Not even two months after NVIDIA tempted gamers on a budget with the GeForce 8800 GT, the outfit has loosed a new beast just in time for those eleventh hour holiday shoppers. Based on 65-nanometer fabrication, the 8800 GTS 512MB boasts 128 stream processors, twin dual-link DVI ports, PureVideo HD technology, DirectX 10 support, a [...]
Microsoft has announced the dates for availability of Office 2007 Service Pack 1 and for the public beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Office 2007 is due to get a shot in the arm on Tuesday 11th December. Although Microsoft is keeping exact details of the contents of the Service Pack a closely guarded [...]
We’ve taken a “don’t stop believing” approach to Apple ultraportable rumors up to this point, and there’s no reason to think these “fresh” predictions from CNBC’s Jim Goldman are anything different, but they at least serve as a nice refresher in the lead up to Macworld in January. Goldman predicts the new Pro laptop will [...]
Microsoft has released a new hotfix for multi-GPU users who, in certain scenarios, are encountering poorer-than-expected performance games and benchmarks under Windows Vista. The software giant says that the issue occurs when games and benchmarks use multiple display adapters in a Linked Display Adapter (LDA) configuration. Apparently, a small scheduling latency on a new Direct [...]
Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn’t talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and does the occasional feature for Australia’s Hyper Magazine. His personal site is www.fullyramblomatic.com.
It’s a small, small consolation, but Apple has donated free iPod nanos to over 100 kids in a California school district who lost their homes in the recent wildfires. Affected high school students in Poway, California, received the devices after Steve Boyack, husband of a Poway city councilwoman, noticed that fundraising and gift drives organized [...]
Twitter’s original update & error messages were LOLcats. Then as the LOLcat meme exploded, Twitter switched to a bird illustration, sometimes shown upside down. Now the cats have returned, but in regular, non-LOL form. original image: sleeping scooty by Emelie Schäfer