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Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 12:59 PM on April 16, 2009

Thursday

1. C|Net reports tax-free Internet shopping may be at an end
2. IBM not interested in Sun at any price: report
3. Fudzilla reports Phenom II X4 945 AM3 comes on 23rd
   and Intel plans 320GB SSD in Q4
4. Toshiba debuts self-encrypting drive technology at RSA Conference 2009
5. Engadget reports Dell adding Samsung's encrypted SSDs to its arsenal
6. US market: SanDisk may lose ground to Taiwan competitors
7. VR-Zone reports Acer's Aspire One D250 and AS3935 retailing in Japan
8. Expreview reports Pioneer debuts 8X BDR-2203 Blu-ray Disc burner
9. TG Daily on effective notebook cooling: Near-field radiation therapy
10. DailyTech reports Time Warner delays tiered pricing in Texas
11. DSLReports: AT&T Network can't handle Slingbox for iPhone?
12. TorrentFreak reports BitTorrent-powered TV is coming
13. Journalism online: Time to start paying for online news
14. NordicHardware reports Nvidia finds new use for G98 GPUs - key chains
15. Microsoft changes mind, Spitfire bar coming to campus

Software

1. The Register reports Mozilla considers dumping Firefox support for Windows 2000, early XP
2. Phoronix reports Intel drops a load of G45 programming documentation
3. ComputerWorld shares Windows 7 tips, tricks, and tweaks
4. SuperSite for Windows posts Office 2010 FAQ
5. MacNN reports Microsoft releases Office 2004 / 2008 security updates
6. Ars Technica has six steps to a successful virtualization deployment
7. Pegasys to offer TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress plug-in for SpursEngine technology
   yielding up to 588% faster processor speed for high definition video encoding

Gaming

1. gi reports Activision Blizzard earnings ahead of targets
2. The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena DRM explanation part 2
3. Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena 1.01 patch
4. Steam's Earth 2160 troubles
5. PCGH reports DirectX 11 Frostbite engine already ported
6. Shacknews reports Bethesda plans to terminate Interplay's Fallout MMO
7. GameSpot reports Thief 4 rumors reignited by Eidos Montreal tester
8. From Stardock: Demigod day 0 status report
9. Ars Technica reports God of War 3 CE may include first two games on Blu-ray disc
10. NetEase wins license to host World of Warcraft
11. The 10 worst clichés in gaming
12. Steam news - Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II single-player demo available
    and Tom Clancy's EndWar update released
13. Neoseeker reviews Demigod
14. DriverHeaven reviews Unreal Tournament 3 - Titan Pack

Systems, storage, and networking

1. Building a "high performance" Windows 7 PC
2. Boot Daily reviews Gateway's FX6800-01E gaming PC
3. NotebookReview's hp Pavilion dv2-1030us notebook
4. Digital Trends reviews Sony VAIO P
5. Lab501 looks at Nvidia's Ion (in Romanian)
6. Hi Tech Legion reviews Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
7. Technic3D reviews Asus Rampage II Extreme (in German)
8. Digit-Life reviews Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H
9. ProClockers review ASRock A780GMH/128M AM2+
10. VIA Arena on Pico-ITXe: HD Lego
11. Futurelooks reviews 6GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 kit
12. Ninjalane reviews 6GB G.Skill Pi Black PC3-12800 kit
13. I4U reviews 500GB Seagate Momentus 7200.4
14. Overclock3D reviews Edimax nMax wireless 802.11n Gigabit router

Multimedia

1. Hexus.net's Asus Radeon HD 4890 voltage tweak - We overclock it
2. TweakTown reviews HIS HD 4890 Turbo
3. PCStats reviews Asus ENGTS250 DK
4. Tweaknews reviews Sapphire Vapor-X HD 4850 512MB
5. TechSpot reviews Aten laptop USB KVM switch
6. Digital Trends reviews RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900
7. HardwareZone: Enjoying a decade of portable entertainment
8. Hardware Secrets reviews Wacom Bamboo fun tablet
9. DriverHeaven reviews Logitech G19 gaming keyboard
10. Elite Bastards review OCZ Eclipse laser gaming mouse
11. Overclockers Online reviews Zowie Gear P-RF mouse pad

Power, case, and cooling

1. PC Perspective reviews Corsair TX850 PSU
2. Neoseeker reviews Cooler Master Storm Sniper case
3. ThinkComputers reviews Cooler Master Aquagate Max liquid cooling system
4. XSReviews on Evercool Rifling fan
5. Legit Reviews on Thermalright AXP-140 HTPC CPU cooler
6. HardwareOC Austria reviews NesteQ SilentFreezer 1200 CPU cooler (in German)
7. FrostyTech reviews diamond-based heat transfer compound