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From our front-page news: Travel often? Travel with more than one person often? Sick and tired of being tethered to a desk at a hotel that offers only wired Internet? Well, TRENDnet's latest wireless router might be just for you. The company touts it as being the world's smallest travel router...

With food so freaking expensive nowadays, could you imagine taking care with how you eat to whittle down your multi-hundred dollar supermarket bill, down to something like $1 per day, per person? Sounds impossible, but an article just posted at Time shows that is is, as long as you aren't really...

From our front-page news: Living in Canada, I tend to know what it's like to pay more for something than it's worth. Comparing what things cost in the US and then doing a simple currency conversion will prove just how much more we overpay for things. But, I'll be the first to admit that...

From our front-page news: Every so often, up pops a "top ten" article that takes a look at the biggest mistakes made in the tech industry, and too often, most include the exact same ten. A recent article posted at PC World, though, brings forth some major mistakes that I forgot all about, or...

From our front-page news: Is this much of a surprise? Given that Apple's iPods continue to dominate the market, iTunes' success was bound to follow - and it has. According to recent reports by the NPD group, iTunes sales accounted for a staggering 25% of the entire overall music market in the...

From our front-page news: When the Internet first launched, Netscape was there. In fact, believe it or not, Netscape Navigator existed before Microsoft's own Internet Explorer. Thanks to that, Netscape enjoyed an incredible market share up until Microsoft's browser, and for the most part, they...

From our front-page news: 1999 was a great year for multiple reasons, but the main reason it might linger in some gamer's minds is because right before we entered Y2K, id Software released its highly-anticipated Quake III. Surprisingly, both the Windows and Linux versions became available at...

From our front-page news: In the world of Instant Messengers, the competition is rather small, and for the most part, it's split between the official clients, closed or open-source free clients, or paid clients, such as Trillian. In the free, but non-official space, the choice is highly limited...

From our front-page news: A few weeks ago, we reported on a story that encouraged the death of Internet Explorer 6, and since then, lots has happened. For one, many popular web companies have opted into a program called "IE6 no more", where a snippet of code is implemented into a website that...

From our front-page news: Here's a situation I'm sure all gamers have been in at one point or another. You're gaming it up, getting a ton of enjoyment out of the latest title you've just picked up, immersed in the gameplay. Then, things go awry. You die, and at that point, realize that you...

For those not familiar, skate 2 is a skateboarding game for various game consoles that is a wee bit more realistic than Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. As such, it's much more difficult, so when you pull off a wicked trick here, you know you've done good. This video at Shacknews shows 10 replays made by...

From our front-page news:As our site focuses more on PC's using Windows or Linux, we haven't put much emphasis on Apple in the past. That will no doubt change at some point in the future though, but for now, we're content with simply talking about what's going on down there in Cupertino, whether...

From our front-page news:What's your password? Of course, I don't want you to actually tell me, but just think about it. What's the password to your most data-sensitive web-services, like your e-mail account or bank account? If you were able to repeat your full password, or even picture it...

From our front-page news: AMD has today launched their fastest-ever processor, the Phenom II 965 Black Edition, clocked at what's currently the highest stock-clocked frequency today: 3.40GHz. As you'd expect, the TDP would have to be high to reach this, and it is, at 140W TDP - bumped from the...

From our front-page news: When Solid-State Disks were first introduced to consumers, many people didn't quite know the differences between the various flash chips, and their technologies. Since then, though, information has been abundant, and it's probably rare that anyone interested in an SSD...

From our front-page news: MP3? FLAC? M4A? Apparently, such formats aren't good enough for a few large players in the recording industry, such as Sony, Warner and Universal, as the entire conglomerate is planning on releasing a brand-new format, tentatively called, "CMX". This format's main goal...

From our front-page news: It's been a few months since Microsoft made the Zune HD official, and we're inching ever-closer to the launch date. Over the course of the past few days, both Best Buy and Amazon.com leaked the pricing (the latter is allowing pre-orders). For those who have been holding...

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From our front-page news: When Intel released their second-generation SSD's last month, we saw drives with chips based on a 34nm process, faster overall speeds, and even lower latencies. But, sadly for Intel, a show-stopper issue surfaced only a few days later. The issue affects only those who...

From our front-page news: Whenever a new version of your favorite software gets released, there's usually good reason to get a little excited. After all, minor version upgrades usually mean important bug fixes, and major upgrades are a combination of that and feature updates. Firefox 3.5 was no...