Once upon a time, in order to get sound on your Windows computer you’d have to buy and install a sound card of which the most popular were the Sound Blaster line of cards from Creative Labs. Back in those days, The CPUs inside your computer had more than enough to do running Windows while …
Category: Processors
Aug 08 2011
Watch for New eBay Auctions Using RSS
RSS is a great tool to make sure you can keep on top of new events without having the continually poll a stack of websites in your browser. One such example might be if you are keeping your eyes peeled for some bargain auctions on eBay but would get pulled up for having eBay on …
Jul 10 2011
Dell XPS 8300 Unboxing
This was an unexpected gadget but a colleague of mine recently bought a new computer to replace an aging laptop that gave up the ghost earlier in the year. Anyway, he’s handed over his Dell XPS 8300 to me to do some basic tweaking for him. So, of course, I had to unbox it. I …
Jun 14 2011
Rosetta Support Disappearing in Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
Just a heads up for those Mac OS X users out there that may be using older applications from the PowerPC days (so those G3 and G4 CPUs that powered the Powerbooks and other Apple machines of that generation) – Rosetta support is being removed from the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) operating system. …
Apr 02 2011
Spring Cleaning the Inside of Your Computer
Another quick tip for tonight. For those of us with desktop computers a good deal of us probably don’t open it up once the unit itself has been removed from the box (or once it has been put together in the first instance for the system builders out there). You might open it up quickly …
Dec 13 2010
Geek Toolkit Recommendation – CPU-Z
Just a quick update for tonight. Sometimes the tech savvy amongst us are called upon to look at all sorts of computers belonging to friends, family, work colleagues and sometimes unwanted acquaintances. Trying to find out more about the computer with which you are dealing can be difficult especially for ancient hardware. Unless you know about the …
Nov 22 2010
OnLive – Cloud Gaming for the Masses
As services in the cloud continue to proliferate it was only a matter of time before ground was broken with respect to gaming. OnLive has released its MicroConsole TV Adapter (a little box around the size of a thick smartphone) which provides wireless connectivity for up to four controllers as well as Bluetooth headsets, two …
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