Ventrilo Main site for download.

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Google's attempt at a web browser.

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If fonts were people.

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A little flamewar fodder for you fanbois. El Reg reports on the near doubling of month-on-month PS3 sales. Enjoy!

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Computer parts

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This tuning guide will help you in making Vista "almost" like XP, but with a nicer UI and dx10 support!

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The story of Windows Vista is one fraught with tragedy (at least, as tragic as software can get). The operating system had a difficult birth, with Microsoft scrapping its work and starting over again about half-way through the development cycle, shedding many promised features in the process. Once out in the market, Vista had an even rougher childhood. Drivers weren't ready in time, users perceived Vista as nothing more than a more resource-hungry version of XP with a prettier user interface, and many reviewers gave it a thumbs down.

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Article on ZDnet that goes over the details of these two service packs that will be coming to a PC near you soon!

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Article over on Gamasutra about Intel's plans to get into the GPU Market. Maybe Intel should stick to CPU's?

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Ah, 360, why must you make the sons of desert deities weep?

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Reader Michael watched incredulously as a Staples tech tried to convince a senior citizen that his computer wouldn't work properly without repairs costing almost $400.The senior, who had been lulled into Staples for a free tune up that suddenly cost $39.99, didn't understand why he needed to spend money on a "diagnostic screening ($49.99), virus removal services ($150), and more RAM (~$150)." Michael intervened and offered to look at the computer free of charge. He couldn't believe what he found when he popped open the computer.

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Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone. A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year. "It picks up electrical activity from the brain and sends wireless signals to a computer," said Tan Le, president of US/Australian firm Emotiv. "It allows the user to manipulate a game or virtual environment naturally and intuitively," she added.

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Had the world remained the same, the GeForce 9600 GT would have competed with and done a good job of destroying the Radeon HD 3850. However, AMD didn’t remain still and quietly reduced the prices of its Radeon HD 3800 series GPUs in the channel. The GeForce 9600 GT no longer was a competitor of the Radeon HD 3850, but rather up against the 3870.

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Microsoft has published a list of programs that will not work or that will suffer from reduced functionality after the installation of Vista Service Pack 1. The list of programs consists mostly of security applications, such as Trend Micro Internet Security 2008. However, programs such as The New York Times Reader application also feature on the list. Users are advised to install updates from the application vendor to fix the problem.

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It's fair to say that nVidia's been ruling the roost over the past year or so when it comes to the high-end of the graphics card market. Only recently has ATI been able to offer up a solution that can compete at the bleeding edge of performance, and even then its method is one we weren't one hundred percent confident in. However, for those of us less willing to spend upwards of £200 just to play a few games, the market has been a lot more competitive.

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It's always interesting to see how rapidly a well-established situation in the world of 3D graphics cards can change. Take last year, for example. Despite the obvious success (with many differences, granted) of the new high-end architectures and cards launched by Nvidia and AMD, for months we complained about the absence of midrange or mainstream cards worthy of the name. This was especially due to the weakness of the Radeon HD 2600 and GeForce 8600, and the high price of the GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB.

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Our thirst for more gaming power is paying off in other areas.

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What's a reasonable amount of processing power to feed that shiny new graphics card you decided upon? The aim of this article is to help you out with this question. Specifically: what difference does a gigahertz make? In order to get a better handle on what kind of performance difference a processor can make, we decided to take one Core 2 Duo, and clock different speeds starting from 1.6 GHz, all the way to 3.0 GHz, to see what kind of affect this would have on frame rates in four recent games: Crysis, World In Conflict, Call of Jaurez, and Unreal Tournament 3. The results might be surprising.

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