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Thought this was cool looking. Would make a great Geeky poster. [Read more…] about The Security Realm – Microsoft Medieval Style Infographic

You hardcore overclockers should head over to Ninja Lane. They reviewed the beautiful Gigabyte Z87X OC and they liked it.

Apple fanboys are excitedly parroting the news that Apple was named “brand of the year“. To the rest of us it affirms the moniker iSheep.

Houses and cars are predictably being hacked. I’ve always wondered why “critical systems” are connected to the outside world. For you and me our houses and cars are about as critical as it gets.

“Tweak and Customize”. These are synonyms dude. Just sayin’. 😉

Windows NT is 20 years old!

“XP Retirement Party”. This infographic made the rounds this week with many Windows pundits saying good riddance. The poster was really just cry for you to buy Windows 8. While Microsoft and many Geeks agree that folks should move on, perhaps they should ask, “why the resistance?” Maybe, just maybe, they should give folks what they want and stop trying to tell them how they should be using their PC. Start menu anyone?

Sir Mick Jagger turned 70 today. How he made it that far is beyond me. Cheers Mick (hope you get a Little T&A). :clink:

Hope you all have a great weekend! I’m headed out to a Redskins Rally for a beer or two (checking out the cheerleaders too 😉 )

I got busy and didn’t get around to posting yesterday. To me, it was a pretty boring week news wise. I really couldn’t give a rip about the Microsoft re-org which seemed to be the major headline this week.

Not new and certainly not concise but the Makeuseof Best Of Apps is the best I’ve seen.

The How-To Geek has a handy article up: How to Easily Transfer Files Between Nearby Smartphones

Not news. This week several sites mentioned an article where the author discovered that if Firefox is running slow it may help to disable hardware acceleration. This “new discovery” has been known by Geeks for some time thanks to the Mozilla support page and 2 year old articles like this one. :rolleyes:

System Ninja 2.4.3 is out. It is another good system cleaner brought to you by the same folks who do CCEnhancer.

One change to Android Apps I Use. I had to switch from AdFree Android to AdAway as it was causing too many issues navigating sites.

The weekly curse that is Monday is upon us. Hope your weekend went well. On with some Geek-ish news…
 
AnandTech and [H]ardOCP both looked at the Corsair Carbide AIR 540 case and liked it.

 

TeamViewer has been updated.   Download   Changelog
 
Ask Slashdot: Good Tracking Solutions For Linux Laptop? had both good answers and funny comments:
“Put a Windows 8 sticker on it. Nobody will touch it.”
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Twitter has updated their apps making direct messaging and search better.
 
Posted all over the web: Windows 8.1 RTM hits in late August.
 
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Did you know TweakHound.com has a mobile version? Been trying a new version of WPTouch Pro but they can’t seem to get the menus to work on Android so the old version will have to work for now.
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It’s been kinda a short week here in the U.S. due to the  Independence Day holiday. A day that most of us Americans prove that we all have a little Redneck in us my grilling meat, drinking beer, and watching stuff blow up. 😉

Geeks already knew Reddit was popular. This week the press found out.

Something tells me our fellow Geeks over at Dropbox won’t be dating this coworker.

IZArc got a minor update to version 4.1.8.

Metallica at Comic-Con? Wish I could be there 😥

I hope y’all have a happy and safe weekend!

Twitter just added tailored ads to its site. Users however can opt out of the process and this made the EFF happy.

To disable this in Twitter: Go to Settings > Account > uncheck the box next to  Promoted content that says Tailor ads based on information shared by ad partners.
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