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Vista Gamers Experience Game Compatibility Issues

Posted by Lolita Beckwith Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Software, Video Games,

Microsoft Vista Sometimes it’s tough being an early adopter, just ask a Vista user. Last week, Microsoft’s new operating system made news for it’s incompatibility issues with Apple’s iTunes. Now comes word that hardcore gamers are experiencing slowness and even crashes when playing certain XP-friendly games such as Counterstrike, Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 on their Vista-upgraded PC’s. This despite Microsoft’s promise that Vista would be backwards-compatible with DirectX9, XP’s graphic engine. Problematic software drivers and a lack of video cards supporting Vista’s DirectX 10 engine are being blamed. Fortunately top graphics chip makers Nvidia, Intel and ATI are offering drivers to assuage the situation.

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You CAN Teach an Old Computer New Tricks

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Internet, Movies, Music, Software,

Some of us just can’t go out and invest in all the wonderful technology now available. Using a rather ancient HP Computer that crawls along on Pentium II and only contains a 12 GB hard drive, we decided it was time to at least gain the capacity to play DVDs. After a bit of research, we found that our technologically crippled members of Gear Live had access to download the free VLC Media Player with decoder from VideoLan. Around for a couple of years now, its Version 0.8.6 was released December 10, 2006 and works just fine. Take that, overpriced WIN DVD.

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The Bleeding Edge 119: Microsoft Vanishing Point Finale Party

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Internet, Microsoft, Software, Videocasts, Videos,

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Sony Releases VIAO G-11 Series With Vista Business

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Software,

Sony VIAO G-11 Sony has released its new VIAO G-11 series of laptops hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of MS Windows Vista and Office 2007. Designed primarily for traveling business-folk, each comes with 1 or 2GB RAM, a 100GB hard drive, an Intel 945 GMS chipset, a 12.1-inch XGA screen, 2 USG ports, supports SD and MS cards and Ethernet, and of course Windows Vista Business. Check with Sony for price and availability if you just can’t wait to see what’s up with the Vista.

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Tellme Beta Review: Voice-Driven Local Search

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Features, Product Reviews, Software,

Tellme We have been trying out Tellme for a few weeks now, and thought it would be appropriate at this point to let you guys know about the service and what we think of it. If you haven’t heard of Tellme, it’s an application that you install on your mobile phone that aims to allow natural voice-riven mobile search. How does it work? Hit the jump for our full review.

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Parallels Coherence With WindowBlinds Is Near Perfect

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Design, Mods / Hacks, PC / Laptop, Software,

If you are using Parallels on OS X and want the smoothest looking interface possible, you may want to consider installing WindowBlinds in your Windows installation. As you can see in the image above, using a WindowBlinds skin on Windows, you can make the applications look almost exactly like standard OS X apps. That means that when you enable coherence mode, you are going to feel like all of your running applications are a native part of OS X. Not bad at all. Hit the link for a higher resolution image.

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Microsoft Releases Vista to The Public

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Internet, Microsoft, Software,

We know we don’t need to tell you that Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 were unleashed upon the masses today. This is a headline for not only every ezine on the planet, but newspaper and TV news as well. You can even catch the webcast yourself if you weren’t able to attend the gala. What we admire is the glitz and glamour that only a Bill Gates could provide. In a press conference given at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square, Gates actually commented, “Everything is becoming digital. Vista is key to the era.”

Software analysts claim that Windows and Office are Microsoft’s most profitable products and account for about half of its $12.5 billion in 2nd-quarter revenue. So the Olympic-like festivities were used to convince Windows and Office devotees to shift to the new versions. Microsoft expects to sell 200 million copies globally in the next two years. That’s a hell of a cash cow.

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Worth1000 Allows Photoshop Artists iCreativity

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Home Entertainment, Internet, Software,

With so much media over-saturation on the Internet, Worth1000 has come up with a unique idea to keep your inspirational juices flowing. Recently they devised a contest that you could enter with your own iGadget. Ranging in products from the iGod to the iCar, the contestants illustrate how any budding net artist can utilize Photoshop to create art.

Claiming 5 million+ hits on their site, Worth1000 also allows its members to design their own contests. Visit Worth1000 to view more of the 100+ entrants in this contest or to find out how you can join their ranks and enter your own art in one of their 7,649 galleries.