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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Tom's Hard News - Build Your Own: Wall-Sized 3D Gaming, Just Like Theaters Do It

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March 30, 2010
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Build Your Own: Wall-Sized 3D Gaming, Just Like Theaters Do It
Build Your Own: Wall-Sized 3D Gaming, Just Like Theaters Do It

If you've seen Avatar in 3D at the theater, then you know how impressive the technology can be. Would you believe us if we told you that you can bring the 3D movie experience home with your own polarized dual-projection system? Tom's shows you how! more

 
Three Generations Of 1.8" Hard Drives Benchmarked
Three Generations Of 1.8" Hard Drives Benchmarked

With the adoption of flashed-based solid state drives, 1.8" hard drives have seemingly fallen out of favor. However, we're taking a look at Toshiba’s three latest generations of 1.8” hard drive technology to see where the form factor might be heading. more

 
GeForce GTX 480 And 470: From Fermi And GF100 To Actual Cards!
GeForce GTX 480 And 470: From Fermi And GF100 To Actual Cards!

We've been waiting six months, but Nvidia is finally taking the wraps off of its GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards, centering on the GF100 GPU. We're looking at performance, power, and pricing, plus SLI scaling, tessellation, and DirectX 11 gaming. more

 
Updated: Tuning C'n'Q: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 2
Updated: Tuning C'n'Q: Maximize Power And Performance, Part 2

In Part 1, we showed you how to optimize the settings of your Cool'n'Quiet-equipped processor and what sort of power benefits you could expect as a result. Now it's time to run the benchmarks and see how our optimized settings actually perform. more

 
USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s, Motherboards, And Overcoming Bottlenecks
USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s, Motherboards, And Overcoming Bottlenecks

Soon, 4.8 Gb/s USB 3.0 and 6 Gb/s SATA will be hitting the mainstream. But be careful when you buy your next mainstream motherboard; some don't handle these technologies very well. We compare three implementations and recommend best practice solutions. more

 
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Radeon HD 5870 Video Card
Radeon HD 5870 Video Card
$419.99
Bamboo Fun Pen &Touch Med Tab
Bamboo Fun Pen &Touch Med Tab
$199.00
TN360 Toner Cartridge
TN360 Toner Cartridge
$23.59
Zalman Z-Machine LQ1000...

$626.55
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Friday, March 26, 2010

MakeUseOf – This Week’s Most Popular Tips & Articles





It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information - Oscar Wilde

He may have been talking about our digital age. In the flood that greets us from all media, the fun quotient seems to have slipped away. That's why we try to go that extra yard to make technology and computers more entertaining for you.

If you miss the laughs, visit our Geeky Fun pages.

If you like races, the race for a free copy of AnyBizSoft PDF to PowerPoint Converter is still on. Or the really useful - Widestep Security's Elite Keylogger 4.6 PRO. The finishing line of our Giveaways is just hours away.

The Giveaway sections also tells you how you can participate and win free copies of software as we keep throwing Giveaways each week.

The PaintingWalls iPhone app Giveaway closed on 21st March. We also announced the winners of the All Business Cards Giveaway. Are you one of the fifteen who won themselves a stack of 1000 free business cards!

While you are checking out the above pages, why not visit the MakeUseOf Polls and cast your vote for this week's poll on - How Did Twitter Affect Your Life?

Last week we had asked you - What is The Best Laptop Brand? The results are out. Apple came in second, with Dell following close behind.

If you have been following our regular Movers and Shakers section, you will know that we list the Top Ten most downloaded apps from a particular category. This week it's a selection of the Top 10 Most Downloaded Security Apps.  Quite a few useful ones in that list and you can get them from CNET.

Now, let's move on to the posts. Let's check out what has been happening the past week at MakeUseOf.com.



The 5 Best Posts From Last Week


Farmville is one of the most, if not the most popular application on Facebook. The game reportedly has over 82 million active users. There's a high chance that someone you know is already on it.




If you plan to jump in, arm yourself with these seven tips and tricks that will give you a leg up if you want to go up the rankings.


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There are oodles and oodles of free GPS apps floating around in the iTunes mega-store.  Which ones are great?  Which ones are crap? These nine apps do a lot to prove that free is not necessarily fickle.



In the end you might feel that these apps are so powerful that you would have gladly given the iPhone paid apps a miss.


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When you think of customizing your computer, changing and tweaking the icons that originally came with it, are on top of the task list. Where do you go for a spot of icon hunting?




Thankfully, there are a huge number of resources. Here are 8 of the best free icons search engines to take the search further.


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DVDs are very handy when it comes to storing all sorts of info-tainment. The thing with DVDs, as with all kind of optical media, is that they are prone to damage. Also, DVD players need the DVD to be in a specific format.





These are strong arguments for transferring your more important content to the computer. This easy tutorial shows you just how.


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The name you choose to associate yourself with on the Web should be unique and maybe say a thing or two about who you are, wouldn't you say so? Here are four useful online name generators that do all the thinking for you.





In the end, they spout out swinging names that can be yours for keeps in the online world.

 
 
 

The 5 Others That Deserve a Click

You might find these five posts useful too - 


That's it for this week! Pay us a visit and let us know if we are doing a good job. Your comments stir us to do better.

In fact, you can join us and nearly 15,000 (and counting!) more MUO readers on Facebook.

We are finding it to be a great place to thrash out new ideas and most importantly for exclusive software giveaways that are not published on the blog. Giveaways run almost daily.

Hope to see your name in the winners' roll call...

 
 
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Tom's Hard News - Roundup: Four Gaming Cases Under $150

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Roundup: Four Gaming Cases Under $150
Roundup: Four Gaming Cases Under $150

Several vendors market their enclosures specifically toward gamers, but nobody has really defined what makes a gaming case. We take a look at examples from Cooler Master, NZXT, Thermaltake, and Zalman with the aim of shedding more light on this segment. more

 
Core i7-980X: Do You Want Six Cores Or 12 Threads?
Core i7-980X: Do You Want Six Cores Or 12 Threads?

The new Gulftown processor has six physical cores, but Intel’s Hyper-Threading presents 12 logical processors to the operating system. Does Hyper-Threading really add more performance? What about its effect on power consumption? Both are measured today. more

 
Storage Trends In 2010: An Interview With Hitachi
Storage Trends In 2010: An Interview With Hitachi

Tom's Hardware recently had the chance to interview Steve Pereira, vice president of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in the EMEA region, who talked about SSDs and the future of the hard drive in 2010 and beyond. more

 
System Builder Marathon, March 2010: System Value Compared
System Builder Marathon, March 2010: System Value Compared

Budget enhancements to this month’s SBM finally reflect last year’s price increases, allowing the return of liquid cooling at the high-end and Core i7 for the mid-priced systems. With big improvements to its bigger brothers, can the low-cost PC still win? more

 
System Builder Marathon, March 2010: $750 Gaming PC
System Builder Marathon, March 2010: $750 Gaming PC

The last machine in this quarter's System Builder Marathon, Paul's $750 Gaming PC certainly isn't least. A triple-core Athlon II X3 didn't necessarily overclock well, but a fourth-core unlock gives this system a huge efficiency advantage in our suite. more

 
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16GB Memory Stick PRO Duo Card
16GB Memory Stick PRO Duo Card
$60.36
Core 2 Duo E7500 Dual Core...
Core 2 Duo E7500 Dual Core Processor
$109.99
VL30001N1Z Level 10 Black...
VL30001N1Z Level 10 Black Full Tower
$735.36
Rampage II Extreme Motherboard
Rampage II Extreme Motherboard
$349.99
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