Roundup of social bookmarking sites
Submitted on October 24th, 2005 by admin
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PC Magazine has put together a roundup of what it considers to be the top 5 social bookmarking sites (I assume…the list seems fairly random to me) which includes Clipmarks, del.icio.us, Jeteye, Shadows, and Yahoo!’s My Web 2.0. The ratings do seem pretty accurate to me (My Web 2.0 gets top nods, del.icio.us a horrible rating), though I’d like to have seen other, in my opinion, better services like Simpy and BlinkList, as well as other popular ones like Furl or Spurl. Maybe next time…
[Via Lifehacker]
Hardware Review: PCViper Heatsink Lapping Kit
Submitted on October 7th, 2005 by admin
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I guess you could call this a hardware review, but in fact it’s a product to help your hardware. Some may know what heatsink lapping is while others may have no idea what it could be, or if it’s even important to do. A lot of PC modders use heatsink lapping to provide better cooling on their CPU while using air cooling. If you’re still using air cooling then by all means this is the way to go, since liquid cooling is much more efficient than air. While all lapping kits are different PCViper uses another method to get the same job done, and it seems so much easier than the rest. In this review, I’ll be discussing the Ultrakit-heatsink lapping kit provided by PCViper.
Book Review: Steal This File Sharing Book
Submitted on September 26th, 2005 by admin
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File sharing is more and more common every day for a lot of users. For some, it’s almost second nature. A lot of people use file sharing networks to trade music, movies, and other files, but some use these networks for legal purposes. Steal This File Sharing Book goes over all the different networks, explains how to use them, and how to be safe in the process. Wallace Wang goes over everything you need to know about the history of file sharing, being safe, and exposes the abundant free files online.
Hardware Review: Matrix Orbital MX6 USB PLED
Submitted on September 12th, 2005 by admin
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There are a lot of displays on the market today thanks to PC modders. With so many different companies making products, you think it would be hard to choose which manufacturer or model of display you would want to buy. Why get an display on your PC though? Maybe you want to use it to show framerate while playing a game. How about to show the voltages, CPU heat/speed, RAM usage, fan RPM, and more? Now it’s easier than ever to do this thanks to Matrix Orbital, and their displays. They do very high quality work in making USB PLED’s for the PC consumer. Matrix Orbital was kind enough to provide us with one of their packaged PLED’s, the MX6 USB PLED and this is what we found.
Hardware Review: ClearPC Secret Agent Briefcase
Submitted on August 3rd, 2005 by admin
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Most computer cases are made out of steel and aluminium, but there are companies which offer acrylic cases as well. There’s something about being able to see inside your case that makes acrylic cases better than traditional cases. Acrylic enclosures have been around the modding community for some time now and are widely used. ClearPC is one manufacturer of acrylic cases, and they do very high quality work. ClearPC was kind enough to provide us with one of their new designs, the Secret Agent “Briefcase” and this is what we found.
