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Review: Roccat Kave Solid 5.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset

Today we have another product from Innovative Gaming Peripheral company Roccat, which I would say is in a class of it’s own. The Roccat Kave isn’t just your ordinary 5.1 headset, and in this revie [ ... ]

Review: Logitech diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks

Logitech is always a popular choice when it comes to peripherals, be it a mouse, keyboard or anything else in their vast product line-up, the product is typically of a high quality. The diNovo Keyb [ ... ]

Review: Cooler Master SNA95 Universal Power Adapter

Cooler Master is quickly becoming the place to go for all of your computing needs, whether it’s cooling, housing, accessories, power for desktops, and now power for your mobile devices. Cooler Ma [ ... ]

Review: Mionix Keid 20 W Stereo Gaming Headset

If you’ve been visiting Geeksmack for a little while now, you may have seen a review by me of a gaming mouse from this company called the Naos 5000. That being a fantastic product, I had high hop [ ... ]

Review: Speedlink Fellow Stereo Gaming Headset

At Speedlink, there are many headsets to choose from, from wireless clip-on headsets to hardcore gaming headsets. Today we'll be looking at something in-between the two of those and focus on Speedlink [ ... ]

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Windows Live Wave 4 development roadmap unveiled
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Written by Paul Paliath   
on Sunday, March 21, 2010
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Francisco Martin Garcia, one of the guys over in Europe who has been in the loop regarding Windows Live Wave 4 has published a post to his space revealing the Windows Live Wave 4 development roadmap, with the dates that Microsoft intends on hitting for certain milestones or releases. Below is the roadmap, made a bit easier to read in English from the original post:

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Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 leaked
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Written by Eugene Cheung   
on Sunday, March 21, 2010
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Finally, a build of the Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 has been leaked! Unfortunately, Microsoft has limited the use of the applications to certain beta testers, so you can’t use all of the different applications. Thankfully, a patch has been created to allow users to use the new Windows Live Messenger (links are the end of the article).

Features including the different views in Messenger (soc..





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Last Updated on on Sunday, March 21, 2010
 
Windows Phone 7 Emulator unlocked, with a little hack
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Written by Iian Kehn   
on Friday, March 19, 2010
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It was only a matter of time before someone would unlock the Windows Phone 7 Series ROM image, giving you the capability to use the full OS, and one developer has done just that. Meet Dan Ardelean, the guy behind the unlock, supposedly he’s pulled the link from his site, but hundreds of people have mirrored the files across various file sharing sites like RapidShare, and MegaUpload.

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Last Updated on on Friday, March 19, 2010
 
Microsoft announces SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
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Written by Paul Paliath   
on Thursday, March 18, 2010
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Until now, Microsoft has remained pretty tight-lipped on Windows 7 SP1, and the only information we have thus far on it is the leaked info from an array of sources, primarily Russian enthusiast site WZOR. However, today, amongst a flurry of virtualization-related chatter, Microsoft said a little something about SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

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Windows XP Mode updated, no longer requires virtualization-capable hardware
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Written by Paul Paliath   
on Thursday, March 18, 2010
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On Thursday, Microsoft has announced that Windows XP Mode no longer requires hardware virtualization technology to run; this means that if you happen to have an older system with a CPU incapable of supporting virtualization, and this prevented you from making the switch to 7 as you or your business needed applications that would only work through XP Mode, you can now upgrade to 7 and take advant..





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Recap: What happened at MIX 2010
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Written by Iian Kehn   
on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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While we haven’t had the largest coverage because of the lack of staffers being able to attend the conference, we have been doing what we can to get some of the most important highlights of MIX here at GeekSmack, but at the time of this writing, MIX is over, and here’s what we saw this year.

Windows Phone 7 in detail

While we got a little look of Windows Phone 7 at Mobile World Congress in Febr..





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Last Updated on on Thursday, March 18, 2010
 
More Windows Live Wave 4 screenshots leak
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Written by Eugene Cheung   
on Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Portuguese site Livebetas has managed to get their hands on the Wave 4 beta of the Windows Live Essentials applications. Unfortunately, the have only released some screenshots of the apps instead of actually leaking the goods.

The build, 15.2.2585.0122, provides us with a peek to what it will all look at later on (the author suggests that the public beta will launch in May).

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Internet Explorer 9 Developer Preview now available
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Written by Iian Kehn   
on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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If you’re waiting to get your grubby hands on the newest build of Internet Explorer, now’s your chance. At MIX ‘10 Microsoft announced that IE9 will be available for developers to test and develop upon.

The new release, as highlighted before brings some welcomed additions to the IE Platform:

GPU Acceleration HTML5 Support CSS3 Support Dynamic Imaging (via HTML and SVG) SunSpi..




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Last Updated on on Tuesday, March 16, 2010
 
Windows Live login pages get mysterious facelift
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Written by Paul Paliath   
on Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Upon going to check my email as I usually do, when confronted by the WL login page, I noticed that it looked a little different. It appears that Microsoft are rolling out a new logon page for the Windows Live suite of services. This isn’t Wave 4 though, as, upon logging in, it’s still the same ol’ Wave 3 suite of services. This new logon design is not only on Hotmail, but als..





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Last Updated on on Thursday, March 11, 2010
 
Microsoft begins rolling out new MSN Homepage
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Written by Iian Kehn   
on Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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If you’re familiar with the new homepage that is available in beta, there really isn’t anything to report here. But for those that don’t know anything about the changes Microsoft’s making, now you do.

The Redmond company has begun rolling out the new MSN.com homepage, which features a more content-centric look and feel, with a more refined look and feel, much different from that of what you curr..





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Last Updated on on Tuesday, March 09, 2010
 


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