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Google Chrome OS: try it for yourself

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

It appears that Twitter user @hexxeh has a few builds of Chromium OS available for download. There is a convenient build located at their website...
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Logitech N100 Cooling Pad

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

I had some hands on time with Logitech's N100 Cooling Pad for a bit now. It is a visually appealing piece of hardware. I'll take a look at some of the...
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Cool tech find: Atari's Lunar Lander, Real Working Model

[via Gizmodo] Atari made Lunar Lander ages before I was born. I coded it in QBasic in my high...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? Page 1 - Intro and Benefits

By now you have heard all the buzz about a slick little storage medium called a solid state drive (SSD). Running the risk of oversimplification, these...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? Page 2 - Drawbacks

SSD Drawbacks 1. Like mechanical hard drives of yore, SSDs have varying qualities between manufacturers that are...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? Page 3 - Cases and Conclusions

Cases for use The most common use, and arguably so, for SSDs is as a boot drive for the operating system. This is...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? - Page 4 - Benchmarks

Test System* ManufacturerPart/TypeGigabyteMA790X-UD4P MotherboardGigabyteATI Radeon HD4890AMDPhenom II X4 940Cooler MasterHyper 212 Plus CPU...
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Solid State Drive or Hard Drive: which is better for your needs? Page 5 - Benchmarks Cont.

CrystalDiskMark 2.2 CrystalDiskMark is yet another useful and compact program for measuring the read and write performance of storage drives. As I...
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Cool tech find: 3D Webcam

It looks like someone has taken your webcam and decorated it to make it look like some googley-eyed children's toy. Unfortunately for your kids, its a...
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Cool tech find: Ergodex keyboard - movable, customizable keys

Have you ever taken a hard look at your keyboard? Did it fill you with disdain? If you are anything like me, you have a few keys that annoy you to no...
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