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Unfortunately, no. That's a good point though... because it WOULD be a cool feature to have. I don't think it <em>could</em> have this feature at the moment though, simply because the device has no internal storage. Hopefully they implement something like that for the next iteration of the...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI for short, formed in 1908 with the goal to investigate crime and ultimately, serve justice. Over the years, it's helped put many people behind bars, and as an avid watcher of America's Most Wanted, I have seen many times how the FBI has helped, with...

For people surfing the Internet, aka: most of us, an increasing concern is the lack of privacy that's becoming more evident by the day. How many times have you visited a website and saw a banner ad that peddled local dating, with pictures and profiles of potential hopefuls from your exact city...

Have media on your PC, but want to watch it on anything but the PC? With ASUS' O!Play, getting that job done is simple. Take 30 seconds to hook it up to a TV, and you can stream media through a network, or via external storage, such as eSATA or USB. It's simple, and at $100, it's not too hard on...

For the past couple of years, there's been an ongoing Mac vs. PC war between both Apple and Microsoft, but it's been the former that's had the longer run, and the more straight-forward claims. Well, that looks to end with Microsoft's new "PC vs Mac" micro-site, which tells people what a Mac...

Ted Stevens, the former senator who famously once said that the Internet was like a series of tubes, was killed in a plane crash last night. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/us/11crash.html RIP

Mafia II pits you as Vito Scaletta, set out to rule the streets of the fictional city "Empire Bay" throughout 1945 - 1957. As the latest game to feature NVIDIA's TWIMTBP branding, Mafia II features both 3D Vision and PhysX support. We're taking a look at the latter to see just what it is the...

For computer gaming, 1993 was a landmark year. id Software, known at that time as the brain behind the epic Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen, delivered "Doom", an evil, twisted, and action-packed 3D shooter that proved just as addicting as it was gory. I think few will call Doom anything other...

There seems to be a billion different perspectives on what the future of the Web is going to be, but according to Google's ever-vocal CEO, Eric Schmidt, the future is... with a total lack of anonymity. A comment like this from Mr. Schmidt of course comes as no surprise, as it was also him who...

That's SWEET. I tend to like clean-looking devices, like the Xbox Elite, but that is just... :D Not gung-ho on the sketching on the controllers though. I think those would look better with just a solid color.

This past May, Valve did something that literally blew our minds... it released a Mac-based Steam client. We of course knew that the game selection at first was going to be lackluster, because let's face it... Macs aren't known for their gaming abilities, and until recently, it seemed like the...

Looking for a mid-tower chassis that offers a big bang for a small buck? Thermaltake hopes to win us over on those claims with its Armor A90, a chassis built from the ground up with military-like design cues in mind, and also one that includes numerous convenience features, superb airflow, and a...

You know... as much as I hate DRM (and trust me, I hate it), I can begin to understand its use when I read stories like this one. As it appears, a highly-acclaimed indie title called Machinarium, which costs only $20 on a regular day, suffers from a ~90% piracy rate. You read that right... for...

When Cooler Master released its first "CM Storm" gaming mouse last fall, we were impressed. For a company not known for mice to come out with such a competitive product was great, and helped pave the way for the future. That future is here, in the form of the Inferno. Can it surpass the quality...

Welcome to the forums! :D I'm clueless also to the reason that there exist faster Blu-ray drives, but I'm tempted to purchase a new drive soon (I need a second), and will likely make it an 8x or 10x since the premium is minimal and then do some hands-on testing. What I'm wondering is... if...

For those who want to run truly high-end gaming PC's, there's usually a common inclusion... water-cooling. The reasons to go this route are obvious... improved temperatures, quiet operation, and of course... it looks cool. Over the years, we've seen some companies water cool everything from...

Welcome to the forums :-) From and end-user perspective, I can't comment too much on whether one vendor is building less reliable drives than others, and from personal experience, I find that most of them die at around the same time (which for the record is always too quickly). The problem...

In today's MMO world, gold-selling is a real "issue", hated by many, and taken advantage of by many others. Generally speaking, the lure of purchasing in-game gold for your favorite MMO can be hard to ignore. It comes down to a "would I rather pay $xx or spend 10 hours doing something boring?"...

Ugh, a form of copy-protection, it seems. Though it's kind of an odd one, given that the movie does get ripped eventually. I have to wonder... what's the point of a faster BD-ROM then, if 1x is just fine for playback? This is one of the things I want to dealve into a bit more later, but for...

Digg, the popular social news site, has long been appreciated and loathed by many. For regular users, it's a great source of the latest news, singled out by fellow users. For others, such as site owners, it's a frustrating service, as getting anything of value to the front-page is near...