Nintendo have been fighting piracy ever since the days of the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System). Even up to the days of the Dreamcast, they have adopted the stance that games should be on proprietary format (cartridges, special Dreamcast media, etc) but for the Wii, they have decided that maybe the reason why they’re not […]
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CES 2009: New HP Laptops
The tech industry is facing a slump, but for some that means innovation and will be the key to success. The annual Consumer Electronics Show 2009 saw a subdued reaction this year, but that had not prevented HP from revealing some new laptops coming out during the event. In total there were five new laptops, […]
Install Apple OS X Leopard onto MSI Wind Netbook
The community of hackintoshes, or Macintosh operating systems running on non-standard Apple hardware, has been a vibrant one, albeit silent but that doesn’t mean some of their great achievements should be ignored. Well the latest thing to appear from the hackintosh community is the ability to install Mac OSX Leopard into a diminutive budget netbook […]
Acer Aspire One to come in 10-inch flavors
Acer Taiwan’s president Scott Lin has confirmed rumors that a 10.1-inch version of the popular Aspire One ultraportable netbook to arrive in black, white and sexy red colors. The release is tentatively set at early 2009, and possibly we will hear more about it during CES 2009. The screen gets bumped up to 10.1 inches, […]
The best of Windows 7 now on Vista/XP
The news of Windows 7 making a launch in this year have caught many by surprise, as Microsoft scrambles to remedy the poor performance and consumer reception to Vista by launching another version of Windows. Joking aside, the newest iteration of Windows does have some appeal, especially some new usability enhancements that promises to make […]
NVIDIA to launch GTX295 January 2009
In August, ATI, now a division of AMD finally pulled its socks together and put out what was possibly their best product yet with the launch of the Radeon 4xxx series of graphics card. Not only did they outperform their similarly classed Geforce 9xxx serious counterparts, they also smashed the performance crown with the 4879×2. […]
ASUS EeeTop ET1602 touch screen nettop
Don’t worry folks, this is not another launch of their ubiquitous budget laptops, but a new version of their desktop, which is now available in touchscreen mode. The first EeeTop I came across was a minimalist, simple machine that is light and surprisingly portable. No clunky, complicated wires and a small CPU that’s both stylish […]
Best new software of 2008!
With Christmas just over, there are few surprises left in store. Here is a list of some of the best new software that have launched this year: Firefox 3 This is without a doubt the best browser out there right now in terms of features and extensibility, although Opera comes a close second. There are […]
Samsung to launch new Google Phone in Q2 2009
We will be seeing a slew of new Google phones next year, that’s for sure, and Samsung seems to be throwing in the gauntlet and expects to have their own Google Phone out in the second quarter of 2009. The first Google Phone by HTC called the HTC G1 only had average performance in the […]
Bush shoe throw game
The incident in which Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zeidi tossed his shoes at US President George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference recently, has turned into a fast-moving Internet meme, spawning dozens of games and video pranks. Let’s check out a few of the games which were inspired by this shoe throwing incident. Sock and […]