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Icrontic is proud to offer the Office Hours series of articles. Each week we’ll take a look at a common problem in Windows or often-used software and nail down a quick fix for it. This week, the good doctor explores how to fix a Windows Installer Service that has gone on the blink. Add comment
Check it out! Windows 7 beta screenshots. Add comment
The Sumo Chief Rocker is like an Omni Plus bean bag mixed with a rocking chair. Add comment
RiDATA, owned by RiTEK, has been a manufacturer of optical storage devices like CDs and DVDs since 1989 and recently ventured into the world of flash memory. This year they released the Ultra-S Plus line of 2.5″ form-factor solid-state drives. Today, I’m looking at the highest capacity model: the 128GB drive. Add comment
mATX and SFF users rejoice! VR-Zone previews the new Thermalright AXP-140 compact heatsink. Add comment
The guy who made this also made that craptacular Doom movie. Also, Kristin Kreuk looks nothing like Chun Li… In fact, this movie doesn’t even remind me of Street Fighter. It’s also in Japanese. Whatever, watch it. Add comment
Benchmark Reviews discusses the problems faced when testing solid state drives. Add comment
On November 5, we brought you “Blu-Ray BD+ DRM Cracked again,” the story of DRM hackers using a virtual machine to trick Blu-Ray discs into believing they were running on legit hardware. Today marks the next entry in the never-ending saga, as vigilante DVD ripping company Slysoft has announced that they’ve cracked the update that […] Add comment
Gainward hits the scene with the fast Rampage 700 Golden Sample Radeon HD 4870 X2. It has a faster brother, the Goes Like Hell Edition, too. Add comment
Kingston’s 2GB HyperX DDR3-2000 kit is fast, inexpensive, and loves tight timings. Add comment
The Vizo Propeller adds two fans in a single slot to lower your case temps. Add comment
There’s a law being bandied about (translator required) in Chilean government which will permanently disconnect pirates from the interwibble should they be caught for their indiscretion. Unfortunately for the Chilean government, the draft of the bill was written on a pirated copy (Google Spanglish ahead) of Microsoft Office. Enterprising internet sleuths, for whatever reason, discovered […] Add comment
Though PDF is proprietary and Acrobat is trashy, the PDF remains a swank format because it guarantees every reader sees the same document free of font or formatting quirkiness. Yet no matter how super awesome PDF can be, sometimes it’s just plain better to have a document that can be edited at leisure. To that […] Add comment
Yesterday, the lads over at Phoronix began coverage of AMD’s release of the code and documentation necessary to write drivers for AMD 3000 and 4000-series GPUs on Linux. The process has been arduous and technically-challenging for AMD. It has been difficult for the firm to release concise documentation that will let programmers do their task […] Add comment
Wired steps up to the plate and shows us 12 cool and inexpensive gadgets for tough economic times. Add comment
Soybeans weren’t interesting until they involved wacky gene splicing and biochemistry! Add comment
Today’s download of the whenever day, Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN), can wipe the contents of a drive with all manner of thoroughness. If you’ve ever had the desire to clean a hard drive to Royal Canadian Mounted Police or Department of Defense standards, well, DBAN delivers. Just be careful. Data scrubbed with this program […] Add comment
Today’s addon of the whenever day, AutoCopy, automatically copies text to the clipboard after it has been highlighted. To veterans of IRC, Trillian or Linux, you know that this is fantastically convenient. Add comment
Emil Protalinski at ArsTechnica has done some digging on what we might expect in the way of Windows 7 versions. While this all remains unsubstantiated, he’s convinced that we’ll see just three versions of Windows 7 and the return of the Professional edition. These are not confirmed, but I am told they are what Microsoft […] Add comment
Nerds, get ready to rage. A judge has declared that Fox, not Warner, has the rights to Watchmen. Limbo, here we come. Add comment
As a reminder to the virtues of not cybersquatting, Verizon was recently awarded a judgment of $33.15 million USD in a case against OnlineNIC. A federal court in northern Calfifornia handed down a default ruling that OnlineNIC owes Verizon $50,000 for each of the 633 domains that could be confused with legitimate Verizon sites. Such […] Add comment
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