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For the sake of the environment, hybrid and fully electric cars are a good thing. The cost up-front is higher, but down the road (no pun), it could save you money, and likewise have a minimal impact on the environment. But there is just one problem... the lack of noise. It might not seem like a...

The fact that technology has become a major part of our lives can't be argued, and for a lot of people, there are few instances in a single day when we're not connected. A major exception might be while in the shower, and for some, even that's not the case, with computers being built right into...

Last week, I mentioned an MMO I play called Lineage II, and in that post, I also mentioned that it has the worst level grind of any game I've ever played. So it's with some coincidence that a couple of days later, news of a lawsuit surfaced where one US-based gamer is suing the game's developer...

Looking to upgrade your PC with a fast SSD? How fast do you want it? If you answered "ultra fast", then OCZ's RevoDrive is worth a look. With read speeds of 500MB/s and beyond, a PCI Express interface, and a modest price premium, this SSD is hard to ignore. We're on the bleeding-edge here...

Earlier this year, a hacker was successful in breaking through the necessary walls that Sony had put in place on the PS3, and stated that it would be possible to play backups of your games, and do other fun things. While many were impressed with this feat, Sony clearly wasn't. Merely two months...

To some, a keyboard is a keyboard. But for those who care a lot about precision and comfort, even two keyboards that look quite similar might feel entirely different after long-term use. There's a reason that there still exist devout fans of old IBM keyboards that make loud clicking noises which...

Intel is a company that acquires many other companies, and more often than not, the reasons for these acquisitions are obvious to pretty well anyone who chooses to read into them. But yesterday, the company made an acquisition that has many scratching their heads... McAfee. Considering that...

To produce top-rate photos, more is needed than just a camera and lens. You need tailored software that's designed for post-processing raw camera images, and no, not Photoshop. Rather, Photoshop Lightroom, software that gives you utmost control over your photos. We're taking a look at the...

In January of last year, Microsoft made some rather harsh cuts to its Flight Simulator team, and naturally, fans of the series began to wonder if a proper follow-up would ever be made. As far as flight sims go, there are many out there, but Flight Simulator had an obvious backing that other game...

μTorrent, also referred to as "micro Torrent", is currently the most popular BitTorrent client, and for good reason. The main one is the fact that it's lightweight, at just over 300KB. To put that in perspective, a handful of .torrent files will be much larger than that. The other reason is that...

No matter where you live, a common gripe that many of us can share is the half-truths told to us by our ISPs. We're promised one speed, and usually get another. Is it too much to ask for to simply have an ISP give us straight facts, rather than us have to discover them for ourselves? Well...

Some might say that "bigger is better", but when it comes to today's PCs, that doesn't have to be the case. Rather, you can easily build a feature-rich and high-performance PC that can be entirely hidden from view. Mini-ITX motherboards exist to help with that, and where those are concerned...

If you're a PC gamer, there's quite a good chance that over the past ten or so years, you've dabbled a bit in an MMORPG title. Or, it could be that like the millions of others out there, you're hooked on World of Warcraft or the many other MMO titles out there. Personally, I've been playing...

Fractals, those neat designs that use an infinite number of identical patterns to generate something interesting to stare at, appear simple at the surface, but are in actuality insanely complex to understand. In some cases, such as with the famous Mandelbrot set, you almost have to be a...

When ASUS released its first-ever Eee PC, it kicked off a major chain-reaction. The word "netbook" was born, and has since then spun into related terms such as "nettop" and "nettablet", and as we're well aware, ASUS was far from being the only company to push these netbooks hard. In fact...

Whew, how time flies! On August 16, Debian, one of the first-ever Linux distributions, turned 17. That's right... before computers could be found in almost every home, and before there was even the "Internet", a hopeful operating system based on the Linux kernel was rapidly being developed. If...

I think it goes without saying that solid-state drives are a hot commodity today, and while everyone wants one in their PC, the biggest issue has been price. Things have certainly been getting better over the past couple of years, though, with prices hitting close to $1.50/GB in some cases. But...

Last week, a story broke through the entire Internet at blazing-fast speeds, and at first, most anyone who caught wind of it believed it. After all, it wasn't that hard to accept. Of course, I'm talking about Jenny, the girl to quit her job via way of taking pictures of herself holding a dry...

The PC version of the original Lost Planet brought gamers DirectX 10 support, and to follow in its footsteps, Lost Planet 2 will support DirectX 11. Though the game's release date hasn't been announced, Capcom has released a benchmark that allows us to test out both modes, so that's just what we...

This past May, it became known that BFG Tech, a company once known for producing some of the finest NVIDIA-powered graphics cards around, had given up on them due to their lacking ability to generate revenue (competition is tougher than ever). At that time, things seemed fine with the company's...