Tech News

  • Macromedia Homesite 5 Released

    Published: Monday, October 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

    This last year Allaire and Macromedia merged and many of use loyal Homesite users were worried that Macromedia would squash the next release of Homesite in favor of their own Dreamweaver4, this press release eases our fears.

  • K7V Dragon Plus Review @ VIAHardware

    Published: Monday, October 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The second installment in the Dragon series is the K7V Dragon Plus. The review scores are not really impressive when compared to other KT266A boards. Then again what is 1%??.

    You can see our review of the original Soyo Dragon here.

  • Prolink GeForce 3 Review @ Hexus

    Published: Monday, October 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

    With the release of the Ti chips from Nvidia we might not see to many reviews of he GeForce3 though from a performance standpoint you won't see any difference between the GeForce3 and the Ti200. With that being said check out this Hexus review of a very orange GeForce3 card from Prolink .

  • Thoughts on Carrot Top??

    Published: Monday, October 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

    It would seem that Carrot Top is a love hate relationship and it would appear that the guys of Real Life Comics are on the hate side. happy smile.

  • Paint the Dark Side of the Moon

    Published: Monday, October 29, 2001 | By: Dennis

    Nope its not a new Pink Floyd album but rather a technical view of an artists view. Paint the Moon is a website designed to organize millions of people to shine laser pointers on the moons surface. The Register has posted a response to this.

    "I'm not 100% sure what the minimum intensity visible by the human eye is, but if every person on earth shone a laser pointer at the moon, the reflected intensity would be in the order of 10^-21 W/m^2, and that is definitely not visible. In other words, the guy is dreaming. "

  • New VIA 4-in-i Drivers

    Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: Dennis

    It doesn't look like anything new except for XP support.

  • ATi Cheating for Higher FPS??

    Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: Dennis

    This is has been a hot topic lately in how ATi has optimized their drivers to tweak Quake 3 game results. Though as most of us know speed comes at a cost.

  • Windows XP Released

    Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The hot news of today is the release of Windows XP. I still don't know if I'll take the plunge. Here is another article with some more information.

  • MSN Blocking non-IE Browsers

    Published: Thursday, October 25, 2001 | By: Dennis

    ZDnet is reporting that MSN is blocking non-IE browsers saying

    "Additionally, you'll see the most advanced functionality of MSN.com only with the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer or MSN Explorer" etc...

    I've checked this with both Netscape 6.1 and Netscape 4.7 and found the site to load just fine so it would seem that the block is limited to the smaller and open source browsers.

  • Shuttle SV24 Bare-Bones Review @ The Tech Report

    Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 | By: Dennis

    The Tech Report took some time and reviewed a nifty integrated system from Shuttle. This system is based on the VIA PL133 chipset, the same one used on Freeway's FWD-CUPA. The cool thing about the SV24 is its size.