ActiveStartup Deluxe

ActiveStartup Deluxe is created for advanced control over Windows startup. With this program you could easy check your Windows startup for known viruses, that loads at startup process.

July 7, 2010 · 1 min · 28 words · Annette Patton

Automatically Start Your Browser in 'Private' Mode

People have been making a lot of noise as of late over privacy on the Internet and rightfully so. Never before have our personal identities been so broadly exposed. Chances are you have at least two browsers installed on your system anyhow.

June 17, 2010 · 1 min · 42 words · Diane White

OCZ Enyo USB 3.0 Portable SSD Review

Article Index OCZ Enyo Cracking it Open So we now know what the Enyo looks like from the outside, but what lurks beneath that shiny exterior? In true TechSpot fashion we are going to strip it down, exposing the naked PCB to discover just what it is that makes the Enyo tick. Under the hood we found that the Enyo is driven by the Indilinx ‘Barefoot’ controller with the standard 64MB cache....

June 16, 2010 · 2 min · 373 words · Jennifer Graham

Mouse Round-up: 12 Options, Every Budget Covered

Based in Sweden, the company claims its goal is to develop quality products with an original design. Each product is named after prominent starts in the night sky like the NAOS we have here today. Mionix’s flagship mouse is a wide body unit with a braided cable and gold USB connector. The scroll wheel has a grippy rubber surface, nice tactical feel and is easy to depress. The edges of the scroll wheel light up as part of the customizable lighting system....

June 11, 2010 · 2 min · 217 words · Mary Serrano

StarTech USB 3.0 Enclosure and PCIe Adapter Review

The right side of the drive is mostly black with white lettering displaying the product name, etc. On the bottom of the enclosure are two large rubber feet. Flip the wedge back down into position to secure the drive. For thinner drives, the included foam pads can be used. Once your drive is installed, simply replace the side panel and screw it back down. The adapter card is an x1 PCIe card that features a black PCB....

June 1, 2010 · 1 min · 87 words · Kimberly Hernandez

Synaptics TouchPad Driver 14.0.3 for Windows 64-bit

IMPORTANTThe Synaptics machine driver is customized to meet the specific requirements of your machine manufacturer.

May 31, 2010 · 1 min · 15 words · Karen Parker

Inno3D GTX 480 iChill Review: Water-Cooled Fermi

Crysis Warhead allowed a performance boost of 13% at 2560x1600 when overclocking the GTX 480 iChill Black Series. This had the GeForce card matching the almighty Radeon HD 5970.

May 21, 2010 · 1 min · 29 words · April Kaiser MD

Splinter Cell: Conviction Performance In-depth

Sadly we cannot say the same for SLI. Clearly the technology ain’t running in Splinter Cell Conviction using the current patch/drivers. The Radeon HD 5850 also broke the 40fps barrier with 42fps, while everything else rendered under this mark. As you’re free to see, the benefits of Crossfire technology have now been negated.

May 14, 2010 · 1 min · 53 words · Timothy Vasquez

BenQ Acer 640 BU Scanner Driver 4.03U10

Latest BenQ Acer 640 BU Scanner Driver.

May 12, 2010 · 1 min · 7 words · Susan Delacruz

CPU Round-up: Sub-$100 Intel and AMD Processors Tested

This is a relatively new processor that saw the light on January of this year. Other than the design process and operating frequency they are identical. We’ll let the numbers speak for themselves when we put both to the test. AMD’s processor is also clocked higher at 3.2GHz compared to the 2.8GHz frequency of the Pentium G6950. Utilizing dual-channel DDR3 memory on the LGA1156 platform the Pentium G6950 is surprisingly speedy, too....

May 11, 2010 · 2 min · 216 words · Ariel Coleman DVM

Test-Drive Ubuntu 10.04 Using a Bootable USB Flash Drive

Another even simpler way involves creating a bootable USB flash drive with a fully functional copy of Ubuntu installed. when you land a working CD, pop it in your optical drive and reboot your rig. On the top bar, click System>Administration>Startup Disk Creator. see to it both are selected, and you’ll be given a few options before creating the disk. Realize, youdon’t have toerase the drive. Any data currently on it will be available in the main directory after Ubuntu does its thing....

May 7, 2010 · 1 min · 112 words · Tanner Crane

OCZ Vertex 2 100GB SSD Review

Again we see that when measuring sequential read performance Intel comes out on top with their X25-M SSD. The sequential write results tell a very different story. The Intel X25-M again does well when measuring 4K threaded performance, delivering by far our best result. Interestingly, the Vertex 2 is 51% slower than the original Vertex SSD in this test.

April 30, 2010 · 1 min · 59 words · Stephanie Davis

Everything You Need To Know About 4G Wireless Technology

With 4G the promise is that you might get real mobile broadband to go. Besides speed, several other guidelines have been traced for wireless communication standards to qualify as 4G. There are two fundamental aspects of LTE. This setup can either be used to increase the throughput data rates or to reduce interference. WiMAX is a wireless broadband access standard developed and maintained by the IEEE under the 802.16 designation....

April 29, 2010 · 1 min · 88 words · Scott Gray