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These are testing times: if you want to experience the latest advances on the Linux desktop, you have to be prepared to test things and accept that stability is a secondary feature. The continued development of KDE 4 is the perfect example. Many of its users have felt like guinea pigs over the last couple of years, while its developers have filled in the missing blanks on the path to a fully operational desktop. But for many of us, this is how we like it. Messing around with applications, tools and utilities from the cutting edge is the reason why many of us got into Linux in the first place

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Your Mac is in all probability one of your more prized possessions. Perhaps you even have more than one – a desktop and a portable, and an iPod touch or an iPhone to complete the line-up. What’s easy to forget though is that the kit itself is only part of the story.

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Oh, Cisco. What a tease you are!  The company’s been pumping up the general Internet crowd for a game-changing announcement, one that would–and I quote–”forever change the Internet.”  I was honestly hoping that said unveiled device would be like, a super-crazy consumer router that would… well. I’m not really sure what it would do. Gigabit speeds are more than sufficient for anyone’s home networking needs right now (when I’m looking for this column on a terabit connection in five years, I’ll have a hearty laugh.)  And it’s not like we have a new wireless draft on the way any time soon.

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BT Vision is the telecom giant’s on-demand TV service and, for better or worse, we on Techradar have been plugged into it since May 2007. At the heart of the system is the V-Box, a network enabled PVR capable of serving up content from BT’s online library or Freeview TV. History tells us early adopters are cursed and our early experiences with the fledgling system did indeed leave us cursing. The V-Box was highly crash-prone and the content offered by BT underwhelming. We weren’t put off and nor was BT

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Samsung, the famed Korean jack-of-all-technologies, is having another go at mastering the Android phone scene, after making a bit of a mess of it with last year’s original Galaxy. The i7500 Galaxy was a brave first attempt, but Samsung threw it away, alienating early adopters by not bothering to update the phone past its basic Android 1.5 operating system. Seriously, there are petitions all over the place. Some men are still very angry about it all

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Freescale is certainly having some fun with the tablet PC concept. Back at CES it showed off it’s i.MX51 reference design platform , a 7-inch touch screen tablet running Android. In a repeat performance at the Mobile World Congress it trotted out the i.MX51 once more, but this time sporting both Chromium OS and Linux ( Milos by ThunderSoft ).

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Do you make it a habit of falling asleep at night while watching Windows Media Center? Today we are going to take a look at the MC7 Sleep Timer for Windows 7 Media Center. This simple little plugin allows you to schedule an automatic shutdown time in Media Center. Note: At this point MC7 Sleep Timer doesn’t work with extenders.

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Do you prefer keeping your Taskbar hidden but still need to keep watch on what time it is? Now you can keep track of the time without the Taskbar using the Date Today extension for Google Chrome. A Look at Date Today with Different Themes This extension does one thing and does it well…it provides you with an “active icon” clock that will let you view the time and date in two fashions. The first is by hovering your mouse over the “Toolbar Clock Button”… And the second is by clicking on the “Toolbar Clock Button” to view an enlarged version. Here you can see the extension in use with five different themes to get an idea of how it might look with the theme that you are currently using.

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Nvidia has been pretty tight lipped when it comes to Fermi’s performance numbers, but as the March 26th launch date approaches, a few additional details are starting to leak out. This time it’s a video documenting some early benchmarks , giving us our first real peak at Fermi’s performance. Of course we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that the Heaven benchmark utility demonstrated in the video was administered solely by Nvidia themselves, and as such, the results should be taken with a grain of salt until we’ve had our own opportunity to put it through its paces. The demo shows the GTX 480 pushing out some pretty impressive frame rates, even besting the ATI 5870 results they claim to have run earlier, but it certainly doesn’t look like as big a margin as we were hoping for. The GTX 480 as you might recall is going to be the companies new high end offering, and although no pricing has yet been announced, rumors have put it somewhere in the $700 USD range

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Much like Google Wave, the first problem with Buzz is trying to neatly encapsulate just what it is. It’s a dash of Twitter, a bit of FriendFeed, a smidgen of Google Reader plus several other services – most notably Foursquare’s location check-in system for mobile devices. At its heart, though, the idea is for Gmail to be your social hub rather than just your mailbox, with friends’ status updates, videos, photos and more, all presented in one handy list. The service rolled out literally overnight, giving Buzz user numbers that other budding networks can only dream of

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