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Saturday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 12:04 PM on August 29, 2009

Saturday

1. Bright Side of News reports Nvidia plans GT300 demos for late September
2. Expreview reports Gigabyte unveils Super Overclock Series graphics cards
3. Fudzilla reports multi-touch netbooks / notebooks still on schedule for Q4 09
4. C|Net on the rise of the high-def netbooks
5. TweakTown on visiting the Beijing computer market... and causing trouble (August 2009)
6. Bloomberg reports U.S. will consider single rating system for TV, phones, games
7. No Pirate Bay deal, says key GGF technology
8. Comcast can officially get even more gigantic
9. The worst cellular carriers in the west: AT&T and Sprint Nextel
10. JWT, WPP sued over TV advertising for Microsoft's Bing
11. TG Daily reports humbled Psystar hopes to 'coexist' with Apple
12. Sun absorbs $147M loss as Oracle deal looms
13. TG Daily excommunicated by Mozilla
14. Enlisting computers to unravel complexity of disease
15. Win hardware by entering Hi Tech Legion's contests

Software

1. Mac OS X v10.6: About incompatible software
2. Wake on Demand lets Snow Leopard sleep with one eye open
3. Phoronix reports Mac OS X 10.6 brings serious performance gains
4. SuperSite switcher guide: From Mac OS X to Windows
5. Could Microsoft Office finally be heading to Linux?
6. Microsoft: No IE 8 tab-hang fix in the works
7. Microsoft makes standalone Hyper-V R2 server available for download
8. Upgrade your Windows Live Messenger Service
9. Tell us what you think: Silverlight for Exchange management UI?

Gaming

1. Analysts: Nintendo should cut Wii price 'while their competitors are still weak'
2. Xbox Live's Twitter and Facebook free for Gold, for trial by Silver members
3. 250GB Xbox 360 Super Elite coming to South Africa in October
4. Crysis Wars trial keys available
5. Modern Warfare 2 MP footage
6. GameSpy has Dawn of War II - The Last Stand DLC exclusive first look
7. Shacknews reports Dawn of War II picking up co-op survival mode
8. IncGamers have Paul Sams video interview
9. Tom Hall on Wolfenstein 3D
10. PCGH has WoW: Wrath of the Lich King CPU benchmarks with Phenom II and Core i5
11. Ars Technica reviews Professor Layton
12. Steam client update released
13. Steam's weekend deal: 50% off all Rebellion titles
14. Direct2Drive has Mass Effect 1 + 2 bundle download

Systems and storage

1. HotHardware on Nvidia's road ahead: Ion, Tegra, and the future of the company
2. Silicon Madness on LGA 1156, Nvidia's chipsets, and Clarkdale
3. PCStats reviews Phenom II X4 965 BE
4. Tech ARP's BIOS option of the week: CPU fast string
5. AnandTech on Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2: P55 uATX goodness for
   under $105 and 2 new Ions: Asus AT3N7A-I and ASRock Ion 330
6. HardwareZone reviews Asus AT3N7A-1
7. PCStats on factory HDD capacity loss: Fixing 1TB hard drives that show up as 32MB
8. I4U on upgrading Windows XP with 128GB Super Talent UltraDrive GX SSD
9. Technic3D reviews 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD (in German)

Multimedia, power, rack, and cooling

1. techPowerUp! reviews MSI HD 4890 Cyclone SOC 1GB
2. Motherboards.org reviews Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2G / 1G
3. Legit Reviews on BenQ Joybee GP1 mini projector
4. Big Bruin reviews Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 Slim
5. TweakPC previews CM Storm Sentinel gaming mouse with OLED display (in German)
6. TweakPC reviews 550W Cougar S PSU (in German)
7. Hardware Secrets reviews 400W OCZ StealthXStream PSU
8. DragonSteelMods review Thermaltake Max4 3.5" SATA HDD rack
9. FrostyTech reviews DeepCool IceWing 5 Pro heatsink