Michael Santo
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Video:Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Video Card @ Benchmark ReviewsHIS Radeon HD 4670 IceQ graphics card @ bit-techMotherboards and Chipsets:BIOSTAR TPower X58 @ InsideHWMSI X58 Eclipse SLI Core i7 Motherboard @ TweaktownProcessors:Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 Processor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgIntel Core i7 In Detail - Hyper-Threading...
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Crackulous is a one-click iPhone / iPod Touch app cracking tool. Previously it was only available to a select few, but it's now been released as a public beta. Obviously not good news for developers, it adds yet another reason to the list of reasons to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch. Some of them are legitimate, such as being able to...
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Well, duh. In a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen admitted that developing Flash for the iPhone was "hard." Specifically, he said: "It's a hard technical challenge, and that's part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating. The ball is in our court. The onus...
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Video:BFG Tech's GeForce GTX 285 OCX graphics card @ bit-techASUS 9800GTX+ Dark Knight @ t-breakMotherboards and Chipsets:DFI LanParty JR X58-T3H6 Motherboard @ CPU3DMemory and Storage:SimpleTech [Re]Drive - 500GB External Hard Drive @ TechwarelabsCSX 3GB DDR3-1600MHz Memory @ PhoronixRAID 1 for the time-challenged @ TR-NewsThecus N4100PRO...
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Last year SF's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) began talks with startup Wi-Fi Rail, Inc. to provide system-wide wi-fi service, after successfully running three phases of trials. It's taken more than six months, but on Friday a 20-year deal between the two was announced. Tests on the BART line were run on 2.2 miles of Hayward track and in the...
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Video:EVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition Videocard Review @ HardwareLogicSapphire ATOMIC HD 4870x2 (H2O) @ CPU3DEVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC Graphics Accelerator Review @ XBitLabsViewSonic VX2260wm @ InsideHWHIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 TurboX 512MB video card review @ Elite BastardsMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock N7AD-SLI Motherboard Review @ Legit...
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A digital certificate that expired on 1/28 effectively kills the game Gears of War, as users who try to run it receive a "'You cannot run this game with modified executable code, please reinstall" error. The issue has been traced to the aforementioned expired digital certificate (shown). Obviously since the game was released in Nov. of 2007...
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Google sends cars around to take pictures of streets for the Street View service, and sometimes they take pictures that we would prefer not to see, but usually the car itself is not involved.In this case, sadly, the car was involved in an accident, and the accident involved a deer. Surprisingly, the Street View car continued to take pictures,...
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At this year's Macworld, Apple announced iTunes was (finally) going DRM-less. However, if you wanted to remove the DRM from your pre-existing iTunes library, it was all or nothing. Proving that they do listen , Apple has changed things, and you can now upgrade your music to iTunes Plus (AKA DRM-free) one song at a time. If you go to the iTunes...
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One of the changes to iPhone '09 was Faces, facial recognition to assist in tagging photos. While Apple said this would only work on the faces of people, it appears that some have managed to prove that it does indeed work on felines, at least. Yes, the folks at Mac|Life have spent way more time than we would have, using pictures of their own...
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Fennec, AKA Firefox Mobile, is targeted for an initial release on the Windows Mobile-powered HTC Touch Pro during the first week in February, according to a post of meeting minutes on the developer wiki. According to the minutes: We are targeting a Milestone release for the first week of February, targeting the HTC touch pro. We are two patches...
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Video:Zotac GeForce GTX 285 & GTX 295 @ Techgage.comSapphire Radeon HD 4670 GDDR4 512MB video card review @ Elite BastardsSapphire Ultimate HD4670 Passively Cooled Graphics Card review in MetkuSapphire HD 4870 1GB Toxic Edition @ HardwareZoneMotherboards and Chipsets:Asus P5Q-EM Intel G45 Express Motherboard Review @ PCStatsECS A780GM-A...
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It's not the first time a used storage device of some type has yielded sensitive information, and it won't be the last. Chris Ogle from Whangerei, NZ (pictured) got a surprise after he bought a used MP3 player from an Oklahoma thrift store for $18. Upon hooking it to his PC, he found 60 files of military information in total, including the...
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Size is in the eye of the beholder. A 0.0.1 upgrade from 2.2 to 2.2.1 sounds minor, but size-of-download-wise? Whew. On Tuesday Apple released a minor update to the iPhone / iPod Touch Software, 2.2.1. The typically vague release notes say: iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:...
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Video:BIOSTAR Radeon HD4650 256MB GDDR3 @ InsideHWEVGA GeForce GTX 295+ Graphics Card Review @ XBitLabsAcer P244W Review @ Digital TrendsSapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 review at Ultimate HardwarePalit Revolution 700 Deluxe 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review @ Hardware CanucksMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P DDR2 P45 Motherboard @ Benchmark...
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To all of you who wondered if Apple indeed had the patents to back up its thinly veiled threats against Palm regarding the multi-touch feature of the iPhone and iPod Touch: it appears the answer is yes. On January 20th, 2009, Apple was awarded patent number 7,479,949 which appears to cover much of the iPhone's multi-touch user interface. Apple's...
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MSI Announces New GT627 Gaming Notebook Featuring NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS GT627 features MSI’s Turbo Drive Technology, Blu-ray Player, and Intel Core 2 Duo ProcessorCITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – January 25, 2009 – MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is pleased to announce the newest addition to its Gaming...
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Intuit, we're sure, loves free advertising, but not of this type. Tim Geithner has been roasted over the fact that while working for the International Monetary Fund, he failed to pay his Social Security and Medicare taxes as required. When asked about how he had his taxes prepared during that time, Geithner answered "I used TurboTax."Senator...
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While Palm wasn't afraid to add multi-touch support to the Palm Pre, some have theorized the reason we haven't seen that feature added to Windows Mobile or Android is caution over possible litigation. But the openness of Android gives developers an edge over more closed platforms, and one enterprising developer has added multi-touch to the...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has started a new campaign which, if things were to work out the way EFF and consumers would like, could result in an exemption to the DMCA so users could legally unlock their cell phones. The campaign, called "Free Your Phone," asks consumers to sign the EFF's petition to the U.S. Copyright Office...
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Video:ASUS EAH4850 MT Republic of Gamers HD 4850 Review @ OCCDell S2309W 23" Widescreen Monitor Reviewed @ TheTechLoungeMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte's Energy Efficient GA-EP45-DQ6 Motherboard Review @ PCStatsNVIDIA's ION Platform: Hands-On Impressions @ Techgage.comMemory and Storage:Thecus N4100PRO 4-Bay Network Attached Storage System...
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January 24, 1984 was the day the Macintosh first went on sale. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command line interface, and it promised to revolutionize personal computing. Yes, back then Apple still called itself Apple Computers. And although January...
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