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By Carl Nelson on July 1, 2009
We first told you about a driver that allows people to use their Playstation 3 gamepads in Windows. That version was very basic, and only worked in 32-bit. There is now a driver that has way more functionality, and is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Check it out!
Posted in PC Software, Video Game Hardware
| Tagged 64 bit, Controllers, h4x, Playstation 3, windows 7
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By Carl Nelson on June 26, 2009
Microsoft is offering a significant discount if you purchase the upgrade version of Windows 7 before July 11th. Buy Windows 7 for less than half the price!
Posted in PC Software
| Tagged Hot Deals, Microsoft, windows 7
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By Carl Nelson on May 26, 2009
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 has been released! You can download Vista SP2 from the link found here. What does Vista SP2 add? Find out here!
Posted in PC Software
| Tagged Microsoft, service pack, sp2, Vista, windows
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By Carl Nelson on April 2, 2008
The default installation of Windows Vista doesn’t support Canon’s RAW codec – CR2. Thankfully, Canon does offer a CR2 codec for Vista. Unfortunately, it only supports the 32-bit flavour of the OS.
For a 64-bit version, we have to rely on a third-party provider. Ardfry Imaging have notified us that they have a CR2 codec [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, PC Software
| Tagged 64 bit, digital cameras, windows
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By Carl Nelson on March 6, 2008
Vista’s first huge Service Pack is just days away from being released to the public. It includes all of the updates that have been released since going retail last year, but also promises some performance benefit over the original retail version.
For many people, this might be exactly what they have waited for. After all, [...]
Posted in PC Software
| Tagged HCW, Microsoft, Vista
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By Carl Nelson on December 18, 2007
When the PSP first went head-to-head with the DS, many saw it as having a huge advantage of being a personal multimedia player, as well as a gaming device. Unfortunately, UMD movies were a total flop, and converting your own movies for most people was a total pain in the ass with free 3rd party [...]
Posted in PC Software, Video Game Hardware
| Tagged Multimedia, PSP, Sony
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By Carl Nelson on November 13, 2007
If you use Folding@home on your PC, you probably either do so by running a console command, or the ugly GUI currently being used. Either way, you don’t get to enjoy the nifty GUI first seen on the PS3. That will all change in a few weeks:
Both the PC CPU and GPU clients will be [...]
Posted in PC Software
| Tagged Distributed Computing
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By Carl Nelson on October 2, 2007
Have you ever wanted to create your own theme for your PSP, but weren’t sure how to do it? Sony has made it a little easier by releasing this PC application (direct link to the file here) that allows you to compile a custom PSP theme using separate wallpaper and icon images.
It’s not exactly the [...]
Posted in PC Software, Video Game Hardware
| Tagged Mobile Gaming, PSP, Software Tweaks, Sony
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By Robert Park on September 23, 2007
Flunk, from our forums, has explained some of the differences between Vista and XP’s memory management, and I wanted to highlight his comments here.
I think you may be a bit confused by the way that Vista manages memory. The memory management system in Vista is completely new it is actually designed to fill almost all [...]
Posted in PC Software
| Tagged Microsoft, Vista
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