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Fashion Your Firefox

There’s no better a time to return to our love affair with Mozilla’s darling Firefox than with today’s announcement of the “Fashion Your Firefox” campaign. This new initiative bundles a variety of popular addons together to serve the needs of nine distinct personalities of internet users. Are you a Shutter Bug? Rock Star? News Junkie? […] Add comment

Tweak Vista’s UI with Ultimate Windows Tweaker

We know you guys like to tweak and tune the hell out of everything, so why stop at Windows Vista’s user interface? Thanks to a shiny find by the lads at Lifehacker, we’re goin’ lockstep to make Ultimate Windows Tweaker our download of the day. It’s 370KB, it’s portable, it has over 130 tweaks. That’s […] Add comment

Office Hours 8: Fixing high-def audio drivers

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 explains how to get those fussy RealTek, VIA, SigmaTel, and ADI high-def audio solutions working on […] Add comment

Cooler Master ACTS RC-840

Cooler Master goes retro with a remade/updated version of their 1999 case with the ACTS RC-840. Add comment

Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000

The Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000 keyboard and mouse combo is designed with media centers in mind. Add comment

Never gonna give you up…

Rickroll anyone via telephone by texting 41411 the word rick followed by that individual’s ten digit phone number. What has Twilio done? Add comment

Microsoft releasing free anti-virus in 2009

In a surprising move, Microsoft has decided to offer a free anti-virus solution in lieu of its OneCare service to be eliminated in 2009. One has to wonder exactly what spurred Microsoft to move in this direction. We suspect that Microsoft may be looking to gain a valuable piece of good will with the free […] Add comment

Lego safe is safer than you think

You’d think you could just pop off a few bricks to break into a Lego safe, but you’d be wrong. Add comment

Deal of the day: 1TB for $89.99

Every geek’s favorite online store, Newegg, is running a smoking-hot deal on Hitachi 1TB hard drives. You can never have too much hard drive space, right? If you have been waiting to pull the trigger on a shiny new drive to hold your bible music legally-purchased iTunes movie collection, now might be the time. Click […] Add comment

Yahoo!’s Jerry Yang writes goodbye post as CEO

Just a short time ago we carried word that Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang intended to step down after a suitable successor has been found. In light of the recent announcement, Yang has just posted a blog entry that serves as both a state of the union address and a glimmer of reason for the decision. Add comment

The G4saurus Defectus

What a troubled life it has been for that happy-go-lucky little dinosaur. Add comment

Defragment specific files with FragExt

While it is agreed that defragging an entire drive yields little modern reward, particularly large files can still benefit from defragmentation. With today’s download of the day, FragExt, you can capitalize on that good mojo by adding one-click folder and file defrags to the right click context menu for Windows. Add comment

USB 3.0 spec finalized

The USB Implementers Forum began the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference yesterday with the official unveiling of the complete USB 3.0 specification. While retaining backwards compatibility with the current ecosystem of USB devices, the new specification will rocket along at a whopping 5Gbit/s. The new performance is owed to an optical interconnect recessed behind the traditional […] Add comment

Jerry! Yang! To! Step! Down! From! Yahoo!

It has been revealed that Yahoo! founder and CEO Jerry Yang will step down after a successor is found. In a prepared statement, Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock expressed that the decision had been jointly arrived upon. “Jerry and the board have had an ongoing dialog about succession timing, and we all agree that now is […] Add comment

ZoneAlarm Pro is free today

Check Point software, developer of the popular ZoneAlarm suite of security software, is celebrating fifteen years in business by offering ZoneAlarm Pro as a free download through Wednesday evening. The professional version of ZoneAlarm features a firewall, security checking for the operating system, anti-spyware features, and identity theft protection. The company’s standard free firewall, ZoneAlarm […] Add comment

HD 4850 roundup

Metku does a big ATI HD 4850 roundup. Get in on the action! Add comment

Smooth Creations Hellcat system

The Smooth Creations Hellcat is another Core i7-rocking uber-system. Add comment

CyberPower Black Pearl Core i7 965 EE system

I suppose if you were going to buy a pre-made rig, you’d be okay with the CyberPower Black Pearl. Add comment

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5P motherboard

Guru3D recommends the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5P motherboard as a feature-packed X58 platform. Add comment

Aerocool S9 Pro mid-tower case

The Aerocool S9 Pro mid-tower case has a GIANT fan for a side panel. Add comment

Catalyst 8.11 analysis

TweakTown benchmarks ATI’s Catalyst 8.11 drivers. Add comment