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Radeon HD 4770 Specs Leaked

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Some leaked reports suggest that AMD has finally hammered out the details of their Radeon HD 4770, one of the new graphics cards to be based off of the 40nm RV740 chip. The HD 4770 will come with 512MB of 128-bit GDDR5 memory (providing ...

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Rumor: Disney Might Take an Equity Stake in Hulu

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Pulkit Chandna at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The Walt Disney CO and Hulu.com have revived talks over the addition of ABC programming to the popular video-on-demand service. According to a report on paidcontent.org, which cites anonymous sources, Disney may settle for an equity stake in Hulu ...

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HP's "Chameleon" Concept Laptop Designed to Surf the Web, Avoid Predators

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Designer Nikita Buyanov was commissioned by HP and Intel to design a series of conceptual laptops aimed at women, and the Chameleon is the end result. The conceptual Chameleon features a series of three cameras, which it uses to blend in to ...

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Twitter Updates Replies Functionality to Include All Mentions

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

If you use Twitter, chances are good that you’ve noticed a small change on your home page lately. Right under the “Home” tab, it used to say “@replies.” The only issue with that was that it would show tweets that began the message with your ...

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Sorry Encarta, it's the End of the Line

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Microsoft this week has confirmed that it plans to jettison out of the encyclopedia business and discontinue nearly all of its online Encarta products by October. The sole exception is Encarta Japan, which will run through the end of the year ...

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What You Need to Know About Conficker and How to Avoid Being a Victim

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

April Fools' Day might be all fun and games for some, but if you manage to fall prey to the Conficker worm, it's no laughing matter. As reported earlier this month by our very own Mark Soper, the third version of Conficker (Conficker.c) is set ...

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Dell Inspiron Line Gets New Specs, New Colors

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

In what Dell describes as "fashion meets function," the OEM has introduced an octuplet of color configurations for its refreshed Inspiron desktop line. That's more than what's found in some crayon boxes and includes Piano Black, Pure ...

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Optical Drive-Equipped Eee PC Blurs the Netbook Boundary

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

As ultraportable PCs become more powerful and increasingly feature-rich, it might soon be difficult to discern where netbooks stop and standard notebooks begin. Such is nearly the case with Asus' new Eee 1004DN, the first Eee ever to integrate a ...

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Nvidia Boosts its Quadro Pro Graphics Line

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Nvidia this week introduced a bunch of new Quadro-series professional videocards spanning from the sub-$100 entry-level solution all the up to the high end that will hit your wallet to the tune of four digits. "Our mission with Quadro is to ...

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Netflix to Charge Customers up to $9 More Per Month for Blu-Ray Rentals

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

As Blu-ray players and media continues to go down , the cost of adding Blu-ray to your Netflix subscription is going up. Again. Back in October of last year, Netflix implemented a $1 surcharge to customers who wanted to add access to Blu-ray ...

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Rumor: Nvidia Wants a Piece of VIA

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Citing the Commercial Times , Dow Jones reports Taiwan-based chip maker VIA Technologies will likely sell a stake to US-based graphics chip maker Nvidia through a private placement. Subject to shareholder approval, up to 300 million shares are ...

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World of Warcraft Players Complete 16 Million Quests – Per Day!

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Nathan Grayson at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Blizzard has never been shy about its penchant for numbers ending in –llion , but this probably shouldn’t be possible .   During a GDC panel last week, Blizzard designer Jeffery Kaplan claimed that WoW players tear into 16 million quests per ...

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Action Games May Improve Vision, Says Study

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Nathan Grayson at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

And you thought the majority of today’s first-person shooters were only easy on the eyes. As it turns out, playing a fast-moving, state-of-the-art action game might be less like a warm glass of milk for your poor peepers, and more like a ...

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The Ultimate Audio Apps for the Aspiring DJ

 

Published 3/31/2009 by David Murphy at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

We wet your whistle with the wide world of audio mixing in an earlier post. But our exploits in music mash-ups (or remixes, depending on how you arrange your project) were just the tip of the audio iceberg. There's a lot more to DJing and song ...

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Future Tech: Nanowires Could Run Gadgets on Blood Flow Power

 

Published 3/31/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Imagine charging your iPod or cellphone just by jumping on the treadmill and getting your heart pumping faster. Sounds far fetched, but according to researchers at the School of Material Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of ...

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Google: Concerns Over Docs Safety Overblown

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

According to Google, if you’ve got valuable documents out on their Google Docs suite of applications, you shouldn’t worry your pretty little head off. According to them, the alleged issues are smoke and mirrors. In an official blog post  ...

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AMD and Havok Demo OpenCL

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

At this month’s GDC AMD and Havok teamed up to show off the latest advances in their development of OpenCL, a new programming language that will allow physics processing to swap from the CPU to GPU on the fly. The concept behind OpenCL is ...

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Twitter to be Integrated Into OnStar In-Car Systems?

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

I love Twitter. I think it’s a lot of fun, it’s a great way to keep track of those that you find most interesting, and now it appears that it will help you let the world know just what you’re up to… while you’re on the road! According to  ...

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Warner Bros Offering Made-to-order DVDs from Its Film Archive

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Pulkit Chandna at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The economy is tanking and so is the market for film DVDs. All slumps warrant that businesses make the most of their resources. Warner Bros has resolved to do exactly that: it is going to milk old movie titles in its archive for some extra cash . ...

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Universities Closing Computer Labs Thanks to Laptop Ubiquity

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

In what could become a growing trend among colleges, the University of Virginia will no longer run any campus computer labs. The University came to the decision based in part on only four freshmen out of 3,117 enrolled in 2007 showing up with a PC ...

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Rumor: Nvidia May Pick Up Stake in VIA to Invade Intel's Turf

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Pulkit Chandna at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Nvidia is said to be eying a stake in VIA Technologies. VIA, which manufactures x86-based CPUs, is planning to sell 300 million new shares through private placement. Sources have revealed Nvidia and VIA are holding parleys . However, there is no ...

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White Paper: Audio Fingerprinting

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Michael Brown at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

You’re twiddling your thumbs while waiting in the check-out line at your favorite retailer and you hear a great new song over the PA system. You could turn to the next person in line and ask if they know it—engaging in an impromptu but probably ...

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Are Celebrity "Tweets" Real? It All Depends on the Meaning of "Real"

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Mark Edward Soper at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Our own Will Smith uses Twitter to announce new articles and content on Maximum PC, my wife and I use Twitter to keep track of our kids and their friends, and "Britney Spears" uses it to entertain and inform her fans. Why the quote ...

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Ask the Doctor: The Dirty Shift

 

Published 3/30/2009 by The Maximum PC Staff at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

When my computer is on, the Shift key seems like it’s being pressed repeatedly, even though I’m not pressing it. The StickyKeys feature keeps coming up and I can type only caps and symbols, not numbers. When I click an app on the desktop, it ...

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Western Digital Spends $65 Million to Enter SSD Market

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Noticeably absent from the momentous solid state drive (SSD) market is Western Digital, whose Raptor hard drives have often been used as a performance comparison when benchmarking the fastest SSDs. Following a $65 million cash acquisition of ...

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Verizon Confirms its Netbook Intentions

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Who isn't either making or selling netbooks these days? Verizon, for one, but not for long. According to CNet, the telco has confirmed reports that it will enter the netbook market in June of this year by selling 3G enabled netbooks in its ...

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Escalation: Nvidia Files Counter-Lawsuit Against Intel

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

There's no love lost between Nvidia and Intel, the two of which took years to come to an agreement to allow SLI technology on Intel chipsets and who now are feuding over whether or not Nvidia has the right to sell motherboard chipsets for next ...

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Microsoft's New Ad Campaign: Owning a Mac in a Recession is Totally Uncool

 

Published 3/30/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Microsoft's fourth attempt at an ad campaign may finally deliver a worthwhile message to consumers. The latest has nothing to do with Jerry Seinfeld and chewy computers (attempt one) or unattended 8-year-olds hooking up digital cameras to a notebook ...

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Put Google Chrome’s V8 Rendering Engine to the Metal & Test the Next Generation of Web Apps

 

Published 3/29/2009 by Justin Kerr at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Javascript rendering speed has been the ammunition of choice in the browser wars, but as most users know, the vast majority of Java based web applications aren’t particularly taxing. With most having been designed with IE7 in mind, the vast ...

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10 Essential Gmail Hacks and Add-ons!

 

Published 3/29/2009 by Josh Kampschmidt at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Chances are you know what Gmail is and have been using it for quite some time, even if Google’s service is technically still in beta. But did you know that Gmail can be used for many other practical functions other than sending and receiving e-mail? ...

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Will Google, Facebook, and Twitter Kill The Justice System?

 

Published 3/29/2009 by Justin Kerr at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

It turns out Twitter can be used for more than just reading bad haikus , it can also be used to derail 8 weeks of legal proceedings , and get a case thrown in to mistrial. Last week, a Florida juror in a high profile drug trial officially ...

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PC Gaming Alliance Releases Optimistic State of the Industry Report

 

Published 3/28/2009 by Justin Kerr at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The PC Gaming Alliance has taken some heat over the years, both from the public, and the media as to what exactly they offer. Since their inception, PC Gaming hasn’t seen any demonstrable improvements in hardware standards, DRM, or really ...

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Rumor: Asustek to Launch ODD-toting Netbook in April

 

Published 3/28/2009 by Pulkit Chandna at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Asustek is now busy sprucing up its Eee PC range. The wafer-thin Fold/Unfold notebook, the dual touchscreen Flipbook and voice-controlled Eee PCs are some of the most innovative products on its release calender. An optical disk drive (ODD) may ...

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Games for Windows Ups Ante in Anti-Piracy Fight

 

Published 3/28/2009 by Pulkit Chandna at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Pirates of all ilks are locked in a game of cat and mouse with regulators and content proprietors. Throughout their endless war, both have tightly clung to Newton’s third law: every regulation (action) has an equal and opposite ruse (action). ...

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Leaked: Dell Latitude “Welch” 10" Netbooks for the Kids

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

A well-informed tipster just leaked Dell’s brand new Latitude 2100 “Welch” laptops to Gizmodo , where they’re now spreading the news about the school-oriented netbooks. These new little beasts will be based off of Intel’s Atom processor ...

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IE8 Best at Stopping Social-Engineering Malware, Test Reports

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Mark Edward Soper at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, has gotten mixed reviews from MaximumPC.com readers (see comments here  and here ), but one question that's hard for any individual user to answer about any browser is "how secure is ...

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Are You Ready For AdSense-Style Ads in Photos?

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Ads are a necessary evil when browsing the net. We all see them, we all browse right past them, but it looks like the powers that be are working on new and inventive ways to shove them in our faces. The latest concoction brewed up by the ...

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Boxee Announces New API Framework and Hulu Workaround

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Earlier this month Boxee, the ambitious new program that’s looking to bring a full Web content experience to your living room (that’s currently only available for Mac and Linux), announced that it would introduce a brand new, overhauled ...

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Ask the Doctor: Alien? Where?

 

Published 3/27/2009 by The Maximum PC Staff at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

I have an Alienware Area-51 m7700 laptop computer with 2GB of memory and an Nvidia GeForce 6800 Go with 256MB GDDR memory. It’s three years old and runs fine, but I would like to upgrade the graphics to get better video response. I play World of ...

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Fast Forward: Requiem for Analog TV

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Tom Halfhill at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

[This edition of Fast Forward was originally published in our February 2009 issue] No doubt you’ve heard that analog TV in the U.S. goes off the air on February 17, replaced by digital TV. If you haven’t heard, you must be in a coma. Four times ...

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Elecom's Sensor-Shifted Mouse Controls "Like a Pen"

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Does the placement of the mouse laser matter? Japan-based Elecom seems to think so and has come up with a new mouse the company claims is "like you're holding a pen." Dubbed the Scope Node Mouse, the new rodent places the 1600 DPI laser ...

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Cisco Announces Its Own Line of Blade Servers

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

It's been rumored that Cisco would move into making its own blade servers, and that rumor turned into a reality last week when the company accounced its Unified Computing effort. A bevy of press releases related to the effort were released by ...

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WD TV HD Media Player

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Michael Brown at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

  Western Digital’s WD TV HD Media Player is missing two components commonly found in digital media players: a display and storage. What the device does have is two USB ports, HDMI and composite video outputs, digital and analog audio ...

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Ask the Doctor: 0x00000 OMG

 

Published 3/27/2009 by The Maximum PC Staff at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

I am becoming increasingly frustrated trying to fix a problem I’m having with a videocard driver (I think). My computer is crashing in the middle of games. The error message I get when I reboot is: STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER. I ...

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Laser Etch Your Mug for Free on Maingear's New Ultraportable MX-L 13.3" Notebook

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Maingear makes its way into the ultraportable scene with the release of its new MX-L. Not the slimmest notebook around, the MX-L measures 1.3 to 1.44 inches high, 12.125 inches wide, and 9.125 inches deep, and weighs 4.4 pounds. Underneath the ...

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VIA Goes Fanless, Demonstrates First Em-ITX Board with VIA Nano Processor

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The VIA-developed Em-ITX form factor sees its first real world use today as the company showcases its new Em-ITX board with a VIA Nano processor at ESC Silicon Valley 2009. The company came up with the 12cm x 17cm Em-ITX specification for use in ...

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Rumor: Palit Packing Its Bags and Leaving the US Market

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Palit Microsystems, who makes and markets both ATI- and Nvidia-based videocards, is rumored to be leaving the US market . With headquarters located in Hong Kong, factories in China, and branch offices located in Germany and Taipei, the videocard ...

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Amazon Puts the Pressure on Gamestop with Trade-In Game Promotion

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Both Gamestop and Amazon are making a bid for your used games with tantalizing promotions. For Gamestop's part, the used-game reseller has been running a tiered trade-in offer . Trade in at least 2 games and get 10 percent extra credit. That number ...

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Why OnLive “Can’t Possibly Work”

 

Published 3/27/2009 by Nathan Grayson at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Love the idea to pieces or think it flies in the face of everything PC gaming stands for, you can’t deny that OnLive’s ambitions are a bit lofty. After all, saying that you'll invite the PC back into the cool kids' club is one thing, but ...

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AMD Planning on 32nm CPUs by Q4 2009

 

Published 3/26/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

AMD’s manufacturing spin-off, Globalfoundries, has started to obtain bulk 32nm process technology so that they can begin taking orders by Q4 2009/Q1 2010. Should these plans come full circle, it would allow Gobalfoundries, and AMD, to get a ...

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