eWeek writes of a flaw in both Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox browsers which could lead to unscrupulous people running nasty code on your PC. The good thing is that they’ve already patched the flaw and it’s a relatively minor download…
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TweakTown does a bit of performance comparing with the new ATI Catalyst 4.7 drivers they recently released for their RADEON line of video cards. They toss in results for the previous 4.6 drivers and results are, for the most part,…
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The Post Gazette has some coverage on Intel’s research into “ubiquitous computing” which would allow anyone to access they own personal desktop space and applications from most any other PC. I see a ton of security related problems and digital…
Wired has a couple of good ideas on how to add functionality to both Mozilla and Firefox web browser installs, the kind of added tools you’d expect from bloated software but which you can now conveniently choose from what you…
Read more Customize Your Mozilla/Firefox Browser
Bjorn3D ponders just how well a pair of SerialATA based drives would perform, in RAID, compared to single drive setups. It’s obvious which combo won the speed tests which is a viable choice for a performance boost with the low…
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AnandTech abused a few pairs of DDR2 memory modules from various manufacturers at higher than intended clock speeds and comes away with some intriguing results. It’s nice to see that DDR2 performance scales so well with faster clock rates which…
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Overclockers Online has a review of the Philips PSC724 Ultimate Edge sound card. The company isn’t best known for its PC audio products but it has had a solid record of pumping out quality hardware. This particular board uses a…
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CNN covers a Business Software Alliance (BSA) report which states that pirated software cost alliance members $29 billion in lost revenue last year. The totals for actual losses are probably a whole lot lower as the methods they use for…
PC World writes of a slight oversight Microsoft may have had with its beta 64-bit version of Windows XP. The main problem is that it was limited to installing only on AMD 64-bit CPUs to begin with which is a…
CNN Money’s Game Over column makes note of a recent Swiss study that shows playing video games for extended periods of time can lead to obesity in children. They make note of the sillyness of such research when the results…
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GamePC tossed together a comparative review of a few mobile chips from both AMD and Intel. Interesting results from the Pentium 4/Dothan (Pentium M)/Athlon 64s, each varies quite a bit architecturally yet they each maintain comparable performance levels so you’re…
Read more Mobile CPUs Compared
