With the amount of gadgets and office equipment around now-a-days, it seems that the measly two to four average ports found on a desk or laptop computer is simply insufficient. Between printers, webcams,iPods, flash drives, etc., even an additional hub with four USB ports is not enough. Well, no worries now everyone… enter the Rosewill [...]
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Nyko PerfectShot Pistol Grip for Nintendo Wii
Before the Nintendo Wii, there has been a virtual drought of “lightgun” games, which required special controllers. One of the features of the Wii-mote allows you to control an on-screen cursor by pointing at your TV, which translates very well for lightgun games without the limitations of 80s technology. Nintendo has created their own grip [...]
Why the Wii Zapper Sucks
Yes I proclaim that the Wii Zapper sucks. Why, one might ask? Well, I bought one hoping that somehow it would be like the old NES Zapper that came with the old gaming console (bundled together with Super Mario and Duck Hunt), or just slightly like the bazooka you got with the SNES console, but I’m afraid [...]
ThermalTake ToughPower 850W PSU Review
There was a time when a bright lightbulb consumed more electricity than a powerful computer. Those days are long past, as even a modest computer today will eat up an average of 300 watts or more. The ultra-powerful hardware that tempts the PC enthusiast hungers for more electricity to fuel it, thus creating the need [...]
Boynq Haspel 4-port USB Hub Review
USB hubs are important for laptop-toters and PC nerds alike. It seems like even if we have four USB ports on our machine and perhaps two extra on the monitor, there is never enough room for all of our gadgets, printers, mp3 players, cameras, and flash drivers to plug in. So if you have to [...]
Boynq Toastit 7-in-1 USB Card Reader
Card readers are pretty handy these days. With everything that requires or uses memory sticks, flash drives, and SD cards now-a-days, toting around a card reader can be helpful for getting tasks accomplished in our busy lives. So out rolls Boynq with a sweet 7-in-1 card reader in the shape of a… erm… toaster? A [...]
ThermalTake iFlash 120mm Cooling Fan Review
One of the first products to come from the pre-fabbed modding scene were LED fans. At the time these clear whirlwinds with multi-colored LEDs were absolutely fascinating, and the clear fans were much more interesting to look at than standard matte black fans. These fans gave us a reason to take up a Dremel and [...]
Ideazon Merc Stealth Gaming Keyboard Review
There comes a time in every young man’s life when he must decide whether to game in red, blue, or purple… The Merc Stealth gaming keyboard from Ideazon combines the three key elements that all PC gamers demand: style, tailor-made for gaming, and keys that light up! PC gamers are always on alert for that [...]
Microsoft Media Center Keyboard Review
If you one of the many of people discovering the joys of a Home Theater PC, then you’ll want to get as much usefulness from it as you can. Microsoft makes a standard Media Center remote, which works just fine with their 10-foot interface experience, but makes searching for your media a little awkward. Other vendors have created Media Center remotes [...]
SteelSeries QcK Heavy Mousing Surface Review
Cloth mousepads were originally invented as a surface to “grab the mouse by the ball”, so to speak. Back in the days when mice were relatively new, they used small rubber balls that moved two rollers (for X and Y cursor position). The average desk didn’t provide enough traction (especially when the mouse ball got [...]
A-Data Vitesta 2GB DDR2-800 Extreme Edition Memory
Computer memory has been getting faster and faster the past few years, yet it is still one of the slowest bottlenecks in our systems. If you’ve purchased a compuer or motherboard within the last few years, then the chipsets require use of DDR2, which range in speeds from 553Mhz to over 1 GHz! RAM has [...]
Top 7 Tech Turkeys of 2007
For many Americans, Thanksgiving is about turkey, football, lounging around the house, and dealing with people we’d rather not see but once a year. But it’s still all about the turkey, which reminds us of some of the real Turkeys we’ve seen in the technology and gaming industry. You know what a Turkey is. You’re [...]
Six Data Recovery Tools to Help Regain Your Data
I don’t think I have to say that data loss is everyone’s nightmare. At home, data loss could mean years worth of photos, videos, financials, and documents lost. In business, data loss means money out the window. Many times, however, you want to recover data, but you don’t want to pay the exorbitant fees that [...]
Enable 4GB of memory on Vista
Four Gigabytes is a lot of RAM for a workstation or gaming machine, but the industry has pretty much forced us into using this much (especially if you’re a heavy user of Virtual PC). Most applications today are 32-bit and only address 2GB of RAM at a time (like Photoshop), but we need more memory [...]
How to prevent CHKDSK from starting upon bootup in Windows
Sometimes you need to check the health of your hard drives by running a diagnostic on them, but you cannot fix any problems because “the system cannot get exclusive access to the drive”. This problem occurs more frequently on the drive in which Windows is installed. So, you schedule CHKDSK to run before boot (or [...]
Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition
Multi-monitor desktops are starting to become more commonplace as LCD panels and powerful graphics cards get more inexpensive. Not only can you have more workspace when browsing multiple web pages, but you can further enhance your workflow by having several related windows open on different monitors. There are a few annoying problems with using Windows’ [...]
Hades H1 3200dpi Optical Gaming Mouse Review
Hardcore PC Gamers are serious about the equipment they use. If they weren’t, then there would be no market for “extreme” gaming peripherals like gaming mice and gaming keyboards. Several vendors have introduced better products in the past few years that cater to the “professional gamer”. The computer mouse, once thought to never use much bandwidth, now require [...]
OCZ ATV 4GB USB Flash Drive Review
In America we know that excess is never enough. The technology industry provides us with portable solid-state disks that can hold every Atari 2600 cartridge ever created, and that still isn’t enough. We take these little gadgets with us everywhere, and I should know as I’ve destroyed more USB drives than the company’s Quality Control [...]
Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard Hands-On
Razer’s Tarantula gaming keyboard is easily one of the PC gamer’s favorite gaming peripherals, and Razer has built on this success with the new Lycossa Gaming Keyboard. The previous Tarantula was unique in that it offered backlighting on the keys that gamers use most: the standard WASD keys used for movement. This new keyboard has a [...]
How to Connect an X-Arcade Controller to your Xbox 360
Extreme retro gamers have discovered that a quality arcade stick delivers a true “arcade feel” to their classic video games. The X-Arcade Tankstick is currently the king of the hill, and has several adapters for use on all popular consoles… except the Xbox 360. X-Arcade has been working hard to get an Xbox 360 adapter [...]
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