Michael Santo
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Another grinch appears as a ten-year-old in Tennessee received a decidedly unwelcome present.Hill bought three of the players as Christmas presents for his children. He said one of the devices had apparently been returned to the store from a previous owner who loaded sex clips and songs with...
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Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB Overclocking Guide @ TechARPXFX 8800GT 512Mb Alpha Dog Edition XXX @ CPU3DZOTAC GeForce 8800GT AMP! Edition @ TweaktownAsus EAH3870 TOP Review @ NeoseekerLeadtek WinFast PX8800GT 256MB (GeForce 8800 GT 256MB) @ HardwareZone Motherboards & Chipsets: ASRock 4Core1600P35-WiFi+ P35 board @ OCWorkbenchECS...
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Ripping CDs that you own for your personal use should be OK, right? Not according to the RIAA.Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents...
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It's a sad day and the end of an era. Development is to cease on the Netscape browser, which at one time held the largest market share of all browsers, and was the first browser to gain mass popularity.While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have...
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What good is a file server if you can't store files on it? Uh, huh. Microsoft has posted a Knowledge Base article, KB946676, which warns of file corruption issues with Windows Home Server. "When you use certain programs to edit files on a home computer that uses Windows Home...
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iTunes, Wal-Mart, and Amazon's "Amazon MP3" service sell DRM-free music downloads, but so far only from EMI (along with a "test" by Universal Music Group). Today Amazon.com announced it has beaten Apple (!) to the punch; it's signed a deal with Warner Music Group to sell MP3 downloads, giving customers the choice of more than 2.9 Million songs...
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Best year ever (!) for Amazon.com. Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the 2007 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 10. On that day, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million items, which is 62.5 items per second. In addition, the company wrapped up its second year of Amazon Customers Vote, with...
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It was the present he'd wanted most for Christmas. And 13-year-old Brandon Burns tore into the sealed PlayStation 3 box to find ... a Thousand Oaks phone book.A Camarillo, Calif. teen dreamed of getting a popular game for Christmas, and he got it, almost. 13-year-old Brandon Burns tore the...
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Video: Graphics Cards of 2007 @ OCCXFX 8800 GTS 512 XXX Alpha Dog @ Bjorn3DGainward Bliss 8800 GT 512MB GS GLH Graphics Card Review @ X-bit LabsAsus EN8800GT Review @ AMDZone Motherboards & Chipsets: MSI X48 Platinum Motherboard Preview @ CPU3DASRock 4Core1333-eSATA2 Mainboard on Intel P31 Express Chipset @ X-bit Labs Processors: AMD Phenom...
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'Tis the season to be upset - upset at Google over privacy, at least. Actually, it's year-round, and here's yet another.On Dec. 14th, in Google Reader Help and on the Official Google Reader Blog, they posted about a new feature, which, as they put it:The short description of it is this: If any of your friends from Google Talk are using...
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It's Christmas Day. What the heck are you doing? Fire up Crysis and install this new Christmas present from them: an official Crysis Tournament Mappack. Thing is, Santa didn't drop it down the chimney and it's not on the Crytek site (at least, it's not easy to find).In a way that's probably...
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As Christmas approaches, we at HotHardware would be remiss if we didn't give you an opportunity to hear Jingle Bells on a graphics card, and we don't mean because of a vibration in the fan or anything. There's little we can add, so enjoy....
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Jonesing for a way to play PS 1 games, and happen to have an iPod handy? An enterprising developer may have the answer to your woes.Previously only available as a private beta to donators, a PlayStation 1 emulator for the iPhone and iPod has been released to the public. The version is...
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After what happened to Think Secret, is "Fake Steve" now in trouble with Apple? Nah.When I wrote about the closure of Think Secret, I wondered what the next rumor site that Big Brother, I mean Apple, would target was. I certainly didn’t think they would go after Fake Steve, or Daniel...
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"Can't we all just get along?" as that pundit of peace, Rodney King, once said. Friday the official Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) website was hacked, such that users were redirected to the HD-DVD Promotion Group's site, thelookandsoundofperfect.com.Beginning at around 4pm ET Friday, and...
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Video: ASUS EN8800GT TOP 512MB @ Bjorn3DXFX 8600GT Extreme Overclock 256Mb @ CPU3DVisiontek HD2600 XT 256MB @ Bjorn3DASUS EAH3850 TOP Overclocked Radeon HD3850 Graphics Card Review @ Bigbruin.com Motherboards & Chipsets: NVIDIA nForce 700i Chipsets @ Digit-LifeGigabyte 780SLI-DS5 Motherboard @ Digit-LifeDFI LanParty UT 790FX Motherboard...
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Reports have surfaced around the web that a retail store in the Midwest, Slackers, is selling its allotment of Nintendo Wiis for a premium on eBay. In other words, scalping them as the author says.... instead of selling the systems with bundles, a chain of Illinois/Missouri gaming stores...
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Linux users might actually agree with this "false positive". On the other hand Microsoft breathes a sigh of relief, as for once the antivirus software in question is not Windows Live OneCare.The security company's systems had decided that a virus called Huhk-C was present in the explorer.exe file, leading to its confinement or, in some cases,...
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Video: ASUS EN8800GTS 512MB video card review @ Elite BastardsRadeon HD 3870 Reviewed and tested in Crossfire @ Boot Daily.comXFX 8800 GTS 640MB Extreme Edition Review @ OCCNVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB Review @ TechARP Motherboards & Chipsets: XFX nForce 780i SLI Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsAsus X38 Formula Maximus Review @ Neoseeker...
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GIGABYTE Online Overclocking ContestHonor Hardcore PC Enthusiasts at Overclocking Hall of Fame- Over $12,000 in Cash & Prize to be Awarded – City of Industry, CA, December 19, 2007 – GIGABYTE United, Inc., a leading Motherboard...
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Duke Nukem Forever is one of the quintessential examples of vaporware. In fact, it's held up as such in the "vaporware" Wikipedia article. And you can bet hundreds of times the "Forever" part of the title has been said to mean how long it will be in development. That said, a new game featuring...
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