National Cheese Pizza Day Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki
1:39 AM on September 5, 2010
Eight is Enough
- Techdirt reports huge push in Brazil to legalize file sharing
- VR-Zone shares rumor: "Blackcomb" is AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000 series flagship
- Engadget reports Sony shows off Google TV (or a video of it, anyway) at IFA 2010
and iOS 4.1 confirmed for September 8th on Apple's UK website
- ESET NOD32 update to v.5418 causing problems
- 9 to 5 Mac: iPad video calling debugger
- Any truth to the rumor about Elemental: War of Magic on Shacknews? (an official response)
- Hardware Canucks and Shacknews cover PAX 2010
- Joystiq's hands-on with the new Xbox 360 controller with transforming D-pad
National Cheese Pizza Day
- Techdirt reports French ISPs pushing back against Hadopi; threaten to ignore requests
- The Inquirer reports Dell is back in second place in the global PC market
- What's next for Dell?
- TUAW reports Apple awarded new patents
- Popular Science: Tiny, 5nm silicon oxide switches could create single chips with TB storage
- Engadget reports Samsung's new wireless USB chipset enables HD streaming with less power
- TC Magazine reports Eurocom adding the GeForce GTX 470M & GTX 460M to its mobile laptops
- Laptoping reports MSI FR600 3D, CX623 3D-capable laptops coming soon
- First PC made - IBM PC 5150 playing a video
- Engadget reports Cambridge scientists develop lower-than-low power WORM memory
- TUAW: Looking forward to Apple's AirPlay
- Engadget: Plex announces partnership with LG, pledges to beat Boxee Box and Apple TV for free
and Philips Dimenco glasses-less 3D TV of the future, hopefully our future and
hp lists Photosmart eStation C510 printer with detachable e-reading touchscreen—is this
the Zeus? (update: yes) and Stealth's rugged USB keyboard is extremely tough, extremely pricey
and Mobee's inductive Magic Charger for Apple's Magic Mouse really is magical
- Mysterious new Walkman at IFA?
- Engadget podcast 211
- Windows Weekly 172 (podcast)
- TechFlash podcast: Clearwire, Paul Allen, AT&T, and a Startup Day preview
- Win a Thermaltake Level 10 case from KitGuru
- OC3D's BitFenix Colossus treasure hunt
- TestFreaks' contest: Win a Samsung Gravity T or Samsung Flight II cell phone
- OT: CNN reports 'world's oldest beer' found in shipwreck
Mobile
- AllThingsD reports Apple building 2 million iPads per month, but shooting for 3 million
- Engadget: LG Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 prototype flicks photos to TVs, launches October
and BlackBerry Torch 9800 gets the Colorware treatment, sees value increase infinitely
- AppleInsider reports Apple's iOS tops Linux to become third largest browsing platform
and Android gaining on Apple iOS in mobile web market share
- My Nokia Blog has more MeeGo phone UI screenshots
- Fudzilla: Flash Player on Android is "shockingly bad"
- Engadget reviews Angry Birds (Android) and reports NASA launches free iPad app
Software
- PCStats: Windows 7 freezes randomly for 30-45 seconds - Finally solved
- Wine 1.3.2
- Real Temp 3.59.5
- MSI Afterburner 2.0.0
- Gmail Growl 2.2.0.0
- Google Earth 5.2.1.1588
- Songbird 1.8.0
- PSP Video 9 6.00
Gaming
- Edge Magazine on the changing face of EA
- Engadget: AT&T technical support tool suggests Xbox 360
will bring IPTV to U-Verse households soon and
Microsoft Kinect starts making home deliveries to beta testers
- New Logitech gamepads bring the console gaming experience to PC gamers
- iFixit's Nintendo Virtual Boy teardown
- EA's NFS World to feature Dolby Axon chat technology
- Kotaku's gallery: The Ataris that never were
- Dungeon Siege III gameplay trailer
- NFS Hot Pursuit AutoLog 2 trailer
- H.A.W.X. 2 launch trailer
- Shacknews on video games to be released this week
- Kotaku: Portal was a text adveture, Left 4 Dead, an NES shooter
and Minecraft sells 100,000
- Hardware Canucks share Portal 2 gameplay impressions
and the technologies behind Guild Wars II
- KitGuru reviews Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 (Xbox 360)
- TweakPC reviews Mafia II (in German)
- Battlefield Blog's community picture competition
Systems, storage, and networking
- TechReviewSource on Lenovo ThinkPad T410s
- Tech ARP posts mobile CPU comparison guide rev. 5.9
and guide to fix PCI Express x1 bug rev. 3.2
- Madshrimps review ECS P55H-AK
- OC3D reviews Biostar TPower i55
- Rbmods on 4GB Patriot PC3-19200 memory kit
- bit-tech reviews 120GB OCZ RevoDrive SSD
- Phoronix reviews 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
- techPowerUp! reviews 60GB Mushkin Callisto Deluxe SSD
- Futurelooks has Cisco Valet Plus M20 wireless router video review
Multimedia
- Björn3D reviews XFX HD 5970 Black Edition
- Hexus.net reviews Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock
- Hardware Heaven reviews Point of View GTX 460 Beast Edition
- PureOC reviews Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum 1GB
- PC Perspective reviews Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 FleX
- Hi Tech Legion reviews PowerColor Power Jack graphics card supporter
- Digital Trends has Logitech Revue hands-on impressions
- Techgage reviews WD TV Live Plus media player
- DV Hardware reviews Compro VideoMate C200 Plus A/V capture stick
- DeXgo reviews Poppstar MS30 Full HD media adapter (in German)
- Engadget's back to school guide: Printers
- BCW reviews IRISCard Anywhere 4 business card scanner
- Benchmark Reviews on Genius HS-03U USB gaming headset
- Engadget's Kodak PlayTouch preview
- 5 more Amazon Kindle tips and tricks
- KitGuru reviews Tt eSPORTS Black Series gaming mouse and Dominator mouse pad
- Hardware Heaven reviews Logitech G700 wireless gaming mouse
Power, cases, and cooling
- Hardware Secrets reviews Corsair AX850W PSU
- SPCR on Antec TruePower TP-750 PSU
- KitGuru reviews Thermaltake Level 10 case
- Legit Reviews on Lian Li Pitstop PC-T60 chassis
- Hardware Secrets and OCC review Thermaltake Armor A60 case
- ReviewStash on Cooler Master Sileo 500 case
- OverclockersHQ reviews In Win Dragon Slayer mATX case
- BCCHardware and ProClockers review Thermaltake Massive23 LX notebook cooler
- Funky Kit reviews CoolIT ECO A.L.C.
- Guru3D reviews Scythe Ninja 3 CPU cooler
- PureOC reviews Prolimatech Super Mega CPU cooler
- FrostyTech reviews SilenX EFZ-120HA4 heatsink