Archive for June, 2009

Obama USB Drive!

Featuring a holographic image of Obama, a pivot-style base so you never loose the cap, and 80mb of FREE bonus Obama material, who could miss this great opportunity to own this great piece of history? Starting at only $10 for the 2GB model it could be a bargain! "Celebrate history in the making with this commemorative Barack Obama USB Flash drive. It features an Obama hologram on the face of the pivot style steel frame. The drive includes 80MB of free Obama bonus content preloaded onto the...
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Windows 7 Pricing and Upgrade Options

We now have word from Microsoft on the pricing and upgrade options for their latest release, Windows 7. With the release date set of October the 22nd this year I'm sure you will all be interested to know how much you need to put aside! Windows 7 Home Premium (Retail): $199.99 Windows 7 Professional (Retail): $299.99 Windows 7 Ultimate (Retail): $319.99 Upgrade costings are as follows... Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): $119.99 Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade: $199.99 Windows...
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Thermaltake ISGC Fan 12 120MM Fan Review

Today I figured why not take a look at another Thermaltake product, this time it's a fan, while it might not be as exciting as the BlacX I looked at yesterday, it's still a good product. The fan is a new design by Thermaltake, they took cues from other companies and basically re-designed this fan from the ground up. It's called the ISGC 12, and it features a unique fan blade design to keep things quiet but yet promotes good airflow, it also features an in-line speed controller and comes...
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Microsoft to release a Free Anti Virus soloution “Morro”

Last week our article on free anti virus software was surely a hit, anti virus is an absolute must for everybody, but not a lot of people want to pay for it. Now Microsoft is also attempting an entrance into the highly competitive security market with its new "Morro" software. According to BBC, The company is reportedly trailling their free anti-virus software internally and will be soon releasing a beta version. The software will do your every-day basic tasks of tackling virus infections...
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The man who engineered Google AdSense now works for Facebook

Since Early 2003 Greg Badros has been working for Google and has worked his way up the chain to a Senior Director of Engineering position. Now at Facebook, his official title will be Director of Engineering aswell. Badros was in charge of the AdSense (Google's advertising platform) engineering team from around 2004, eventually becoming the leader of also the Google Calendar, Google Reader and Gmail teams. Since March 2009 he has led the Application Platform group. The interesting thing is...
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Reviews for the 14th!

Components ASUS M4A79 Deluxe Motherboard Review at Motherboards.org Asus Rampage II GENE at t-break ATI Radeon Driver Re-Write Still Has Work Left at Phoronix Direct3D Improvements In Windows 7 at Tech ARP Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Vapor-X at DriverHeaven.net Sapphire HD 4890 Toxic / Vapor-X at techPowerUp Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD4890 1GB Graphics Card Review at Bigbruin.com ASUS Mars Dual GTX 285 4 GByte Card and Benchmark Preview at Ocaholic.ch GIGABYTE GV-R489-1GH-B...
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Top Free Antivirus Software for your PC.

If you don't have antivirus already, you probably are experiencing a very slow computer! Unfortunately due to the extensive work that it takes to keep up with maintaining an accurate virus signature database, many more popular antivirus software can sometimes be out of many peoples budgets, especially if you are not using your computer very often or have a spare computer that still needs protecting. Thankfully if you are looking for a great, free antivirus solution there are many to...
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Review Roundup for Sunday 7th of June

Components Samsung N310 netbook. Style over substance? at HEXUS.net Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 4GB Dual Kit at PC-experience.de Overclocker DDR3 for Socket AM3 at iXBT Labs ASRock video booth tour P55 motherboards and Ion at Tweaktown XFX GeForce 275 GTX 896MB DDR3 Core Edition GX 275X-AHFF Review at Motherboards.org MSI GT627-216US Gaming Notebook at HotHardware.com Sapphire HD 4890 Toxic and Sapphire 4890 Vapor-X Review at OCC Asus Eee PC T-91 tablet netbook at IT PRO Cases,...
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Windows 7 Release Date Confirmed, 22nd Oct. 2009

As we previously mentioned a few weeks back, thanks to Acer the supposed launch date for Windows 7 would be October this year (2009). Well the cat is out of the bag as such, and Microsoft have announced that the highly anticipated operating system and successor to Windows Vista, Windows 7, will be released on October the 22nd 2009! Perfect timing for the holiday season. This will be one of the shortest times between operating system launches for Microsoft with only around three years between...
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3DMark record broken halfway through world’s largest overclocking competition

SARATOGA, CA – June 2, 2009 – Futuremark® Corporation today released winners’ details from the first two weeks of their Lords of Overclocking competition and revealed that halfway through the four week contest the 3DMark06 world record has already fallen twice. Contest: http://www.futuremark.com/lords Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/YouGamerGirl Overclockers are competing to achieve the highest score with 3DMark06, a benchmarking program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming...
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Friday Review Roundup! 5th June

Components AMD Athlon II X2 250 AM3 Processor at Benchmark Reviews Polar FT80 + G1 Fitness Computer at TrustedReviews OCZ Blade PC3-16000 6GB Memory Kit at Hardwarelogic GeForce GTX 295 Mars graphics at Tech Report XFX Radeon HD 4770 512MB video card review at Elite Bastards Phenom II - The Road From K8 to Deneb at Rage3D.com Beast Computers - Breed Evo System Review at DriverHeaven CyberPower Black Mamba Venom Core i7 975EE Gaming System at Tweaktown Intel Core i7 950...
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No more gaming for Dell, Alienware replace with M17x Notebook

People have always wondered what will happen with the XPS line of computers now that Dell owns Alienware. Well today the answer is out. Dell are now going to use their now owned Alienware brand for its official gaming face of the company. With Alienware hinting to all of us that a new gaming laptop is on its way, the anouncement was not going to be made public for a few more days. PC World although have recieved all the details on this beast, and it is huge! The M17x notebook features a...
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Review Roundup for the first June Weekend!

Components AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition at Techgage.com Sparkle GTS250 Graphics Card Review at Virtual-Hideout Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI GeForce 9600GT SilentCell Review at Motherboards.org AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Quad-Core Processor at TechwareLabs XFX GTS 250 Video Card Review at OCIA.net Cases Power Supplies and Cooling IN-WIN 1200W Commander Power Supply Review at Techarkade World-Exclusive: Thermaltake Luxa² LM300 Touch Pro at...
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