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When Canonical announced last fall that Ubuntu 11.04 would be released with a home-brewed desktop environment called "Unity", I found myself almost immediately excited. As Ubuntu came equipped with GNOME as its primary desktop environment since the distro's inception, the idea that Canonical...

I posted a look at Intel's DX58SO2 motherboard yesterday in another instalment of 'In the TG Lab', and today, I continue with a look at another X58-based offering: GIGABYTE's G1.Sniper. Unlike Intel's board, which looks to deliver a good balance between stability and features, GIGABYTE's...

In our 'In the TG Lab' look at Intel's DX58SO2 motherboard, I mentioned that while the company has been producing enthusiast-class motherboards for quite some time, enthusiasts haven't exactly noticed - or at least there has been a reason why they haven't been adopting them. The latter is a...

Power consumption is a topic that we spend a fair bit of time talking about through a lot of our content, especially with regards to graphics cards and processors. But, I can honestly admit that one piece of technology where power consumption has never come to mind is... with a Web browser...

Where computer processors are concerned, Intel is a name that comes to mind immediately for many people. But aside from being responsible for creating some of the fastest processors on the planet, Intel has a slew of other product lines as well, such as chipsets, NICs, solid-state drives, and of...

Yes, it's true. Mozilla may have just launched Firefox 4, but while everyone was downloading it to their heart's content, Firefox 5 development had already gotten underway. While it may seem a bit silly to be talking about the next version now, the final version is expected to ship during the...

Ahead of both Google and Apple, Amazon has launched a couple of Web-based services that allow users to both store their music (and other data) in the cloud, and listen to it, either on the go or while at home. The first component is called "Cloud Drive", and is just as it sounds... a service for...

Since the fall of 2008, NVIDIA has been holding an annual conference called NVISION where developers and others can hook up and delve into the latest technologies that the company offers, while also receiving important tech-bits to help them go back to their office with a fresh outlook on things...

During a recent briefing, NVIDIA went into detail about what its upcoming GeForce 270 graphics driver would be bringing to the table. In addition to general performance boosts in a multitude of games, an automatic updater is introduced, as are major improvements to certain 3D Vision features and...

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...

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...

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...