Sorry for the delay in updating, my hard disk and internet gateway died yesterday (amazing coincidence).  After sleepless night, I'm just now getting everything up and running again....

• Teen cashes in on feud with Microsoft - A Canadian teenager who fought Microsoft Corporation over his Internet domain name has sold documents and emails pertaining to the feud on eBay for 1 386,83 Canadian dollars (about R7 000). Mike Rowe, 17, who lives in Victoria, British Columbia, had registered the domain name mikerowesoft.com to host his budding Web development business but quickly found himself the target of Microsoft lawyers who threatened to sue him over alleged copyright infringement.
• Smart switching could solve communication tangle - Someone walks into your office as you are in the middle of a confidential phone call, and you do not want them to overhear it. Your only option is to cut the call short, and either phone back later or switch to more discreet email or instant messaging. Now IBM engineers are developing a system that makes the switch seamlessly, without breaking the flow of your discussion. It will enable a voice call to be switched to silent instant messaging when you get to your desk, for example. At present, both callers must switch, but the developers say as speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies improve, this may not be necessary: one could use text while the other stays on the phone.
• Microsoft developing new 'light' version of Win XP - Thailand's People's PC project, initiated last year by the ICT Ministry, has been the genesis of a new operating system from Microsoft Corporation that is now under development, according to Microsoft Thailand Managing Director Andrew McBean. The new OS, as yet unnamed, but a new "light" addition to the Windows XP "family", will be released in limited, selected markets later this year and will offer reduced functionality when compared with Windows XP Professional and Home editions, he said.
• TwinMOS TwiSTER PC4000 review - The modules will run at the specified latencies but will not work at CL-2 or any other more aggressive latency settings, nor will they run reliably at more relaxed latencies but there may be differences between different mainboards. In the final analysis, the TwiSTER PC4000 meets the manufacturer's specs but does not go beyond those. In other words, there are practically no margins, the modules are specified to run at 250 MHz max and they do no less and no more.
• Chaintech GeforceFX5600 Personal Cinema review - The Chaintech 5600 Personal Cinema definitely proved to be a useful card, with an abundance of features and accessories. The breakout box will definitely see use. The TV tuner has made a part-time TV out of the PC and the nVremote has turned out to be a useful pointing device and application launcher. The software package is comprehensive and NVIDIA definitely has made strides in its WDM driver department.
• AOpen Aeolus FX5900XT - The card itself features an interesting looking fan, which might be of interest if you’re of the transparent case brigade. Noise levels are reasonable. It’s not as quiet as the MSi GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, but at least the days of nVidia cards sounding like jet engines are long gone. The rear of the card sports a DVi port with a D-SUB adapter provided. There’s also a second D-SUB port so you can hook up two displays. As you might expect at the price, there’s no ViVo functionality but there is a TV-Out, with an S-Video to composite adapter in the box.
• Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP review - The Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP is a full-featured motherboard, with enough options to satisfy everybody. You have dual LAN for home network setup, more RAID options than you can shake a stick at, a very customizable BIOS that is begging for a highly tweakable CPU, the newest Firewire implementation (1394b cards aren't exactly cheap), the list goes on and on.
• Shuttle AN50R (Nvidia nForce3 150) - The bundle was severely lacking. Shuttle could have at the bare minimum included rounded cables. At the price though it is a hard point to argue. The AN50R is near $100 cheaper than the other boards we have tested. This makes it a definite value.For the average gamer looking to jump into the Athlon64 market I would highly recommend the AN50R. The board is very stable and reasonably fast. It is roomy and has a plethora of extra options. You will however want to add in a Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS or some other high end sound card though. The onboard sound was mediocre at best.
• EPoX eX5-300S Mini Me SFF System review - Hexus has posted the first review of the EPoX eX5-300S Mini Me SFF System. "There's enough here to make the eX5-300S Mini Me SFF system sell on pure merit. We can just see enthusiasts using the highly overclockable Northwood Pentium 4 200MHz CPUs and decent graphics cards for true desktop replacement action, or it could be used as a fileserver, glorified media box or quiet, low-power system. That's exactly the role of any SFF PC, to be fit for more than one use. There are only so many ways to design a SFF system, EPoX appears to have chosen a good one".
• ASUS CRW-5232AS Drive - VipeLair take a look at the CRW-5232AS, and see if it's up to task of being your primary burner.
• Antec P160 Aluminum Enclosure review - TweakTown has posted a review of the Antec P160 Aluminum Enclosure.
• PowerRight UV Reactive 500w Modular PSU review - This is the first power supply which has, as its name indicates, a modular design. What this means is that you are able to remove any unused power cables from your case, thus decreasing clutter and improving airflow, not to mention improving the all important aesthetics of your cases' internals. The PowerRight power supply also dons an acrylic UV treated casing, 2 LED fans with colored blades, as well as laser cut fan guards.
• DDR II Preview - So for the bandwidth hungry Pentium 4 DDR-II could produce some tangible benefits, especially as processor clock speeds scale towards 4GHz and above. It is going to be interesting to see how the increased latencies affect performance. If the memory accesses are largely sequential reads with minimal switching between columns, such as in video encoding then performance should be significantly boosted thanks to the increased bandwidth, however in situations where the required data is spread through out the modules, such as in server applications, the increased latency is going to come into play and rain on Intels parade.
• Unbuffered vs. Registered vs. Registered + ECC - Let's briefly talk about unbuffered, registered and ECC memory and then take a look at how what type of memory you decide to purchase can impact overall performance.
• Prescott Temperatures Examined - Looking at the paper work that came with the Prescott press kit it was clear that high temps were expected and is something that end-users will have to learn to live with. Intel gives the Thermal Design Power (TDP) rating of their processors and below are some of the ratings. Northwood 3.2GHz: 82W ~ Prescott 2.80GHz & 3.0GHz: 89W ~ Gallatin 3.2GHz: 92W ~ Gallatin 3.4GHz: 103W ~ Prescott 3.20GHz & 3.40GHz: 103W. (thanks NeoNSX)
• First Look: Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition  - The XP64 beta integrates DirectX 9.0b and appears to have most critical update patches. Windows Update functions weren't available, and it is unknown if any patches will be offered during the 360-day trial. We were pleased the default OS install had the network Messenger service disabled.
• MyDoom (A,B) Worm Removal Tool for WinXP/2k - This tool will help to remove the MyDoom.A and My.Doom.B worms from infected Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems. Once executed, after the EULA is accepted, the tool automatically checks for infection and removes the worm(s) if found. If a machine is infected with MyDoom.B, the tool will also provide the user with the default version of the "hosts" file and set the "read-only" attribute for that file.
• 3d Traceroute 1.7.68:171 - Replace all your ugly ping plotters and traceroute programs with a full blown three dimensional traceroute program. And best of all: It's free. No money, no postcards, no beer. Just free.
• EarthClock 1.0 beta - EarthClock is a little shiny app by Arjan Dikhoff from XeNTaX, that displays a realtime view of the earth, and overlays a clock as polish. The realtime view is accomplished by downloading images every 5 minutes from "Earth and Moon viewer" by John Walker. Basically, you can watch the earth slowly revolving from a choice of different views (e.g. the Earth from the Moon), and it's a clock too! You can neatly see where it's dark on our planet, and where it's day!
• Forté Agent 2.0  - Agent 2.0 is the top-rated Usenet newsreader on the Internet. Agent is also an excellent POP email client.
• Bandwidth Monitor Pro 1.29 - Bandwidth Monitor Pro (download) is a utility that displays and logs your network adapters bandwidth usage. It supports logging of all your network adapters at once and has a detailed transfer history.
• RealPlayer 2.0 Build 6.0.11.872 - Helix Powered RealPlayer (download) is the all-in-one digital media player that lets you find anything and play everything. Now also includes an option during setup to install the Real Toolbar for Internet Explorer.
• PowerStrip 3.49 (SHW)  - PowerStrip 3.49 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 9800.
• ATITool 0.0.17 - ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards. Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks.
• Central Brain Identifier 6.1.0.0 Beta - Central Brain Identifier is designed to provide detailed recognition and obtaining the most complete extended information for all AMD processors. It recognizes more than 40 various models of the AMD processors.
• Koepi's XviD Codec RC2 - XviD (download RC2) is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec. This second RC added Internal bitrate calculator, VfW GUI fixes, DShow fixes (remembers the flip option etc.)., colour space fixes and more.
• AMD64 Windows Drivers - Planet AMD64 has launched a download section with the latest Windows drivers for the AMD64 platform.