The 10 Best Ways to &*$% Up Your Computer
We often detail how to recover from disaster, but equally important is how to avoid potentially catastrophic scenarios in the first place. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, or in the PC world, hours of frustration. On the flip side, maybe you have a masochistic desire to destroy your system. What…
Master the Essentials: 29 Crucial PC Skills
Do you consider yourself a power user? It’s a tough question. After all, where do you draw the line? Hardware hacking? Command-line skills? Unix? These 29 essential PC skills define the core competency of any power user. As we sat down to answer this question, the possibilities seemed endless, making our task feel more daunting.…
AMD Announces 8-Core Bulldozer CPU
You can’t say that AMD is ever boring. The company says its next-generation Bulldozer CPU core will take a unique approach to computing that goes beyond Hyper-Threading, which some believe could offer phenomenal performance. Bulldozer makes a fairly big break from how today’s multicores are constructed. Today’s dual-, quad-, and hexa-cores are based on single-cores…