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PeerGuardian 2 RC1 Beta With Vista Support
2007-09-06 17:07:00
PeerGuardian 2 RC1 has been availble for a few months now and though some users have had problems with it, others have been able to run it successfully with a few tweaks here and there. Download the application yourself and test it out. If you have problems help the developers out and post it to ...
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Your Hard Drive Will Have Its Own CPU
2007-09-04 23:34:00
A new hybrid hard drive is in the works called the Mcell. This hybrid drive uses 1GB of DDR2 RAM instead of flash memory as the cache. There will be an onboard CPU that will manage the data According to DTS, the additional memory combined with its I/O management chip drastically improves hard drive transfer speeds: ...
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Original Command and Conquer Now Freeware
2007-09-03 23:06:00
One of the best games in the universe has been freed from the grasp of EA and given back to the people that made it a success. Command and Conquer is now available from EA as freeware. They are offering the files in ISO format so you can burninate the images with your favorite burninator. ...
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Windows Vista SP1 - One Stop Detail Shop
2007-08-31 15:22:00
I’m rolling up as many of the current Vista SP1 news that is sprawled across the world wide web in this one super post. This is the one post to rule them all. The first service pack for Vista is a major one, it will either make or break the operating system. There are performance, ...
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Google, Microsoft Are Defending Fair Use
2007-08-31 02:37:00
Google and Microsoft make up part of an association called the Computer & Communications Industry Association that is tired of the NFL, MLB and others telling us that we can’t even talk about a game without their permission. The FTC needs to put the entertainment industry in their place. Earlier this month, the Computer & ...
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Apple Opens Up TV Downloads In UK
2007-08-30 00:00:00
Apple is now allowing users from the UK to download US TV shows through iTunes the shows will cost £1.89 per episode which is about $3.80 US. In US we pay $1.99 for the same TV show, why should it be any different for our friends in the UK? Unfortunately I don’t think the entertainment ...
More About: Entertainment , Downloads , Apple

If You Can?t Win It - Get It Free After Rebate
2007-08-28 03:42:00
If you haven’t commented on the D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router And Xtreme N Card Giveaway yet - do it now before you miss your chance to win a great router. If you aren’t a winner though the next best thing is Free After Rebate , if the company providing the rebate is reliable. Over at ...
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15 Websites For Wasting Time
2007-08-28 01:27:00
If you’re in the mood to waste some time online, check out the list Freelance Switch put together. 1. MyGame Create your own games and play them with just a photo and some free time 2. Fuzzwich Make hilarious cartoons with Fuzzwich?s video making machine. Complete with music, backgrounds and actors? 3. Strip Generator Similar to Fuzzwich, strip generator gives ...
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Amazing Image Resizing
2007-08-27 23:11:00
Hopefully it’s just a matter of time before we see this in a commercial application. iPhoto would be nice but more likely photoshop. Pretty cool technology. Share This
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Targeted Advertising on Facebook
2007-08-23 16:42:00
Some Facebook users have had concerns and/or complaints about the direction the social networking system has decided to take more than once during its rather short history. First, some users were upset when Facebook opened their accounts beyond the original college-student crowd to the public at large. Then there was a outcry from some when ...
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Borrow Wifi Get Arrested
2007-08-23 03:32:00
A London man was arrested for borrowing someone’s unprotected open wifi. Two Police Community Support officers spotted the man sitting outside a house enjoying the wifi booty. This seemed ’suspicious’ to the officers so they arrested him. Unfortunately any particular details are slim. It doesn’t say if the owner of the borrowed wifi connection cared that ...
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Suprnova.org Back Online
2007-08-22 01:55:00
If you’re new to the interweb you probably don’t know about Suprnova.org but if you’ve been around for awhile you know all about it. Suprnova was the best torrent search engine, then in 2004 it shut down because of pressure from copyright holders. Suprnova then turned and donated the site to The Pirate Bay and ...
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Message from Skype
2007-08-21 21:40:00
In relation to the previously reported Skype outage, I received the following mail communication from them today. Seems they are extending my subscription by seven days. I suppose it’s better than nothing. Hello Kevin You may or may not know but last week Skype wasn’t available for a couple of days. There were a ...
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D-Link Xtreme N Gigabit Router And Xtreme N Card
2007-08-20 21:58:00
D-Link sent us one of their Xtreme N routers from their Premium line of products. One of our lucky readers will be getting this top of the line router along with an Xtreme N notebook adapter. The router is model number DIR-655 and the card is model number DWA-652. To win these fine products all ...
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Skype Outage
2007-08-19 16:33:00
Unless you have been hiding under a rock this week, I am sure you have heard about Skype ’s “outage”. The service was down for over 30 hours. eBay purchased Skype for a wopping $2.6 billion dollars back in late 2005, which makes me wonder where they were throughout this entire debacle? I don’t recall the ...
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Star Trek Parody Comic ElfTrek
2007-08-17 16:29:00
To try and complete a few of the collections I started, I got myself a box full of comics, some I needed and some I didn’t. In the “I didn’t” pile was ElfTrek , a 2 issue Star Trek Parody . The synopsis of Elftrek is as follows: The crew of The Corporation ship Big Surprise are bored ...
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Clean Your Crap 2.0 Style
2007-08-16 23:11:00
CClean er (Crap Cleaner) has announced version 2.0. The beta is available for download now. CCleaner is probably the best tool at cleaning the crap from your computer. I use it all the time and highly recommend you check it out. With the new version comes the following new features: Complete rebuild in C++ With the requirements for ...
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Twitter + Jaiku = Twitku
2007-08-16 20:32:00
New web app Twitku lets you monitor and post to both your Twitter and Jaiku accounts simultaneously. Twitku displays your Twitter and Jaiku friend or public updates side-by-side, and you can even rearrange windows to give one or the other first-place preference on your screen. Another window lets you enter your own updates and post ...
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Warhammer 40k: Damnation Crusade Review
2007-08-14 20:49:00
Boom-Studios has started publishing a handful of different Warhammer 40k comics. Damnation Crusade was a 6 issue mini-series. There are two other Warhammer series they are working on Blood and Thunder and Forge of War. Warhammer 40k started out as a board game in 1987 and is now a huge franchise. There is a large ...
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Five Tech Myths Busted
2007-08-14 17:58:00
Extreme Tech gathered together a few common tech myths and went to work researching and debunking these myths. Unfortunately they didn’t use the Mythbuster testing methods of blowing things up but they did a good job. Games for Windows Live: Must Pay Micro$oft $$$ It is true that Games for Windows Live is a premium service, and ...
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Windows Vista SP1 Details
2007-08-13 20:01:00
APC Magazine got a chance to install the service pack 1 beta for Windows Vista . I doubt it will be this way when it’s released to the public, but for APC the download was a 3.2GB DVD ISO of Vista with SP1. There is one new feature that SP1 will add to Vista called Create Recovery ...
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Killraven Review
2007-08-13 18:46:00
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the cover of this issue of Killraven; Borat. On the alternate-future Earth designated Earth-691 by Marvel Comic s, the Martians from H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds returned in 2001 for another attempt at conquering the planet. After humanity’s enslavement, men not used as breeders ...
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Logitech G3 Giveaway Reminder
2007-08-10 18:51:00
We are giving away two Logi tech G3 mice to two of our lucky readers. All you have to do to enter is place a comment on our G3 review post. The two lucky winners will be chosen next week. With the current entries, you have a 1 in 3 shot of picking one up. Good ...
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Watch streamed xvid on your Xbox 360
2007-08-05 23:18:00
The one thing I loved about the original xbox was the awesome XBMC application. After a little tinkering, modding and installing, running XBMC was a breeze. The ability to stream pretty much any video file from a shared PC drive to the Xbox made it a true killer app for the xbox. Since upgrading ...
More About: Software , Watch , Entertainment , Xbox 360

Webb Alert Scandal?
2007-08-05 15:25:00
It appears that Morgan Webb s latest video blog that we reported on the other day is creating a controversy regarding it’s ties to advertising agency Federated Media. Allen Stern over at Center Networks seems to have some conspiracy theories regarding Webb Alert s lack of disclosure regarding their relationship with FM and a number of other FM blogs writing shining reviews. I am not sure there is actually anything happening here. Even if what Stern say’s is true, it’s certainly not as bad as the undisclosed paid per post blogs that are infecting the blogging community. FM is after all an advertising agency. Personally it does not bother me. I still recommend dropping by and checking out the show. Share This
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More Vista Tips Than You Can Shake A Stick At
2007-08-03 19:32:00
Today’s Windows Vista tips are quick and easy. It is unfortunate that these things aren’t more obvious because they can be quite useful. Hidden Open Command Window Here Context Menu item Open a folder, press Shift + Right Click -> Open Command Window Here Enable Advanced Disk Performance When enabled, the hard disk drive operates in write-back cache mode, ...
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Ohio To Offer Broadband To All Ohio Residents
2007-08-03 19:21:00
This news hits close to home since the Teckh.com writers are living in Ohio . I’m sure the cable and telcos are going crazy over this. According ot the U.S. Census Ohio is ranked 8th in total taxes per capita so it’s good to see that they are using the tax dollars to do something positive. ...
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Morgan Webbs New Video Blog
2007-08-02 15:07:00
Webb Alert is a new daily technology video blog (well Monday - Thursday) from X-Play’s Morgan Webb. The site launched yesterday and has posted the first episode. The “no more than five minute” format works great for me as my gnat like attention span kicks in at five minutes. Webb Alert’s focus is ...
More About: Video , Technology , Entertainment , Video Blog , Podcast

Logitech G3 Review
2007-08-01 15:41:00
We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes here at Teckh.com to give a little something back to our readers. Most of the products reviewed online are sent back to the manufacturer when the review is over. Eventually that item is probably going to be thrown away. But through our hard work we’ve managed to ...
More About: Hardware , Gaming , Logitech , Review , Logi

Comic Book Reviews Coming Soon
2007-08-01 02:33:00
Here at Teckh.com we enjoy all things geeky, we don’t like to discriminate. If we like it you’re likely to see a post about it. Fortunately for you (unfortunately for my wife) I’ve decided to start collecting comics again. Comic -Con is partially to blame for lighting the fire under my bum but it’s something I’ve ...
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