Our own Mystic OverClocker explains the important issues when understanding the Intel Pentium x86 CPU family. As usual, Mystic cuts through all the numbers and details to give you a clean and understandable overview.

2008 is bringing us hardware that was promised and yet we never expected in our lifetime. PC Game controllers using EEG or simply a helmet that receives brain waves that interface into the game. New cameras that allow phones to take pictures inside. Flexible displays that become more like a page of a book. Intel has new Penryn chips that do not use silicon and are only 75% of the old chips and solve the heat issue of compact processors. Self healing materials that fill in scratches on your dropped laptop or cellphone.

PC Infection? Ad's popping up rapidly on your homepage? Google is no longer your search engine? You might be infected!

The spirit of giving is in the air, and the time for shopping for those oh so important techy gifts is coming along with it! But what do people want or look for when shopping for someone? More inside!

With fancy buzz words going around, you start to wounder what Intel really means when they advertise Dual Core processors. Lets take a look into what it is and how well they really do.

Mozilla is expected to start distributng a complete version of Firefox 3.5 today, more than six months on from when it had originally planned. Firefox 3.1 moved into 3.5 earlier this year. Mozilla made the switch in part as an acknowledgment of long delays to the browser's release, all of which meant it had undergone a sufficient degree of development to allow for a new version number to be added. The number of new features packed into the imminent version of Internet Explorer’s closest rival meant it was necessary to reflect those changes in the name, reportedly said by Mozilla’s engineering VP, Mike Shaver back in April. Increases in sie due to TraceMonkey and Private Browsing and the sheer volume of of time to for upgrades like video, layout and plugin service has been suggested as the cause of the late release, Originally, Mozilla had set December of 2008 as the release date for Firefox 3.5. But the browser's development process was hit by several delays due to incredible bugs, mostly in the open source of the JavaScript engine, which pushed back the deadline several times.

I have been repeatedly asked, "Where is a install guide for Vista?" The truth is I considered it very simple and not necessary... but, I bow to my audience and here you go: Click here for the new guide. This is a guide for Vista Ultimate but the other flavors are very much the same.

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