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Enermax Apollish LED Case Fan Review | Posted on: 30/12/2009 @ 19:50

The guys over at Enermax were kind enough to send me their silver Apollish in both the 120mm and 80mm sizes. I opened the packaging (another thing I like about Enermax; their packaging isn't hard to open) and removed the fans from the respective molded plastic enclosure. They really are very striking to look at. The silver finish is better than most chrome jobs on classic cars. The holograph ...

Competition: Win a 42 Inch LED TV! | Posted on: 23/12/2009 @ 13:40

We all know that Christmas is all about giving and it would seem that our friends over at Coolest Gadgets are being super generous this festive season, by giving away a a brand new and cool 42″ LED TV (42SL9000) to one of their UK readers! Please go to Coolest Gadgets and check out details on [...]Competition: Win a 42 Inch LED TV! is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and ...

Competiton: Win a 42 Inch LED TV! | Posted on: 23/12/2009 @ 12:30

We all know that Christmas is all about giving and it would seem that our friends over at Coolest Gadgets are being super generous this festive season, by giving away a a brand new … [visit site to read more] Gadget Gift Ideas If you like what you’re reading then learn more about joining our FREE newsletter [...]Competiton: Win a 42 Inch LED TV! is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech ...

Hannspree HF237HPB 23 Inch HDMI LCD Monitor | Posted on: 21/12/2009 @ 20:00

We have reviewed a handful of refurbished computer monitors from Geeks.com over the past few years, and overall we have been quite pleased. This time around we will be taking a look at a refurbished 23" LCD monitor from Hannspree. With HDMI connectivity and 1080p support, we'll see if their model number HF237HPB is worth consideration.

AMD Catalyst 9.12 Hotfix Enables Crossfire Eyefinity & DisplayPort Audio | Posted on: 18/12/2009 @ 13:20

On a quick note this morning, along with yesterday’s release of the Catalyst 9.12 drivers, AMD has also published a 9.12 hotfix driver that has added a couple of interesting things. Along with refreshing their line of OpenCL-capable drivers (OpenCL is still not in the mainline driver), AMD has added support for Crossfire Eyefinity. We first saw...

Samsung SyncMaster P2350 LCD Monitor | Posted on: 17/12/2009 @ 1:17

Desktop PCs have come to a point where your digital experience will be limited to the capability of your monitor. With high end Core 2 Duo CPUs and decent HD capable video cards priced around $100, there is no reason to be viewing the digital world on low resolution screens. If you are, then it is time to step up and upgrade to an HD Monitor. The question is: is the Samsung SyncMaster P2350 a ...

3D Vision with ViewSonic's VX2268wm FuHzion LCD Monitor | Posted on: 16/12/2009 @ 13:00

Phoromatic Tracker Launches To Monitor Linux Performance | Posted on: 16/12/2009 @ 10:10

Last month Phoromatic went into public beta, which is our remote test management software for the Phoronix Test Suite that allows a wealth of possibilities including the ability to easily build a benchmarking test farm. At the start of this month, we in fact announced that the Phoronix Kernel Test Farm went live and it would be benchmarking the latest mainline Linux kernel on a daily basis. This ...

Is Google Going To Release Its Own Mobile Phone Called Nexus One? | Posted on: 14/12/2009 @ 8:30

The great thing about the Internet is the shear speed that rumours, news and blog stories spread. There has been loads of activity in the last 48 hours about about the so-called Google Phone. Allegedly called the Nexus One, it is rumoured that Google will release their own unlocked (meaning it will work with any operator) mobile phone based on a heavily customised version of Android.Is Google ...

The Nouveau Pony Is Pulled, Ctx_Voodoo Ignored | Posted on: 12/12/2009 @ 14:10

As we shared yesterday morning, Nouveay would be entering the Linux 2.6.33 kernel as a staging driver. Last night Linus did indeed pull the drm-nouveau-pony branch...

Plymouth Gets Pulled Into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS | Posted on: 10/12/2009 @ 22:40

Plymouth is a Red Hat innovation that came around last year to provide a new, attractive boot graphical splash screen that went on to replace RHGB (Red Hat Graphical Boot) in Fedora 10. We have extensively talked about Plymouth as its interesting and provides a very clean boot interface thanks to it leveraging kernel mode-setting to offer a flicker-free experience and then providing tight ...

Stop dropping all your cables with CableDrop | Posted on: 08/12/2009 @ 11:10

Coming from the box marked ‘incredibly obvious names’ is a new solution for all those cables that you have plugged into the computer that don’t really need to be there. Looking at mine for instance, I have the power lead, a USB mobile Internet dongle thingy, and the charging / file transfer lead for my [...]Stop dropping all your cables with CableDrop is a post from: UK Gadget ...

X.Org 7.5 Gets Pulled Into Ubuntu 10.04 LTS | Posted on: 07/12/2009 @ 17:10

Just in time for the Alpha 1 release of Ubuntu 10.04, X.Org 7.5 with X Server 1.7 has been pulled into the Lucid Lynx package repository. With this push of new X.Org 7.5 packages comes a number of other upstream X package updates along with rebuilds of the other non-updated drivers so that they will work against this latest stable X Server. This X.Org 7.5 pull though should really not come as ...

Sony BRAVIA 40W5810 LCD TV with freesat HD review | Posted on: 04/12/2009 @ 17:20

freesat HD on a Sony TV. Find out if the combination is worth £800.

TRENDnet TV-M7 7-Inch Wireless IP Camera Monitor | Posted on: 03/12/2009 @ 13:40

SDC Megtron LC-Display | Posted on: 02/12/2009 @ 20:30

The Megtron is a dual color LCD display which is simply powered by the USB bus and utilizes a slim and small software application to output all kinds of important information. With a market being flooded by plenty of secondary displays, the SDC Megtron does offer some very useful features and functionality.

Nouveau DRM Getting Pulled Into Lucid Soon | Posted on: 01/12/2009 @ 1:30

A week ago we found out that Nouveau would be pulled into Ubuntu 10.04 as the default NVIDIA graphics driver replacing the current open-source NVIDIA driver mess that is known as xf86-video-nv. The Nouveau driver stack isn't stable or officially released yet, but the 2D portion is in good standing and the 3D portion written to use Gallium3D is progressing (recent status update)...