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  1. marfig

    Google Releases Flash-to-HTML5 Flash Professional Extension

    Adobe itself has been offering it's own Flash-to-HTML5 extension since March, dubbed Wallaby. It seems Adobe ended up realizing Steve Jobs was right when he panned Flash performance and battery usage on mobile devices. More, Wallaby seemed then a sort of pre-announcement to the removal of a...
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    VMware Fusion Gains Ability to Run OS X 10.5-10.7 in a VM

    No. The 'real facts' you mention are past facts. This is a future projection done by a market analyst company that decided to ignore Apple's own position on the iPad market and classify it as a PC. It is also nothing more than futurology based on a prediction and an announced product with no...
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    $500-$600 gaming PC

    I'm not one to give you specific product names and prices, since it's an area I don't tend to explore much unless I'm in the process of buying or upgrading a machine. Crimson above, and others, can do that better than I ever would. In any case, one piece of advise. The key factor to keep in...
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    Gary Garcia passes away

    Gary Garcia name may not mean much to many. He's one of those people that needs just a bit of an introduction so our aging cells get stimulated enough to go look for it on our brain records from the 80s. Once they do though it is inevitable that we start humming a very special tune and a rush...
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    VMware Fusion Gains Ability to Run OS X 10.5-10.7 in a VM

    Sure they are. That sometime in 2012, after 35 years, Apple may surpass one PC parts maker if they combine the sales for all Macs and iPads. Which, by the way, should tell you something about all that money on the bank you just don't get tired of talking about. Hint: You do it with soap and...
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    VMware Fusion Gains Ability to Run OS X 10.5-10.7 in a VM

    LOL! You just ruined this news piece.
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    The Stop Online Piracy Act

    In my opinion it's very hard, if not impossible, for SOPA to pass under the current text. While the public uproar can have its use as an eye opener of the grave offenses in that bill, it's nothing more than some ado over nothing. I trust the USA congress to not pass the bill. However we cannot...
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    Google Opens its Digital Music Store; Invites Users to Discover & Share

    >> The company launched a beta for the service earlier this year that allowed its users to upload up to 20,000 songs to the cloud for free, and now that the service is out of beta, it offers much more, and could give competing services a run for their money. 20,000 songs I think would pretty...
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    GOG.com to Offer Newer Games Beginning in 2012

    Makes me happy they are doing this. I always worried about the financial viability of GoG. After all, there's so much one can sell of old games. I never felt a wind of imminent trouble from them, but the thought never left my mind that their business plan was volatile. Knowing they'll keep...
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    Are We Soon to See a Death of the Spec?

    It's possible you are right Kougar. This is nothing much more than a though that has been with me for some time, but which I haven't fully explored yet. But I'm not swayed by the idea that "tech specs don't create the user experience anymore". I think you are entirely correct when you say this...
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    (Contest!) Rinse and Repeat

    And probably for a few more days, considering the nature of the game that does tend to draw players for extended periods of play. Which also means, the game UI isn't that awful. Not anywhere near what that Ars Technica article title seems to want to imply and certainly not from many of the...
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    (Contest!) Rinse and Repeat

    ... but add more salt. This is a RockPaperShotgun article title about Skyrim user interface, posted the day before yesterday: User Interfarce: Skyrim’s Silly Choices. A little more than 24 hours later, Ars Technica publishes an article about the same issue, linking to RockPaperShotgun. The...
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    Are We Soon to See a Death of the Spec?

    The PC market is also largely dominated(?) by corporate customers, for whom specs matter and a relationship between functionality and price is often carefully examined before making a bulk purchase or setting a new contract. The general consumer may be less caring of high specs. In fact, I feel...
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    What can six cores do?

    Do you guys remember Intel's Blue Men Group commercials back in the 00s? I loved those commercials! Been a fan of the group ever since. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1K0_JWwi0k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0m2_7qNzU And here's something epic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So5eEjwjLLM
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    Intel Kicks Off '32-in-32' Contest

    Good luck to everyone who enters though.
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    Consumers Prefer Tablets More than Laptops this Holiday Season

    Ah, a survey. Right, just a second while I put my cred gauge glasses. >> So what would you prefer to own this holiday season? A new tablet, or a new laptop? Apple, Android, or other? It's more likely I'll get kisses from my girls and a Boss Bottled from my better half. The technology gifts...
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    Intel Releases Sandy Bridge-E Processors & X79 Express Chipset

    Hmm... Ok, that TDP is just scary. Anyways, is it me or this is a no-brainer that the only interesting offer is the 3960X? I mean, sure: - The 3930K offers 6 cores and up to 12 threads. But unless one is a user of a very select group of applications, we won't ever make use of those. And...
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    Futuremark Announces 3DMark for Windows 8

    3DMark for windows 8? For a moment there I thought they were dropping PCMark.
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    ASUS talks X79 RAM disk, SSD caching and auto-overclocking

    I noticed the ads too. The fact they pointed to youtube videos is something we don't often see. The first video I saw was exactly the Ram Cache/Disk one and decided I had to see the other. Great show there by JJ. (Despite the fact he doesn't hide his love for the word 'actually'.) Certainly...
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