Content and news by Rob Williams

Nothing says geek like a Bluetooth headset. With the BT400 G5, you’ll be able to laugh at people with corded headset because they’re not as cool as you. With a simple flip and a twist, the BT400 G5 works for both left or right ear. How geeky is that?

Great looking headset, and small! Check it out at Tech Zone.

Weeks after promising tabs in its upcoming IE 7 release, Microsoft made the long-awaited browsing feature available for IE 6 through its MSN toolbar.

With the version of MSN Search Toolbar made available Wednesday, IE 6 gains the ability to open numerous Web pages within a single window, each selectable by a small tab at the top of the window.

So, it’s still not built-in, but it’s a start. I guess. Check it out at News.com.

In the time before the Radeon, ATI’s drivers were notoriously bad. ATI knew that, in order to compete in the high end consumer space with NVIDIA, their driver would need to be easy to use, intuitive, and stable. Thus the CATALYST program was born.

For the past few years, we have seen ATI’s drivers grow in stability and performance. Features have been added that have continued to push the envelope of driver development. Features such as Overdrive (automatic overclocking) and VPU Recovery (soft reset to avoid system crashes) have been added and last year ATI pushed forward with their Catalyst Control Center user interface redesign.

Check out the full look at AnandTech, or Hard|OCP as we posted.

The new game picks up where Age of Empires II: Age of Kings left off, placing gamers in the position of a European power determined to explore, colonize and conquer the New World. You’ll play as a western nation that transplants colonists to the New World with the goals of basic survival, Comment (0) -->

This week, as part of our in continuing promise to keep Guild Wars free of hacks, cheats, and other exploits, we closed the accounts of more than 100 users of bots. With today’s update we are taking further steps to address the bot problem. New changes will improve our ability to identify Comment (0) -->

This Video Card is based on the ATI R480 chip. It has 256MB of fast GDDR3 memory clocked at 1040MHz DDR, & the core speed is 507MHz. It can even be overclocked higher for added performance. Not only does this card support all the latest technologies, it will also run the most demanding games. All these features at an affordable price! Watch the Video to find out more…

Check out the full video review at 3D Gameman. I didn’t even know the 850 came in a Pro version!

G.Skill is fairly new to the PC-Enthusiast market, but the company has been manufacturing high performance DRAM for 16-years, they have no problem labeling themselves as a “niche” DRAM provider and are proud to bear the appellation. Today I test a product which earns a place in the semi-conductor Lexicon opposite the term versatile. G.skill´s PC3200/PC4800 is an all inclusive DDR part in 512MB kit form and is one of the best examples of SPD programming I’ve seen to date.

Head over to Mad Shrimps for the full review!

The memory review we have in front of us today should be very interesting, this ram has already been reviewed by several sites and had very high overclocking results. The name of the kit today is OCZ DDR PC4800 Platinum, which you might have read about already but today rbmods will take their shot with this nice looking ram so stay tuned as we compare it to some other very fast sticks or ram.

Great looking enthusiast memory! Check it out at R&B Mods.

With the recent announcement of the Crossfire platform, the graphic industry spotlight has been shifted towards ATI. While we anxiously wait to get our hands on a Crossfire based card we give their All-in-Wonder series flagship card a whirl. The X800 XT All-in-Wonder is the latest and greatest multimedia graphic processor from ATI. The X800 XT is a big step up from the previous flagship AIW, the Radeon 9800 Pro, boasting more power and multimedia features such as FM-on-Demand and EazyLook.

Head over to Bona Fide Reviews for the full look!

Over the past couple years DFI has been marketing themselves as a leader in the enthusiast community with the help of the LANParty line of motherboards. In this review we will be looking at one such candidate the LANParty UT SLI-DR. As the name suggests this is an SLI enabled motherboard that features 2 16x compatible PCI Express video slots along with several other features too numerous to mention.

Check out the full review of this awesome board at Ninja Lane.

ATI is bringing some new functionality to their Catalyst driver suite with version 5.6. They also give us a look ahead at some upcoming features that will make their way into the software. We cover the notable features of the new Catalyst and where it is heading.

For a look at what the future drivers are going to bring, check out the in-depth article at Hard|OCP.

During Computex, we had the good fortune of meeting and grilling DFI’s enginner – Jarry Chang on their latest Crossfire motherboard!

Their new Crossfire motherboards boast, not only the ability to run two ATI graphics cards simultaneously, but also allows the user to do so WITHOUT the use of a signal-forwarding card.

Check out the full article over at the Rojak Pot!

We just grouped together a list of 45 USB smart apps that are especially designed for the next generation U3-compliant flash drives, which are 32-bit ARM7-powered DiskOnKey in a nutshell.

Of all the titles, they can be grouped into ‘Mobile Desktop’, ‘Sync & Backup’, ‘Security’, ‘Multimedia’ and ‘Internet & Communications’. So far, we couldn’t find any MP3 player software nor any MS office clones. Skype, FireFox, Thunderbird, McAfee AV are among high-profile offerings.

Check out the full list at Everything USB.

Straight off the bat we have to say that this Vantec AeroFlow does not have a noisy fan so you are not going to go deaf using your computer even with the fan running flat out and of course it is not sold as an all powerful heatsink which is reflected in our graph. It is worth remembering as you will have seen in our earlier reviews these other heatsinks shown here are somewhat powerful.

You can check out the full review of the cooler at A1 Electronics.

In a time when PC components are becoming more and more power hungry almost by the day, the importance of a good stable power supply is more evident now than it ever has been. Cooler Master hasn’t built a good power supply, they have built a GREAT power supply. Cooler Master has gone the extra mile to “future proof” the Real Power 550 as evident by the choice of connectors like SATA (which has all but replaced IDE in the enthusiast market) and a dedicated PCI-E connector for today’s power hungry video cards.

Head over to Viper Lair for the review!

The I-Rocks Crystal USB 2.0 Card Reader & Hub Combo appears to be very welt built. It has a very simple design that makes it very straight forward to use. There are no LEDs or any other type of gimmicks, and it is just a “what you see is what you get” type of device that works very well.

Check out the full review of the reader at Big Bruin!

HEXUS managed to get down and dirty with a Crossfire based rig today. The solution was running on a complete reference design, which was built by Sapphire – an ATi AIB and Motherboard partner.

Check out the full article at Hexus.

At 3.2V, the OCZ PC4000 Gold Dual Channel VX seemed very happy and the system was stable all the way up to 260 MHz. Anything higher caused more stability problems. It seems like the memory was starting to top out, since the voltage had to be increased substantially to squeeze out a few more MHz. In the end, the memory hit a high of 268 MHz while running using 2-2-2-5 memory timings with a voltage of 3.5V . Increasing the voltage higher actually lowered the memory’s maximum overclock.

Check out the full review at PC Stats!

Gigabyte’s cooler doesn’t just end with the Rocket cooler. While the G-Power cooler may look like Thermalright heatsinks, it differs and benefits in its own special way.

Blue may be overdone in the world of mods, but damn this cooler looks great! Check out the review at Insane Tek.

Today I have a new 12 in 1 Flash Card Reader from Crucial Technology. When you hear the name Crucial, you think of high quality memory. Since flash cards are a type of memory in itself, it was only natural that a company like Crucial would start making flash cards and readers. Let us find out if their card readers can meet the Crucial standards that we have all come to know.

You can read the review at Think Computer.