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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...

Whoops. With all that copying/pasting, it's no wonder I mess up some things. Thanks for pointing it out :D

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...

I do know one thing that's very true... that chick is gorgeous.

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...

A couple of weeks ago, I linked to an interview with Cory Doctorow, which took a look at gold farming in MMO's from a slightly different perspective. Well, in the "world" of MMO's, gold farming is a major issue that can affect mostly players, and not so much the game developer. But there's...

Have you ever walked up to a vending machine and hoped that it could recommend a tasty beverage? Well, likely not, but in case you did, you should probably plan a trip to Japan, where such a thing is being rolled out en masse. Within the next two years, the company behind them promises that...

As hard as it may be to believe, it's been well over a year since 3D Realms posted that it'd be shuttering. Since then, a lot has happened, including the realization that it hasn't shuttered, but rather that it is running with a skeleton crew. But, with that skeleton crew, it meant that...

Why is it that Star Wars seems to be one of the few franchises out there that seems to take forever to adopt the latest video technology? Sure, Blu-ray hasn't been around THAT long, but look at how long it took before the films were finally available on DVD! Oh well, those who want them on...

This past weekend, Gigabyte held its third GO OC NA final in Industry, California, and put fourteen of the best overclockers together in the same room and let them loose on Intel's Core i7-980X processor and Kingston's HyperX memory. We were there and have all the info, and more pictures than...

It's been just about three years since the original BioShock came out, and at the time, it won gamers over due to its original setting and story. It's not too often you get to play in an underground city, after all. Not to mention an underground city during the 1960's. The sequel continued with...

I love to game, and I love games that have puzzle elements to them. But when it comes to a real puzzle, I realize just how un-smart I am (see what I did there?). Whether it be crosswords, sudoku, or the Rubik's Cube, I'm normally left clueless. Well, at least where the latter is concerned, I can...