Microsoft has been doing quite a bit to improve some of the more obnoxious portions of an operating system as they work on Windows 8 and it would seem that they’ve fixated their gaze on little old chkdsk. Users rarely run into situations that require chkdsk’s intervention but when they do they’re in for quite […]
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Spotify finally made the transatlantic leap from Europe and landed on U.S. shores earlier this summer. And while others have tried the online music subscription model, Spotify has won over critics and music lovers alike with its user-friendly software, pro-consumer usage policies and a wide variety of ways to access your music – none of […]
Keeping your graphics drivers up to date is an exciting time for those that like to tinker with the untapped performance of your video card…for the other 99.97% of the PC gaming populace it’s a chore. Valve and AMD are helping gamers stay up to date by loading up Radeon graphics driver updates to the […]
Microsoft may be missing a few key targets in the computing realm, yes tablets and smartphones are what I’m alluding to, but their research division seems to come up with amazing techniques which could improve our daily lives…if they ever get put into use. Microsoft Research will be presenting a software technique at SIGGRAPH 2010 […]
Read more Microsoft Research technique removes image blur using components found in smartphones
Microsoft’s Windows 7 has had a grand time pulling in all manner of people looking to upgrade their operating system or already preloaded on new PCs and all of that market growth may just lead to an eco-friendlier planet, or at least a bit of savings on the old energy bill. It would seem the […]
Most people don’t realize just how much processing power is contained in modern GPUs and the fact that they can be programmed to do things other than pump out vivid graphics. It’s a massively parrallelized processor which can speed up time consuming tasks like video conversion, image manipulation, and even some database tasks. A pair […]
Read more CUDA taken into book form, for your learning needs
Transcoding your media files should be a whole heck of a lot easier given the amount of processing power in a modern PC but, somehow, many software makers just can’t seem to get the job done right. Thankfully CyberLink is keeping an eye out for all of us with their new MediaEspresso 6 software which […]
Read more CyberLink MediaEspresso 6 offers caffeine enhanced media conversion
In news that might elate or infuriate you, it looks like the iPhone is headed to T-Mobile soon. According to Cult of Mac, an insider source revealed that talks between Apple and T-Mobile are well underway and that chances are very good — 80 percent in fact — that the iPhone will land on its […]
Read more Rumor: iPhone Headed to T-Mobile
I don’t exactly understand why you’d want to perform such a function over the Web but…there it is. GIGABYTE has announced two new applications for owners of their motherboards. First up is the GIGABYTE Hotkey OC application, which is a part of their EasyTune 6 utility, that allows you to set up overclocking profiles for […]
