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TechwareLabs has published a review of the Gigabyte - ODIN GT 800W Power Supply. Here's a clip from the review: Quote: Dan adds even more bling to his POLICE rig with the addition of the Gigabyte ODIN GT 800w Power Supply. This 80 plus PSU comes with an optional speed, temperature, and wattage guage that looks like it would be right at home in the dashboard of a Ferrari or Mustang. See how far we were able to bury the needle on the ODIN GT in our review. LINK: http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/PowerSupply/Gigabyte-ODIN-800w/ Title: Gigabyte - ODIN GT 800W Power Supply ( -at -) TechwareLabs Image:http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/PowerSupply/Gigabyte-ODIN-800w/images/VISUALS_USB_GAUGE02_tn.jpg A news post would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, It's Kristofer from DragonSteelMods, and I have a new review today that I think your readers might find interesting. Title: Dopod / HTC FM Transmitter with handsfree functions review ( -at -) DragonSteelMods Review Link: http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8587&Itemid=1 Review Snipit: "Today on the review block I've got the Dopod / HTC FM Transmitter with handsfree functions from our friends over at USBFever and it not only enables me to play my mp3s that are stored on my phone through my car stereo, but it features a built in microphone that allows you to use it as a handsfree device... " Review Picture(200x150): http://www.dragonsteelmods.com/Images/reviews3/htcfm/fm11.jpg Main site link: http://www.dragonsteelmods.com A post in your news would be greatly appreciated. Any and all news sent to me will be posted! If you would like to be added to our 'News Feeds' page please feel free to send me your http link to the feed and I will gladly add it ASAP. If you'd like to swap links for affiliation, I'd be happy to, just drop me a message...

Macgamestore Releases Jewel Quest III - Published on 07/18/08 Macgamestore today announced the release of Jewel Quest III, the next installment in the extremely popular Jewel Quest series. The game is published by iWin. With powerful pearls that can alter the jewel boards, follow the clues and find the cure. Jewel Quest III features head-to-head competition, innovative match-3 game play, great graphics, music and more. Hutto, Texas - Macgamestore today announced the release of Jewel Quest III, the next installment in the extremely popular Jewel Quest series. The game is published by iWin. Rupert and Emma have finally settled down and opened a Museum to display their many newfound artifacts. While playing with a mysterious jewel board, their daughter Natalie unknowingly pops open a secret compartment. Suddenly, the air is filled with a cloud of spores, and Natalie's vision begins to fade. Desperate to save their daughter's sight, Rupert and Emma embark on a race across the globe in search of the fabled Golden Jewel Board, rumored to hold the antidote that will cure her, but does it even exist? Features: * Powerful pearls that can alter the jewel boards * Head-to-head competition * Follow the clues and find the cure * Innovative Match-3 Gameplay * Great graphics and music Pricing and Availability: Jewel Quest III for the Mac is available for $19.95 USD through Macgamestore. It requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. A free 60 minute trial demo version of the game is available for download from the Macgamestore website. Macgamestore: http://www.macgamestore.com Jewel Quest III: http://www.macgamestore.com/detail.php?ProductID=960 Direct Download Link: http://mgsdl.net/dls/o65w Purchase Link: http://www.macgamestore.com/detail.php?ProductID=960 Screenshot: http://www.macgamestore.com/images_screenshots/product_960_4702_482537371.jpg Launched in 2005, Macgamestore is the most popular Mac gaming store on the Internet with over 600 Mac games available for purchase. Macgamestore is also the leader in digital download games and the number one web site for casual Macintosh games. ### Tuncer Deniz Owner 512-853-9067 tuncer ( -at -) insidemacgames.com *******

Hi Editors, Tech-Reviews.co.uk has just posted a news review online. A link or inclusion of the review in a news post would be much appreciated. Title: Nexus LXM-8200 CPU Cooler ( -at -) Tech-Reviews.co.uk Briefing: CPU Coolers nowadays are becoming more and more silent. However, what normally comes with silence is a drop in performance. This has made enthusiasts try to find their own, personal, perfect balance- either for silence or performance. At Tech-Reviews today, we have a Nexus LXM-8200 for review, a cooler boasting noise levels of 17dBA. Is it the perfect balance? Link: http://tech-reviews.co.uk/reviews/nexus-lxm-8200/ Image SRC: http://tech-reviews.co.uk/images/thumbs/lxm8200.jpg Please continue to send us news at the provided address:

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your site's news section would be greatly appreciated. Title: Aten CS1782 KVM DVI Switch ( -at -) Phoronix Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12625 Summary: "Aten, have you ever heard of them? If you haven't, it's not because they are a newcomer to the market place, as they actually have been around for nearly 30 years, but they focus all of their efforts on manufacturing KVM switch solutions. These KVM switches just aren't limited to simple multi-port analog switching, but they have a variety of enterprise-grade switches, IP-based switching, embedded solutions, HDMI switches, and many other products. One of Aten's newest products is the CS1782 DVI KVM Switch, which is designed for homes and small offices and has support for not only handling two systems with keyboard, mouse, and DVI monitor switching, but it goes beyond that to offer surround-sound audio and USB switching as well. In this review we are looking at the Aten CS1782 KVM DVI Switch." Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments you may

Hello, - Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty Announced and E3 2008 Trailer/Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55586.html - Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic Announced and E3 2008 Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55582.html - PixelJunk Eden E3 2008 Gameplay Trailer and Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55584.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hello, - PAIN: AMUSEMENT PARK E3 2008 Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55580.html - Patapon 2 E3 2008 Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55578.html - NBA 09 The Inside Announced E3 2008 Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55576.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hello, - Motorstorm Pacific Rift E3 2008 Gameplay Trailer and Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55574.html - LocoRoco 2 E3 2008 Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55572.html - LittleBigPlanet E3 2008 Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55570.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Hello, - Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 E3 2008 Trailers and Screens http://www.gamershell.com/news_55568.html - Dragon Age: Origins E3 2008 Gameplay Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_55566.html - Rock Band 2 Gameplay Trailer http://www.gamershell.com/news_55564.html Best Regards, GamersHell.com Staff =============================================================================

Today we look at the Asus M3N78 PRO. SNIP: A few months ago, NVIDIA announced that any future chipset from the company would come with an integrated graphic chip built-in. This may come as a surprise to many enthusiasts, as many of us will never purchase a motherboard with integrated graphics since we are always going to need something stronger. However, in this increasingly environmentally-conscious world, going green is the talk of the town, and NVIDIA has taken this on by incorporating mGPU to their chipset. Confused? Read on. The rationale behind NVIDIA’s decision is that while we need a super powerful graphics card in games, the computer system is actually not going to need all that graphical power while it is running desktop applications. In many cases, enthusiasts are using computers for web browsing, working, and running non-graphically intensive applications. It would be wasteful to have a powerful 3D graphics card sitting idle during these applications, wasting precious electrical power. Thus, by incorporating mGPU and combining it with NVIDIA’s “Hybrid power”, the computer is able to reduce the power usage (and energy bill) by switching off the discrete graphics card and using only the integrated graphics for low-demand applications. When the demand for graphic power increases, the dedicated graphic card will then kick in. http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1305 A post on your site would be great if you can. Thank you, Scott -----------------------------------------

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Alienware Area-51 m15x gaming notebook review ( -at -) TechSpot http://www.techspot.com/review/106-alienware-area51-m15x-notebook/ For years Alienware has been producing machines that cater to gamers and enthusiasts desires, coupling some of the industry's most radical designs with top of the line PC hardware. So when Alienware introduced the Area-51 m15x we were obviously keen to check it out. Our review sample came configured with the new Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 "Penryn XE" mobile processor and a GeForce 8800M GTX (512MB) graphics card. In short, this is the combination of the fastest possible mobile CPU and the fastest mobile GPU out there. Of course, this won't come cheap as the retail value of our review sample was $4770.

Hello fellow editors! Tech ARP ( http://www.techarp.com/ <http://www.techarp.com/>'>http://www.techarp.com/> ) has just updated the Hard Disk Drive Performance Comparison Guide with two additional hard drives. Quote - "Ever wanted a guide on hard drive performance, where you can compare the performance of a wide range of hard drives? Well, we are not quite there yet, but that is our ultimate objective. In this performance comparison guide, we will test and compare the performance of all the hard drives we can get our hands on. This is similar to what we are doing in the Intel Core 2 Processor Performance Comparison Guide." Direct URL - http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=511 Logo URL - http://www.techarp.com/article/HDD_Perf_Comparison/icon_big.png We would appreciate your help in getting the word out. Rest assured that we will reciprocate and post your news with all due haste. If you have any news, please feel free to send it to our news mailbox at news ( -at -) techarp.com. Thanks! Tech ARP http://www.techarp.com/ <http://www.techarp.com/>

Hello fellow editors! Tech ARP ( http://www.techarp.com/ <http://www.techarp.com/>'>http://www.techarp.com/> ) has just updated the Hard Disk Drive Performance Comparison Guide with two additional hard drives. Quote - "Ever wanted a guide on hard drive performance, where you can compare the performance of a wide range of hard drives? Well, we are not quite there yet, but that is our ultimate objective. In this performance comparison guide, we will test and compare the performance of all the hard drives we can get our hands on. This is similar to what we are doing in the Intel Core 2 Processor Performance Comparison Guide." Direct URL - http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=511 Logo URL - http://www.techarp.com/article/HDD_Perf_Comparison/icon_big.png We would appreciate your help in getting the word out. Rest assured that we will reciprocate and post your news with all due haste. If you have any news, please feel free to send it to our news mailbox at news ( -at -) techarp.com. Thanks! Tech ARP http://www.techarp.com/ <http://www.techarp.com/>

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Hello Again, Futurelooks checks out the bite of the Western Digital Velociraptor... Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS Hard Drive Review Hard drives remain the last great bottleneck in performance computing. Processors and RAM constantly get faster and more complex, due to being solid state electronics. Since hard drives consist of moving parts, they have been left behind in this race. Sure solid state drives have become available in the past year, but they are extremely cost prohibitive. So over the years companies have had to find creative ways of squeezing more and more performance out of the 50 year old hard drive. Western Digital is one of those companies. Direct Link: http://www.futurelooks.com/western-digital-velociraptor-wd3000glfs-hard-drive-review/ A post to your news would be most appreciated! Regards, -The Futurelooks Team- www.futurelooks.com

Hello Webmasters and News Posters, NEW CONTENT (Digital Lounge) - Jumper HD Movie Review QUOTE: "Jumper is the film adaptation of the 1992 book of the same name, which I admit, I hadn’t actually heard of until the film showed up. David Rice (Hayden Christensen) is a ‘jumper’; that is, a special type of human whom has the ability to jump anywhere in the world, simply by thinking where they want to go. Of course, such abilities do not go unnoticed; a religious organization of sorts called the Paladins has been established, with the sole intention of killing jumpers. Jumper is presented in the widescreen scope aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The movie was partially filmed with traditional 35mm cameras and with 2k resolution Red One digital cameras; yet you wouldn’t know the difference." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1509/jumper_hd_movie_review/index.html Best Regards, The TweakTown Team http://www.tweaktown.com

Hello! I have a review to post. GlacialPower GP-AL650A 650 Watt Power Supply Review Link: http://www.techaddicts.net/reviews/gpal650a/gpal650a.html "Overall, the GlacialPower GP-AL650A 650 Watt offers a great value and good performance. The intelligent fan controller keeps this power supply silent when doing non system intensive tasks and fairly quiet when under load, which was the main feature that impressed me. I would like to see more PSU manufacturers using this temperature controlled feature. This power supply would be great for anyone wanting a quiet computer or building a HTPC." Thanks! Daniel

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2008:0599-01 Critical: seamonkey security update Files available: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.18.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin _______________________________________________

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2008:0546-01 Moderate: php security update Files available: php-4.1.2-2.20.i386.rpm php-devel-4.1.2-2.20.i386.rpm php-imap-4.1.2-2.20.i386.rpm php-ldap-4.1.2-2.20.i386.rpm php-manual-4.1.2-2.20.i386.rpm php-mysql-4.1.2-2.20.i386.rpm php-odbc-4.1.2-2.20.i386.rpm php-pgsql-4.1.2-2.20.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin _______________________________________________

A news post would be great. OCC has published a new review on the Visiontek HD 4870 Here is a quote from the review: Quote: "For the Visiontek HD 4870 I was only able to get a limited overclock on the GPU of 30MHz before it became unstable. This seems to be a pattern with the HD 4870 cards as I achieved the same GPU overclock on the PowerColor HD 4870 I reviewed earlier. On the memory I was able to push out 180MHz for a total speed of 1080MHz, or 4320MHz effective (1080MHz x 4). While this is not a high overclock, this was near the limit of what the Overdrive will allow the GPU to max out at. So the final overclock speeds which the benchmarks will be run at are 780MHz on the GPU and 1080MHz on the memory." Title: Visiontek HD 4870 Review Link: http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/visiontek4870/ Img: http://www.overclockersclub.com/siteimages/articles/visiontek4870/9_thumb.jpg

Apple Charging for Software Updates? Nooooooo! ( -at -) OSWeekly.com "As a rule, I am generally leery about various user created "tweaking utilities" available for any OS, much less Linux. Not because I am afraid to trip something up that I do not fully understand, rather fully understanding what I am doing but lacking the confidence in the application itself to do what I could do from a command line or configuration file instead." Link: http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2805&Itemid=449 ----- OSWeekly.com Editor www.OSWeekly.com

Apple’s Remote Disc Threatens Windows Users ( -at -) OSWeekly.com "When I purchased my first laptop several years ago, I thought I’d be using the optical drive all of the time. Back then, we did use physical media for a lot of things, and we still do today. Installing software from a CD or DVD, watching DVD movies, and burning discs were all tasks that were high on my priority list, or so I thought. Come to find out, I hardly ever used the optical drive, and these days, I use the optical drive in my PowerBook even less than I did before, which is really saying something." Link: http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2803&Itemid=449 ----- OSWeekly.com Editor www.OSWeekly.com

Apple Mac Mini Revolutionizes Your Living Room ( -at -) OSWeekly.com "When you look at it as a whole, Apple’s track record appears to be fairly remarkable. They’ve had some incredible success with products like the iPod and the iPhone, and there are plenty of other Apple products to be excited about in addition to them. While this positive success is nice to see, it doesn’t mean that Apple hasn’t had its share of flops. Remember how things turned out for the Newton? Yeah, I thought so. When you look at products that are a little more current, one in particular stands out more than the others as not succeeding like Apple thought it would. What is it? Let’s all say it together: Apple TV." Link: http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2802&Itemid=449 ----- OSWeekly.com Editor www.OSWeekly.com

10 Must-Have Linux Applications ( -at -) OSWeekly.com "I have been using Linux in one capacity or another since I first downloaded a Red Hat ISO a number of years ago. What finally allowed me to go full-time with my chosen distro was not so much the progression of hardware detection and self-mounting partitions but the applications. Today, I would like to share some of my personal favorites with you." Link: http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2806&Itemid=449 ----- OSWeekly.com Editor www.OSWeekly.com