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Valve's Orange Box is considered to be a longstanding success, but some credit the regular updates for Team Fortress 2 as having something to do with it. This week, the game will be receiving potentially its last major class update, although it is sure that future minor updates and the odd new...

When Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx (10.04) was set out to pasture this past April, it brought a couple of interesting features to the table. The most obvious might be the desktop theme overhaul, but other important changes included improved NVIDIA driver support, the removal of a default GIMP...

I love mobile computing, but unlike most people, I can't stand using mobile phones or similar devices to get work done on the go, except for the absolute simplest of needs. I tend to turn to notebooks quite often, and if I leave town, I make sure one's never that far from me. If I leave the...

I read about Lamptron's "Spectral Bar" on the Overclock.net forums, and they're kind of interesting. It's a CCFL as the title suggests, but what makes them interesting is that the inverter is built-in. That means there will be no ridiculous box to find room for inside your chassis, enabling you...

Since it's been a little while since we last took a look at Valve's hardware survey, I figured now would be a good time to do so, for a couple of reasons. The big one being that Macs are now included in the results, giving us a relatively good idea of the success of Steam on that platform, since...

Have you ever left your house with your computer running, only to wish that you were able to shut it down either via a timer or remotely? If you're running a Linux OS, chances are good that you're also running SSH. In that case, it takes little more than a quick login from wherever you are, then...

"Fast". It's a word that can be explained in a billion different ways, but one of my favorites is to talk about the potential of OCZ's Enyo SSD. As a portable drive, it delivers mind-blowing performance, at up to 200MB/s for both the read and write, and as an added perk, it's small, stylish, and...

I hate to admit it, but I somehow forgot I had this beauty of a motherboard lying around. I ended up stumbling on it earlier and immediately slapped my forehead. It's not often we take a look at mATX or smaller motherboards, but when this thing arrived at my door, I found myself really excited...

Are you the lucky "computer guy" or girl among your posse of friends, or your family members? If you're like me, you probably don't mind that denotation so much, but it's the fact that any problems that arise tend to be very time-consuming, tedious, and not to mention... boring. Well, there are...

Tired of seeing the same old Intel processors for sale? Tell me about it. By this point in time, the six-core Core i7-980X Extreme Edition is looking a little bit tired, and Intel knows this! So don't worry, because according to latest rumors, this time care of Digitimes, Intel is prepped to...

The first time I ever bought a laptop was in the spring of 2004, and before committing to a purchase, I spent a lot of time researching to make sure I wouldn't regret it. At that time, decent laptops cost upwards of $2,000 or more, far different from today where you can pick up a great laptop...

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but after eight years of remaining faithful to Mozilla's Firefox, I've decided to move over to Google's Chrome, after much testing and experimentation. The first time I used Firefox, I was blown away by its speed and stability, and back in its earlier...

Does the name "TweakUI" sound familiar? If so, then you have no doubt been tweaking Windows OSes for quite some time. On its own, this Microsoft-developed tool didn't accomplish anything that couldn't otherwise be handled manually, with registry hacks and other things, but it did make the...

For many gamers, the go-to application for performance benchmarking, screenshot capturing and also video recording has always been FRAPS. But if there's one major thing FRAPS is lacking, it's competition, something that might end with PlayClaw. This program offers many of FRAPS' features, along...

It's not all too often that a PlayStation 3 software update comes along that's well-worth rushing home for, but the brand-new 3.60 firmware might spawn one such occasion. Arguably the most interesting feature to be implemented in this update is the introduction of "PlayStation Plus", the paid...

As I mentioned late last month, OCZ has sent us its latest USB storage device, the 3.0-based Enyo, and at the same time, I mentioned that I had full intention to tackle the drive as soon as I returned home from Computex. Well, for some reason testing took me much longer than expected to ramp up...

Ahh, just when we were beginning to get used to Windows 7, out of nowhere comes news of Windows 8! Okay, okay... so Windows 8 news has been leaking ever since 7's launch. Fair enough. But bits of information leaked this week from a conference held this past April is new, and it's for the most...

In a post we made last Tuesday, we talked a bit about EFF's latest Firefox extension, called "HTTPS Everywhere". The goal of this extension is to automatically enable a secure connection to a website if one is available, as long as it's defined. In the launch version, sites supported right out...

For as long as I have been purchasing products online, I've been using PayPal to handle almost all of the payments, as it's secure, and far easier to deal with than hauling out a credit card each time to read off the numbers. I'm sure I'm not alone in this, either, because like it or not, PayPal...

Being a long-time Mozilla Firefox user, the first time I gave Google's Chrome browser a shot, I felt myself lost. You wouldn't think that a small aesthetics change would be a big deal, but if you're familiar with a certain configuration, and use it day in and day out, even the smallest of...