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Palit GeForce 9600 GT Sonic Review

March 3, 2008, 14:35(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

[H]ardOCP reviews a VERY sweet video card.

We are impressed, and can definitely recommend the Palit GeForce 9600 GT Sonic to any enthusiast gamer out there. We give this video card our Gold Editor’s Gold Award for providing incredible gaming performance and for Palit stepping way out of the box and providing some very unique features. You won’t be disappointed with this video card.

Tagged With: Computer Hardware, Computer News

IE7Pro 2.1 Is Out

March 3, 2008, 14:29(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.

Se the IE7Pro homepage for info & download.

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware

PerfectDisk 2008 Build 44 Released

March 3, 2008, 14:26(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

The PerfectDisk Blog announced the corrected update for PerfectDisk 2008 was released today.
[Read more…] about PerfectDisk 2008 Build 44 Released

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools

Amazon releases MP3 downloader for Linux

March 1, 2008, 15:11(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Amazon has finally released their MP3 downloader for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and OpenSUSE.

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Tagged With: Computer News, Linux

Microsoft chops Vista retail prices

February 29, 2008, 06:49(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for the upgrade version used to move from an earlier copy of Vista. The suggested price for Vista Ultimate drops to $219 from $299, while Home Premium falls to $129, from $159.

Microsoft chops Vista retail prices

Tagged With: Computer News, Windows Vista

TCP/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

February 28, 2008, 22:01(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

A must-have for all Geeks!
TCP/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

This white paper describes the registry values for the TCP/IP protocol stack in Microsoft® Windows Vista™ and Windows Server® 2008. The intended audience for this paper is network engineers and support professionals who are already familiar with TCP/IP (both IP version 4 [IPv4] and IP version 6 [IPv6]).

Tagged With: Computer News, Windows Vista

More Vista Benchmark "news"

February 28, 2008, 19:31(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

The Vista SP1 benchmarking silliness keeps getting, well, sillier…
MS commissioned a company to run and report on: Responsiveness of Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows XP on common home / office tasks
Immediately it was picked up by several places as news.

The results are in — XP trumps Vista in benchmark tests
How embarassing — Microsoft commissions tests that compare Vista and XP, with the goal no doubt being to show how much better the new version is. Except that’s not what the test results prove.
Principled Technologies Inc., which performed the tests on the vendor’s behalf, showed Vista SP1 actually lagged XP on about 46 per cent of the business-oriented operations it measured. (The gap was 61 per cent on the consumer-oriented tests, but that’s not primarily what we’re concerned with here.)

Microsoft: Windows XP faster than Vista SP1 in some cases Windows XP is faster than the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in completing common consumer and business tasks on PCs coming out of sleep mode, according to tests commissioned by Microsoft Corp.

Report: Vista on par with XP performance; SP1 is fasterIn any event, if you download the above linked reports (the first two are new while the next two are from last year), you’ll discover, surprise surprise, that “overall, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP performed comparably on most test operations [but] Windows Vista SP1 was notably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP on several common home operations.” This was true for both common home and business tasks.
Gentlemen, start your complaining.

First you’ll notice the articles seem to have completely different spins on the same info. (XP faster, XP a little faster, XP not faster)
Second, this study was PAYED FOR BY MICROSOFT.

🙄

Comments anyone???

Tagged With: Computer News, Windows Vista

Perfectdisk 2008 v.43 Released, and Pulled

February 28, 2008, 19:11(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Raxco released v.43 of Perfectdisk 2008 and then pulled it.
[Read more…] about Perfectdisk 2008 v.43 Released, and Pulled

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Software

Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched

February 28, 2008, 19:00(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Today a new feedback site is launched at brainstorm.ubuntu.com that will make it easier for users of Ubuntu to suggests ideas for improvements. Voting makes it clear which ideas have the most support in the user community and should be given priority. We have of course been inspired by the IdeaStorm site from our good friends at Dell but modified the concept to fit our needs.

Article
UBUNTU BRAINSTORM

Tagged With: Computer News

New Poll: What do you use for email?

February 27, 2008, 14:57(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

New poll up (in the right margin —> ). Please vote!

I’m currently trying to switch most of my email from my domains own email over to Gmail. I’m curious as to what you use and why?

Tagged With: Computer News, This Site

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