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From our front-page news: If you thought that the current Playstation Store was ugly, then you are in for a treat. The entire store will be revamped and unveiled mid-April, via a firmware update. Although the current store works, I never found it to be visually appealing, and for such a great...

From our front-page news: If there is one thing Gentoo Linux can't seem to catch, it's a break. Since the 2007.0 release, the distro's future has been plastered with uncertainty, all for varying reasons. Gentoo's developers mean well, but it seems something always happens that prevents smooth...

From our front-page news: With Blu-ray being the only high-definition format, you might be thinking that there is no real competition. Well, you'd be right. Thanks to the sudden boost of exclusivity, Blu-ray has just sold its nine-millionth movie, thanks to No Country For Old Men, a current...

SteelSeries feels their competition is doing things wrong, but does that mean they are doing things right? After taking a look at their Ikari laser mouse, we can wholeheartedly say "yes"! The Ikari is catered for gamers, and it shows. Simply put? The Ikari is the best mouse we've ever laid our...

Despite Creative being a leader in PC audio, their stature as such is being comprised with newcomers releasing superb offerings. To make matters worse, they've just added to the pile by banning modded X-Fi/Audigy drivers, a move that received an outstanding response from the community. You can...

NVIDIA's 9600 GT card is a great offering for the price range, but ASUS ups the ante by offering a TOP version that adds 70MHz to the core and 100MHz to the memory. Add in HDMI support and the ability to overclock the card even higher... then the EN9600GT TOP proves to be a great offering. You...

If you needed another reason to dislike the TSA, here it is: Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on February 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems. The...

Did you need more proof that basically anything with a processor will get overclocked? The OLPC News blog took their machine and overclocked it from 433MHz to 566MHz, while also increasing the RAM speed from 166MHz up to 233MHz. They even give instructions on how to go it, but it's more...

From our front-page news: According to some fresh Microsoft reports, we can now see what caused most of the reported crashes after the consumer launch of Vista last January. Intel and ATI both claimed 9% of the responsibility each, according to Microsoft, while they themselves were responsible...

From our front-page news: We posted first about Adobe Photoshop's online counter-part just over a year ago, and finally, it's now here. Though still considered a beta, it's feature-rich and can help you get your basic tasks done. The only thing you need to bear in mind when checking it out is...

Network storage if growing more popular each day, and thanks to that, there are countless NAS boxes to choose from. We take our first look at a QNAP offering, that proves you do get what you pay for. This single-bay NAS offers pure silence, a great feature-set and simple setup. You can read...

From our front-page news: Cheaters. Some love them, most hate them. Of course, we know that the people who love them, are them. To help eliminate them from Xbox Live, Microsoft has taken an entirely new approach to laying the smack down. Best of all, it's hilarious. If someone is caught...

From our front-page news: Last summer, Apple made a surprise announcement at WWDC about Safari's heading to Windows. To give that announcement some merit, a beta was released later that day. It was quickly discovered though, that the new browser was not much of a threat to IE, Opera or Firefox...

OCZ is well known for their memory and power supplies, but we thought we'd see just how well their current fleet of CPU coolers held up. We pit the Vendetta, Vendetta 2, Vanquisher and even the old-school Vindicator against our QX6850 to see what each one is made of. You can read Bill's full...

It looks like Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Co. are realizing that digital distribution is the way of the future. They've made EVERY single episode available online, although with a few caveats. Of course, the episodes have minor ads, and none of the videos can be downloaded. For many though, this...

Seagate, a company firmly entrenched in traditional hard disk drive (HDD) storage, unsurprisingly is not impressed with SSDs. "Realistically, I just don’t see the flash notebook sell," said Seagate CEO Bill Watkins. "We just don’t see the proposition." It's understandable that Watkins would...

From our front-page news: While visiting ASUS at CES this past January, I noticed the Splendid HD1 card tacked to a wall, but no one around could explain to me what it was. So here we are today... ASUS have announced the card. The problem is, many still don't know what it is. Essentially, the...

From our front-page news: Computer chips can offer fast performance, we know this. But, the Pentagon believes that there should be a faster method to transmit information between chips than the typical wire. So, they've given Sun Microsystems a $44 million contract to explore the prospect of...

From our front-page news: Picking out a graphics card today is more difficult than ever, given the sheer amount of choices available. It goes beyond the scope of simply choosing AMD or NVIDIA, since multi-GPU solutions change everything. In some regards, AMD's solutions outperform NVIDIA's, and...

From our front-page news: Are you still in love with Windows XP? Many are, and probably for good reason. Despite its history of security flaws, XP has proven to be a rock-stable OS for those who know how to be careful and not download anything off of a P2P network and also update their PC...