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  • Strawberry Shortcake(TM) and Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation 'Stand' Together in the Fight Against Childhood Cancer Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:38AMThe immensely sweet and popular character Strawberry Shortcake⢠has teamed up with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation in support of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Because cancer affects over 12,000 children in the United States each year, and to help raise national awareness as well as support fundraising efforts for this important cause, ALSF and Strawberry Shortcake are enlisting volunteers ...
  • PNY Geforce GT 220 Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 1:21PMImprove your computer's graphics performance
  • PNY Geforce GT 220 Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 12:32PMIt’s not the fastest chipset around, but if your computer has a built-in graphics processor (it doesn’t have a separate graphics card) or it has an ageing graphics card and games, particularly, are starting to slow down, it will give a performance boost.
  • Geeks.com Provides Great Deals on Outdated Hardware [Shopping] Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 5:06PM# shopping Whether you're replacing parts in an older machine or looking for or you just can't wait a decade to build your DIY circuit board table , web site Geeks.com provides great deals on old and out-of-production hardware. More »
  • Ode to Summer, Fixer-Uppers and $10 for Courage Tuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 7:44AMWell, Memorial Day has come and gone in the U.S., and that means summer is upon us once again, if just unofficially. What is summer for, besides sunburns, mosquitoes and sweating? That's right, it's time for tinkering in the great, air-conditioned indoors! Linux bloggers' thoughts have been turning to all the projects large and small they hope to spend time on in the coming months.
  • Upgrade graphics card or buy a new PC? Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 4:23AMQMy desktop PC runs Windows XP and is currently working well. I would like to use Windows 7 though, and as a mature student I should be eligible for the special offer to get Windows 7 for £30.
  • It's True. Valve Coming to Macs With Steam Games Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 4:51PMValve's artists take inspiration from Mac icons to create a set of teaser images. Apple - Macintosh - Icons - FAQs Help and Tutorials - Steam
  • Tom's Launches Two iPhone Apps Tuesday, February 9, 2010 @ 12:34PMTom's has hit the App Store! AppStore - IPhone - Apple - Handhelds - Smartphones
  • A netbook that’s a red racer Wednesday, February 3, 2010 @ 1:12AMTHE all-new Acer Ferrari One netbook certainly stands out from the crowd with its personalised racing red cover and the familiar Prancing Horse logo.
  • R-Comp in clear out sale Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 5:08PMPopular RISC OS company R-Comp is offering, for a one time only, a computer hardware sale worthy of a certain large computer retailer. Due to their expansion and development of new products, R-Comp is clearing out equipment and stock no longer needed and selling it on.
  • Profile for jbit Wednesday, December 9, 2009 @ 5:56PM> "in a computer, you would need at least four lanes for the other expansion slots" The 348 and 341/342 can use PCIe and PCI-X concurrently, so you could use eight PCIe lanes for a graphics card, and a plain PCI-X bus for sound/USB/whatever else.
  • R-Comp in clear out sale Tuesday, November 10, 2009 @ 6:26AMPopular RISC OS company R-Comp is offering, for a one time only, a computer hardware sale worthy of a certain large computer retailer. Due to their expansion and development of new products, R-Comp is clearing out equipment and stock no longer needed and selling it on.
  • AdvantageSix launches new VirtualRPC based PC Tuesday, October 27, 2009 @ 5:11AMAnnouncing it as a "new RISC OS machine", which really woke us up this morning, AdvantageSix (better known as STD to RISC OS users) has instead launched the A6 - a WindowsXP PC that employs VirtualRPC-SE to allow RISC OS and RISC OS applications to run on it.
  • RISC OS features in plain english Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 4:56PMOver the years, RISC OS 4 and 5 have continued to move forward, however separate their paths.
  • Tom Gromak: New Windows: 7 may be Microsoft's lucky number Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 12:21AMThe latest version of Microsoft's Windows doesn't come with a ton of flashy new features -- though there are some -- but it does offer users something they haven't seen in some time: a leaner, faster, more efficient operating system that just might surprise you.
  • Omega MIDI, ethernet progress Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 3:41PMWhat's next on the to-do list? [Updated] Archive magazine editor Paul Beverley has this month revealed a couple of interesting developments emanating from the otherwise silent MicroDigital corner of the RISC OS world: reportedly the Omega's on-board MIDI system now works and also the Omega's ethernet networking is being beta tested by users.
  • AMD's Athlon II X3 435 & New Energy Efficient CPUs: Killing Intel Below $90 Monday, October 19, 2009 @ 11:03PMHot on the heels of last months' $99 quad-core, AMD is back with a higher performance alternative to Intel's Pentium E6xxx series. It's the return of the triple core with the Athlon II X3 435 and 425. Both priced under $90 and both delivering better than Intel dual-core performance. For the first time in a while, AMD's biggest competition is itself....
  • How productive are you on RISC OS? Sunday, October 18, 2009 @ 12:56AMLetter WROCC member Richard Ashbery has written in to complain that he's wasting time securing and maintaining his Microsoft Windows computer, which is affecting his productivity.
  • Midlands 2004 show report Friday, October 16, 2009 @ 11:26AMYesterday's Midlands RISC OS show closed early, just before 4pm, putting an end to an otherwise quiet show. The general feeling amongst the dealers and developers present was that the show could have been worse, and thankfully a few punters turned up to buy new and old kit.
  • Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware? Saturday, October 10, 2009 @ 3:06PMEtylowy writes "Over the years I have repaired my own PC and those belonging to family and friends many, many times. While in most cases it turned out to be restoring a system after malware/the user/Windows made a mess, or simple cases of 'follow the smell of smoke and molten plastic,' there were some nasty ones where the computer mostly works. By 'mostly,' I mean: you can boot it up, it might ...
  • PCI is go for RiscPCs, A7000s Sunday, October 4, 2009 @ 10:26PMPCI is now possible on the RiscPC architecture, thanks to Windfall Engineering's latest product - PCIFace . Cramming an AGP interface onto the Acorn podule bus was clearly not enough, now RiscPC and A7000 users can fit a podule-bus-to-PCI bridge interface.
  • Buy Iyonix, get card reader free Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 10:11AMCastle have announced today that over the months of August and July, all Iyonixes will be sold with a free bundled 6-in-1 universal memory card reader.
  • Iyonix Review Part One Saturday, September 26, 2009 @ 7:12PMThe hardware, the alternatives, the history. Well, it's here. And what a whirlwind too. Who would have thought that there would be a new machine just 6 weeks after its announcement.
  • Petabyte server DIY Friday, September 11, 2009 @ 12:07PMPaul Taylor THE INQUIRER Daily Wibble Storage Pod comes to the rescue
  • 4GB ASUS GTX 285 tested Friday, August 28, 2009 @ 9:11AMPaul Taylor THE INQUIRER Daily Wibble Rare graphics card shock
  • Video tour of the Asus G51VX gaming notebook Thursday, August 27, 2009 @ 2:29PMWe posted a full review of the Asus G51VX gaming notebook recently, but didn’t get a chance to put the video content up. In these two videos there is an unboxing of the system and then a tour of it as well as its lighting. Ranging from $1049 to $1600, and powered by Nvidia GeForce [...]
  • Nvidia Predicts 570X GPU Performance Increase Wednesday, August 26, 2009 @ 6:21PMGPU performance will increase up to 570x in the next six years.
  • Dual core Atom 330 netbook spotted in Japan Monday, August 24, 2009 @ 5:01PMNetbooks are clearly intended for light use and as a second machine for e-mail, Net surfing, and light office tasks. That’s due mainly to the limited power offered by the underlying hardware and the tiny screens to some extent. But it looks like netbooks are about to get a whole lot more powerful if a [...]
  • Dual-head DVI ViewFinder graphics card announced Saturday, August 15, 2009 @ 6:55PMPublished: 14th Aug 2009, 19:10:28. A dual-head DVI-capable ViewFinder graphics card for RiscPCs and A7000s was announced today by hardware guru John Kortink.
  • Essential Final Cut Pro: FxFactory Pro and CrumplePop Monday, June 29, 2009 @ 11:53AMFor this Final Cut Pro (FCP) Plug-Ins and 3rd Party Software apps, I decided to focus only Noise Industries' FxFactory Pro (also available for Motion, Final Cut Express, and Adobe After Effects) and some of key plug-ins, including those from Noise Industries, SUGARfx, yanobox, and Boinx Software. I will also take a look at CrumplePop, which is a very cool "handwritten" text creator that helps ...
  • AGP Not Yet Dead Says Gigabyte Thursday, June 4, 2009 @ 12:22PMIt's always good and fun to have the latest hardware, especially when it comes to graphics. But what if you're on an aging AGP system?