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The SanDisk Clip Zip and Rock Box Firmware

I don’t know what the market is like for dedicated MP3 players, but I’m still a fan of them. Where everyone else wants to collapse the several needs in their lives into one device, music playback is still one that

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PC’s in the Living Room: Where Are We Today?

Seven years ago, I put together a noob-tastic piece detailing how one could get solid PC gaming performance for the price of a Playstation 2. I employed a set of rules designed to isolate the comparison to just gaming performance,

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[VIDEO] Windows 8 Won’t Obliterate Steam Or Eat Your Face

Gabe Newell called Windows 8 a “catastrophe”, and with what look to be two OS’es slapped into one and the fear of a walled-garden approach mounting, it seemed like he was right. But perhaps this comment also set off some

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Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant – Will all of your games survive?

Remember when upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 or XP was a daunting task, requiring you to run through a gigantic online list of what applications–and of course, more importantly, games–would and would not work with the new OS?

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Android Jelly Bean: Usable on the Droid Bionic

Last week, I wrote about how my summer ROM flashing adventures breathed new life into my Droid Bionic, a phone that has gotten a “raw deal”–as admitted, word for word, by Motorola Mobility’s VP for product management, Punit Soni. As I

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Motorola Lapdock (for Droid BIONIC)

One of the features touted for Motorola Android phones that were released between Fall 2011 and mid-2012–the Droid Bionic and the Droid Razr iterations–was Webtop, software which allowed for the phone to run in a barebones “Desktop” mode when connected

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My DROID Bionic: A New Lease on Life

The technology upgrade circus is an expensive assault on the mind that exploits one’s hunger for more, one’s mentality that even though–as wise sage Louis CK says–things are actually pretty awesome in reality, nothing seems good enough for us. We

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