National Fried Shrimp Day Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki
8:14 AM on December 20, 2010
Eight is Enough
- TechSpot: Intel's Sandy Bridge processors have a remote kill switch
- Nvidia: Gaming on Intel's next-gen chip
- DigiTimes: AMD announces lineup of Brazos motherboards;
new president for Greater China region
- Fudzilla reports Nvidia GT 540M tested in Acer lappie and Tegra 2 GPU detailed
- TC Magazine: POV rolls out the GeForce GTX 570 Beast watercooled card
and Gainward GTX 570 Phantom seen in detail, tested
- Expreview: Sapphire intros Radeon HD 6970 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam-themed edition
- AppleInsider reports Sam's Club rumored to offer Apple's iPhone 4 at new low price of $147
- Microsoft quietly shuts down Office Genuine Advantage program
National Fried Shrimp Day
- WSJ reports EU has concerns on big Intel deal (with McAfee)
- Yahoo! Canada Finance: Analyst predicts a tough year ahead (thanks dpaus)
- The NY Times: Best Buy feels the pressure of rivals on the web
- DailyTech reports Best Buy drops restocking fees
- PCWorld: Google adds hacked site alerts to search results
- Windows Weekly 187 (podcast)
- Ars Technica's book review: "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu
- Ars Technica on illegal file-sharers: Friend of the struggling musician?
- Fudzilla: Oldest Apple fangirl pinned down
Hardware news
- New fab could be compatible with 18" production tools, says TSMC
- Engadget: Alienware M17x said to be suffering from power-related GPU issues
- Boing Boing: Commodore 64 returns as a high-spec PC
- Engadget: Panasonic's new LCD TVs record video to SDXC
- The NY Times: Google TV faces delays amid poor reviews
- Engadget: Google PowerMeter comes to Blue Line Innovations' PowerCost Monitor
- Dealzon's deals: $244 off 17.3" Dell Inspiron 17R i3 / 4GB / 500GB, $100 coupon for
Alienware Aurora desktop, $49 off 4GB Flip UltraHD, and $40 coupon off Ultimate
Ears SuperFi 5
Mobile
- Wired: Mobile carriers dream of charging per page
- TC Magazine: AT&T acquiring 700MHz spectrum licenses from Qualcomm for $1.925 billion
- ITU: Just kidding, call whatever you want '4G'
- Engadget: Notion Ink releases Adam demo video, attempts to explain itself
(Update: 2nd vid) and Best Buy offering free mobile hotspots with iPad purchase
- t-break reports RIM PlayBook to focus initially on the enterprise market
- Engadget: HTC HD2 and Nexus One get some Gingerbread crumbs
(Update: EVO, Droid, and Desire, too)
- VR-Zone: Which phone company currently sells more Windows Phone 7?
- t-break reviews Nokia C7 phone
- TUAW on Screens: An easy and elegant VNC app for iOS
- WSJ says apps may violate privacy, fingers MySpace and Pandora
Software
- FinalWire rolls out AIDA64 v1.50 with support for Intel's Sandy Bridge
- 3DMark 11 version 1.01 update
- Engadget: XBMC 10.0 'Dharma' now available to download with
improvements galore, add-on manager, and Apple TV support
- C|Net: It's time to embrace software's auto-update era
- Download Squad: Mozilla's P2PU 'School of Webcraft'
gearing up for another semester of nerdy teaching
- Unixmen: How to install Nvidia drivers in Fedora 13 and 14 and
install XBMC Media Center 10 on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
and LinuxMint 10 Julia | PPA repository
- Manage your photographs like a professional with DigiKam in Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Geek on SBmanager: Manage iPhone / iPod touch
SpringBoard icons from Ubuntu desktop
- The Geek Stuff: How to send desktop notifications on Ubuntu using notify-send
- Microsoft offers $10,000 prize for a better spell checker
- Microsoft Windows SBS 2011 Best Practices Analyzer
- Mz 7 Optimizer 1.1.0
- ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.08
- ID3 Renamer 4.0.13
Gaming
- Fudzilla: BFBC2 Vietnam add-on arrives for PC
- Ars Technica on what Gran Turismo and Forza can learn from one another
- Hooked Gamers: Media hype gaming addiction, demonize games
Hardware
- OCIA: Building a gaming / performance PC
- PureOC reviews ASRock Ion 3D Blu-ray HTPC
- Tech ARP's BIOS option of the week - SuperStability mode
- Guru3D and TechSpot review 240GB OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCI-E SSD
- techPowerUp! reviews 64GB Mach Xtreme FX USB 3.0 flash drive
- Real World Labs on Bigfoot Networks Killer 2100 gaming network card
- Techgage reviews AMD Radeon HD 6950 & 6970
- [H]ard|OCP reviews Asus ENGTX580
- Funky Kit reviews Zotac GeForce GTX 570 AMP!
- OCC reviews Ozone Spark and Attack headset
- Tweaknews on Penguin United Eagle Eye PS3 USB keyboard / mouse converter
- Benchmark Reviews on Antec Lanboy Air case