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Macs are computers too! 2008-06-28 17:20:00 The fastest computer you can buy, period.With 8 cores, this is the fastest mac yet. And if your not building, this is the fastest computer on the market.Even though the price starts at $2,799.00, if you had $20,000 laying in the bank, you could get this machine with two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32gb of ram, a Mac pro RAID card,FOUR 300gb 15,000-rpm SAS Drives ,a NIVDIA Quadro FX 560 1.5gb vide Read more:computers
Howto: Wine with Linux 2008-06-26 23:21:00 How To: Run Your Windows Applications in Linux
. So you want to run your Windows applications on Ubuntu but don't know where to start? This guide explains step-by-step instructions on how to do it in a really simple way. Just follow step-by step. Although there are numerous programs that can do this job – the most common way to do it is to use Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator), and that is what
The dream PC. 2008-05-26 20:33:00 So now we're gonna do a post about the "Dream Computer". Of course, this is nothing CLOSE to practical or anything ... its just if we had unlimited $$, what is the best performing computer we could get?? The final price is outrageous - $27K. Atcually, we made 2 PCs, one is not as crazy as the other (a good 3K less).. we'll refer to the $27K one as PC 1 and the $24K one as PC 2.CPUObviously intel i
About 22Tech 2008-05-26 19:44:00 22 Century Technology is an army of aliens from mars using a time capsule to bend the space time continual and reach the human population to share there precious technology.Actually, were just a bunch of geeks sharing some cool computer tricks, tips, and software. (But the alien thing would be cool).I (tech-drummer) started this blog at the beginning of 2008 and thought it would be a cool way of s
Free Software Of The Day:Pidgin 2008-05-15 21:29:00 Sorry for the late post....We will start posting a lot more after finals Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.Pidgin can work with:AIMBonjourGadu-GaduGoogle TalkGroupwiseICQIRCMSNMySpaceIMQQSILCSIMPLESametimeXMPPYahoo!ZephyrPidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means Read more:Software
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Free Software Of The Day- NVU 2008-05-01 21:38:00 NVU, Inc.DescriptionFinally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.This is a GREAT free program! It lets you crea Read more:Software
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Just Came Out-Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition 2008-04-27 21:42:00 Don't have enough dough for Windows? Need a safe, secure open-source operating system that's free? YOU NEED UBUNTU! You have not seen a Linux-based operating system until you've seen Ubuntu
! If we had a rating system on this blog, (witch I'm working on), i would give Ubuntu 5 Stars! The new version just came out ( Hardy Heron ), and it is AWESOME! It is now my primary operating system. It has all Read more:Desktop
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Cool Website: www.mikebonnell.com 2008-04-22 16:18:00 I found this cool website! it has the best wallpapers you should check it out!- wallpapers like-hope you like it!-Tech Drummer
Were Back! 2008-04-20 19:47:00 Sry that we have been away for so long, but we have been having some comp issues (mainly me) :)but now we are back online and will start posting again!thx,Tech_drummer
Free Software Of The Day: Finale Notepad 2008 2008-04-01 21:51:00 Do you have have your own band and want to write simple sheet music? Then FinaleNotepad
2008 is the free software for you. It is compatible with Mac and Windows, so whatever you are using, you are good to go.Finale NotePad® 2008 is your invitation to the world of music notation software! Find out how fun and easy it is to transform your musical ideas into beautifully printed music by downloading Read more:Software
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Sweet Firefox Extension - Meebo ff extension! 2008-03-28 10:42:00 Hi all 22tech readers, today we have found an extaordinary extension to an already great web 2.0 program - meebo! Meebo
has launched an extension for firefox that you can use (albeit only while still on the meebo.com webiste), which will improve the experience of meebo. Here are some screenshots of what it does -See your recent messages in the optional sidebar while you browse the Web-Get notified Read more:Sweet
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Sweet Deal! 750gb HD for $140 @ Newegg!! 2008-03-24 21:06:00 22tech has just found a sweet hard drive deal on the egg. You can get a Seagate Barracuda 750gb with 32mb cache for just $140! This is a limited time offer, so if you want it, then get it now! But dang ... hard drives and RAM have recently become soooooooooooooo cheap! I mean, this hard drive is 18.67 cents per gig! :-o. Enjoy and happy belated easter to all of yall ;). Read more:Sweet
Free Software Of The Day:Disk Defragmenter 2008-03-22 18:56:00 We all know that in Windows, it is a good idea to keep defragging your hard drive so that it can run at maximum speed. But is the one built in to Windows the most efficient and effective one? Absolutely not! But 22tech has found a program - Auslogics Disk Defragmenter, that is free and does a great job of defragging your HD, and it can also defrag removable drives/thumbdrives etc. You can get it h Read more:Software
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Free Software Of The Day:CCleaner 2008-03-22 15:36:00 Do you have unwanted files all over your system? is your start menu crammed with old junk you never use? do you have 3 years of temporary Internet files slowing down your computer? Well we have a easy solution for you!- ccleaner!CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk sp Read more:Software
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Free Software Of The Day: Pivot Stickfigure Animator 2008-03-16 09:50:00 Have you ever seen one of those Youtube videos where stick figures are jumping around fighting and doing stupid stuff? Would you like to make your own? Well now you can with the Pivot
Stickfigure Animator
. This software is totally free, and with a little practice you can be making your own stick figure animations easily! You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of ani Read more:Software
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The "IM" Wars 2008-03-12 13:54:00 We all like to im and talk to our friends online. But What is the best way? We all love AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, ICQ, Skype, and many more, but witch is the easiest? The Fastest? The Most Features? Here is a list for the type of user you are and what you need.1-on-1 at home chat & Chat On The GoIf you just like to talk to one or two of your friends and maybe a couple of group chats on you
Build a great budget PC for $280! 2008-03-09 20:46:00 Here at 22tech, we love having solid, fast computers. But sometimes, that does not always happen. Sometimes you might need a basic computer, like for your kids or for your grandma that needs a new computer. This totals to only $280 w/ s&h, but does not include any peripherals or software, such as windows. (We recommend Ubuntu Linux).CPU - AMD athlon 64 le-1600 $39.99We picked amd for our budge Read more:Build
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Free Software Of The Day: Firefox 2008-03-09 18:03:00 Free Software
Of The Day: FireFoxFireFox Is A Great Browser for all Operating Systems! It Provides many features, plugins, and security! You Can Download It Free, Here--US/firefox/ Read more:Free Software
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10800GTX ... right ... lol 2008-03-04 18:29:00 22tech recently found something extremely interesting we wanted to share with all of you recently. Apparently, a geocities site claims that they have a preview of the specs of a so-called 10800gtx, which will come out in The 3rd quarter of 2011, and it will play crysis @ 165fps with all of the eye candy on. Yea right. The specs of the supposed video card is on the right, but the photoshopper made
Finally! A free and great hosting solution - 110mb!! 2008-03-02 17:57:00 We recently found this new great hosting site that you can use to host your webpages!! The site is called 110mb.com. It is totally free (but mysql costs $5 i think if you want that), stable, and there is virtually no offline time! On top of that, it offers 300gb of space, and 3000 gigabyte bandwith, although each file is limited to 10mb. There is also a great support forum in case you need help wi Read more:Finally
We have a forum ;). 2008-02-28 17:44:00 Hey all, we have an all-new forum for people to talk about computer-related stuff. Bring you geek on! !
Free Software Of The Day Is Back!-Vixy.net Converter 2008-02-26 22:00:00 Everybody loves our "Free Software
Of The Day" but we havent ben doing it for a while...but now its back!!B.T.W. It should really be called "Free Software
of Every Other Day" Because we normally dont do it every day. ;)Vixy.net ConverterWhen i got my ipod video...i thought " what am i gonna do with 30 Gigs? I dont have that many songs!". I had a lot of videos i wanted to add, but they were all on
The Perfect low-cost Gaming Machine! Only $680 ! 2008-02-23 20:25:00 Hey Everybody! I recently build a "budget" Computer and it turend out great. It Only Cost $800 ! ($680 now that all the prices have droped). If your in the market for a budget computer, i recommend this one. Here are the specs-MotherboardGIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard-$74.99Video CardEVGA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB-$139.99Ram2x G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 (so Read more:Perfect
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The NEW 9600gt :D. 2008-02-23 19:20:00 Sorry, we are really late on this, but nvidia's new 9600gt just came out!! :D. It is a card that is priced around MSRP $180. It most benchmarks , it is a little bit behind the 8800gt, and performs on par with a 3870! Now Nvidia finally has a competitor to amd's 3850 and 70! And the future 9xxx seiries look promising :D. So far the only OC'ed 9600gt is evga's 9600gt, which ups it from 650Mhz to 675
Memory Usage - IE8 beta 1 vs Firefox vs Opera 2008-06-30 19:51:00 Recently, Firefox
got an update to the newest version 3.0. Before, many people were complaining about how much memory firefox uses whenever you use it. It could go up to 600MB if you used it long enough!But now, with the release of firefox version 3, Mozilla has promised to fix over 300 memory leaks. Memory
leaks occur when the browser fails to dispatch memory that it has already used, (happens es Read more:Usage