AMD has launched it’s first new graphics card for 2013, the Radeon HD 7790. The Radeon HD 7790 is a $149 USD midrange graphics card that is meant to fill the pricing void between the Radeon HD 7770 and the Radeon HD 7850. Although the HD 7790 is branded as
A word of warning for those that flash custom ROMs often on their Android smartphones and use Titanium Backup to backup and restore app & system data after a clean data wipe: only restore applications and application data, DO NOT RESTORE SYSTEM DATA. If you restore system data (even when
For those that are interested in attending the next Twin Cities Code Camp 14, registration for the event is now live! TCCC 14 is scheduled to take place on April 27, 2013. You can register for the event here: Eventbrite – Twin Cities Code Camp 14 Like previous Twin
Tom’s Hardware was able to get a sneak performance preview of Intel’s upcoming Haswell-based processor, the Core i7-4770K. Haswell uses the 22nm process and is the successor to Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge microarchitecture that powers Intel’s current generation processors. Staying true to Intel’s Tick-Tock strategy, Haswell is a “tock,”
With the major server and gameplay problems that were encountered during the launch week of SimCity, many disgruntled SimCity owners vented their wrath online and directly to EA. There were many angry requests for EA to offer full refunds for SimCity, but EA ultimately refused to offer refunds, angering SimCity
The new Samsung Galaxy S4 phone is here! …well, almost. Samsung officially unveiled the Galaxy S4 today over at New York City’s Radio Hall. Aside from boasting greatly improved hardware over the S3 (i.e. Snapdragon quad core processor, 5″ AMOLED display, 13 megapixel camera) and newer features (floating touch, smart pause),
Y-Corner has a new look! In keeping with current web trends, Y-Corner is now web responsive, and is now mobile browser friendly. Y-Corner is using a modified theme from Elegant Themes, a web design company that puts out excellent WordPress-based themes and plugins. As I always appreciate suggestions, let me
Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 phone launches today, but not without some humorous trolling from LG over in NYC’s Times Square. Brilliant, LG. Source: CNet – LG spoofs Galaxy S4 ad with Times Square billboard
After nearly three years after the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, the second chapter of StarCraft II, Heart of the Swarm, is finally here! While the single-player campaign of Wings of Liberty focused on Jim Raynor and the Terrans, the campaign for Heart of the Swarm is all
A checklist for a terrible game launch experience: • Disallow pre-loading of game files before release. <CHECK!> • Game unlock codes can’t be validated even after the game has been released. <CHECK!> • Delay unlocking game downloads well after the game has been released. <CHECK!> • Unreasonably long connection times.
The infamous AOKP team has released their latest Jellybean 4.2.2 ROM build for Android phones, JB-MR1 Build 5! Build 5 adds the following new features: Traditional toggles instead of Tiles (optional) New Navigation Ring configuration menu S Pen support for Note IIs Quiet Hours toggle Build 5 also introduces official support
Recently, I was able to acquire a second Crucial M4 512 GB SSD for a great price. As I already had a Crucial M4 512 GB SSD running in my main PC at home, I decided that it would be a good opportunity to see exactly how fast two Crucial
I’m back! Hope everyone had a great holiday season! I apologize for the hiatus, it’s been a crazy past few months, with a lot of time committed to both work and personal life. With things finally settling down, I plan on posting my thoughts about tech related subjects more frequently.
Hope everyone in the U.S. had an excellent Thanksgiving holiday weekend! While most of us here in the U.S. had several days off, it appears that some hackers in Russia had a field day with the Y-Corner forums, as the forums were compromised by spam bots. The spam botters took
I recently acquired a 7″ Galaxy Tab Plus 16 GB, to replace my slow, aging Nook Color, as I wanted a faster eReader/tablet device that can multitask better, as well as being able to handle Jelly Bean without major issues. I also decided to acquire a Team 64 GB Micro
Recently inspired from this past weekend’s Twin Cities Code Camp 13 event, I will be making several adjustments to this blog site over the course of this season to implement several of the web development concepts that I picked up from Josh Broton‘s two sessions ( & ). The result
I went to the Twin Cities Code Camp #13 event today. As usual, the lectures offered by the speakers at the code camp were excellent and very informative. Unlike the previous TCCC events, TCCC #13 is only a one day event, rather than two days. Much of the topics covered
Recently, I had to perform some repair work on a Windows Server 2003-based domain network, managing around 25 Windows 7 and 3 Vista computers. The client reported that they were having some intermittent issues with the domain, as they were having troubles with mapped network drives being inaccessible and that
Today is the second day of the Twin Cities Code Camp #12 event! The first day of the event was excellent, as there were a lot of great software development topics covered, ranging covering topics such as .NET Framework, WinRT, mobile/web development, as well as programming strategies. To get a
It’s that time of the year again, it’s the Twin Cities Code Camp (TCCC) event! A beautiful, sunny Saturday morning here in Minneapolis, perfect for getting the event started. Well, almost anyway. There was a Gopher charity run going on, so most of the university road entrances were blocked off.