SECURITY...

• Microsoft IE Remote Code Execution Exploit (0day) - Critical - FrSIRT have identified a critical vulnerability with Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP1 and SP2.
• Microsoft offers Zotob removal tool - Microsoft on Wednesday made available a free software tool to help victims of the worms that hit Windows computers in the past days clean their systems.
• Hackers fight to create world's largest Botnet - Experts are warning that the sharp rise in malware activity this week is being caused by hacking groups competing with each other to create large botnets of remote controlled PCs.
• How To Create An Uncrackable Password - The TechZone shows you how to create a password that can't be crack

TECHNOLOGY...

• DVDShrink is no more? *Forum update* - It appears that DVDShrink has finally been taken down. After losing DVD Decrypter, this is devastating blow...checkout this thread.
• Game Boy Micro due in September - Nintendo said Thursday it will launch Game Boy Micro, a new mobile-phone-size game console, in Japan on Sept. 13 with a price tag of 12,000 yen-- just under $110--about a week before the U.S. launch.
• Free cell phone games big, paid ones not - Cell phone companies, carriers and software developers are betting big on the future of mobile gaming, wagering that consumers will drop big bucks to play videogames on their cell phones. But new research indicates that the market may need a power-up.
• Dave Matthews Band tells users a DRM workaround for its CD - The Dave Matthews Band has decided to provide its listeners with a way to get around the DRM on its latest album "Stand Up" in order to transfer their CD to an iPod.
• World's First 3D Display Revealed - The world's first interactive 3D display has been developed by IO2 Technology. HelioDisplay creates 3D displays in the air using lasers, drawing input from computers, TVs and DVDs. It also allows interactive applications to be controlled by a finger, instead of a mouse.
• VIA unveils new VN800 chipset for mobile apps - VIA is back with the new VN800 core-logic silicon for mobile processors, including the Pentium M and VIA's own C7-M CPU.
• XFX offers "Double Lifetime" warranty coverage - XFX has beefed up its warranties, offering "Double Lifetime" coverage for all GeForce 6- and 7-series graphics cards

HARDWARE... 

• CPU - Dual-core Pentium Platform Comparison | AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice CPU | Intel Pentium D 820
• Motherboard - Albatron K8SLI | ASUS Extreme N7800 GTX TOP | ASUS P5WD2 Premium 955X Motherboard | ASRock 775Dual-880Pro | ECS KN1 Extreme nForce4 Ultra (Bjorn3D) | ECS KN1 Extreme nForce 4 Ultra (PCPer) | Gigabyte 8VT880P Combo | Shuttle SN26P with SLI
• RAM - Corsair XMS2-5400UL | OCZ EL DDR PC-3500 Gold GX Dual Channel Memory | OCZ Platinum EL PC-4800 Elite Dual Channel DDR Memory Kit
• Storage -  Maxtor OneTouch II FireWire 800 Edition | Seagate Barracuda 400GB SATA | Western Digital Raptor WD740GD HDD
• Video - ATI Graphics round-up | AOpen 6600GT | ASUS Extreme N7800 GTX TOP | ATI X800XT All In Wonder | BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC | EVGA e-GeForce 6800 GT | MSI GeForce 7800 GTX cards SLI | NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT (SLI) | Sapphire Radeon X550 | XFX GeForce 7800 GTX Overclocked
• Monitor  - BenQ FP91V 19-inch 4ms TFT LCD at HWZ | NEC MultiSync FE992-BK 19" CRT Monitor
• Water Cooling - Asetek Power Kit w-Triple Radiator Water Cooling | astek WaterChill 12volt Pump | Evercool WC-202 Watercooling Kit | Kingwin AquaStar Liquid Cooler Kit
• Cooling - Jetart HCA05 HDD Guard 3.5" Bay Hard Disk Cooler | Spire SP503S0-1 Intel Pentium 4 Heatsink
• Case - Ahanix D-Vine MCE601 HTPC Case | NZXT Nemesis Elite Edition ATX PC Case | ThermalRock Mystic desktop computer case
• PSU/UPS - HIPER HPU-4B580MU 580Watt PSU
• Sound - Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 4 Pro Sound Card | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Preview | M-Audio StudioPro 4 Speakers | Steelpad Steel Sound 5H Headset
• Peripheral - Hiper Clavier Aluminum Keyboard | Logitech G5 Gaming Mouse | Microsoft Media Center Edition Keyboard | Sunbeamtech Acrylic Lite-Up Keyboard | Titan Serina Cooling Pad | Ulti-mat Precison Mouse Pad | Wireless optical desktop and Bluetooth mouse | XTrac Mad Dotz and InstaGlide
• Network -
• Modding - XSPC 20x4 Blue Character LCD
• Miscelanous -
• Notebook - Evesham Quest Roma MT 37 Turion Notebook
• Cameras, MP3 players- iRiver H340 Media Player | Olympus mrobe MR-100 Portable Media Player | Pentax Optio S5z Digital Camera | Samsung YEPP YH-925 MP3 Player
• Cell phones - Motorola SLVR L7 | Samsung X700 | ZYXEL P-2000W v2 VoIP Wi-Fi phone

GUIDES...

• NVIDIA SLI GeForce 6600GT performance - Elitebastards take a look at  the kind of performance that can be garnered from a GeForce 6600GT-based SLI setup over using a single 6600GT board.
• Asus's PEG Link Mode investigated - Adrijan Rojak's Pot tested the PEG Link Mode using the NVIDIA GeForce 6800GT PCIe graphics card: The effect on the 6800 Ultra was minimal, with a variance of only about 2%. That's probably because PEG Link Mode only overclocked its memory bus. Evidently, the 6800 Ultra has plenty of memory bandwidth. The difference would be more evident in cards with limited memory bandwidth. When it comes to the ATI X300, PEG Link Mode definitely improved its performance by 8-9% in the benchmarks we ran! That's a significant boost in performance.
• Power Supply Tutorial - Everything you need to know about power supplies, including types, how to calculate its true power, efficiency, power factor correction (PFC) and more.
• Windows Genuine Advantage, Two Weeks Later - Here's a consolidated list of what works and doesn't work
• XP Myths - Myths Regarding Windows XP v1.2.4 - There are numerous Myths floating around the Internet regarding Windows XP, especially relating to Optimizations and Security. Hopefully this site will debunk some of these.

SOFTWARE...

• Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 7.0.3 Update - The update fixes a security flaw - download
• ChrisTV Lite 4.60 - ChrisTV Lite - The best way to control your TV Card - TV on your PC with High quality image and sound- developed by Chris P.C. srl for TV Tuners with WDM Drivers installed
• FireTune 1.06 - FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox.
• McAfee AVERT Stinger 2.5.6 - Stinger (download) is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system.
• EliteToolbar Remover 2.0.1 - The new EliteToolbar Remover (download) deletes any traces of many persistent malwares.
• Sysinternal's Process Explorer 9.21 - Process Explorer (download) shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
• Google Toolbar 3.0.125.1 - The Google Toolbar (Win2k/XP / Win9x/ME) increases your ability to find information from anywhere on the web and takes only seconds to install
• WinAce 2.6 Final (shw) - WinAce (download) is not just another archiving shell. With it's own powerful compression format ACE and built-in support for other popular compression types like ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB (to name a few), WinAce could actually become the only archiver you need.
• BSPlayer 1.35.823 -  BSplayer is windows player for playing back avi/asf/mpeg video files. It can also display subtitles.
• NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) v2.4 - MVKTech has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and defenitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards.
• ATI Tray Tools v1.0.3.730 - ATI Tray Tools is a small utility that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings
• Audio Console for Creative Sound Blaster Audigy audio cards 1.20.22 - This web release installs the Audio Console application for the following Creative Sound Blaster series audio devices only: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy, Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum and Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX series; Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 including Platinum, Platinum eX and Value series; Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS including Platinum and Platinum Pro series; Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro.
• Forceware 77.79 Windows x64 - A new beta ForceWare driver has been leaked by OSNN. You have to install it manually through the Device Manager because of the lack of an installer.
• ForceWare 78.11 Win2000/XP 32-bit - Dell released a new ForceWare driver today intended for their mobile quadro platform. In it's official form the driver did not support many GeForce graphics cards. This version includes a modified .inf file.
• ATi Linux Drivers 8.16.20 - ATi has released an updated suite of drivers for Linux.