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Before I get into the nitty-gritty of the title, I'll just give you a little background. I currently work for a place that deals with hardware repair of electronics and electro-mechanical assemblies, with my place being seated in the PC and PCB area. Today, a computer graced my desk with a...

I knew there was an internet protocol for this, just never knew the name. Finally, I have a meaningful project to collaborate on, to help sustain modern society. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt

Ten days till a super storm hits, all the volcanoes go off, a plague sweeps the planet, and an asteroid the size of 4 million Olympic swimming pools collides with earth - or so say the interpretors of the Mayan calender. So... what's everyone up to? All I have on my bucket list is: 1) Laugh...

I have seen the future - Steam is no longer a simple distribution service for games. It distributes your life! Behold, a taste of things to come - from a holographically projected virtual remake of a calssic '3D' game, digitally remastered! Your ISP still caps you at 100GB though...

Title says it all really. I loaded up Origin.... because I wanted to punish myself... and it wanted to update. So I continued and it presented a EULA, as per usual. I waited and waited, then finally, it appeared... Finally, EA did something right - this is a EULA I can finally agree to in...

Elite: Dangerous - being made by David Braben (and Frontier Developments) ... That is all. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous If you are not up to speed on Elite and Frontier, or David Braben, this is the man that created a game, and entire galaxy made of...

For about as long as the Xbox 360 has existed, it's always been an FPS title that's dominated the #1 spot of the "most played" list (tallied as people playing the game while also logged into Xbox Live). Key titles in this list have been Gears of War, Halo, and most recently, Call of Duty. In...

This is, without a doubt, one of the strangest game promotions I've ever seen... but it's worth it. The folks at PopCap have teamed up with the American Dental Association to offer both a free game (Plants vs. Zombies) and free... dental advice. That's right - if you were unaware of the "2x2"...

Tell me if you've heard this one before: a guy walks into a bar with a prototype phone, and leaves it there. Alright, that's not the best joke out of the book, but given the fact that it's true, and it's happened before, no punchline is really needed when the premise is hilarious in itself...

At a press event held Tuesday, Apple unveiled what has to be its worst-kept-secret to date - the iPad mini. On top of that, iMac and MacBook updates were also announced, and, so was a new iPad. Yes - despite the iPad "with Retina" being released just this past spring, Apple wasted no time in...

Remember Func? If you cared about mousepads five or so years ago, chances are you do. At the time, the company's "sUrface" pads were widely-accepted as being some of the best. We took at a look at its "Archetype" edition way back in January of 2006. I ended up using that same sample for years...

It feels like we've been talking about Windows 8 forever and to such a degree that it's sometimes hard to believe it isn't even out yet. In fact, some people have been running the RTM or preview release for months, and companies like AMD, NVIDIA and Intel have stepped up to the plate well in...

GOG.com, has been around for quite some time but if you've been living under a rock. GOG is well known for having nothing but DRM free games and the ability to play old DOS based games on modern Windows or Linux platforms; today, it opens the doors to the Mac platform as well. You can...

I haven't been able to pin-point when exactly it happened, but Ubuntu-developer Canonical has introduced a donation suggestion page that prefaces the download of the desktop version of Ubuntu. While it's not uncommon for open-source projects to openly accept donations to help fund them...

If you've been anywhere near the Internet this past week, you've likely been made aware of a record-breaking skydiving attempt that was soon to take place. Well, that happened yesterday, after having been delayed due to bad weather on Tuesday. With this jump, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner...

It's hard to believe that there could be a Web service so popular, that people are shocked to find out when someone isn't on it, but that's what Facebook has become. Some people I know who don't use a computer all too often are on it, and I've heard many people over the years say they'd never...

Not long after Apple launched its latest iPhone, complaints started creeping up around the Web of a purple haze that would appear in certain photos, more often than not ruining it. In a message to one customer, AppleCare stated that it was considered to be normal behavior, and that the recommend...

When this year's NFL season kicked-off in August, I began seeing a new commercial from Microsoft on a regular basis advertising, of all things, Internet Explorer 9. The reason the commercial caught my eye is due to the simple fact that the music is pretty good - though the dubsteppy sound might...

Today, Valve has began to offer Software via the popular digital distribution platform, Steam. There has been much speculation in regards to when this would launch since missing it's initial launch window in September. With the launch of this new Software service, Valve is currently offering...

The world of multi-monitor gaming is a small but ever growing community of dedicated individuals who enjoy a rich and immersive game-play experience. Multi-monitor gaming can be a complicated transition, however, this how-to guide is here to help ensure you have as few problems when you decide...