June 2008 - Overclockers

External Drive Enclosure

June 30, 2008 admin 0

SUMMARY: Compact package for a 2.5″ portable drive enclosure The good guys at Tagan were nice enough to send a sample of their external hard drive enclosure IB-290 to test out. This houses a 2.5″ SATA drive with USB and

Windows

June 28, 2008 admin 0

As I’m sure you already know, Bill Gates is pretty much removing himself from Microsoft, and everybody is taking the time to praise/curse his legacy. How do we view this? To us, the big question is “Why did Microsoft succeed?

CPU 2482

June 27, 2008 admin 0

Two months ago, we pointed out that Intel’s Fab 28, its new 45nm fab in Israel, was delayed. Two months later, they still haven’t started production, and if if this article is any indicator, production won’t start for a couple

Freeware Video Editing Programs

June 25, 2008 admin 0

Powerful freebies – Joe

Video Cards 1689

June 23, 2008 admin 0

The long-awaited HD 4850 video card has debuted. Overall, it’s not quite as good as nVidia’s 9800GTX, but with few exceptions, it’s pretty much even with it. nVidia certainly thinks so, too, that’s why they’re dropping the price on the

A “New” Processor From AMD

June 21, 2008 admin 0

We’ve talked about Intel’s Atom and nVidia’s Tegra (there’s also the Via Nano) processors and why they’re important as precursors to the tinyCPUs running the tinyPCs in the decade ahead. We’ve also wondered where AMD was in all this. Well,

Pinnacle Video Editing Software

June 20, 2008 admin 0

SUMMARY: Not bad for crippleware. In my quest for free (or maybe real cheap) but quality video editing software, I came upon Pinnacle’s VideoSpin. Pinnacle is well known for its video editing software called Studio which comes in three different

A New Urban Legend

June 19, 2008 admin 0

Perhaps you’ve already heard about the the case of Michael Fiola. Apparently, he got a new laptop from his employers, and shortly thereafter, the employer’s IT people measured very heavy Internet use. They took the laptop, checked it and found

Video Dub

June 18, 2008 admin 0

Simple video editing tool – Joe

Flip Video

June 17, 2008 admin 0

SUMMARY: Fun, drop-dead easy, small camcorder – just don’t expect hi-def quality. For Fathers’ Day I received a great present – a Flip Video Ultra Camcorder. This is a small, very portable, relatively inexpensive camcorder that is capturing significant market