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Posts from the ‘Technology’ Category

14
May

Guide: Tweaking Call of Duty Black Ops: Tweaks you may not have known about…

Thanks to a user on my Steam profile, I’ve got a few little tricks to share with you in case you’re playing Black Ops and need a bit of a performance boost.

Disable Depth of Field and Anti-aliasing
These two things kill performance. The former tries to make it seem more realistic by “zooming” out distant parts of the level so it feels more realistic. The latter smooths off any rough edges on objects, which means more stress for your GPU to handle.

14
May

Review: Gainward nVidia GeForce GT440 PCIe Graphics Card – Nothing special.

GainWard’s nVidia GeForce GT 440 is nothing special. By that, I mean, it’s pretty much a entry-level that can do some gaming, but as soon as you move into the games that require some pounding on your GPU, it falls apart, even when you pump out some more megahertz via overclocking tools. Let me explain.

27
Apr

Rumor Control: Nintendo’s Wii U has talks of Android Integration…

We just spotted this earlier today. Apparently, it seems that rumors suggest that Nintendo may be considering making a interface for Android-powered devices to ‘interact’ (one way or another) with the Wii U, the console that is still under development. Other rumors suggest that the Wii U may run on Android itself, or just have some parts of Android mixed in with it all.

19
Apr

Coburn’s Guide to a cleaner and faster Windows PC – Part 1

Let’s face it. Over time, our computers get cluttered up with loads of rubbish such as, but not limited to, left-over junk from system programs and games, hotfix uninstallers and the like. This guide will show you how to speed up your system without having to spend a penny on commerical tools.

1
Apr

Windows 8 Howto: Bring back the classic Windows 7 Start Menu

One of the biggest annoyances of Windows 8 Consumer Preview is the fact that the classic Vista/Windows 7 start menu supposedly no longer exists in Windows 8 on it’s Desktop mode. In the developer preview, a quick registry hack would disable Metro UI and restore the Start Menu, but in the Consumer Preview, that hack was thwarted – the registry hacks do nothing. Here’s how to bring it back, more or less, thanks to the folk at Redmond Pie:

29
Mar

Turn your twitter timeline into 4 rolls of toilet paper with Sh*tter!

Credit to @Amon_RA from Twitter for finding this interesting new startup company.

Four developers, spread across Sydney (Australia, that is) and New York (USA) started a company called “Collector’s Edition”, a new-breed entertainment group that seems to craft nifty websites and services. This time, for a mere $35, they will turn your timeline (or maybe someone else’s timeline…) into 4 rolls of toilet paper, ready for your bidding. Can’t get much better than that, can it?

18
Feb

Raspberry Pi Update: Almost there, root filesystem up for download

The Raspberry Pi is almost ready for public release, and we’re predicting that it’ll sell like hot cakes. And yes, Coburn’s Domain is hopefully going to be one of the first to get a hands-on with the public-release version of the Raspberry Pi.

The ‘Pi blog has just announced download links for the Debian “reference” file system, which allows people to tinker with the Raspberry Pi and it’s multimedia abilities.

14
Feb

Samsung Galaxy Tab gets the Ice Cream Sandwich love by the TE4M…

A brave group of developers from the XDA-Developers forums have ported a version of Android 4.0.3, Ice Cream Sandwich to the original Samsung Galaxy Tab (model P1000). This port provides a quality working ICS ROM that is suitable enough to replace the stock ROM that the Galaxy Tab ships with.

Basic features work flawlessly, but a few of the luxuries like camera are broken (you can use the viewfinder, but picture taking & video recording are no-go). Still, it is excellent to see Ice Cream Sandwich grace a older-generation device with decent hardware even in today’s standards.

26
Jan

Look out Apple iPhone 4S, the Raspberry Pi will kick it out of the hot seat

Let’s face it – Apple sometimes likes to boast about it’s products hardware being the fastest in the class. While it might seem true to some extent depending on what you use the iDevices for, the founding member of Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton, has stated that the Raspberry Pi should provide at least twice the performance of an iPhone 4S in a wide range of activities. Eben also throws nVidia’s Tegra mobile chip out the window.

24
Jan

Raspberry Pi Update: Almost ready for launch; Kernel sources posted

As the Raspberry Pi nears it’s final stages before becoming available for sale to the public, we thought we’d give you a quick update on their progress. As stated in this post on the Raspberry Pi blog, the linux kernel that the Raspberry Pi team is deploying version 3.1.9 with Raspberry Pi-specific patches applied. Linux developers may be interested to check out the Raspberry Pi kernel github, however if you don’t know what a kernel is or know how to compile a kernel, then it’s not for the faint-hearted.

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