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  1. Rob Williams

    Windows 7 Receiving Revamped Activation Software

    Microsoft has never been known as being a company to stand by idly while its software is hacked and cracked, and it's no surprise that its flagship desktop OS is where a lot of the focus goes. Since the introduction of WGA, or Windows Genuine Advantage, activation in Windows has become an...
  2. Rob Williams

    Is this mouse for real?!

    Wow is all I can say. http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/02/11/you-mouse-around-here-often/
  3. Rob Williams

    The Path to Success: AMD's RV870

    When someone passed me along an article Anand wrote called, "The RV870 Story: AMD Showing up to the Fight", I wasn't sure what to make of it. Just what could it be about, exactly? Well, my initial thoughts on what it could be were a bit off, and I found the entire article to be extremely...
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    Microsoft Demos Augmented-Reality Maps at TED

    The fact that we're essentially videotaped everywhere we go bothers me a lot more than this.
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    Microsoft Demos Augmented-Reality Maps at TED

    Over the weekend, I kept hearing about this TED video where Microsoft's Seadragon architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, was showing off some of the features that are coming to Bing Maps. I didn't know quite what to expect, especially with a term like, "augmented-reality" floating around, but...
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    Turtle Bacon Burger

    I am not sure of the source of this one, but can you feel your arteries clogging just by looking at it?
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    Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 128GB

    A couple of weeks ago, Kingston announced a revision to its V+ series of SSDNow drives. In addition to a brand-new controller from Toshiba being utilized, along with Toshiba NAND, the new V+ drives support TRIM right out of the box. This, along with good pricing and excellent performance...
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    Alan Wake will no longer be coming to the PC

    Wow! This bugs me... given that Alan Wake was supposed to be one of those games to push the PC hard. Heck, even PCMark Vantage uses an Alan Wake test, and here it's no longer even going to be seen on the PC. This blows. Honestly, how hard would it be to release it on the PC as well? This...
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    Win7 task scheduler....

    Hm, that's a good question. To be honest, I thought the task scheduler was one thing that couldn't be disabled (as in, Windows just disallows it). I agree on the tasks though, it's absurd. I looked at it last night when I was gaming to see why my game was lagging, and the amount of stuff running...
  10. Rob Williams

    Show off your desktop!

    They are called Buuf Deuce: http://www.shellscape.org/buufdeuce/
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    Show off your desktop!

    As I was exploring all of what was new with KDE 4.4, I couldn't help but poke around the theme options, and I ended up feeling inspired and changed things up a bit. I downloaded an icon pack that was unlike anything I've seen before, very artistic, so I applied it. I also changed from a silvery...
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    KDE 4.4 Brings Lots of Improvement and Increased Functionality

    As we mentioned in our news section about two weeks ago, KDE 4.4 was due to come out on February 9th, and without a hitch, it happened. Since KDE 4.3 was the reason I finally decided to upgrade to KDE 4 from 3.5 back at its release, I was excited to see if 4.4 would reinvigorate my love for...
  13. Rob Williams

    GIMP's Unified Window Mode is Looking Good

    For professional artists and designers, the name "Photoshop" almost seems synonymous with the type of work they do. But, with the software starting at $700, it's pretty hard to jump all over the opportunity of owning a copy unless you absolutely need some of the features it offers...
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    Gigabyte 800 Facebook Fans Contest

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=299981761845&ref=nf Enough said. Become a fan of Gigabyte on Facebook and have a chance at a couple of different prizes.
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    ATI Radeon HD 5570 - Sub-$100 HTPC & Gaming Solution

    Thanks for the nice comments! We added the "best playable" about half a year ago, I believe, as it gives a better overall view of just what the card can handle. So in this regard, we try to have the best of both worlds. It's funny you mention the HD 4550. A friend of mine was here just earlier...
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    ATI Radeon HD 5570 - Sub-$100 HTPC & Gaming Solution

    AMD's clear goal at the moment is to finish rounding-off its HD 5000-series line-up in advance of NVIDIA's Fermi launch, and so far, it's doing a good job. It's continuing its success in this goal with the release of the $80 Radeon HD 5570, a card that's designed to offer stellar media...
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    Heaven

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    SilverStone's HDDBoost Combines Your SSD and HDD Together

    Over the years, we've heard of many products that promised to combine both flash-based and mechanical-based storage together to deliver something amazing, but to the best of my knowledge, no product like this has ever shipped. It could be for a good reason, too, because with the promises of...
  19. Rob Williams

    GO COLTS!

    Yeah. So, yeah. GG Saints, you've earned it.
  20. Rob Williams

    GO COLTS!

    Title says it all. Enjoy the Superbowl everyone! :D
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