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- Desktop CPU Comparison Guide - Tech ARP posted a
Desktop CPU Comparison Guide.
- Intel Core 2 Duo: Memory Performance Part Deux - The biggest
surprise was the overall performance of the ASRock 775i65G board as it was
just as competitive with the other chipsets in our testing and proved to be
extremely stable with every benchmark or application we threw at it.
Who
knew that AGP 8x and DDR would still be this competitive after a myriad of
chipset, memory, CPU, and GPU enhancements over the last three years?
- Ultra 1200W Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Review - Let's take
a look at the
Ultra Products 2000VA UPS!
- [!] Pirate 'Darknet' Opened In Sweden -
The Swedish Pirate Party has
launched a commercial, high-capacity darknet, on an unprecedented scale
and bandwidth. This service lets anybody send and receive files anonymously
without being tracked or traced, and can pump data well over 10 megabits per
second!
- Anti-Virus Protection in 64-bit Environments -
In this article Start64 takes a look at the current status of 64-bit
anti-virus protection.
- Hackers Exploiting MS06-040 Vulnerability -
Cybercrooks have unleashed two worms based on a serious Windows flaw, but
the attacks don't seem widespread.
- How to Crack a Website - XSS, Cookies, Sessions -
Informit.com provides an insiders look at a real life XSS attack and how
it was used to bypass the authentication scheme of an online web application,
leading to "shell" access, and admin account, and more.
- UK bank details sold in Nigeria - It discovered that
fraudsters in Nigeria were able to find internet banking data stored on
recycled PCs sent from the UK to Africa. The information can be found on a
PC's hard disk, which is easy to access if the drive is not wiped before
sending.
- US Launches RFID Passports -
The new passports contain a chip
which requires no power and contains duplicate information of what's
printed on the passports. This way, government officials at air ports and
other national borders can quickly verify the authenticity of printed
information on the passports.
- Movies, TV For Download Through Fox - Fox Interactive Media (FIM)
and Twentieth Century Fox
today inked a multi-year deal to offer consumers movies and television
shows to download from sites on MySpace.
- [!] Nintendo DS emulator -
No$Gba v2.3 (download)
has been released, adding support for Nintendo DS emulation. Now you can play
commercial DS games on a PC!
- [!] CureROM 2.0.3.3 released -
This new release
improves Anti-Blacklist for i.e. "Titan Quest v1.11" & "Prey 1.0", "Flatout
2"...and also fixes some bugs.
- The Greatest Software Ever Written? -
Information Week has an interesting article online that asks the question
What is the greatest software ever written?
- Introducing Windows Live Writer -
The first thing to notice about
Writer is that it enables true WYSIWYG blog authoring.
- Google Removes Text Link to Froogle - Google removed a text link to
its comparison-shopping site, Froogle, and replaced it with one pointing to
Google Video, where amateur spoofs uploaded by users mingle with episodes of
Dave Chappelle's show.
- Windows Vista Sidebar - Columnist Scott Lowe explains
how to use the new Windows Sidebar feature in Windows Vista. In other
news,
Columnist Mitch Tulloch explains the new and improved backup and restore
capabilities in Windows Vista.
- PC on a Mac: Parallels' team says they have sold nearly 100,000 copies
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At $80 a pop, the sales are strong enough to keep this tiny company going
for a while.
- Student releases "iProcrastinate" for free! (Mac) -
iProcrastinate helps lazy students
keep track of their homework, big projects, etc.
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley -
Guy Kawasaki breaks down 15 things that you need to know if you want to
get a job in Silicon Valley.
- Mystery over drug trial debacle deepens - Doctors who saved the
lives of six men who nearly died in a UK drug safety trial in March have revealed
full clinical details of what happened during the first 30 days.
- Shuler Donner on X-Men 4 - X-Men's executive producer
Lauren Shuler Donner talked to LA Daily News about X-Men 4, for which they
would have to renegotiate with the bigger stars, and also Wolverine and
Magneto.
- First Pic of Tonks in Harry Potter 5 -
MuggleNet.com has your first look at Natalia Tena in her Nymphador Tonks
costume on the set of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The fifth
installment, directed by David Yates, is set to open in theaters and IMAX on
July 13, 2007.
- The Saw III Teaser Trailer - Lionsgate has officially revealed
the new
Saw III teaser trailer, which premiered in theaters with The Descent,
online at
Yahoo!
Movies!
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