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To many, Steve Jobs is the image of pure genius, but while Apple's long-standing CEO is in the limelight all the time, he's actually rather seclusive in nature, leaving most of his personal life and thoughts to speculation. Given this, Jobs' first authorized biography, titled "iSteve: The...

It might come as a surprise to some (it does me), but according to a Google-conducted survey which queried 1,430 people, the most popular use for a tablet is gaming. In fact, a staggering 84% of those people claim to be tablet gamers, with other popular activities including 'Searching for...

When building an HTPC, there are multiple angles to tackle - components, power consumption, software, and so forth. But what about peripherals designed to complement the HTPC you're building? Quality options are not as common as we'd like, but the GlideTV Navigator looks to be an exception, and...

If we held a LAN, it'd only be made good if someone else was handling all the important stuff ;-) The networking setups that some bring to their LANs is just incredible, and would confuse the absolute hell out of me. I'm not opposed to holding a LAN, it's just that we need the technical know-how...

The chip to the right of the dual white PCI slots is the IOH, so it does have a heatsink. It just doesn't need much of one.

Am I the only one who thinks these things are for extremely lazy people? Honestly, when it comes to a point where you need a small robot to clean your house because you can't be stuffed to, there's a problem. These things remind me of timedemos for graphics cards reviews, which I also don't...

It's a huge pain, but I think the moral of the story here is that when dealing with beta drivers, it'd be a good idea to create a restore point before installing them. As far as I know, Windows is supposed to do that automatically, but it doesn't always.

Welcome to the forums! Most of our staff are in the US or the UK, but a select three of us are in Saint John. I hate to admit it, but every-single LAN I've ever been to has been in the US - never one in Canada. I've heard that there is an annual one in Saint John or something, but I've never...

It's been called a "significant redesign", and for good reason. GNOME 3.0, released today, looks nothing like the GNOME desktop of the past, and for devout users, a completely new user interface awaits. Gone is the bottom taskbar, and typical menu system. Instead, GNOME 3.0 is designed to...

I couldn't disagree more that the setup needs to be made easier. Ubuntu is just as easy, if not easier, than the Windows installer, and other distros I've installed in recent memory ask additional questions because it's nice to. I have installed Ubuntu 10.x numerous times, so I know the...

It's not too often that a headline manages to give me a minor case of whiplash, but one that compares Microsoft-bashing to kicking a puppy... well, that's right up there as one of the best. According to Linux Foundation chief Jim Zemlin, that's not just a sensationalist headline, but it's...

Today, multi-tasking on a PC is something most of us take for granted, and if the ability to multi-task suddenly disappeared... alright, I don't want to talk about it! In the earlier days of computing though, multi-tasking was an unknown, a total rarity. But believe it or not, even though...

I admit that water-cooling is just not a concern of mine, and though I think it'd be neat to have a good setup going, I just don't have the ambition. Every time I hear about people and their water-cooling, they talk about all of the different things they had to try in order to achieve maximum...

Thanks a lot for the input, guys! I had a great hour-long conference call with Intel's motherboard team earlier, and had misconceptions cleared up, some of my opinions changed, and also got some info about what Intel is doing to improve its enthusiast line-up even further as time goes on. I'll...

So, after thinking about it for not long at all (there's not much thinking required in this 'case'), I've decided to go with Corsair's Obsidian 800D. This chassis has impressed me ever since I first saw it at Computex 2009, and it's about time I own one. I just re-built our CPU/motherboard...

A lot of that stuff is neat even as a gimmick, but I can't see me purchasing any of it regardless. No LAN party is complete without lots of bottles of Bawls though, love it.

In recent months, we've seen AMD and NVIDIA go back and forth with releases that are designed to one-up the other at the respective price-point, and with AMD's Radeon HD 6790, it doesn't look like this game will end anytime soon. Set to compete against the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, the HD 6790...

Aside from the Top Gun flight mode, that game reminds me a lot of one of my favorite NES games, Guardian Legend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmh6056U0Nw I'm starting to get the nagging feeling that I want to install an emulator soon.

Come on peeps! I'll be talking to Intel tomorrow about what enthusiasts want to see form the company's boards, so it'd be nice to have a little more input than just my own!

For a hardcore gamer, I reckon this is a damn sweet board. It provides good networking right of the box, and also X-Fi audio... those are some sweet perks. It'd also allow said high-end gamer to install tri-SLI without worrying about having to degrade to weaker audio and networking. I always...