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Could Gold-Farming Aid Poorer Nations?
We’ve talked a bit about MMO gold-farming in the past, taking a look at the practice from multiple points-of-view, but a recent article at BCC raises a couple of interesting points I didn’t consider before. Such as the fact that gold-farming could provide aid to poorer nations taking part in the practice. In fact, BCC reports that such…
Authorized Steve Jobs Biography to be Released in 2012
To many, Steve Jobs is the image of pure genius, but while Apple’s long-standing CEO is in the limelight all the time, he’s actually rather seclusive in nature, leaving most of his personal life and thoughts to speculation. Given this, Jobs’ first authorized biography, titled “iSteve: The Book of Jobs“, is pretty well set to sell a ton of copies…
The Most Popular Tablet Use? Gaming!
It might come as a surprise to some (it does me), but according to a Google-conducted survey which queried 1,430 people, the most popular use for a tablet is gaming. In fact, a staggering 84% of those people claim to be tablet gamers, with other popular activities including ‘Searching for information’, at 78%, and ‘E-mailing’ at 74%.
Minecraft’s Official Release Date Set for 11/11/11
Being that Minecraft has been purchased nearly 2,000,000 times since its initial release over two years ago, and also the fact that the game enjoys very regular updates, many fans would consider the game to be in a “complete” state right now. But as stable as the game has been, it still carries a “Beta” tag, and only recently lost its…
AMD Releases $55 Radeon HD 6450
When AMD released its HD 6000 series of graphics cards this past fall, the rumor-mill went wild and led everyone to believe that thanks to the good IGP solutions from Intel, and AMD’s upcoming Llano APUs, we wouldn’t see another entry-level GPU from either AMD or NVIDIA. But, it looks like we were all proven wrong, thanks to the…
Is $15 for a Piece of DLC Too Expensive?
Is a piece of DLC that contains a mere four multi-player maps and an additional mode worth $15? This is a topic that we’ve debated quite a bit here at Techgage, and while I personally hated DLC at the get-go, I am not totally opposed to it today. It depends on a major factor, though. Is the DLC a great extension to an already full game
GIGABYTE Launches ‘Initial K’ Contest at HWBot
Own a GIGABYTE P67 motherboard and take overclocking seriously? Enjoy the thrill of competition? If so, then GIGABYTE has a contest you’ll want to enter, being run with the help of OC competition site HWBOT.org. The contest is split into six different categories, and points are awarded to the top 3 people in each at the end of the…
GNOME 3 Final Released; ‘Made of Easy’
It’s been called a “significant redesign”, and for good reason. GNOME 3.0, released today, looks nothing like the GNOME desktop of the past, and for devout users, a completely new user interface awaits. Gone is the bottom taskbar, and typical menu system. Instead, GNOME 3.0 is designed to maximize screen real estate, look pretty…
Bashing Microsoft is Like Kicking a Puppy?
It’s not too often that a headline manages to give me a minor case of whiplash, but one that compares Microsoft-bashing to kicking a puppy… well, that’s right up there as one of the best. According to Linux Foundation chief Jim Zemlin, that’s not just a sensationalist headline, but it’s how he feels about the Linux ecosystem, and he…
Multi-Tasking with the Blit Terminal in 1982
Today, multi-tasking on a PC is something most of us take for granted, and if the ability to multi-task suddenly disappeared… alright, I don’t want to talk about it! In the earlier days of computing though, multi-tasking was an unknown, a total rarity. But believe it or not, even though CPUs like the Motorola 68000 were produced with…
The Not So Secret History of Super Mario Bros. 2
In 1988, the Nintendo Entertainment System saw the release of a sequel that most people who owned the console were anticipating: Super Mario Bros. 2. After the major success of the original, how could the sequel do anything but thrill us all? Over 20 years later, this game is still debated as to whether it was a great sequel, but I think most would…
Ubuntu ‘Unity’ Desktop Environment First Impressions
When Canonical announced last fall that Ubuntu 11.04 would be released with a home-brewed desktop environment called “Unity”, I found myself almost immediately excited. As Ubuntu came equipped with GNOME as its primary desktop environment since the distro’s inception, the idea that Canonical would be pushing it aside for something…
In the TG Lab: GIGABYTE’s G1.Sniper Motherboard
I posted a look at Intel’s DX58SO2 motherboard yesterday in another instalment of ‘In the TG Lab’, and today, I continue with a look at another X58-based offering: GIGABYTE’s G1.Sniper. Unlike Intel’s board, which looks to deliver a good balance between stability and features, GIGABYTE’s G1.Sniper pushes as much as possible to the…
What Would You Like to See from Intel’s Enthusiast-class Motherboards?
In our ‘In the TG Lab’ look at Intel’s DX58SO2 motherboard, I mentioned that while the company has been producing enthusiast-class motherboards for quite some time, enthusiasts haven’t exactly noticed – or at least there has been a reason why they haven’t been adopting them. The latter is a group I tend to belong to. What are the reasons, and…
Microsoft Benchmarks Browser Power Consumption
Power consumption is a topic that we spend a fair bit of time talking about through a lot of our content, especially with regards to graphics cards and processors. But, I can honestly admit that one piece of technology where power consumption has never come to mind is… with a Web browser. Admit it… you likely haven’t either (and if you have…
In the TG Lab: Intel’s DX58SO2 Motherboard
Where computer processors are concerned, Intel is a name that comes to mind immediately for many people. But aside from being responsible for creating some of the fastest processors on the planet, Intel has a slew of other product lines as well, such as chipsets, NICs, solid-state drives, and of course, motherboards. The latter is a…
Firefox 4? Old News. Get Ready for Firefox 5!
Yes, it’s true. Mozilla may have just launched Firefox 4, but while everyone was downloading it to their heart’s content, Firefox 5 development had already gotten underway. While it may seem a bit silly to be talking about the next version now, the final version is expected to ship during the week of June 29. Nope – that’s not a typo.
Intel Launches “G3” SSDs as the Intel 320 Series
Well that didn’t take long. After our previous post regarding the surprise launch of Intel’s 510 Series where we questioned what may have become of the much awaited “G3” drives, we have our answer. Intel has launched its X25-M G2 successor under the guise of the Intel SSD 320 Series. This third-generation Intel controller reportedly…
Amazon Launches Web-storage Service for Music
Ahead of both Google and Apple, Amazon has launched a couple of Web-based services that allow users to both store their music (and other data) in the cloud, and listen to it, either on the go or while at home. The first component is called “Cloud Drive”, and is just as it sounds… a service for storage space on the Web. For all users, the first 5GB…
NVIDIA to Hold Tegra Developer Conference in May
Since the fall of 2008, NVIDIA has been holding an annual conference called NVISION where developers and others can hook up and delve into the latest technologies that the company offers, while also receiving important tech-bits to help them go back to their office with a fresh outlook on things and with improved skills. But what about holding a…
Canadian ISP Rogers Admits to Throttling World of Warcraft
Out of the “Well, that’s not surprising!” file comes a story of Canadian ISP Rogers and its throttling of the most popular MMO game around, World of Warcraft. One avid WoW fan, Teresa Murphy, had gotten tired of getting booted from her game and having sluggish performance aside, and as a result consulted Rogers about the issue. After being fed a…
Mozilla Breaks Down Firefox 4 Download Stats
Mozilla released its Firefox 4 Web browser early last week, and the immediate response was almost overwhelming even as a spectator. If you happened to have watched the download counter at Mozilla.com, you would have seen that each refresh tacked on a thousand or more to the total, and after a mere two days, that counter sat at a very…
Just Cause 2 Developer Hates DRM; Hires Hackers
It’s not too often that someone in the game industry with some weight behind their name says something that I completely agree with, but when it comes to Christofer Sundberg, of Avalanche Studios, I couldn’t agree more. It’s obvious that we at Techgage are not too fond of DRM, and as it appears, Christofer isn’t either. In fact, he seems…
Report Claims Piracy Doesn’t Affect Music Creation
If the biggest companies in the recording industry are to be believed, piracy is ruining both music creation and of course, sales. According to a newly-released paper by American economist Joel Waldfogel, however, those claims couldn’t be further from the truth. While piracy does have its obvious consequences, harm to music…
Kingston Releases Important Firmware Fix for SSDNow V100 Solid-State Drives
Kingston has emailed us to get the word out to all SSDNow V100 users about a latent technical issue discovered in the V100 drive’s firmware. This issue can cause the drive to become unresponsive at POST or during the booting process. Various posts across several forums allude to the SSD becoming completely inaccessible…