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Cooling
Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme GTX Pro @ HardwareOverclock
Larkooler High Performance Complete Liquid Cooling Kit @ MadShrimps
Power Supply
Ultra X4 Fully Modular 850W PSU @ Tweaknews
Video
Asus EAH5870 Radeon HD 5870 @ HotHardware
This isn’t just another end of the year list, this is a list of the greatest Windows tips OF ALL TIME!!!! Do you hear that? Of "ALL TIME." Now you have to click the link just to see if what is on the list is truly "all time" great.
Whether you're a grizzled Windows vet or a relative newcomer, you can always use a trick or two for making things go faster. We've compiled our 26 favorite time-saving tips for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Print out this story and keep it on your desk, under your pillow, or anywhere else.
What do you get for orchestrating the largest credit card theft in U.S. history? 17 to 25 years in prison, that’s what.
Gonzalez entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Boston on Tuesday in a case involving unauthorized access to computers of Maine-based Hannaford supermarkets and other retailers. He pleaded guilty in September to charges from two other retailer-hacking cases. Plea agreements call for Gonzalez to serve 17 to 25 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for March.
This is our weekly shout out to all of you out there that aren’t currently folding and could spare a bit of your PC’s resources to help a wonderful cause. Although [H]ardOCP has the #1 Folding team on the planet, we still need your help to stay there. Folding is easy, all you have to do is download and install the Folding@Home program, set your team number to TEAM #33 and you are all set.
If you still need help or have any questions, forum member "Xilikon" put all the Folding guides that a person could possibly need into one easy-to-find location. Hit the link, follow the directions and you’ll be up and folding in no time at all.
If I have this right, Nokia filed a lawsuit against Apple for infringing on 10 patents. Apple filed a countersuit claiming Nokia infringes on 13 patents. Today, Nokia has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission claiming Apple products infringe on seven patents. Tune in next week for Apple's counter-complaint.
"While our litigation in Delaware is about Apple's attempt to free-ride on the back of Nokia investment in wireless standards, the ITC case filed today is about Apple's practice of building its business on Nokia's proprietary innovation," Paul Melin, general manager of patent licensing at Nokia, said in a statement.
8 BIT XMAS 2009 @ RetroZone
Dragon Age 'Return to Ostagar' DLC Coming Soon @ Joystiq
EA Readying Wii Football Trainer? @ Shacknews
Prey Sold Out On Steam @ Kotaku
For those of you looking for a nice little media playback box capable of handling just about any codec and file format out there, I highly recommend you read our evaluation of the Patriot Box Office Media Player.
There are some other media playback boxes out there that do use the same Realtek RTD1073DD chipset that we find inside the PBO, but none that I am aware of have such a robust feature list at the relatively low price point. The Patriot Box Office offers a deeper feature set than any others when you start factoring in the entire package of expandability, connectivity, inputs, and outputs.
Cases & Modding
Vidabox vCase3 HTPC Case @ techPowerUP!
ETC.
HP Mini 110 Studio Tord Boontje Edition @ T-Break
Jet-Way ION-TOP HTPC @ Techware Labs
Razer Imperator Gaming Mouse @ BmR
Memory/ Storage
In Win Ammo 2.5" HDD RFID Enclosure @ Legit Reviews
Taking a page from AT&T’s playbook, O2 is now complaining about iPhone users sucking up all the available bandwidth. This will lead to the company making a statement like AT&T made recently "Blah, blah, blah, overburdened, blah, blah, need to charge more, blah, blah, blah, the customer's fault."
The head of mobile phone operator O2 has apologized to customers in the British capital who were unable to make calls after the group's network was swamped by people using smart phones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone. O2 Chief Executive Robert Dunne said some customers in London had periodically not been able to make or receive calls or transmit data because of pressure on the network from such smart phones.
Let’s be honest for a second, you and I both know that Google could own every search related product / business on the planet and they would still "reject criticism" of any new deal like this. Raise your hand if you expected anything different.
Besides, antitrust grounds, the AdMob deal also raises privacy concerns since both firms gather large amounts of consumer online data, the consumer groups said. AdMob collects information on users' ethnicity, age, gender, education and behavior. Google provides analytical services for mobile advertising through its $3.8 billion DoubleClick acquisition.
Here is a four and a half minute video of Google Goggles in action. Pretty spiffy stuff, wouldn't you agree?
The LA Times has posted its 2010 media predictions. Most are pretty obvious but there are a few on the list that are pretty good. What are your predictions for 2010?
Hulu will start charging viewers. Hulu, the free video site owned by News Corp., NBC Universal and Disney, will require people to pay to watch its programming. This will cause a rift internally as Hulu CEO Jason Kilar resists switching to a pay model, leading to his exit.
