By Craig Lloyd on Feb 9th, 2011 at 2:43PM
Microsoft has announced today that Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 will be available via Microsoft Download Center and Windows Update. For those of you who are TechNet and MSDN Subscribers, you’ll be able to snatch it on February 16th.
[Windows Blog via Twitter]
By Craig Lloyd on Feb 9th, 2011 at 1:14PM
In March of last year, Dell discontinued the crazy-thin Adamo XPS laptop, but then brought it back days later. This time, the company has decided to completely oust the entire Adamo lineup. The reason? Too expensive. The Adamo packed a Core 2 Duo processor with a solid state drive and 3G capabilities all inside an aluminum casing that was only 0.65 inches thick and weighed around four pounds. It also started at a steep $2,000.
As far as Dell starting up another ultra-portable laptop line, we can’t say it’s impossible, but hardly unlikely.
via [CNET]
By Craig Lloyd on Feb 9th, 2011 at 12:32AM
There’s always a time where we all get that new router. Whether it’s because our old one died or we’re making the jump to 802.11n, there are some essential steps that we must take to properly set up a new router. Tech review site Tested has made a list of 15 steps for properly setting up a router. Some of them are obvious like setting up WEP/WPA security and positioning the router in an optimum location, but there are things that we tend to overlook, like choosing that perfect wireless channel and even installing third-party firmware to overhaul your router.
[Tested]
By Craig Lloyd on Feb 9th, 2011 at 12:15AM
Epic Vid of the Week is a weekly series that showcases an awesome video that we or our readers discover. Some you may have seen before and others you may have not. If you’ve discovered any videos that might be worthy of an Epic Vid of the Week title, let us know!
This short, 4-minute film consists of an old chapel located in Poland. The videographer uses HDR to spice it up a bit (okay…a lot!), and we have to say it makes it look like it came straight out of a video game. You’ll want to be sure to skip to around 1:27 where the jaw-dropping actually begins.
By Craig Lloyd on Feb 8th, 2011 at 3:12PM
Just months after AOL bought the popular tech news site TechCrunch, they announced yesterday that it will be acquiring one of the largest news and opinion sites in the world, The Huffington Post, for $315 million. Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington will now oversee all editorial content for both companies.
AOL has been trying to give themselves a much needed makeover these last couple of years, and they think these recent acquisitions will do just that. However The Huffington Post has been criticized for aggregating content from other news sources rather than creating its own, and TechCrunch has also received some slack recently when TechCrunch head Michael Arrington made some childish remarks against sister site Engadget. All three of these companies/websites (AOL, TechCrunch, and Huffington Post) will need to prove something soon in order for this makeover to be effective.
via [LA Times]
By Tim Hage on Feb 8th, 2011 at 1:01PM
Despite the series’ dominance on the western setting, it seems developer Techland has grown tired of the old wild west, and have decided to spice things up by Modern Warfareing their Call of Juarez series up. Ubisoft released word that the next game would be titled Call of Juarez The Cartel, and would be taking place in modern-day Los Angeles, California and Juarez, Mexico.The game’s expected release window is currently Summer 2011.
“Call of Juarez The Cartel is an action-packed shooter game with a strong story, interesting characters and a wide variety of gameplay options,” said Adam Novickas, director of marketing at Ubisoft. “The game will bring the best elements of the Wild West into modern times with a very gritty and relevant plot.”
We’re unconvinced.
By Craig Lloyd on Feb 7th, 2011 at 6:37PM
It’s obvious that Apple will release a refreshed line of MacBook Pros come this spring, but the exact time period is still foggy at this point. However, 9to5Mac has obtained word that Best Buy stores have placed “dummy SKUs” of MacBook Pros into their databases. The release date for those? March 11th. These dummy SKUs also shows a $1,199 for one of the models, which is the cheapest model of the current 13-inch MBP. This means we might not see a permanent price drop when the new models roll in.
via [9to5Mac]
By Tim Hage on Feb 7th, 2011 at 6:04PM
The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in this tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.
This week’s budget title is for all the MegaMan and side-scrolling space shooter titles. If that’s not enough, it also happens to be an indie title and makes full use of Steam Cloud and Steam’s achievement systems, and even offers full controller support.
By Craig Lloyd on Feb 7th, 2011 at 3:52PM
Howdy, folks. To get a better idea of what our readers (you guys) are like, we’re going to be conducting a survey to gather demographic information about our audience. This includes the basics like age, residency, education, employment, etc. We’re not just doing this for kicks though. We should also say that it’s going to be for potential advertisers in the future. I know that it sounds bad in that “we’re giving your information to advertisers,” but this is nothing like how Google or Facebook does it (which could possibly be crossing the line of ethics). We would only be giving them an overall summary about our readers, not individually. By doing this, we’ll be able to have relevant ads on our site that cater towards you guys. I know people hate ads, but it takes money to run a website and I hope our loyal readers will support us through this.
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By Craig Lloyd on Feb 7th, 2011 at 2:07PM
Sure, you might have had a few friends over to watch the big game and while you were probably chitting and chatting about all those hilarious (or not) commercials, Jason Chen from Gizmodo makes a good point that the real party was happening on Twitter.
“But when I caught up with everyone on Twitter? Holy shit, America was throwing a rager and everyone was invited. It’s the freaking Super Bowl! The streets were talking. Sports fans waxing poetry about Aaron Rodger’s spiral. Non sports fan dreaming of eating popcorn like A-Rod. Girls complaining when Roethlisberger was shown on screen. Guys wiping off their drool from Kim Kardashian. Everybody had something to add to the game.”
It’s true, and even if you’re not a sports fan, Twitter was an amazing place to hang out during Super Bowl Sunday, especially during that uh-mazing halftime show.
[Gizmodo]
