Content and news by Rob Williams

Fedora has long been touted as being one of the most professional, stable, cutting-edge distros out there, and seeing as though its latest version brings GNOME 3 along for the ride, I couldn’t help but download and install it. I’ve since used Fedora 15 for an entire month, so read on as I take a look at this release from all angles.

Today, it’s not difficult to find a ‘great’ distro, one that makes it easy to get up and running with a fully functional and robust desktop, fast. Even just five years ago, though, finding a ‘do it all’ distro was a little more difficult, and it was for that reason that I found myself loving Sabayon Linux (pronounced Sah-by-yon (silent ‘n’)). Despite being built on…

To some, there are few things on earth more fun than snapping photos. Some use their cameras for pleasure, others use it for business, while some even manage to do it for both. If there’s one complaint that all photographers share, though, it’s that a poor focus can ruin what could have been an amazing shot. Most often, no amount…

An all-too-unfortunate belief in gaming is that graphics = awesome, but in a lot of cases, that’s just not the case. There have been a countless number of big-budget titles released over the years that have had mind-blowing graphics, that were just no fun to play. Alright… some have downright sucked. Taking the belief that graphics…

After we posted our look at Duke Nukem Forever, I followed-up with a post that encouraged Gearbox to not give up on the series, even if the reviews for the latest game weren’t too flattering. Duke titles in the 90s were fun and well-received, and for the most part, there’s been moderate success with Duke console originals and even…

If some companies are to be believed, we all belong in the cloud. That includes our information, documents, photos, music and sometimes, even our movies. Either by phone or at home, we can use a lot of bandwidth, and with companies shifting some major focus to the ‘cloud’, that means data caps are going to become a huge problem…

In a rare move, AMD has publicly ousted a leading industry benchmark, BAPCo’s SYSmark 2012, released mere weeks ago. The company believes both that the benchmark is unfair in its weighting of scores, and also that it’s irrelevant for the average consumer. We delve deep into these claims, and offer up our own opinions.

MeeGo’s future has never been too certain, and it was made even more uncertain earlier this month after a notable spat within Nokia involving MeeGo supporter Richard Green occurred earlier this month. At that time, it became questionable as to whether or not Nokia was even planning to fulfill its original goal to see a product hit the…

Among the more than 100,000 movies Netflix offers through its on-demand service, a mere 30% are equipped with subtitles. This is a reason for concern, according to the National Association of the Deaf, whom declare that Netflix is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not providing the same sort of access to its content…

ICANN, the organization responsible for the handling of the Internet’s “names and numbers” has passed a rather historical plan that will allow companies or people the opportunity to create a custom “general” top-level domain (.com, .org, .net, et cetera). Picture for example focus.ford, vita.playstation or microsoft.windows – it’ll be…

It’s been a mere three months since we all welcomed Firefox 4 with open arms, but the time has come to put that out-dated browser out to pasture and move onto the bigger, better and badder 5! Alright, so this might be a ‘major’ release given that Mozilla has upped its release schedule to see four new version increments each year…

The business of delivering groceries straight to the customer’s door is a tough one, and up to now there hasn’t been definitive success – not even from Walmart. But, Amazon sees past that challenge and has revived its ‘Fresh’ service with limited access in Seattle that allows customers to purchase their groceries and other items…

Looking to get some classic gaming action going this summer but don’t want to break the bank? GOG.com, a service that prides itself on offering the classics for reasonable prices, has taken things one step further with its ‘Staycation’ promotion, where the entire Interplay catalogue has been marked down 50%, resulting in a cost…

If you live in or around the Sunnyvale, California area, then the place to be this coming weekend is Frys, where ASUS and a bevvy of sponsors are holding what the company touts as being a “Computer Enthusiast” event. Unlike a traditional “overclocking event” or “LAN”, ASUS has combined those two things together and tossed…

Tired of searching for an image via text input? Took a picture on vacation and can’t remember the name of the monument you flashed a peace sign in front of? Feel like wasting time with a new Internet toy? If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to either of these questions, then you may be interested to know that Google recently updated its image…

Ubuntu may be the most popular desktop Linux choice, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the total install-base of its derivatives proved to be the more impressive of the two. Out of the box, Ubuntu does a lot right, but it does leave a lot up to the user in terms of installing codec support, tweaking tools that are actually worth using, common…

AMD this week began shipping out its first 32nm Fusion processors in the form of the mobile part ‘Sabine’, based on the Llano architecture. The desktop variant, Lynx, is set to launch in the next couple of weeks. Some motherboard vendors have begun sending us boards to help us test out AMD’s latest and greatest (greatest in terms of tech…

To help launch Duke Nukem Forever in style, NVIDIA held an event appropriately called “Happy Endings” at the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas, TX last week. There, both Gearbox and a sponsored PC mod were present, and to show those who weren’t there what they missed, NVIDIA has just posted a video to its YouTube page.

With a fifth grader being younger than its development cycle, Duke Nukem Forever didn’t hold much chance to live up to its hype. The fact that the game has exchanged multiple hands and game engines sure doesn’t help, either. In the end, Duke Nukem Forever launched to mostly horrible reception. While I didn’t find it to be nearly as bad as others…

After more than a decade, the king is back. Duke Nukem has been living the dream of being a worldwide icon since finishing off the Cycloid Emperor long ago – but the aliens have returned. Duke once again has to save both himself and the world by any means necessary. Does this adventure manage to live up to the last?