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We have a Bare Bones computer system for sale for a round number of 500$
Great for surfing the net browsing facebook while listening to your favourite music. Good for gaming.
Plays Call of duty world at war for windows.
Link for requirements to play this game: http://www.vgrequirements.info/?p=7759
Basic Info:

2  .ghz
4gb ram
80 gb hard drive
on board video
4 usb ports [...]

SO as you all aware by now microsoft has officially bailed on Vista and instead pumped out another operating system, called windows 7. Ive been using the beta version of it for quite sometime without problems.
If you’ve gone PC shopping lately, you’ve probably noticed more computers with 64-bit processors, and you may have wondered what [...]

This image of the PS3 “slim” comes courtesy of wired.com.
So heres my take on the PS3 slim. Its 120 GB’s, it’s 300 bux, it doesnt play PS2 games, it only has 2 usb ports and doesnt have the memory card ports. Not like I even used them anyways. One thing I do like is they [...]

Motherboard is the heart of the whole computer system. It is the part that connects all the other parts together and make sure they run smoothly. As such, choosing the best gaming motherboard is the most important task that you need to do when building a gaming computer. This article will teach you how to [...]

Using a PC in your Home Theatre

The dawn of a New Age for Entertainment
What could be better than relaxing at home watching a film, browsing the Internet for sites of interest, listening to your favourite music, watching your favourite TV show either live or recorded from digital High Definition TV or spending a couple of [...]

All you trekkies out there will surely get this and fully appreciate the fact that with the new Star Trek XI movie being releasd that theres also new Star Trek Action figures being released. And Im dead certain that these will soon become collector items. So what Star Trek XI action figures have ben released [...]

Yeah you just readthat right I did say Chocolate powered race car. This morning while on twitter I came across a tweet that mentioned a chocolate powered race car. ”features a body made from potatoes, and a steering wheel made from carrots”  From their website: The Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (WIMRC) is part of the University of Warwick, and theWorldFirst [...]

Iwas doing some searching this morning to find the worlds fastes computers and what I came up with is the story about the worlds fastest computer from IBM below. Seven months after IBM delivered the world’s fastest supercomputer, it has announced an even speedier one.
IBM said on Tuesday it is developing the technology for its [...]

Ive been using a link sys router for quite a while and what Im finding is it is lagging when Im playing games online with my ps3. More speciafically when Im gaming and someone else is using the lap top or desk top in the house. Which really sucks to be honest. So ive been [...]

Ive been curious for a while which HDTV is the best for video gaming. I game on a Sony Bravia, it has the bravia engine which reportedly isone of the better ones. Now from everything I have read what thebest HDTV for gaming  boils down to is re-fresh rate. What we’re talking about here is [...]

In my insane attempts to keep up with the rushing pace of tech,  I came across this on gizmodo. Its the  Sixth Sense computer. Remember The movie minority report. The scene where tom cruise is doing his thing on that funky computer?, using his fingers to resize and move the windows around on the huge [...]

For x-mas this year Santa was good enough to give us a WI. Woo Hoo We got a WII !!! SO whats cool about the WII is that you can down load stuff from the net for the WII. And to be honest Setting up the WII was actually very easy. Plug it in and [...]

Adobe’s set to roll out Photoshop CS4, an upgrade to the industry-standard image editing suite. Professionals and serious amateur photographers will appreciate many of the new features in CS3, customizable tool panes and a more robust editing in Camera RAW.
The guys from Photoshop User have put together almost 20 videos that showcase Photoshop CS4’s new [...]

Save Energy and Money Today
9 Tips to Save Energy Today

Set your thermostat comfortably low in the winter and comfortably high in the summer. Install a programmable thermostat that is compatible with your heating system.
Use compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Air dry dishes instead of using your dishwasher’s drying cycle.
Turn off your computer and monitor when not in [...]

1080p VS HDTV
Can you really tell the difference or even see the difference between 1080i vs 1080p? What the difference is, is the way the HD picture is displayed on your HDTV set. The i is for interlaced and the  p is for progressive.
With interlaced 1080i picture what you see is scanned to the screen [...]

YES you just read that right, I said share your mix tapes. And yes I did spell muxtape.com right. Its mix tapes with a U
HA! Who has mix tapes anymore? Ok I am dating myself but I/we have mix tapes. Actually forgot I had them until last week when we were doing a little organizing [...]

We’ve won the DRM battle 

Sony BMG, the company that cheerleaded DRM music through rootkits is about to drop DRM, according to a report by Businessweek.
"Sony BMG will become the last of the big four record companies to offer music without the handicap of digital rights management, effectively putting the final nail into the music DRM [...]

I had an interesting experience recently and thought that this
was relevant to blogging. Actually it’s something that I have been
mulling over for quite sometime but it really struck home while I was
out with my girlfriend at a pool bar called tail gators oh about a month ago or so.
As an advance warning this post is [...]

We’re still toying or rather I am with the idea of buying a flat panel lcd tv. SO Ive been doing some reading and researching to try and decide which is better LCD or Plasma. I wrote an hdtv buying tips post a while back you might want to check out
So for all you guys [...]

THE CHRISTMAS TREE
So like most other Canadians, even north Americans, we celebrate the traditional Christmas and went out on a Christmas tree hunt a few weeks back (early I know). During the whole getting the tree in the house crawling under it and getting it into just the right spot I started getting annoyed.
Girlfriend: "it’s [...]

 
image courtesy of techiedivas 
I just did a spyware clean up on my girlfriends laptop. What a nightmare! that was. I have another post on this spyware topic, but this brings home a point. Hers was pretty bad, where did she get all this garbage I wondered in frustration as I was toiling away and sitting [...]

This afternoon while I was running spybot search and destroy I got to thinking about why and where spyware comes from and what purposes it may serve and came across this interesting post about spyware basics
Spyware is one of the fastest-growing internet threats.  According to the National Cyber Security Alliance, spyware infects more than 90% [...]

So we’ve decided that in the next little while that we’re going to be buying an HDTV. Maybe an Lcd or a plasma HDTV.
To say that its a confusing thing to do is a mild understatement. You’d think it would be just as simple as going to future shop or best buy looking at which [...]

A flat panel monitor is really not essential for most computer applications, because, well frankly, any old monitor will do. All your really need from your computer monitor is the resolution to word process, honestly, unless you are some kind of super gamer, or perhaps an artist or graphics engineer. However, a flat panel monitor [...]

Computer bits and bytesAnyone looking to make a franken box?
Holy crap I was just looking for something and went into an storage box I have here, WOW do I ever have alot of misc computer bits and bytes.Seriously you should see all the extra computer hardware and computer software I have.here is just a smattering [...]

TOP 10 tech Websites that will change the way you view the Tech/Real world. If youre a tech person or just plain in love with all the techno babble thats out there then you definately will want to add these to your roster of sites you visit DAILY
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Blogger code of conduct proposed
 

A prominent internet writer and the head of Wikipedia have collaborated on a set of rules designed to bring civility to the world of bloggers, which can appear to be a world of endless conversational battle.
CBC NewsWeb pioneer Tim O’Reilly, who is often credited with coining the term Web 2.0, posted [...]

Theres some buzz going on about this whole Windows XP being phased out over the next year. I think its about time its a piece of crap. And I dont think that vista will be any better. Im a windows user only because everything I use is built for Windows. Ive toyed with the idea [...]

Are you thinking about buying a flat panel monitor? We did and here’s what we did to figure out which flat panel monitor was right for us. So I figured I’d post about how to buy a flat panel monitor.
It’s actually a funny story really. First off we knew we wanted to get rid [...]