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From our front-page news: In today's day and age, where the Internet can deliver everything from music to movies to games to news to virtually anything else you need, it seems unlikely that something like typical radio will ever grow from this point forward. In fact, numbers are likely dwindling...

From our front-page news: For the sake of retaining good mental health, keeping your mind active with a good hobby is one of the best things you can do. Hobbies could range from, oh I dunno, playing with a paperclip, to taking pictures from space. One is far more expensive than the other, and...

Have a need for mobile storage, but not sure of the best solution? We're taking a look at three products from Icy Dock that should make your life easier, from allowing to you take your 2.5" hard drive mobile, to allowing to you use a 2.5" or 3.5" at your desktop with the help of a dock...

From our front-page news: Often used for good or evil, marketing can work in mysterious ways to help sell a product, regardless of what it is. In the case of marketing being used for evil, you might imagine that the target product wouldn't sell at all. After all, who's interested in purchasing a...

From our front-page news:I'm not sure how I missed this yesterday, but AMD released a brand-new initiative to help consumers figure out which PC based on AMD components best suits them. Similar in some regards to how Intel denotes a PC's capabilities with a 1 - 5 star system, AMD simplifies...

From our front-page news: At a press event held by AMD, many ATI-related technologies were unveiled, such as more information pertaining to their DX11 graphics cards. One technology to take the web by storm, though, is the company's "Eyefinity" multi-display technology, which looks to put all...

From our front-page news: Success can mean many things, but where audio players, like the iPod, Sansa, Zune and others are concerned, it's hard to call something a success when Apple manages to sell so many players, the results would skew a graph if you threw all the numbers in there. Microsoft...

From our front-page news: For Windows users, the general consensus is that 7 gives people reason to be excited. After all, the OS went through a lengthy beta-test process, and came out fairly unscathed. That in itself is impressive, given the horrible reception Vista suffered. So while Microsoft...

From our front-page news: It used to be South Park, but today, it's Family Guy that likes to push people's buttons. This fired-then-rehired show is one of my personal favorites, and while I find it hilarious most of the time, I can understand why some people get up in arms that it's broadcast on...

We found out earlier this week that Intel's Lynnfield-based processors are fast, but who said that cranking the clocks to make them even faster was a bad idea? In this article, we take both the Core i5-750 and i7-870 for an overclocking joyride, and the stable overclocks we were able to achieve...

James Balog is a professional photographer who has spent the past ten years studying the extreme climate change facing earth, and he took to images to help prove that there's a real problem going on. This video is well-worth a watch. <object height="326" width="446"> <embed...

From our front-page news: Today is significant. No, it's not because we launched a totally kick-ass contest (although that IS cool), and no, it's not because Apple updated iTunes to version 9. Rather, today is special because it marks the 10th anniversary of when Sega launched their Dreamcast...

From our front-page news: As expected, Apple today released a deluge of new products, from an iPod nano featuring a camera, to a $59 iPod shuffle to the revised touch line-up (which for a given density costs $10 more than the Zune HD, rather than $100 more). Of all the press releases we...

I now have an idea of where our own reviews might be lacking... http://www.xfastest.com/viewthread.php?tid=30655

From our front-page news: Have you ever been in a situation where you wished something would just go away, so that you could finally just get on with your life? It could be anything, from a person, a nasty software issue, to anything, really. For Microsoft, the bug that won't disappear is...

From our front-page news: Where Sony's PlayStation 3 is concerned... there's one aspect that's a little interesting. To understand it better, take a look at Microsoft's Xbox 360. Since that console's launch, there have been multiple revisions made, and to my knowledge, all of them are for the...

The wait for Intel's Lynnfield has been long, but it's safe to say that it's been well worth it. They may be considered "mainstream" models, but the new Core i5 and i7 processors are powerful. Expect faster performance, improved power consumption and greater efficiency. With the i5-750 set to...

From our front-page news:A few months ago, many people decided that they had enough of Apple's App Store's approval process, and what resulted was numerous complaints posted around the web on various blogs. The most notable was at Gizmodo, where the author raised many legitimate concerns and...

From our front-page news:We posted just earlier about building your own Hackintosh, but how about building an HTPC on the cheap? When Intel first released their Atom processor, I'm willing to bet that they had absolutely no idea of what was to come. Sure, they could predict, but the actual...

From our front-page news: Fans of Apple's computers tend to disagree, but the facts are there... Macs are expensive. Go to Apple.com, and find their least-expensive Mac offering, then compare the individual parts at a site like Newegg. You'll not only wind up with a more customized computer, but...