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Saturday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 3:33 AM on May 2, 2009

Saturday

1. Maximum PC's Blue Screen of Death survival guide: Every error explained
2. DSLReports: President Obama nominates new FCC commissioner
3. Cyber chief needs to be in White House: experts
4. Threat Level reports Microsoft offers secure Windows... but only to the government
5. DSLReports: Verizon's Cablevision snark fest continues
6. Bits Blog: The problem with cable is television
7. C|Net reports ex-Seagate CEO Watkins back with chip start-up
8. Engadget reports Google and dozens of Android purveyors slapped with trademark lawsuit
9. DailyTech reports Acer could take Dell's number two PC shipper crown
10. TweakTown reports XFX first to use premium cooler for HD 4770
11. Fudzilla reports MSI shows off its watercooled GTX 285
12. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Research: Keeping the heat down
13. HotHardware covers Gigabyte Open Overclocking Competition 2009
14. TestFreaks cover Pepcom’s EcoFocus media event
15. HardwareZone: LG expands its high definition portfolio
16. After the Software Wars: SuperSite's interview with Keith Curtis part 3
17. C|Net's giveaway: Win a Battlestar Galactica 16GB Zune
18. Björn3D's XFX Radeon HD 4770 giveaway contest
19. Case mod contest
20. ThinkComputers has Zalman cooler giveaway

Software

1. XP lives! - Netbook vendors will be able to get XP for a year after the release of Windows 7
2. DailyTech on Microsoft's IE 8 default browser controversy—Trickery or much ado about nothing?
3. TG Daily reports IE 8 can’t stop IE market share decline
4. C|Net reports Google bulks up Gmail with built-in search
5. Before Dark's Nvidia 182.50 WHQL and 185.81 beta comparison and review
6. PC World has top 7 reasons people quit Linux
7. Gizmodo reports iPhone developers threatening Apple over outrageous app payment delays
8. hardCOREware: DivX 7 to add MKV support to Windows 7 and Xbox 360 / PS3
9. Computing on Demand: How to enable "DVD Library" in Media Center for Windows Vista
10. Tech ARP posts Windows Vista Service Pack 2's latest release schedule rev. 4.2
    and Office 2007 Service Pack 2 details rev. 1.1
11. ITreviewed on WinX DVD Author

Gaming

1. Shacknews reports PS3, Xbox 360 motion controller rumors spread
2. Ars Technica: Rumored new Sony controller reminds us of older experiments
3. Gamasutra's in-depth: GameStop controls 21% of U.S. game market
4. Shacknews reports Valve sneaks TF2 MMO jokes into latest patch
   and retailers list fourth Fallout 3 expansion
5. L4D Freaky Free Friday held over
   and play the Zeno Clash demo on Steam
6. More Steam news: TF2, DoD: Source, and Empire: Total War updates released
7. Dawn of War II: The road to patch 1.3 (part one)
8. 18 embarrassing game AI bugs caught on tape... and fixed
9. bit-tech previews Brutal Legend
10. TestFreaks review Chains (PC)
11. Gaming Heaven reviews Comet Crash (PS3)
12. TweakTown reviews Resistance Retribution (PSP)

Hardware

1. Futurelooks has AMD platforms showdown: Spider vs. Dragon vs. Dragon Reloaded
2. iXBT Labs: Choosing from similar PC configurations
3. Legit Reviews on Intel's DX58SO motherboard
4. Björn3D reviews 6GB Crucial Ballistx PC3-10600 kit
5. Ultimate Hardware reviews Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770
6. CPU3D reviews HIS HD 4770
7. FiringSquad's Gigabyte GV-N96TZL-1GI GeForce 9600 GT quick take review
8. XtremeComputing reviews eDimensional AudioFX2 headset
9. HardwareZone previews HTC Touch Pro2
10. XtremeComputing reviews 850W Thermaltake Toughpower XT PSU
    and akasa Infinti Zor case
11. bit-tech reviews SilverStone SG05 chassis
12. TweakPC reviews Cooler Master Gladiator 600 case (in German)