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Our current contest challenges readers to relate their first PC upgrade experiences for a chance to win a copy...

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To take full advantage of this past long weekend, I unlatched myself from my computer and went to see a movie with my girlfriend. We...

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By now, many of you must have looked at, or at least heard of, the experimental, HTML5 version of YouTube. And if you read...

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I've been partial to AMD for a long time. The first PC I built for myself had an Athlon Thunderbird running at a blistering 1.4GHz,...

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Sony and some market analysts are wondering why Blu-ray uptake isn't skyrocketing like they'd hoped. I have a few ideas. About a year ago, I decided...

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USB thumb drives are everywhere. Heck, they've been everywhere for years. Never before have I see a new class of product become...

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If you've read our summer system guide, you might enjoy hearing the story of how our very cool Pocket Swiss Army Knife config came...

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Since we're an enthusiast site, little explanation of overclocking is needed here.  We tend to focus on the intricacies of hardware and how it performs,...

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I finally bit the bullet and decided to buy a digital SLR camera last weekend. I've been shooting with a Canon PowerShot A570 IS for...

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Since its initial release in 1991, the Python programming language has steadily grown in popularity. Designed by Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum (a.k.a....

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I'm constantly amazed by the pace at which technology improves. Take what's happened in, oh, the last six years, for example. We've gone...

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It seems like every year, someone thinks that Linux is on the verge of making real inroads on the desktop. And every year, the...

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The headphone market is littered with an incredible range of options, from the throwaway garbage bundled with cheap MP3 players to audiophile earmuffs that would...

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With word that the final version of Internet Explorer 8 may be coming in the next few days, enthusiasts are once again...

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Perhaps more than any other Apple product, the iPod shuffle is the perfect example of the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field in action. When...

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Generally speaking, Americans believe that more is better—except for, of course, leprosy and Celine...

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