Content and news by Rob Williams

During the unveiling of Mac OS X ‘Lion’ (10.7) at last week’s WWDC, Apple talked a little bit about the “Find My Mac” feature, but didn’t go into great detail of how it worked. With a Lion developer beta, however, further information has begun to trickle out, including the discovery of a feature no one saw coming… “Restart to Safari”. Just as it…

When Nintendo showed off its Wii U last week at E3, its focus seemed to be a lot more obvious on the controller than on the games, and for that reason, few next-gen titles were even unveiled. From what we did see, it was difficult to surmise just how much better the Wii U’s capabilities were over the original Wii, and at the same time…

Where pre-order bonuses are concerned, I can love ’em or hate ’em. If the bonuses that gamers get aren’t detrimental to the gameplay, and can later become acquired by the rest of us, I don’t have a big deal with it. But when publishers offer pre-order bonuses that can award gamers a big advantage over the competition on day one…

When Microsoft showed off the first real glimpse of Windows 8 at the D9 conference a couple of weeks ago, I doubt there was a single person on earth who didn’t have to think about what they were seeing for a couple of minutes. For end users, imagining using the UI we were shown as a primary desktop environment seems a little hard to settle…

With Duke Nukem Forever having launched this past Friday internationally and launching tomorrow in North America, it’s of little surprise that the launch reviews are already beginning to pour out. The game has sure taken “forever” to get here, so was it worth the wait? Judging by the aggregate scores of the reviews published so far… no, not…

Timed with the opening of E3, NVIDIA earlier this week announced that its PhysX 3.0 SDK is prepared for developers to snatch, and as the major version number would suggest, there’s lots that NVIDIA brings to the table here. Perhaps of most importance, the entire engine has been rewritten, which should result in a higher…

At CES 2008, there was a TV being shown at Sony’s booth that more than impressed me. For one, it was 3D, and two, it had the ability to deliver two pictures at once. With two sets of glasses, gamers could play some multi-player and not be able to see what their opponent was doing. In essence, Sony combined two separate…

I’m oblivious to how it took me a full week to realize this, but last Thursday, Mozilla posted the first “rapid release” beta of its Thunderbird e-mail/messaging client. That’s right… “rapid release” isn’t just affecting the Firefox Web browser, but Thunderbird as well, which means its versioning scheme has also been accelerated. If it follows suit…

Google has just released its 12th stable release of Google Chrome, and with it comes a bucketload of improvements that make upgrading a recommended affair. If you’re using a standard version of Chrome, it may have already updated itself, but if you are using an install through a repository in Linux, you may have to run…

E3 doesn’t end until Thursday, but it can be assumed that all of the “big” announcements have already been made, since it’s rare for any company to make a late-week announcement after the initial excitement begins to die down. On day one, Sony announced its PSP successor, the Vita, and on day two, Nintendo took the veil off of its…

Right on schedule, Nintendo announced its Wii successor at E3, named ‘Wii U’. Whereas most console announcements have discussions more about the console itself rather than the controller, the opposite is true here. The controller, as recent rumors have predicted, features a large touch screen, making this a controller like none…

Things were a lot different in the computer market when Techgage first came to be in March of 2005. At the time, AMD totally dominated the processor market for enthusiasts, and its “FX” processors were the parts that everybody wanted. But with prices hovering around the $1,000 mark, only a select few actually had the pleasure of using them.

Sony, at E3, finally took the veil off of its PlayStation Portable replacement, called ‘Vita’ (‘Life’ in Latin). It looks like a PSP, and for the most part acts like a PSP, though things are being taken to the next progressive level. Expect a touchscreen, dual analog sticks, multi-touch pads on the rear of the device, a higher dose of social networking…

With Apple’s major announcements at WWDC, one might imagine that it’d be OS X ‘Lion’ or iOS 5 to receive the most attention, but at Apple’s homepage, neither of those are at the forefront. Rather, that privilege belongs to ‘iCloud’, Apple’s long-awaited cloud-based storage service. While it’s been imagined in past months that the service…

Apple introduced a lot of software at its ongoing WWDC conference that gives fans reason to be excited, but for desktop users, it’s OS X Lion that’s proven to be the most interesting. Like Snow Leopard, Lion’s upgrade price is set to $29.99, and as such, the OS is more of an upgrade that’s stuck in the middle of being a service pack…

It has sure taken a while to get off the ground, but Sony has finally launched its ‘Welcome Back’ program, which awards both PS3 and PSP owners a choice of two free games; five to choose from on the PS3 side and four on the PSP side. For owners of both, a total of four games can be claimed; two for each platform. Once again, those…

While gaming it up last night, I couldn’t help but notice an e-mail from Gearbox popping up in the corner with a message I’ve long been waiting for: the Duke Nukem Forever demo is here! Jamie has wittily announced that earlier today, so I am not going to be redundant. I did however give the demo a pass through and captured the first…

At the D9 conference being held this week, Microsoft decided for the first time to give a public preview of its upcoming Windows 8 OS, and what a showing it is! Whereas Windows Vista had similar styling as XP, and 7 was simply an evolution of Vista, 8 looks to make the traditional interface we’ve become used to obsolete.

With the recent launch of Corsair’s H60 and H70 CPU coolers, it might have seemed unlikely that the company would be releasing even more models at this point in time, but thanks to the launch of ‘Link’, the company’s hardware monitoring and control platform, something had to support it. And with that, we have the H80 and H100 CPU…

Corsair has been taking full advantage of Computex to show off a slew of new product, but it’s been the Carbide series of chassis that has most successfully grabbed my attention. Yes, more than the H80 and H100 CPU coolers, and even more than Link. Why? It’s because Carbide will mark the first time Corsair has launched a…