Quote: Imagine having your own personal stenographer to transcribe our recorded words into printed text. With todays review item you need hire your own personal secretary as the Mac OS X based MacSpeech Scribe does the job for you. For those such as myself who detests typing, this program sounds like a godsend.

In years past, a Ninja would give a party attendee a sticker or a paper invite that would get them in to the party. Last year the Ninjas to ok the party invite to the next level when they created their own custom badge for their party attendees. This year, badge designers Amanda Woznia k and Brandon Creighton decided to take the badge to the next level, and then some. What started as a sketch on a napkin ended up as an amazing ha cker gaming and development platform.

DEF CON 18, the barely legal edition is in full swing and promises to be busier and crazier than ever. The event is cash only at the door w ith no reservations making the event very inviting to individuals that en joy privacy and not having their credit card hijacked. Be sure to check b ack with us for updates all weekend long. included in our coverage are ph otos of the now World Famous and highly sought after BlackHat Badge.

*Cooler Masters beastly new HAF X full tower gets built out by the Caveman with an i7, two ATI Radeon HD 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6 cards and a dremel. Check out our review of the newest Cooler Master High Air Flow full tower, complete with pics! *

Since 1999, we have been developing the BIOS Optimization Guide, affectionately known as the BOG. From a meagre beginning of a single page, it now covers over 440 BIOS options. As old BOG readers will know, we started offering two editions of the BOG since Revision 8.0 - a simplified edition and the complete edition.

Quote: The SilverStone SST-HDDBOOST is a very simple device once you read just th e first couple pages of the manual, being practically PnP in a set it and f orget it type of manner. The HDDBOOST gives any hard drive the boot times o f an SSD without sacrificing hard drive capacity, write wear on the SSD or the complications of having to change file paths when you would run program s off a secondary hard drive. One of the best features of the SST-HDDBOOST is that you are not limited to any SSD...

*Quote:* As a general rule of thumb wireless gaming mice are far inferior to their wired rodent cousins simply due to sods law which makes it run out batteries just as youre going for that important kill. Roccat are well versed in the wired sector of the market with designs such as the Kone and Kova warranting significant praise from reviewers and consumers alike. With the Pyra, Roccat has decided to throw its hat into the mobile gaming market ring but can the PC peripheral manufacturer succeed where numerous others have failed? Lets get started.

QUOTE: You can walk out of Walmart with a bag of cat litter, a bottle of ketchup, and a serviceable dual-core notebook with ample hard drive space and still have only spent around $600. This has made hulking towers, and even mid-to wer PCs, a less attractive option to the mainstream shopper who just wants to hop online and fire off a few Facebook updates, but this isnt without i ts drawbacks, namely heat and ergonomics.

Solid state drives not only offer an enormous reliability advantag e over traditional hard disk drives, they offer great performance increas es as well. Most people operate under the assumption it takes great money to get great performance. The Agility 2 claims to be the exception. Let s see if the Agility 2 has the moves to keep up with its boasts.

While a rather strange looking PC, the eMachines ER1402-05 desktop computer has a compact design that makes it great for home entertainment by connecting with your TV/stereo system or as a desktop computer in a compact space. Some of the feature include HDMI out, built-in 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 2GB of RAM, and a wireless keyboard & mouse.

While a rather strange looking PC, the eMachines ER1402-05 desktop computer has a compact design that makes it great for home entertainment by connecting with your TV/stereo system or as a desktop computer in a compact space. Some of the feature include HDMI out, built-in 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 2GB of RAM, and a wireless keyboard & mouse.

Today we look at CoolIT=E2=80s new high end cooler, the Vantage A.L.C. In this review we will di scover how it compares to the H50 in terms of performance and also look at it in detail to find ou t what features it has which could take processor cooling to a new level.

Dutch Company A.C. Ryan are a well known organisation who have been supplying after market parts and modding supplies to the community for many years. Today we are taking a look at several of their units, the Playon! HD Media Player with a 1TB Hard drive, and the =91Mini version which is sold without a drive

Dutch Company A.C. Ryan are a well known organisation who have been supplying after market parts and modding supplies to the community for many years. Today we are taking a look at several of their units, the Playon! HD Media Player with a 1TB Hard drive, and the =91Mini version which is sold without a drive

SNIP: MSI has introduced into the world the GTX-465 Twin Frozr II and it is most definitely a very appealing card. They really pulled all the stops out with this one as they made sure to have it appeal to a wide range of audiences while not sacrificing performance in the least bit. MSI created a card that is not only a very powerful card but it runs cool and is extremely easy to overclock using MSI Afterburner. Enough with the introduction for this card lets get down to business and check out what really matters.

Article Snippet: Patriots Bolt series of flash drives prove that file security doesnt have to come at a premium price. $25 for the 8GB model is easy on the wallet, and it performs just as well as any other flash drive out there and has a sleek look to boot. The AES 256-bit hardware encryption will keep your files safe in the event the drive gets lost or stolen, and the built-in software is straightforward and works great right out of the box.

OCZ Technology has once again brought cutting-edge high-speed SSDs into the value storage segment with their Agility 2 series. Based on the SandForce SF1200 controller, the OCZ Agility 2 SSD delivers up to 20,000 IOPS with incredible bandwidth speed. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the 120GB OCZ Agility 2 Extended OCZSSD2-2AGTE120G against some of the fastest storage solutions on the market. Just when PCs were starting to seem irrelevant in this fast-paced world of mobile gadgets and smart phones, along comes a new product that changes the entire landscape. SSDs, or more formally Solid State Drives, have finally lifted computers beyond the age of spinning metal magnetic platters. Delivering a boost in speed that no memory upgrade or new processor could ever dream of, solid state drive technology has sent hard disk drives packing.

CoolIT has become well-known for their thermoelectric (TEC) cooling solutions such as the Freezone and Freezone Elite, and appears to be heading into the more mainstream market of water cooling with the release of recent products. As such, the ECO C240 A.L.C. is strictly a water cooling-only product, there is no TEC technology at work here. This means the system should be simpler and more cost-effective to produce, allowing novices enter the world of water cooling very easily and affordably.

Quote: This Kingston HyperX blu memory turned out to be a little bit surprising for an entry-level offering. You can easily keep it at the JEDEC standard of 1333 MHz and tighten the timings to 6-7-6-20 @ 1.5v for a very efficient and lower voltage set of memory, or set it by the XMP profile to run at the rated 1600 MHz speed and timings. You could also tighten the timings at its rated speed, to 7-8-7-27, for an even more efficient stock speed setting.

*Quote:* *Kingston is one of the largest and best known memory manufacturers in the world but their production facilities are usually hidden from prying eyes. In this article, we take you deep within Kingsons factory in Taiwan in order to see the birth of the products we all buy.* *Image URL:* http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/mac/articles/kingstonfactorytour/2/6.jpg We would appreciate it if you would post this in your News section.

Excerpt: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula is undoubtedly an original and interesting product. Its features, like GameFirst and ROG Connect, are actually useful and may come in handy. The bundle includes everything you need, and then a bit more.

Today we look at a number of boards designed for those who must have the best products available, a t any price. However we also like a little bit of balance in our lives so we have selected a few b oards which focus on other aspects such as value. Join us as we take a look at what the latest dev elopments on the X58 market are in a selection of tests including video encoding, SATA3/USB3 perf ormance and overclocking we will discover which boards offer the best for each consumer.

Why is USB 3.0 a big deal? Well to some it might not be... yet. It is rather new, so not many machines out there have it. If your machine doesnt have it, providing you have the room in your case, you can get an adapter card. USB 2.0 has a peak speed of 480MB/sec while USB 3.0 has a peak speed of 5Gb/sec. Those numbers speak for themselves. In this case Vantec revised their SATA to USB 2.0 adapter that connects to the back of a drive.

A major area of concern for any software vendor is maintaining a p latform that is secure and safe from vulnerabilities. Time spent analyzin g patch code and implementing updates is frustrating. Jeongwook Oh presen ts his latest attempt to reduce the workload with his tool DarunGrim v3.

Summary: The new technologies have definitely contributed to producing a very quiet PSU that any user appreciative of peace and quiet would want in his/her enclosure.

internal or external? While adding an internal drive negates the need for an enclosure, sometimes this is not an option. If you have a laptop or a small form-factor desktop you probably simply dont have the internal space for another drive. This only leaves you with the option of adding an external drive. Today were looking at the Macally G-S350SUAB hard drive enclosure. Styled after the Mac Pro, this device certainly looks sharp, but how does it perform?

*With the growing trend of governments cracking down on people using their phone while driving, its never been more advisable to pick up a bluetooth headset of some sort. Today were looking at a device with not only hands free functionality, but also music streaming and external storage connections. Lets see how it does.

Quote: Overall I am thoroughly impressed with the MSI 890FXA-GD70 motherboard . Why you may ask. It does exactly what it is supposed to do with out compl aining. Sure the performance was slightly behind that of the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, but it isnt the kind of performance difference you will notic e on a day to day basis. What you may notice on a day to day basis, is the price difference. At the time of this writing the MSI 890FXA-GD70 is $179.9 9 after rebate. That puts the MSI 890FXA-GD70 thirty bucks below the ASUS C rosshair IV Formula. Thats an extra thirty bucks you can invest into a bet ter graphics card or processor...

Slow secondary storage has been the biggest persistent gripe about PC gaming for quite a while now. While CPUs, RAM, graphics cards and sys tem busses have all been improving at a steady rate hard drives have sta yed more or less stagnant for the past decade. Enter the solid state driv e. At its most basic level, a SSD has the same basic structure as a USB f lash drive: a bunch of NAND flash memory chips, a controller to tie them together, and an interface that talks to the outside world. Where a SSD p ulls ahead is, naturally enough, in the performance of those three compon ents. Today well be looking at the RealSSD C300 256GB SSD from Crucial. Taking advantage of the still-uncommon SATA 6.0 GBps interface, this driv e promises to deliver blisteringly fast performance.