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The FAIL Feature

Posted at: 10th October 2008 by Stuart Andrews

We were promised the moon on a stick, but we received less than a pebble. Stuart Andrews investigates nine technologies that were hyped into the stratosphere, but in reality, brought...

Episode 21 of the Custom PC podcast

Posted at: 3rd October 2008 by Alex Watson

It's Friday, so we've got a fresh new episode of the podcast, with the team debating DRM in games, Nvidia's new GTX 260 and wondering if Warcraft is under threat...

Creative Zen X-Fi with Wireless LAN 16GB

Review Date: 3rd October 2008

The Zen X-Fi includes some of the technology from Creative’s X-Fi sound cards – namely the Crystalizer and Expand, both of which aim to make lossy audio files sound better. The Zen X-Fi has a similar specification to the ... Read more

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jfarrar

Posted at: 11:34am 11th October 2008

inside my pc!hi all i have been thinking to do some sort of blog for a long time and as i have started to be really geeky on computers i decided to do a short little blog on how i learned how to mod a pc and how it has put me on to getting the right qualifications for a rewarding career.i have had many pc,s over the years...

Big_Adam

Posted at: 12:58am 11th October 2008

As it stands there is one big Portal mod going, that is the Portal Flash map pack. A very nice and well rounded map pack with ties in nicely with Portal but is run as an alternative story to Portal. IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED PORTAL, THEN THERE BE SPOILERS IN HERE. Portal:Prelude is a new modification which aims to give an early before story...

Ian

Posted at: 10:53pm 10th October 2008

I'm slowly making some decisions. I've ruled out Tranquil's Home Server offerings, for the simple reason that they can only hold 2 HDDs without external storage and lacks gigabit ethernet onboard... even though it looks good, has very low power consumption and fantastic OS recovery via an optional USB stick. The big problem is that, while it's cheaper than the both HP MediaSmart Home Server and the Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Home Server, the lack...