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Microsoft’s anti-ghosting claims were recently put to the test by the good folks over at Tom’s Guide , and if you’ve been holding off on pulling the trigger to make sure it really lives up to the hype, you can finally cut loose and part ways with your hard-earned Greenbacks — maybe, anyway. For those unaware, Microsoft designed the ..Read More

Canadians, get ready for some savings come March. My friends over at MobileSyrup have been tipped-off to a new promo that is starting March 1st at The Source, and will run through to the end of the month. Starting next week, you’ll be able to get a $50 or $75 in-store credit when you purchase a Bell smartphone or ..Read More

For the past couple weeks, we’ve been following some interesting developments with Twitter – things that most end users probably would know or care about. As we suspected, the quickly-growing company is putting more emphasis on engineering, taking “steps… to make our engineering division more open and transparent,” according to the team’s infrastructure manager, Evan Weaver . “Much of ..Read More

Despite a few harrying run-ins with some large white tents at Manhattan’s Fashion Week-hosting Bryant Park, we can honestly say we have no idea what’s “in” this year for arcade gaming headgear. Still, even with Konami’s lack of zebra print or a sly celebrity endorsement, we’ve got to hand it to them for this fashionable new ” Metal Gear ..Read More

About a week after we ran an update on the Alienware M17x stuttering audio problem, Dell’s community manager John B. has written in to let us know that the company has posted a fix. It entails using a particular BIOS revision, dropping to the Windows native mass storage driver, and installing the latest Alienware wireless card driver, all of ..Read More

For the last few years, comedian Jay Mohr has hosted the Interactive Achievement Awards and kicked the show off with a not-for-kids, profane half hour of jokes about the year in gaming. Here are some of the cleaner ones. Note that one of Mohr’s favorite themes is the lack of diversity in the crowd of several-hundred game designers, executives, ..Read More

Filed under: Software , Open Source , Friday Favorite The phrase “game changer” is no doubt cliché and overused, but every now and again it just fits. I had heard about Notational Velocity when Merlin Mann posted about it on 43Folders. It changed how I use my iMac, MacBookPro, and iPhone, bringing them all together in a very cool ..Read More

Alfa Romeo has always enjoyed a reputation as one of the premier luxury car companies, but the brand is now branching off into a more exciting direction in terms of design. The design of the new Alfa Romeo Pandion concept car looks suspiciously like some of the Nike shoe designs popularized in that last decade. Nevertheless, the design works, ..Read More

Filed under: Aftermarket , Coupe , Performance , Misc. Auto Shows Hennessey Venom GT – Click above for image gallery We’ve just gotten word from Hennessey Performance that the Venom GT won’t be making the trip to Switzerland to debut at the Geneva Motor Show . Instead, the Lotus Elise-based supercar will make its official entrance at the Goodwood ..Read More