Fanatec Porsche 911 racing wheel
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Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic 1GB
Tweak Town reviews the Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic 1GB. Add comment
Child’s Play 2008 is live
As far as geeky charities go, Child’s Play is one of the best out there. The guys from Penny Arcade started Child’s Play in 2003 to accomplish two goals: To provide video games and related toys to hospitalized children and to refute the general perception that gamers are inherently violent, anti-social, soulless idiots. It has […] Add comment
Gaming roundup – Ghostbusters edition
Michigan weather is crappy and I’m achy. Game on. Yesterday Activision CEO Bobby Kotick made a huge ass of himself when he claimed that any game that couldn’t be “exploited” by Activision (read: squeezed endlessly) wasn’t worth pursuing and would be dropped from their roster. One of the games that people were really up in […] Add comment
Add signatures to outgoing webmail
Alright, Mr. Bigshot, maybe you work for yourself or a company that would seriously benefit from being able to add business card-like signoffs to an email. Today is your lucky day! Using today’s Firefox addon of choice, WiseStamp, you can embed spiffy HTML signatures to most webmail services including Gmail. That’s pretty pro, if you […] Add comment
Predictive typing for Windows
Today’s download of the day known as LetMeType runs in the background and delivers T9/iTAP-style predictive typing everywhere in Windows. LetMeType’s transparent client will analyze your typing habits and begin to suggest complete words. You can keep typing or accept the changes with a single keystroke. Some will love this download, some will hate this […] Add comment
Win 7’s release tips back towards 2009
A technical session conducted yesterday at the 2008 WinHEC has provided the most convincing evidence to date that Windows 7 is on track for 2009. During the presentation centered around Microsoft’s Velocity program, Microsoft director Doug Howe revealed slides that more or less confirmed the 2009 timetable. When asked about the slides after the presentation, […] Add comment
Microsoft eyeing Safari’s WebKit engine for IE
At a developer conference in Sydney, Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted that employing Safari's WebKit rendering engine for Internet Explorer was "interesting." Add comment
China leading target for malware
A Microsoft report released on November 3 reveals that the nation of China is the leading target for malware on the Windows platform. The Redmond software giant indicated that China’s fascination with interactive web apps has made them the ideal attack vector. Seemingly-innocent websites are being loaded with powerful attacks capable of stealing passwords or […] Add comment
Apple tweaking iTunes to bork jailbreaking?
Gizmodo is reporting that the new aluminum MacBook units are shipping with a custom build of iTunes that stops jailbreaking dead in its tracks. The report alleges that the new build does not recognize an iPhone booted into the recovery mode required for jailbreaking. Add comment
Apple’s iPod maestro stepping down
A Tuesday report by Apple confirmed that Tony Fadell, lead exec of Apple’s iPod division, has decided to step down. Fadell is set to be replaced by IBM executive Mark Papermaster. Apple reports that Papermaster will join the team as the Senior VP of Devices, a role responsible for both the iPod and iPhone divisions. […] Add comment
Toshiba introduces tri-GPU laptop
Toshiba has pulled off a laptop graphics hat trick with its new Qosmio laptops. Each features an embeded GeForce 9400M GPU for everyday work along with dual GeForce 9800 GTS GPUs in Hybrid SLI for serious graphics-intensive applications and gaming. The unique design featuring three NVIDIA GPUs enables the Qosmio X305-Q708 and X305-Q706 laptops to […] Add comment
Creative X-Fi driver goes open source
The feisty guys at Phoronix are reporting that Creative has released its X-Fi sound driver under the GNU GPLv2 license. Add comment
Bypass YouTube’s age verification
Given that virtually everything on YouTube is SFW (no pr0n?!), it has always struck us as a bit uppity that users flag videos for mature content. As you may well know, this requires you to log in and verify your age. Rather than registering or choosing a random date prior to 1990, you can use […] Add comment
Archive Gmail with Gmail Backup
As users increasingly move their email onto the internet, it becomes essential that we remember that today’s services may not always be there tomorrow. While Google’s popular mail service seems awfully ubiquitous, it remains a best practice to make a duplicate of your most important resources. Today’s download of the day, Gmail Backup, will crawl […] Add comment
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 in CrossfireX
TweakTown tests the new Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 in Crossfire. Four cores! Add comment
Cooler Master CM 690 NVIDIA Edition
Oh lawd! The Cooler Master CM 690 NVIDIA Edition case is black and neon NVIDIA green. Add comment
ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard
It’s a short review, but Guru3D claims the ASUS P6T Deluxe X58 motherboard is nearly perfect. Add comment
Firefox achieves record market share
The Mozilla Foundation’s succesful Firefox browser adds another feather to its cap with the announcement that it now commands a 20% market share. While Internet Explorer continues to lose ground to the relatively recent growth of third-party browsers, Firefox has long been on a steady incline. Gaining 0.25% market share per month throughout 2008, it […] Add comment
Smooth Creations Smoothbook DR notebook
The Smooth Creations Smoothbook DR notebook is a desktop replacement for people with deep pockets. Add comment
Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10
Phoronix throws OS X 10.5 against Ubuntu 8.10. Benchmarks ensue. Add comment
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