Thread: Links To Keep You Busy This Weekend- 11-6 Edition

Welcome back folks to this edition of weekly links, especially designed to occupy all of your free (non-gaming) time.

Read the ones you like and bookmark the ones you need.

Tech News

Eee Keyboard delayed --We have talked about this a bunch in the forums. I'm disappointed, but maybe they will give it a CPU boost and Win7 when it finally comes out.

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: November '09 - Good article to help you catch up if you are just starting to look at upgrading and want to see what's out there.

Western Digital WD TV Live HD Media Player This is an interesting option if you just want to get your media to play on your TV but don't want to go with a full HTPC.

ASRock ION 330HT-BD Nettop - Unboxing and Undressing Video Nettops with the Atom 330 are finally getting out and this link has a good video review. I'm still holding off for Ion2 nettops at the end of the year or early next, but this is still pretty powerful.

PowerColor Readies Passive-cooled Radeon HD 5750 This would kick butt in a HTPC and run silent

Noctua releases its NH-D14 CPU cooler -Mentioned this company's high tech fan in past weekend articles, and now here is their high end cooler. I can't wait to see some real test numbers.

PSP Go! Review -I'm sure some of you will be considering this as a gift for your kids for Christmas, so thought I would pass along this review with some good videos.

P55 Overclocking Showdown - ASUS, Gigabyte, and EVGA at the OC Corral - Since a lot of folks are about to upgrade to P55, here is a good roundup from Anandtech. Interesting thing is they talk a lot about some glitch I hadn't heard about in the chipset, and some early boards can't overclock at all.

Core i7-870 Overclocking And Fixing Blown P55-Based Boards - More of the above stuff about the p55 boards, with some info on i7 as well.

Sony Dream Machine (ICF-CL75iP) -Finally, I have been waiting for months for this to finally release, and am waiting for more reviews before deciding if it is worth it. It looks to be the greatest alarm clock - Ipod - Iphone dock ever. Sony Speaker Dock Clock Radio with 7-Inch LCD for iPod / iPhone -Amazon.com has it up for sale now.



Apps and Software To Check Out

Privacy Software CCleaner 2.25 Released - Stop reading and go download this now. We have talked a lot about CCleaner here and a lot of us use it. This update fixes it so it works better with Win7 and 64 bit OS.

AM-Deadlink: Clean Up Your Bookmarks by Removing Dead Links And Duplicates - This is a great app. If you have a ton of bookmarks, it can weed out all the bad ones that don't work anymore and a ton of other useful stuff.

Ninite: The easiest way to get apps. -This was posted about in the Windows7 sticky, but is good enough to post here to for those that missed it. It is the easiest way to download a bunch of good apps, and doesn't give you crapware.

Five Free Alternatives to Kick Windows Sidebar to the Curb This has a lot of good apps to add all kinds of gadgets to your desktop.

20 Essential Tricks Every Outlook User Needs to Know - I don't use Outlook, but I know a ton of people have to for work. Might as well make it as easy as possible.

MSN.Com Gets An Overhaul After Ten Years -I never go there, but I constantly see other people who do. Hope it was worth the wait.

Hunting down 10 iPhone apps for the outdoorsman - Hope you find some new apps to play with if you are an outdoors kind of person.

Top 5 Sites For Free Sound Effects Downloads - Mainly for the TG guys that are into making movies, but you never know when you will end up editing some family videos and could add some cool sound effects.

40 Free Unique Cartoon and Comic Fonts - Some pretty cool fonts to check out.

7 Email And Notification Gadgets For Windows 7 -Should come in handy for all you facebook folks, as well as twitter and gmail users, etc.

Download of the Week: Paragon Backup and Recovery It's free, and is supposed to be pretty good.

Firefox Add-on of the Week: FEBE - With everyone moving to Win7 this is good to use to back up your "Firefox extensions, themes, bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and individual user profiles"

3 Tools To Easily Backup Your Flickr Photos For those of us who use flicker.

5 Application Monitors For The Windows Operating System - Great list of apps that can really come in handy when you have a program that keeps crashing and you can't figure out why. I think I saw that some can even email to notify you if a program crashes.


How-To

How To: Properly Clean Your PC - Keeping your PC clean can cut down on problems and keep crashes to a minimum.

How to Wire Your House With Cat-5 (or 6) For Ethernet Networking - Good guide, though a lot of stuff is going wireless now. Sometimes nothing is better than hard wired though.

How to Really Browse Without Leaving a Trace - In this day in age, you really should look at doing a few of these.

Know When (and When Not) to Buy an Extended Warranty

I came across some good Photoshop tutorials this week. You should be able to work out how to use these in GIMP, which is almost as good as Photoshop.

56 Absolutely Brilliant and Intriguing Photoshop Video Tutorials

40 Incredibly Inspirational Retro & Vintage Photoshop Tutorials

20+ Car Pimping and Tuning Photoshop Tutorials




Kind Of Off Topic, But Still Cool

Mini HoverDrone Goes Up, Down and Into the Junk Drawer --Wow, just wait till these get cameras and a squad can carry a couple into battle.

Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy Hope you have a fast connection. It is a big picture.

VIDEO: Ken Block's Subaru-based TRAX STI is an alpine badass -I would love to get some time behind the wheel of this. Of course, around here it doesn't really snow, but we do have lots of sand.

The Comic-Con 2009 Cosplay Gallery -- 600 Amazing Costumes Some people have a ton of free time. Some of the ladies like wonder woman can take all the time they need There are 11 pages of pics.

This DIY Automated Sentry Gun Looks Terrifyingly Easy To Build - I would love to hook this up to a water hose and have it shoot at dogs pooping in the yard.

Macro Photography: 50+ Remarkable Bits of Life We Overlook Absolutely Stunning!!



That's about it.
See everyone back here in the next edition.