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VW merging cars and UMPCsSep 28, 2006 - in Picture Story
Volkswagen showed off their 2006 Passat concept car with a touchscreen headunit and UMPC docking station.
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Corsair's XMS2 Dominator: The World's Fastest DDR2?Sep 21, 2006 - in Picture Story
Isn't this nice? 1111 MHz DDR speed at CL4-4-4-12 timings. The memory looks special, though.
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Phones, Laptops and Skateboarders at CTIA 2006Sep 18, 2006 - in Picture Story
Mobile devices can now easily render full-motion game video. Futuremark showed off this Dell Axim running a mobile version of 3dMark.
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MythTV: The Abyss of Convergence FreedomSep 15, 2006 - in Reviews
A glimpse into the MythTV network topology shows how any perceived difficulty in its setup or usage is ultimately balanced by nearly unlimited freedom and potential in the final system.
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Image Preview: Battlefield: Bad Company and Too HumanSep 13, 2006 - in Picture Story
Bad Company - Ohh, we're bad.Battlefield: Bad Company, in development by Digital Illusions and to be published by EA, is to be a console iteration of the multiplayer Battlefield franchise.
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The MythTV ConvergenceSep 8, 2006 - in Reviews
The grand unification of personal digital video recorder technology converges. In fact, we think you would do well to treat the MythTV suite of software applications as a harness for exercising greater control over those appliances that govern our daily activities outside the workplace.
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The Best - And Worst - Of Star Trek Movies
Sep 7, 2006 - in Picture Story
In 40 years of Star Trek we have had ten movies - some great, some not so great, one of which left Arthur C. Clarke brooding over its inclusion in his list of the best science fiction films of all time. We want to explore what makes a great Star Trek movi
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Windows VistaSep 4, 2006 - in Picture Story
Microsoft has completely reworked the desktop layout in Vista. Windows can be previewed and tiled in 3D.
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Back Up Your Business Data With Tandberg's 420LTO and 220LTO StreamersSep 4, 2006 - in Picture Story
Tandberg 220LTO external tape drive.
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Armed Assault and F.E.A.R. Extraction Point
Aug 10, 2006 - in Picture Story
Hey Ma!Armed Assault is the sequel-that's-not-a-sequel-thanks-to-legal-reasons for the worlds best soldier sim, Operation Flashpoint. Well, it's more of an update to OFP 1.5 than the pure sequel that we were promised back when the developers Bohemia Inter
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TG Daily at the NASCAR Allstate 400
Aug 9, 2006 - in Picture Story
Meet NASCAR's $750,000 tech truck: The fancy paint work hides state of the art computer technology that provides the backbone for the timing and scoring of NASCAR races. Join us for a walk through the "technology center" and see how computers and other te
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Tom's Hardware's $10,000 PCAug 8, 2006 - in Picture Story
The Tom's Hardware $10,000 PC. Custom built by Falcon Northwest with a sound-dampened aluminum chassis and painted in Mach V Exotix. Click through the following pages to see what is inside.
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White Gold: War in Paradise and Call of Duty 3Aug 7, 2006 - in Picture Story
The future, near enough to be as we know it? Military struggle? Caribbean islands and graphics not unlike Far Cry? Hot damn, we have an FPS!
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Comic-Con 2006Jul 25, 2006 - in Picture Story
"Your comics or your life!"Comic-Con is usually full of costumed characters and elaborately dressed fans, and 2006 was no different.
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Sony's Sizzling UX180P Micro PC ReviewedJul 24, 2006 - in Picture Story
Sony's VAIO UX180P docked in its port replicator with the keyboard open.
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Build Your Own (Physical) 3D ModelsJul 20, 2006 - in Reviews
3D modeling does not just mean gaming! Check out how Jason Zushman created a cool Tom's Hardware badge out of a silicone mold by milling a 3D object.
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Dead Rising and Neverwinter Nights IIJul 17, 2006 - in Picture Story
What's the best way to make a game sell, no matter how good or bad it is? Ban it. Thank you Germany, the country that'll make the action adventure, ultra-gory adventure game Dead Rising a success.
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Can Your Rig Run Oblivion?Jul 10, 2006 - in Reviews
"Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" boasts some of the most machine-breaking visuals you can get on a PC. However, does your machine have what it takes to achieve a decent Oblivion gaming experience?
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Rule of Rose and Archlord
Jul 3, 2006 - in Picture Story
My word, I've discovered an... wait for it, wait for it... interesting game on the Playstation 2. Ohh yeah, sure it has plenty of fun games, but not many interesting ones - like Rule of Rose, for example, a psychological thriller from Sony Entertainment.
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Glory of the Roman Empire and Saint's RowJun 28, 2006 - in Picture Story
Glory of the Roman Empire, just released in the UK and hitting US on June 3, is Sim City in Roman Times, for want of a better description.
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Signing up for Google CheckoutJun 28, 2006 - in Picture Story
Entering a credit card in Google Checkout is as simple as your average account signup on any online store.
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Clearspeed Advance Accelerator BoardJun 26, 2006 - in Picture Story
This is the first generation Advance board, based on two CSX600 processors that promise a combined performance capability of 50 GFlops.
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DarkStar One, Ninety-Nine Nights and Taxi Driver
Jun 25, 2006 - in Picture Story
Unoriginal storyline? Check. Protagonist with backwards zaney name? Check. Noble crusade? Check. Just enough of Elite to ensure that it's compared to Elite in every preview under the sun (whoops...)? Check. It's a space adventure game!
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Lego Star Wars II and Made Man
Jun 23, 2006 - in Picture Story
One of the games for what I suppose we can now call the "Alzheimer's Generation" of consoles is Lego Star Wars II. The original was the best Star Wars title released around the time of Episode III, and the tongue in cheek humour matched well with the capt
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Updates to PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Outlook for Office 2007
Jun 19, 2006 - in Picture Story
In this final of three galleries from Microsoft senior product manager Mark Alexieff's demonstration of the Office 2007 suite last Friday, we take a look at how PowerPoint and SharePoint work together across multiple clients. Here in PowerPoint 2007, you
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More inside Office 2007 Professional
Jun 18, 2006 - in Picture Story
In Mark Alexieff's demonstration of the new features of Microsoft Office 2007 last Friday at TechEd 2006 in Boston, we were delighted to see that attention was finally paid to PowerPoint, usually the forgotten child among the others in the suite. We saw t
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Images From The Office 2007 Presentation at TechEd 2006
Jun 15, 2006 - in Picture Story
Beside the huge, round "Office Button" (which assumes control of the old "File" menu functionality), sharing space with the title bar, is what Microsoft is calling the "Quick Access Toolbar." At the top, the presenter starts to add the New Comment command
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Cinevision 2006: HDTV in 5000 x 2000 pixelJun 14, 2006 - in Picture Story
Cinevision 2006 offers considerable more resolution than your average HDTV. (Image copyright and full resolution at: Golem.de)
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Microsoft's Line of Business InteroperabilityJun 12, 2006 - in Picture Story
Microsoft's current roadmap for enterprise-level components of its upcoming Office 2007. Notice there isn't really a release date for Exchange Server 2007.
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Intel's Tri-Gate Transistor TechnologyJun 11, 2006 - in Picture Story
Abstract view of today's planar transistor technology in Intel semiconductors. Each transistor has only one gate.