November 12, 2007

DX10 Fails AGAIN! Lord of the Rings Online Pretty, But Slow as a Dog.

Turbine's DirectX 10 client for The Lord of the Rings Online is upon us. Though company admits that its DirectX 10 offers "minor visual upgrades," we seek to find what kind of performance penalty comes with the new DX10 code. All is not well in the land of Middle-Earth…with DX10.

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The 5 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Comic Strips

Sometimes a form of entertainment can become so bad that it transcends badness and becomes something new and wonderful. The world of newspaper comic strips is a gold mine for this, where strips that were built on a shaky premise to begin with run for decades after the writers and artists have long gone insane.

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Is Microsoft Building a Flickr Competitor?

You gotta love job postings. Depending on the description provided, you can often times determine some underlying plans for a company. And the only companies we care about in this regard would be the ones big enough to lend some interesting job postings and descriptions. In this case, WebProNews was tipped off to a posting from Microsoft, and …

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Complete Guide to Zune 2's Software and Firmware

Zune 2 and its batch of new features are finally upon us, bringing new players and an entirely new experience. Read on to find out how Microsoft has managed to change a lot on the one hand, and very little on the other—then see how the Zune stacks up against iTunes and iPod.

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Quitting the Day Job: Finding the Guts to Pursue Your Dream by Pro Blogging

For those of us who dream of being able to support ourselves by simply blogging each day. This story tells it's possible, but not overnight.

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Windows 7 "top feature request list" leaked to the public

An internal list of the most popular requests for improving Windows has been leaked, giving a glimpse of what users want in the next version of Windows. Strangely, 'make Firefox the default browser' is not one of them.

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Top 10 P2P File Sharing Softwares

List of file sharing softwares

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Another Look at Wishlistr

One of the first reviews on Cn was Wishlistr. Wishlistr is a tool out of Sweden that helps you create wishlists (duh). Since we are fast approaching the holiday time, I thought it might be good to see what's new. Check out our initial review as well.

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Can WiMax make it in the U.S.?

Sprint Nextel and Clearwire have called off their partnership to build a nationwide WiMax network, but the break could spell trouble for the technology.

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The Absolutely Scariest Colors Imaginable

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, phobias and irrational fears affect approximately 10% of adults. Some of those phobias relate to colors being the most terrifying thing imaginable… for those poor people, this color loving website would probably be hell-incarnate.

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