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For as long as there has been gaming, there has been "hardcore" gaming. No, this doesn't refer to triple-X titles, but rather to those who devote a lot of time to a particular game, or genre, or gaming in general, and at the same time, being quite skilled overall. The fact that a lot of time is...

This news can be filed under "rumor", because nothing is verified, but the word that's spreading like wildfire is that NVIDIA's first Fermi-based graphics cards are going to be delayed until March. As you may recall, Fermi was originally supposed to launch late this year, but was rumored to have...

Yesterday, Linux Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, turned 40. While birthdays for the most part aren't too important for someone other than whose birthday it is, this one is special for a couple of reasons. It was 19 years ago that Linus took all of his Christmas and birthday money, and...

Over the past couple of years, media companies have been battling piracy in many different ways, but at the end of the day, their measures all but fail, and prove to be nothing more than an inconvenience to those who ran into the temporary roadblock. Despite draconian measures like DRM, sales...

It goes without saying that data security is important, because let's face it... it's not unusual for a hard drive to crash. But what about taking measures to prevent a drive from dying from things other than a simple crash, such as a fire, flood, or receiving a good beating? After tackling...

It's the giving season, and we saw a major example of that last week when the FTC slapped Intel with a barrage of accusations. This week, it's Microsoft on the receiving end, with the gift-giver being the US Court of Appeals. Earlier this year, XML specialist company i4i won a suit against...

In a news post I made yesterday, I touched on the fact that mobile devices are becoming more popular by the day, and if you look back to just a few years ago, you'll see that the landscape has changed dramatically. Today, mobile devices are being used for a lot more than just talking or texting...

Kicking off our hard drive coverage begins with a look at Western Digital's Caviar Black 1TB. As an affordable "high-end" consumer drive, this model includes all of the important features, and performs quite well throughout all of our tests. It also happens to win the contest for having the...

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Without question, one of the biggest advances in technology over the past decade or so that affects a great number of people is in the mobile space. Today, it seems like the majority of people out there own a cell phone, and many who do, own one in place of their home phone. It's no wonder...

Well, this is dissapointing. According to rumors, DFI, long praised for its innovation and quality, may be shuttering its enthusiast part production in January, and instead will focus solely on the industrial PC business. This might be just a rumor for now, but given various circumstances...

It's been a while since I last took a look at a motherboard that I knew I wanted in my own machine, but EVGA's P55 FTW ended that drought. The board lacks S-ATA and USB 3.0, but it has everything else, from great aesthetics and design to impressive overclocking, along with a handful of useful...

This subject is one I've been juggling around for a while, and I'm wondering if I'm one of the last people on earth who would rather read a news article rather than watch it. The reason, is that over the past year, I've noticed an obvious insurgence of video being posted in lieu of an actual...

According to statistics compiled by vulnerability management firm Qualys, Adobe's software products and Mozilla's Firefox took the top two spots in a list of the buggiest software. The source of the information gathered comes from the National Vulnerability Database, a US government-run...

A couple of weeks ago, I reported on an upcoming feature in KDE 4, the popular Linux desktop environment. It's called "Tabbed Applications", and acts just as it sounds. A simple description would be the "combining of multiple applications to a single window". Today, I'm still unsure if I'd...

As I mentioned in our review of Sapphire's HD Radeon 5750 card, the particular sample I had "died" on me before I could finish testing. I'm not sure what caused an issue, but it happened. I tried to "revive" it, but was unsuccessful. I installed other graphics cards to see if it was an issue...

Since I discovered just how great KDE 4 is a couple of months ago, I've been using it full-time and loving it. In all that time, I've discovered a few tips and tricks that I couldn't live without, and all of them are listed here. Some of these include an inline CLI, split folders, setting up a...

As a boss, one of the biggest hurdles you may ever have to face is the letting go of a single employee, or many. In the tech world, and well, in any business in general, layoffs are inevitable, and when they happen, it's seriously unfortunate. It means hard workers are out of a job, and are...

The search for ultra-affordable yet competent notebooks has been on-going for years, and as time passes, we continue to see numerous potential models. Some of these do indeed hit the market, such as the OLPC and Classmate, while some are still works-in-progress. But even as these new notebooks...

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