45 posts
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31 Days of the Dragon – Win an HP HDX Dragon Notebook!
Update: We have a winner! Please be sure to checkout the other contests! It’s only fitting that one of the biggest notebooks I’ve ever seen, is sponsoring one of the biggest contests I’ve ever seen. HP has partnered with BuzzCorp and 31 sites to give away 31…
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Mother’s Day Surprise – Digital Foci Pocket Album review
Still searching for that perfect Mother’s Day gift? For a while now, I’ve been thinking about getting my wife a portable picture viewer she can carry around. With all our photos being digital and only having family pictures taken once a year, she’s been…
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Car, Drive
By now you may have seen the commercials for Ford’s line of cars featuring Microsoft Sync, a music and mobile phone platform for automobiles. If not, you can view one here. It chronicles the embarrassment of people who find that treadmills, doors, and curtains do not…
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Ludicrous Speed – Corsair Voyager GT Review
As a kid, I absolutely loved the movie Spaceballs. As an adult (and arguably still a kid) I still love the movie Spaceballs. When I got my mitts on the Corsair Voyager GT, the line “Light speed is too slow?” “Yes. We’re gonna have go right to –…
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Corsair Voyager – 32GB Flash Drive
What would you do with a 32GB Flash Drive? Mine contains my entire music collection, all of my important documents, my family photos, a restore image of the operating system on my computer, and 6GB of free space. When you’re used to using 2, 4, or even 8GB flash drives,…
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System Building Guide – under $1,000 (February 2008)
Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3 ========== Motherboard review by James_8970 ========== As technology continues to progress, our present demands continue to outgrow our pasts. Over the past few months we have seen many new chipsets released: Intel’s P35/X38/X48, nVidia’s 7x0i…
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Corsair TX750W: Review
I’ve been a fan of Corsair RAM for years, so when they decided to enter the power supply market, I jumped at the chance to see what they have to offer. The TX750W comes with some impressive packaging including a “velvet” bag to keep it in if you’re not…
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Gouged by Geeks?
While the Geek Squad may be getting most of the bad press recently, it seems other home computer repair companies may not be fairing much better. CBC Canadian television news called 10 on-site geeks into a house with hidden cameras to repair a simple hardware problem. How many…
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Do you need a Quad-core CPU?
Unless you’re a hardware enthusiast, you may have missed the fact that Intel significantly lowered the price on it’s quad-core CPUs this weekend. A quad-core CPU has four processing units on one chip (this first quad-core from Intel is actually two dual-core CPUs on…
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Reminder: Laptop Battery Recalls
A reminder about some major laptop battery recalls over the last year: IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Battery Recall for most 9-cell batteries sold between November 2005 and February 2007, and for batteries manufactured by Sony between February 2005 and September 2006. Apple iBook and…