Long time [H]‘er “im_electronic” is getting his build on tonight and letting us all watch. As I am typing this he is getting all his parts laid out and ready for installation. Here is a forum thread that will give you a link to his build list. Here is the UStream link to watch him go. If he pulls it out and starts jerkin’ it, don’t hold me responsible.
Not wanting to be left out of all the app controversy on the internet today, Microsoft pulled it’s Bing app from all international app stores. When asked for a comment, a Microsoft executive said “it’s because those other app stores smell funny.” Okay I made that last part up.
The good folks in Redmond are quoted as saying that the app was never intended for international markets, and was instead supposed to be destined for the United States alone. The company claims that it is working on international versions of Bing for iPhone, but it remained mum on when these would be made available.
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Environmental activist group Greenpeace, hot off of last week’s protest of Facebook, is now using Facebook to protest Nestle (the candy bar people). Apparently one of Nestle’s reps got pissy with the protesters over altered company logos and then all hell broke loose from there.
Putting aside all judgment on who’s right and who’s wrong in this situation, we are seeing the dark side of the Facebook fan page: when what was intended to be an open way for fans to show their support was turned into a billboard of outrage on behalf of critics, and with a company representative in obvious panic over how to tame the mob. It’s rare that public opposition will reach a truly uncontrollable level, but when it does, it’s ugly.
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Cases & Modding
Aerocool PGS Qx-2000 Cube Case @ ThinkComputers
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MSI Wind12 U230 Netbook @ TestFreaks
Trust SoundForce USB Powered Portable Speakers @ DSM
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HIS Radeon HD 5670 Video Card @ Tweaknews
Last week a developer talked trash on Apple’s app store but the company took the criticism in stride and implemented changes to its store to better serve developers. Just kidding, Apple banned his game from the app store.
Last week, game developer Tommy Refenes publicly called Apple’s app store “awful” and “horrible.” This week, Apple yanked his game from their store. There are a couple of reasons that may have compelled Apple to remove Zits & Giggles, a pimple-popping game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, from the App store.
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We’ve got the ECS A890GXM-A, a full sized ATX board based on AMD’s new 890GX chipset. Featuring a sharp color scheme we’ve seen in other ECS Black Series boards, it certainly has the looks and the new brains, but has it got the brawn?
Are you an avid water cooling user? Then you have probably heard the Koolance name before, and if you say No never heard of them then you are probably the only one. Luckily, we have the opportunity to test one of their new full cover GPU water blocks on the Radeon 5870 graphics card. Lets find out how well it performs in keeping the beast cool and quiet.
“The HIS Radeon HD5670 is a very capable card for the cheap price of only US$89 at your favorite online retailer. Although it is not a screamer, at almost half the price of a HD5750, for the moderate gamer, it could be considered quite a deal for a videocard sporting such an impressive stock cooling solution.”
NZXT is owed another thanks. Today they dropped on my doorstep the Tempest EVO. This is a solid black mid tower that gives you a lot of room to grow. I recently reviewed their Hades case and I make a few comparisons between the two. Both cases are from their Crafted Series and are priced similarly, within $10 or so of each other. Im always excited to see new gear show up, especially cases. I recently picked up a Zalman 10X Extreme cooler and Ive had a tough time finding a case that will fit it, allowing me to close the side panel. This one looks promising with the smaller lower set side panel fan.
“Last week we featured a review on two MSI WindBox Atom 330 NetTops that we had purchased to add to our testing farm, which as you may now know went into our Phoromatic Ubuntu Tracker setup that is monitoring the performance of the latest Ubuntu development packages on a daily basis. Before devoting this hardware to the farm, we ran a few benchmarks comparing the performance of NVIDIA’s ION GeForce 9400M graphics processor to the ATI Radeon HD 4330 graphics processor found on the MSI 6667BB-004US and several other Atom-powered devices.”
