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LG Announces X-Note Z330 Ultrabook that Boots in 9.9 Seconds
We’re in the midst of the ‘Ultrabook’ fad, and next up, it’s LG getting in on the action with its X-Note Z330. This is one of the best-looking Ultrabooks I’ve seen to date, with a brushed aluminum finish on top that makes it looks bothrugged and beautiful at the same time. It weighs in at just about 2.6 lbs and features a 12-inch…
GOG.com Announces Schedule for Holiday Deals
Steam has become famous for offering some of the best game deals around, but this holiday season, GOG.com wants to make sure its name gets recognized as well by offering much of the same. What’s being planned is quite impressive, so if you’re a fan of gaming classics, then you’d do well to pay attention to this promotion.
k|ngp|n Sets 3DMark 11 Extreme Record with EVGA Hardware
Overclocking world records are broken so often, that normally I don’t even read into what the accomplishment was when I’m sent an e-mail – it’ll just be broken next week, after all. But the latest accomplishment of Vince “k|ngp|n”Lucido isn’t just impressive because of the overclock, but because of the unbelievable amount…
Steam Offering Daily Deals Through December; Holding Wishlist Contest
Hot on the heels of its last mega-sale, Valve is treating its faithful users to even more deals throughout the month of December. It’s also wrapping a bit of a contest into the mix, involving user wishlists. To enter, you need to make sure that you have at least 10 games in your Steam wishlist, and then visit the daily featured deal in order to…
Linux Mint 12 First Impressions
It’s been a while since I last took Linux Mint for a spin, so with the much-hyped 12 having just been released, how could I put off taking another look at it any longer? This release is arguably the most interesting in Mint’s history, as it integrates GNOME 3 like no other distro has. In essence, the Linux Mint team is now giving its users…
OCZ Technology Refreshes Talos Enterprise SAS SSDs with Talos 2
OCZ Technology has just updated its Talos line of Enterprise SSDs. Second-generation Talos 2 drives will utilize a dual-ported SAS 6G configuration. Where the previous Talos drives were stuck in a 3.5″ form factor, Talos 2 will be a 2.5″-sized drive yet offer capacities ranging from 100GB up to an impressive 1TB in size.
Android Dominates Smartphone Market in Q3; iPhone Most Popular Hardware
The Nielsen research firm has just released its Q3 smartphone report, and while nothing has dramatically changed since Q2, the stats still prove interesting. As I’m sure most people would expect, Apple has retained the lead as being the largest hardware vendor, securing 28.3% of smartphone shipments during…
NVIDIA Releases Limited Edition 448-core GTX 560 Ti
Just in time for the holidays, and only for the holidays, NVIDIA and its partners have released a new GTX 560 Ti variant. It’s set to fall in between the GTX 560 Ti and GTX 570 performance-wise, although it has more in common with the latter than the former. For example, it shares the clock speeds of the GTX 570, but drops the…
Seagate Releases Second-Gen Momentus XT Hybrid Drive
It seems like every storage company today wants to jump on the “hybrid” bandwagon, but early last year,Seagate became one of the first to deliver a feasible solution, and it came in the form of the Momentus XT. A mobile drive, the Momentus XT set out to speed up laptops everywhere by including 4GB of SLC cache…
Report: iPad 3 to Have 2048×1536 Resolution Display
Long before Apple launched its iPad 2, it’s been rumored that the company has been working with certain manufacturers to make sure a super high-resolution display finds its way into a future iPad. According to sources close to CNET, such a display will be making its way into the iPad 3, despite its low yields.
Researchers Decrypt HDCP Streams with FPGA Development Board
Last fall, Intel found that the master key for its HDCP digital copy protection scheme had been leaked to the Internet, and while the company claimed that it’d require too much effort and money to make proper use of it, it still made it clear that it’d be ready to take legal action against anyone who made use of it. For some people, a threat…
NVIDIA’s GeForce 290.36 Driver Adds AO Support to MW3 & Skyrim
With the onslaught of game releases recently, NVIDIA’s driver team sure have their work cut out for them. For the second time this month, NVIDIA has just released a brand-new beta driver that not only improves performance in a number of games, but also adds the ability to enable Ambient Occlusion shadowing techniques in…
EA Marks Down Nearly Entire Origin Catalogue for Black Friday
With Battlefield 3, EA has successfully managed to get millions of gamers to install its Origin game client on their PCs, so what better way to keep people around by offering some killer Black Friday deals on most titles in the entire catalogue? We’re talking Steam-like price-drops in some cases here. Don’t own Battlefield 3 yet? Now…
GOG.com Features Postal, Stronghold & Others in ‘Panoply Promo’
It’s that time of year where it becomes awfully difficult to keep money in your wallet, so it’s understandable if you’ve been unable to pick up a copy of the multitude of good games released over the past month. Always catering to those looking to game on the cheap, GOG.com has just kicked off a “panoply promo” featuring ten…
Keeping Track of Your Tasks in a Simple Way with Wunderlist
In an attempt to be more efficient with the tasks I need to get done, I’ve tried various solutions for keeping track of things. I’ve tried Google Calendar, ‘To Do’ text files, the robust Evernote, and even just plain old paper. While all of these offered some nice benefits, all of them also carried their own caveats that made them less-than-ideal…
Samsung’s Latest Galaxy S II Advert Pokes Fun at Apple
When Apple releases a new product, there are a couple of things that make the launch interesting. First, the hype level tends to border on asinine, and second, there are always going to be those select few who waste away some of their days sitting outside of an Apple store waiting to get their grubby hands on said product. In a…
Steam Kicks off 4-Day ‘Autumn Sale’
Valve has kicked off a Steam ‘Autumn Sale’ that runs straight through until the end of the weekend. As per the norm, there will be a collection of unique games offered each day with varying levels of savings, though if today’s sales are anything to go by, you can expect to see at least 50 – 75% off of these select titles. In addition to these…
ASUS Opens Pre-orders for Eee Pad Transformer Prime
ASUS has opened up pre-orders for what might be one of the hottest tablets of the season, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Priced at $499 for both the US and Canada, pre-orders can be purchased at Amazon, B&H, Best Buy, GameStop and TigerDirect in the US, and at Future Shop and NCIX in Canada.
Microsoft to Take the Pain Out of Installing Windows 8
I can think of few things that are less exciting than installing an OS, and the tedium is only increased when you have a handful of considerations to make. Did I back up my data? Do I need to repartition? Should I run the installer from within Windows or boot up with it? Should I do an upgrade or a full format? Just thinking about all…
Google Releases Flash-to-HTML5 Flash Professional Extension
With Adobe’s recent decision to halt the development of its Flash mobile variant, the company essentially told the world that the future of the Web is not with Flash, but rather HTML5. While the company will continue to develop Flash on the desktop, mobile devices have to be considered. Without mobile Flash, the future of the…
VMware Fusion Gains Ability to Run OS X 10.5-10.7 in a VM
When Apple released OS X 10.7 ‘Lion’ this past summer, I didn’t consider it to be a ‘major’ release as the company was touting. There was, however, a rather significant feature that I somehow completely missed: the ability to run OS X in a virtual machine. If you’re a Windows or Linux user, don’t get too excited – Apple has a rule…
Nintendo to Launch $199 3DS Bundles this Week
Nintendo’s 3DS handheld has been a hard sell ever since its launch, despite receiving good reviews in the beginning, and has even caused the company to lose a great deal of money. With the holiday season upon us, things have been slowly improving, but with its latest push, Nintendo is hoping that its 3DS will soon be…
GOG.com to Offer Newer Games Beginning in 2012
It used to be that there were only a few digital game stores to choose from, but today, that’s obviously not the case. In fact, there are so many of these services out there today, that it’s difficult for any one of them to separate themselves from the rest. Of them all, though, GOG.com has done a great job at distancing itself…
SteelSeries Announces SRW-S1 Racing Wheel
With the launch of its “Desmo” eyewear just over a month ago, it became evident that SteelSeries didn’t want to stop at just making keyboards and mice. Today, that fact is further proven with the release of the company’s SRW-S1 steering wheel, designed in conjunction with the folks behind the Simraceway online racing service…
Google Opens its Digital Music Store; Invites Users to Discover & Share
Jumping on the digital music store bandwagon, Google has finally unveiled its hopeful iTune-killer, simply called Google Music. The company launched a beta for the service earlier this year that allowed its users to upload up to 20,000 songs to the cloud for free, and now that the service is out of beta, it offers much more, and could…