :eek:

http://gizmodo.com/5741712/this-must-be-the-craziest-computer-den-in-america I think I'd be scared to do a deathmatch session with this dude...

AMD's top-end Radeon HD 6970 2GB is one of the best GPU choices on the market right now, and adding to its flavor a bit, Sapphire customized the reference card to produce the <em>Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam</em> edition. In addition to featuring a copy of the game, it comes complete with...

It's widely agreed upon that a nicely aged bottle of wine tends to taste a lot better than one bottled within the previous year, but what about other alcohols, such as whiskey? Thanks to an amazing discovery that occurred last year, we should soon know the answer to that question. Read...

Are you an avid gamer looking for a feature-rich and reliable gaming mouse that also happens to be wireless? Logitech's G700 might be worth a look. At around $85, it's not cheap, but it does offer a plethora of customizable buttons, the ability to go wired if the battery dies, and also supports...

In an e-mail sent out to Apple employees, CEO Steve Jobs stated he was taking a medical leave, and has enlisted Tim Cook, the Chief Operating Officer at Apple, to take his place during his absense. The e-mail makes no mention of what might be ailing him, but Steve does urge people to respect his...

It's a bit late in the season to begin predicting which team will win the Superbowl, but it's still wide-open, so who cares?! I guess we'll be learning a lot after today's games, but I do expect both Green Bay and Patriots to do quite well... both teams might well end up at the Superbowl, at...

With CES 2011 behind us, it's time to round up the products that "wowed" the Techgage staff enough to earn our "Best of" award. Included among this list is ASUS' Eee Slate, BlackBerry's PlayBook, Contour's GPS camera, Crucial's Smart Tracers, GIGABYTE's G1, Kingston's MobiSX, Motorola's ATRIX...

If you love SSDs, OCZ Technology's suite at the Aria hotel in Las Vegas was the place to be during CES. On display were the company's IBIS drives, the Vertex 3 EX and Pro, the short Z-Drive R3, along with 80 Plus power supplies for both the OCZ and PC Power & Cooling brand, and yes, even some...

At its hotel suite setup for CES, Thermaltake didn't have a <em>lot</em> of product to show off, but what it <em>did</em> is worthy of looking into. That includes the company's upcoming high-end CPU cooler, the "OCK", its feature-packed Armor A30 mini chassis, the "budget" Level 10 GT, its Max...