Michael Santo
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Text messaging may be more popular then making phone calls, but as of the New Year, California drivers have to resort to the old school style of talking to people, at least while driving. In September of 2008 California banned text messaging while driving, effective Jan. 1, 2009. Lest California drivers forget, they still need to use a hands-free...
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Motherboards and Chipsets:DFI LanParty UT P45-T3RS Motherboard @ CPU3DECS X58B-A Black Edition Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsASUS P6T6 WS Revolution Mobo Review @ [H]Mid-End Motherboard Roundup @ iXBTProcessors:Gaming Performance: Core i7 vs. Core 2 Quad @ InsideHWMemory and Storage:A-DATA X Series DDR3 1600 2GB Kit Video Review @ Tech...
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In what is the first such bug we can recall, where devices of one type worldwide have seemingly frozen, 30GB Zunes globally are freezing. Reports are the freezing issue is only affecting 30GB Zunes. It has also been reported (though unconfirmed) that the freeze is isolated to the 3.1 firmware.This has to be the greatest New Year's...
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Another day, another drop in Apple stock caused by a questionable rumor about the health of CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs' health has been in question since he appeared at WWDC in a somewhat gaunt condition. However, as Jobs himself said with a slide positioned directly behind him, the "rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated."The latest...
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Netflix has announced a new shipping procedure which if the movie you’ve requested isn’t available from your local distribution center, may net you a freebie in the form of the next highest up movie in your queue. Netflix says they have 55 shipping centers across the country, so if your choice is not available in your local shipping center,...
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Video: HIS HD 4830 IceQ 4 512MB GDDR3 PCIe Video Card @ BFRMotherboards and Chipsets: Asus P6T6 WS X58 Express Motherboard (Core i7) @ HardOCP ECS A780GM-A Ultra AMD 780G+SB750 Mainboard Review @ OCWorkbench Foxconn A7VA Motherboard @ iXBT Zotac 790i Ultra SLI Supreme Motherboard Review @ Virtual-HideoutProcessors: AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black...
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It's one thing when a relatively unknown case maker like XSKN advertises an iPhone nano case. It's something completely different when a well-known case maker does. Vaja has added an iPhone nano link on their site, leading to still more speculation over a possible Macworld iPhone nano announcement. Vaja is a relatively well-known maker of...
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Swiss air rescue organization Rega says that an MP3 player was the key to locating two lost French tourists. No, the two weren't found by rescuers listening for music. Rather, the light from the display of the MP3 player was enough for rescues to home in on. Rega said it received a distress call from the French tourists late Friday. Unfortunately,...
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Video:ATI Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Adapter Review @ X-bit LabsMotherboards and Chipsets:AOD790GX & A780GXE Motherboards Review @ Virtual-HideoutGigabyte GA-EP45T-Extreme: Universal Overclocker Mainboard Review @ X-bit LabsCases, Cooling & Misc.:Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler Review @ Overclockers OnlineGELID Silent Spirit reviewed at BurnOutPC.comAntec...
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On December 8th, 1980, Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon. But with the approval of his widow Yoko Ono, Lennon lives on again, sort of, in a One Laptop Per Child ad pitching the organization's XO-1 laptop.The OLPC program, the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, is been about getting laptops into the hands of underprivileged children around...
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File this as another one of those studies that probably didn't need to be done to come to the conclusion they did. According to a study, gaming activates parts of the male brain which are linked to rewarding feelings and addiction. It does so to a much lesser extent among women (no!).Professor Allan Reiss of the Center for Interdisciplinary...
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When we were a teenagers, we might TP the house of someone we disliked. Some Maryland teenagers instead have figured out how to fool speed cameras by spoofing the license plates of their "enemies," resulting in those spoofed receiving unwarranted speeding tickets.Students have dubbed the prank the "Speed Camera Pimping Game." Originating from...
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, although he's coming to Wal-Mart a bit late. Confirming what we and many other sites have been saying for quite some time, Wal-Mart has finally announced that sales of the iPhone 3G will begin on Dec. 28th, Sunday. Of course, since some stores had been putting out in-store displays, it wasn't really all...
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Motherboards and Chipsets:ASUS Rampage II Extreme @ InsideHWDFI LanParty DK P45-T3RSB Plus Motherboard @ CPU3D ASRock K10NSLIX3-WiFi Motherboard @ CPU3DIntel P45 Motherboard Roundup: MSI, ASUS and Gigabyte @ PC PerspectiveInstant Boot on ASRock N7AD-SLI Motherboards @ Legit ReviewsMemory and Storage:Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA...
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Sony on Christmas Day appears to have given us a Christmas present, although probably temporarily, with an accidental entry at their online store for a P-series notebook. It looks like this might be the designation for the "revolutionary new VAIO" that has been teased, intentionally or not, at the Sony Japan and Sony New Zealand sites.
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We wrote earlier about the Dell Adamo, or at least, the Dell Adamo website and the various clues around the Web about what was rumored to be a MacBook Air competitor. It seems that there is now confirmation. It all started when the New York Times Bits blog noticed a blurb (since removed) at luxury lifestyle site Uptownlife.net that said:"Rumor...
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Video:HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ4 TurboX 512MB In Crossfire @ TweaktownIiyama ProLite E2208HDS - 22in Full HD LCD @ bit-techHIS Radeon HD 4870 ICEQ 4+ Turbo (1GB) @ CPU3DATi vs. nVIDIA: Video Transcoding @ InsideHWDell 2408WFP Monitor Review @ XbitLabsMotherboards and Chipsets:MSI Eclipse SLI Review @ OCCIntel DX58SO Smackover X58 Motherboard...
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Apple's App Store has rejected an e-book over what it called "objectionable content" (meaning, the f-word, and some sexual content), citing a clause in the iPhone SDK. This is just another example of what some have called the "nightmarish" App Store approval process. The book, Knife Music, by C|Net Editor David Carnoy, was submitted using...
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Frankly, we find this to be one of the sillier things we've seen in a while, but with some friends in American Mensa we had to write about it. It's the Mensa Puzzle Alarm clock, and apparently it's been developed with the assistance of the U.K. Mensa branch. Not a genius? Move along; you'll never turn it off. Seriously, it's similar to that...
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Video:ASUS EAH4870 DK TOP 512MB Video Card @ Benchmark ReviewsAsus EAH 4830 Review @ OCCHIS Radeon HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo 1GB video card review @ Elite BastardsMSI R4830-T2D512 OC Radeon HD 4830 512MB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.orgSapphire's Watercooled Radeon HD 4870 X2 ATOMIC Edition @ TweaktownMotherboards and Chipsets:ECS A780GM-A...
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What is it with companies and teaser sites nowadays? First we have the mystery Dell Adamo site, now Sony has a site up that says on January 9th, they're going to unveil a revolutionary new VAIO. They have a countdown timer, and state that they will "change the way you look at laptops. Forever." At the same time, you can enter to win whatever...
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Following the 2006 suicide of Megan Meier over a MySpace hoax, Missouri revised the the state's already existing harassment law to include telephone and electronic communication, effectively outlawing cyberbullying. And now they are starting to prosecute violators of that law. The law has only been in effect for three months, and according...
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