Technology Commentary By Hobbyists For Hobbyists

 
When Games for Windows relaunched to much fanfare in 2006 PC Gamer’s rejoiced, finally Microsoft was going to shift some focus from the Xbox and revisit it’s roots. As the months and years have dragged on Games For Windows seems to have done little to promote the industry and has been universally declared a flop. [...]

 
 
 
 
 
Advance Micro Devices (AMD) and ATI are struggling these days against far stronger offerings from the competition and what they believe are tough economic times. AMD has reported a net loss of $358 million and as quarter after quarter turns up losses it makes me wonder how long they can keep this up. The [...]

Mac Snubs Intel
Intel was most likely hoping to build on their new found relationship with Apple by pairing it’s new Atom processors to iPhones. Apple it would seem according to Forbes.com would rather find it’s own way. Apple commented by saying only "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
SERVICE PACK 3 STAND ALONE INSTALLER DOWNLOAD LINK, CLICK HERE (316 MB)
Some User’s Are Being Offered The Update Why Not Me?
Microsoft tends to roll out a service pack in stages, perhaps to spread out the bandwidth load of delivery. However, you don’t need to wait until Windows update offers it to you. You can download [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
More Screen Shots Available Here
Microsoft has finally unveiled it’s plans for Live Mesh and I honestly can’t remember the last time I have seen people so excited about a Microsoft product. At first pass the concepts seem interesting, full access to your files through the Internet. What Microsoft hopes will set this service apart [...]

 
 
Sync Toy has always been one of my favorite free file sync utilities and I was most disappointed when I failed to get it running under Vista 64 bit. Luckily I was able to find a work around and here it is in a step by step guide.
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Problem signature: Problem Event Name: CLR20r3 [...]

 
 
 
 
Help Yourself To Some Portal Wallpaper
 
Portal is one of those games that only comes along once in a blue moon.  It can take credit for reinventing the wheel of puzzle gaming and introduces this genre to a new generation of gamers. The full implications of this new and highly addictive style of game play [...]

The 1-up show recently played the new maps and viewed the medic upgrades first hand at the valve event in San Francisco last week.
Click on the video link below and fast forward to 9:35 to skip to the Team Fortress content.
You can download the video first to make it easier to skip forward without having [...]

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New Medic Achievements

First Do No Harm: Play a full round without killing any enemies and score the highest on a team of 6 or more players.
Quadruple Bypass: Heal a teammate who’s taking fire from 4 enemies at once.
Group Health: Work with 2 other medics to deploy 3 simultaneous uber-charges.
Surgical Prep: Have an uber-charge ready before [...]

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