Archive for: March 30, 2008

March 30, 2008

PSP slim modded for dual analog sticks

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

Filed under: Gaming
Been longing for a moment analog stick on your PSP? Modder LordNico’s got you covered with the Razor X (seriously, where do these guys come up with their names?), a user-installable analog stick that appears to mimic the functions of your standard four button pad. (In other words…

Kaspersky Anti-Virus / Internet Security 8.0.0.310 RC1

Kaspersky Lab represents a new generation platform for creating applications specifically designated for complex protection of personal computers and workstations

Kaspersky Anti-Virus & Internet Security 8.0.0.310 RC1

Kaspersky Lab represents a new generation platform for creating applications specifically designated for complex protection of personal computers and workstations

Original substance coming to Xbox 360

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Home EntertainmentWe were kind of wondering when it was finally going to happen: Microsoft’s inked a deal with a Hollywood production company to do original composition for the Xbox 360. The licensed back catalog of stuff is good and all, but that would fill that niche in amidst…

jv16 PowerTools 2008 1.8.0.451

jv16 PowerTools is a complete toolkit to maximize the performance of any PC With a user base comprising several million downloads the program is used by both home and power users as well helpdesk and support personnel around the globe

Microsoft Open to Spammers?

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

That's what some folks are saying about Microsoft's new partnerships with LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo and Facebook. Calling it a new commitment to openness and goods portability, the partnerships allow users of those sites to import their Windows habitable contacts and vice versa. While t…

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX triple-SLI rig benched

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
Looks like the first NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX cards have made their way out in the world — officially announced or not — and TweakTown’s got the benches. Performance gains seem marginal in triple-SLI by dual, but hey, those drivers probably aren’t finished and these ca…

Apple seeds updated iPhone 2.0 beta, not many changes

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Looks like Apple’s been passing around a new working version of the iPhone 2.0 beta firmware — not too many changes since the last release we saw, though. So far, from what we can tell the build is now officially 2.0 (before it was registered as 1.2), the Cisco VPN settings …

*CanSecWest: Countering Misinformation*

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

As you surely know by now, the CanSecWest conference was the stage for a contest, PWN to OWN. Three laptops were set up; laptops running Windows Vista, Ubuntu Linux, and Mac OS X. The goal was to hack the computer and read the contents of a file located on each of the machines, using a 0day cipher e…

KDE 4 rev. 790000: Better Stability, Performance

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

“Considering that the preceding revisions were surprisingly unstable, I can honestly shout that one the most regular of the ones I have tested until now. I experienced only one crash and the performance was more than satisfactory. Now I can be nearly certain that when a regular edition of KDE 4.1 is…

Interview: Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

“Asa Dotzler has been there from the beginning. As Mozilla’s director of community development, he’s had a hand in birthing some of the web’s most successful open-source software projects, most notably the Mozilla and Firefox web browsers. Now, with Mozilla getting ready to celebrate its tenth anniv…

Windows XP-powered Eee PC laptop: $400, April 9th

Filed under: Review - 30 Mar 2008

Filed under: Laptops
Sounds like we’ve finally got a price and a period for the XP powered Eee PC: $400, and April 9th. The hardware’s identical to current-gen Eee PCs, though, so whether you’re happy with your little white lappy and are itching for XP you might try to pick up a license on eBay. Sti…

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