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  1. Rob Williams

    Mirror's Edge PC Version to Support PhysX

    From our front-page news:To say that we've been waiting a while for a game to make good use of the PhysX engine would be a huge understatement. Since we first covered PhysX well over three years ago, we've seen some freeware games come and go, but rarely did we see good use of the technology in...
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    Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian Scammers

    From our front-page news: Online scams are nothing new, and by now I'm sure most people visiting this site are bored stiff of even hearing about them. One of the more rampant scams on the Internet for a while has been tied to the country of Nigeria, where there are apparently many ready to find...
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    Left 4 Dead Redefines What Co-Op Modes Should Be

    From our front-page news: It might be a bit hard (read: very hard) to wait for Half-Life 2: Episode Three to surface, but Valve hasn't been slack in delivering updates to their current games to give us something to do. To help make us forget HL2 for a while longer, they just released a brand-new...
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    NVIDIA Helps Create "Personal Supercomputers"

    From our front-page news: Over the course of the past year, NVIDIA has been actively pushing their GPUs as excellent performers outside of gaming, and for most of us, this was a rather new concept. We quickly found out, though, that GPUs were indeed superb performers when executed in a certain...
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    No Immediate Price-Cuts for Intel Core 2, Upcoming Models Leaked

    From our front-page news: Those who were hoping for immediate price-cuts of Intel's Core 2 line-up are out of luck, as the company posted their updated processor pricing list yesterday and listed not a single one. The lone update to the list was of course the addition of the Core i7 line-up...
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    SlySoft's Virtual CloneDrive Offers Superb Disk Image Mounting

    From our front-page news: Yesterday, I posted about a cool little application that allowed you to both create and mount ISO disk images, but little did I realize, that application pales in comparison to some of the free competition. Thanks to one of our eagle-eyed readers, we now see what might...
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    Dell Offering Core i7 PC with Included 20-inch Widescreen for $999

    From our front-page news: I don't make it a point to look around and hunt for great hardware deals, but while visiting Dell's website last night, I happened upon one of their "XPS Winter Savings" deals that seemed too good to be ignored. Until the 19th (6AM PST), the company is offering a...
  8. Rob Williams

    ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm Edition

    Need a solid motherboard offering for that brand-new Core i7 processor? ASUS' first "mainstream" X58 board proves to be a true winner, offering a feature-packed and well-thought-out design, support for both CrossFireX and SLI, plentiful accessories and overclocking potential to keep even the...
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    Windows 7 to Implement "Action Center", Reduce Number of Balloon Pop-ups

    From our front-page news: When Windows Vista first launched, the biggest complaint from most people (and the a humorous target of Apple) was the number of "nag" notification screens, or an overzealous number of questions that aren't really all that important in the grand scheme of things. We...
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  11. Rob Williams

    OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator, More Affordable than Ever

    It might not be an incredible deal, but it sure seems like one to me: Over the weekend, I was strolling around some e-tailers checking up on prices of a few things, and one thing I stumbled upon was OCZ's Neural Impulse Actuator, or NIA for short. This gaming peripheral, if you are unaware...
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    Adobe Releases 64-bit Alpha Flash Plugin for Linux

    From our front-page news:Ask anyone running a 64-bit Linux operating system what they'd like to see improved most under the OS, and their answer might be to have native Adobe Flash support. Users of 64-bit Linux distros have been in a Flash predicament for quite a while, although lately the...
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    Intel Makes Core i7 Official, Processors Ready for Purchase

    From our front-page news: It's been a long wait, but today marks the official launch of Intel's latest processor lineup, Core i7. Although the origin of the name itself is still a mystery, the performance that the new models offer is not, as seen in the preview article we posted a few weeks ago...
  14. Rob Williams

    ISODisk Allows Simple Mounting of Your ISO Disk Images

    From our front-page news:One question I hear quite often is, "How do I mount a disk image?", and for the most part, I don't have a great answer. Well, until now, that is. The need to mount ISO images can vary from person to person, but for me personally, I like to backup my DVDs of music...
  15. Rob Williams

    Cooler Master HAF 932 Full-Tower

    Finding an affordable chassis that's both large and feature-packed can be a little difficult, but Cooler Master's latest HAF 932 delivers on all accounts, and the goods don't stop there. This steel full-tower features huge interior space, great ease-of-installation, many bundled fans, hardcore...
  16. Rob Williams

    Heh, "DRM is so good, we removed it!"

    I received a somewhat humorous press release earlier this week that I just had to share, because the message being passed through is so contradictory, and hilarious.COOPER CITY, Fla. – (November 11, 2008) – The Skins Factory, a global leader in user interface design, has announced their popular...
  17. Rob Williams

    ASUS' Xonar Essense STX Designed for High-End Headphone Users

    From our front-page news: Last summer, you wouldn't have imagined a company like ASUS would release their own audio card, much less do a good job with its design, but as we first saw in our review of their Xonar D2, we knew they meant business. They weren't simply strolling into the audio market...
  18. Rob Williams

    60 Awesome Night Photos

    The cool thing about photography is that there are opportunities anywhere, and this article proves it. Night photography is one of the more difficult shots to take thanks to the lack of lighting, but equipped with a tripod, some incredible pictures await. My favorite here has got to be this...
  19. Rob Williams

    12,500,000:1 (Spam Message to Sucker Ratio)

    A new study details how spammers – the bane of our email inboxes – still make pots of money, despite only receiving a response to one in every 12,500,000 emails they spam out. The study, by a team of seven computer scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD)...
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    NVIDIA Releases 4GB Quadro FX 5800

    From our front-page news: Last month, NVIDIA unveiled a special Quadro model, CX, which was designed with Adobe's latest CS4 suite in mind. One that offers the perfect blend of speed and features to give all of what professionals will need while sitting at their desk. Today, the company...
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