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Holiday gifts for the discerning geek I lost count of how many times my girlfriend asked me what I wanted for Christmas this year. After replying with "oh, you know... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Where's my 21st-century television? Gabe Newell said something that caught my eye the other day. As part of a broader interview with The Cambridge Student, Newell shared some... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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A quick look at Gunnar's glasses for computer junkies Quick poll: everyone who regularly squints at a computer monitor or television at least eight hours a day, raise your hand. Do I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Sandy Bridge-E motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSIIf you want to get in on Intel's new Sandy Bridge-E CPU, you'll need an LGA2011 motherboard. We've gathered four examples from Asus, Gigabyte,... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets |
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Getting acquainted with Arduino I tend to think of myself as a well-rounded geek. Excluding the keyboard-cowboy day job, my attention is divided between hardware tinkering and... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Goodbye, Mr. Jobs About an hour ago, as of this writing, Apple posted this simple statement on their website: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Mobile computing Mac Personal tech |
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With friends like these... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Are sound cards still relevant? Recently, I supplemented my desktop's arsenal of hardware with a stand-alone Asus Xonar DX sound card. This upgrade was something of a shot in... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Cloudy with a chance of backups You've probably been there before. You just realized that you've overwritten an important file and have no way of getting it back. Last month's backup... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Life after Moore's Law Recently, I've been turning the pages of Michio Kaku's new book, Physics of the Future. While much of its content echoes what was said... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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72-point mystery Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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The next computing revolution will be televised Up until very recently, I had been able to remain faithful to my home-theater PC. Well, that's not entirely true. I've gone through... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Un-bustin' (monitor) caps with a soldering gat There comes a point in every computer guy's day when the phone rings, and a distraught acquaintance begins reciting error messages or describing some symptom... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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The science of fanboyism We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Asus' Xonar U3 USB audio deviceFor just $40, the Xonar U3 squeezes headphone and microphone jacks, an S/PDIF output, EAX emulation, speaker virtualization, and Dolby Digital Live support into... Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia |
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Llano motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, and MSIAMD's Llano APU arrives on the desktop with an FM1 socket that requires a new motherboard. We've assembled three candidates from Asus, Gigabyte,... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets |
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Bulldozer mobos from Asus and MSI: Sabertooth 990FX & 990FXA-GD80Bulldozer-based Zambezi CPUs are coming, but motherboard makers can't be bothered to wait. We take a detailed look at a pair of Bulldozer... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets |
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Our slow migration into the cloud There's been a lot of talk about the cloud lately. I'm not sure exactly when clouds came to represent noisy server farms thousands of miles... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Internet |
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