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60GB Xbox 360 Pro Rumored

The long-awaited upgrade from a 20GB to 60GB hard drive for the Xbox 360 Pro could be announced at the company’s E3 keynote next month says TrustedReviews. A source says there’s a release scheduled for August before the 10th. If you’ve got a 20GB hard drive on your 360 and your kicking yourself for not holding out for the 60GB, ...

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Dual-boot Linux On Your PS3

Popular Mechanics has a must-read guide up for PS3 owners alike. If you’ve been interested in putting Linux on your Playstation 3 and need a little help getting things done, then this guide was made for you. You’ll end up replacing the hard drive and gaining the ability to dual-boot between Linux and the PS3 OS, allowing for open-source computing ...

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Toshiba Satellite T31 Offers Both XP and Vista

In an announcement made to calm anxious business men and XP fans alike, Toshiba has announced that they will be shipping their Satellite T31 notebook with both XP and Vista included in the box. While most of you will only install one of these OS’s, we assume that installing both on partitions is possible. The T31 will ship in two ...

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Amazing Turntable Desktop PC Mod

Just insane. That is a perfect description of this gorgeous PC case mod. This project totally integrates a working PC into a turntable. The LCD screen displays the current time, song playing, or weather. The volume knob now controls the system volume and the power button still retains its functionality. The hardware used in this mod is pretty impressive too. ...

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Bid On The Ultimate Halo 3 Package: Unless You’re Poor

To commemorate the release of Halo 3, and to support the Boys and Girls Club, the folks at Microsoft are holding a special auction where Halo fanatics everywhere can bid on what is being dubbed as the “ultimate Halo 3 package.” What’s so ultimate about it you ask? Check out the list of contents after the jump.

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1GB: Then and Now

If you look at this image, you might think you’re looking at some cool PC mod or something. You’d be dead wrong. The item on the left is an old 1GB IBM hard drive. Pictured on the right side of the image is of course a modern 1GB flash drive card. Oh, how the times are a-changin’. — Andrew Dobrow ...

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F.R.E.D Computer: The RIAA Would Love It

If you are wondering, F.R.E.D is short for Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device – and he can strip you of your privacy faster than you can say “the RIAA sucks balls.” Basically, F.R.E.D takes hard drives, disks, flash drives, etc. from computers of suspected criminals and it sucks the data off – storing the evidence on a whopping 2.0 TB ...

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Finding Porn On Your Boyfriend’s Computer: One Woman’s Tale

Sweet, sweet, porn. What geek doesn’t have a hard drive full of it? Unfortunately, we often forget to think about the horrible toll 100GB of porn with midgets and goats can have on our loved ones. Take the case of a woman writing for Divine Caroline who stumbled upon her boyfriend’s cache of pornography bookmarks whilst searching for Christmas presents ...

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iTop: The DIY iPod Laptop

This is what happens when one very ingenious man with a voided warranty and a broken iPod screen has some extra time on his hands. The iTop is an iPod which has been transformed into a very mini-laptop. The iTop can run a full OS with all of the UI capabilities as a normal laptop. The hard drive sticks out ...

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