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Author Archive for Mark Christian
29
Apr
09
A few Webby nominated videos
http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html
Maximum PC and Game Central have built two very competent and cost effective machines.
The machines have the ability to play most popular games, and the benchmark that is Crysis, at a respectable 40fps. Continue reading ‘The $500 Gaming PC – is it really possible?’
In every PC user there lies a yearning for more performance.
Thus I bring you a few great articles from Tom’s Hardware, where they do some of the most comprehensive tests of PC hardware.
These articles cover all the usual areas of the concern: RAM , GFX cards and is 64-bit really better?
Do You Really Need More Than 6 GB Of RAM?
4GB Gets Cheap: 9 Dual-Channel Kits Compared
Performance & Value : Is Spending More Justified?
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: March ’09
Gaming In 64-Bit
The Pwn2Own competition is one that challenges people in the internet security business to find exploitable vulnerabilities.
The only browser left standing after the first day of the competition was Google’s Chrome browser which only recently came out of its beta phase. Many account Chrome’s success to the fact that every tab in the browser is sandboxed and so cannot interact with other tabs and other system processes.
Safari was fell victim to Charlie Miller within seconds of the competition starting. Firefox and IE fell later in the day.
Check out the indepth article at Arstechnica here.
19
Mar
09
Internet Explorer 8 out now
Internet Explorer 8 is finally out of beta and ready for download here.
It sports a few new features but my favorite thing is that it finally follows Internet standards! Woohoo to no more CSS hacks! Some of the new features are: smart address bar, grouping for tabs, private browsing (AKA incognito mode), and tab crash protection.
I found this on Lifehacker and just felt I had to share.
This is the use of the file syncing software Dropbox to sync torrent files from the machine you are on to a remote machine where you want to download the torrent.
This is all assuming you have Dropbox on both computers and you have a torrent downloading software which allows you to monitor a folder for active torrents (such as uTorrent and Transmission). You can also upload torrent files from the Dropbox web interface from a computer where you can’t install Dropbox.
Check out the story on lifehacker here.
The internet is alive with the rumbling of Season 13 of Top Gear.
The new season premieres in June with usual style only now made for less.
For more information check out Autoblog.com‘s article here.
I found this courtesy of downloadsquad.com.
The article talks about a sweet lil portable peice of software called ‘last.fm Music downloader‘ quite aptly.
11
Mar
09
Youtube remixed!
I heard about this on Cnet’s podcast of indeterminate lenght, Buzz out loud. It is the below video by youtube user Kutiman. It is a masterful mix of youtube videos into quite a cool funk track. Check it out.
