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After quite a long NAS drought, we're soon to publish our look at Thecus' N4200 four-bay offering, which up to this point in our testing is looking good. The last time we published some NAS content, it came courtesy of our networking-guru Greg King, when he looked at Synology's DS209+. That was...

If you are salivating over the second generation SandForce-powered SSDs or are simply eager to see more competition in the SSD market, then we have some good news for you. Corsair has today announced its Force Series 3 solid-state drives. As one may expect they utilize the SATA 3.0 "6Gbit/s"...

Intel's super-small Atom processor hasn't seen a major update since its original launch in 2008, so what's in store for the future? According to CNET, the major update will occur in 2013 with the introduction of "Silvermont". And a "major" update it should be, as Atom will become a full-blown...

I'm starting to wonder if the designers at NZXT are reading my mind, because with the launch of the company's "Sentry Mesh", another one of my ideas has come to fruition. I've often thought that with meshed fronts on many chassis today, a fan controller with a brushed aluminum finish kind of...

As a long-time fan of CyberLink's PowerDVD software, I got a hold of the company's latest version a couple of weeks ago, and thought I'd talk a little about it here. As a commercial media player, PowerDVD 11 isn't quite as scaled down as a VLC or MPlayer. Rather, it comes in three flavors; all...

When game developers prepare for a launch, the hours to preface it are sure to be the same among them all. As well as internal and beta testing might have gone, there are almost always launch issues - most times minor, but sometimes major. In the case of an MMO, servers might be unreachable for...

From the 'I don't think so, Tim." files comes Canonical's latest published goal: 200 million Ubuntu users in 2015. According to OMG! Ubuntu!, Mark Shuttleworth outlined this lofty goal at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest, Hungry on Monday. So just what does Canonical have up its sleeve...

The idea of offering bounties for discovering bugs might sound a bit odd to some, but it's not that uncommon. Both Google and Mozilla have been offering up cash to those who find both serious and mild bugs in their respective browsers, and for the most part, it seems like the idea has been a...

It should be an unknown to no one at this point that GPGPU processing is a good thing, as when highly parallel jobs are able to take advantage of the massive number of cores found in even a modest graphics card, a typical CPU could be found eating its dust. But as we're well aware, due to the...

The developers of LastPass, the program/extension that allows you to encapsulate all of your passwords underneath a "master" one, are encouraging users to change their master password if it's defined as "weak" (as in, is a dictionary word). On Wednesday, the company noticed an anomaly with...

OCZ has added another model to the venerable Vertex 3 solid state drive family. In addition to the Vertex 3 for consumers and the Vertex 3 Pro for enterprise customers, OCZ has introduced the Vertex 3 Max IOPS SSD. As the name implies the max IOPS on this drive is a whopping 75,000 IOPS...

Being such a popular Linux distribution, almost all of Ubuntu's bi-annual releases experience a good deal of hype right up to their launch, but 11.04, or 'Natty Narwhal', took things to the next level. Ever since Canonical announced that its 'Unity' desktop environment would ship as the default...

In a report published by Freedom House, a non-for-profit organization which advocates human rights and political freedoms, we can gain an understanding of which countries have the most open Internet freedoms, and which have no freedoms at all. And no, that's no typo in the title. Estonia, a...

That's right. I said router cooler, so don't go all pretending like you've never once said, "Geez, I wish I could throw a fan in that thing!", because I'm confident enough to say that most of us have been there. Even if a router isn't giving us signs of failure, no one wants to feel like their...

Prior to the discovery that SSDs could experience performance degradation over long periods of time, no one seemed to care about what a "secure erase' was, much less had the need to run one. Hard drives, due to their design, don't benefit much if at all from a secure erase, but in some cases...

For enthusiasts, picking up a super-fast kit of RAM and tweaking it to its correct values in the BIOS may seem like no big deal, but to the regular user, the mere thought of it could be overwhelming. But, to take advantage of those fast speeds, it's sometimes required, and the reason simply has...

To say that Netflix posted a successful first quarter would be a gross understatement. During those three months, the company managed to add a staggering 3.6 million subscribers, bringing its total subscriber count to 23.6 million. Not impressed? Perhaps adding the fact that the company's total...

It may seem obvious that most Hollywood leaks come from within Hollywood itself, but it's not often - if it's happened at all - when someone gets caught red-handed. Usually, it's a cammer who gets caught, or someone who found their way to a screener somehow, and then proceeded to upload it. A...

When I discovered Xfire in late 2004, it felt like I had stumbled on a pot of gold. It was a chat client like no other, because it had a major focus on the PC gamer, and as a result, it quickly became a tool that millions of gamers kept in their virtual toolboxes. A social network before the...

If I simply said "three-and-a-half years", what would immediately come to mind for you? If you replied "the amount of time passed since Episode Two's release", you'd either be unbelievably on top of things, or the topic of this news post was too good of a hint. Either way, we're nearing four...