According to the local weather guesser, it’s supposed to be back up near 80F again today for the first time in what feels like over a week. I hope so…last I checked it’s July. In my world that means it’s supposed to be hot and humid and I’m supposed to be going through sweet tea by the gallon. Of course, the cooler weather means my laptop hasn’t been overheating and shutting down lately, which is a bonus…

PC World kicks it off with the Lenovo Ideapad Y530

DigitalTrends checks out the Seagate Replica PC Backup System

TrustedReviews takes a look at the LG 22LU5000 22in LCD TV

Technic3D gets its hands on the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000

CDRinfo examines the Optiarc AD7240S 24X DVDRW

PureOverclock gets into the Thermaltake Litepower 450W

LanOC sits in front of the SilverStone MFP51 Multi-Media LCD Display

Guru3D presents its Gigabyte P55 motherboard preview (P55-UD4P)

DriverHeaven spends some time with the Cooler Master HAF922 Chassis

Tech-Reviews chills out with the Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME Rev.2 CPU Cooler

Verdis Reviews goes mobile with the Acer DX900 Dual SIM Windows Smartphone

Legit Reviews shares its MSI Wind U100 Netbook Overclocking Guide

ITreviewed plays along with eMedia Guitar Method v4

TestFreaks tries on the Vuzix iWear AV310 Widescreen

Last but not least, hardCOREware explains how to Use a PS3 controller in 64 bit Windows Vista and 7

The nap didn’t work out at all, so I started cleaning cupboards in the kitchen again. It never fails to amaze me how very many things there are hiding in places I didn’t know existed. I think the most surprising find of the day was a container of what appears to be curry powder from some time in the 1970’s. I wasn’t sure if I should throw it out or donate it to a museum.

ThinkComputers starts us off with the Cooler Master Sileo 500 Mid Tower Chassis with 500W Power Supply

DigitalTrends gets its hands on the Microsoft SideWinder X3 Gaming Mouse

TrustedReviews sits down with the Dell Studio XPS M1340 from PC World

bit-tech tests the AMD Athlon II X2 250 CPU

CDRinfo chills out with the Thermaltake ISGC-300 CPU Cooler

Hardware Secrets examines the Seventeam ST-750P-AF Power Supply

Motherboards.org spends some time with the Macbook Pro Kingston SSDNow 80 GB SSD + RAM Upgrade

VIA Arena hooks up with the VB80002 digital media server device board

LanOC takes a look at the SilverStone MFP51 Multi-Media LCD Display

MadShrimps explains Stabilizing your memory overclock on Core i7 platform

TweakTown shares its thoughts on the ASUS Radeon HD 4890 Voltage Tweak Graphics Card

PC World gets into the Brother HL-5370DWT

TestFreaks wants you to know about its Weekly Giveaway #8- NZXT Beta and Avatar

Legion Hardware goes inside the Promise Technology SmartStor NS4600

And to close out today, Bjorn3D shows you Setting Up A Split Loop Water Cooling

At a retail price of $49.99 US, the Radius Atomic Bass Earphones for the iPhone provide a very reasonably priced upgrade to the ubiquitous white buds that come with your iPhone. It’s hard to believe that anyone would spend Apple’s $29.00 US asking price to replace the rather horrible stock buds. What do you get for your $49.99 US? Let’s find out in our first of many MEGATech Mini-Reviews!

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I have absolutely no motivation whatsoever today. A whole pot of really good, really strong coffee and I still feel like I could easily go back to bed and sleep another six hours. Actually, I may do that…it’s not like I have anything pressing to do today. Maybe if I get up and try again it’ll be like a whole new day!

Futurelooks gets us going with the ECS Black Series X58B-A “Nehalem” Motherboard

TrustedReviews takes a look at the Panasonic Viera TX-P42G15 42in plasma TV

DigitalTrends gets its hands on the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000

Modders-Inc. chills out with the Cooler Master Hyper N520 CPU Cooler

TweakTown sits down with the Acer Aspire Timeline 4810T-8480 Notebook

Bjorn3D checks out the Synology DS209, Budget Alternative to DS209+

Legit Reviews examines the AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition Processor

LanOC shares its thoughts on the Seagate Savvio and Constellation hard drives

techPowerUp brings you a World-Exclusive: Sapphire HD 4730 512 MB

Tech-Reviews pokes around inside the Vizo Saturno 2.5″ External HDD Enclosure

CDRinfo spends some time with the Patriot Memory Torqx 128GB SSD

Hardware Secrets gets into the Rocketfish 550 W Power Supply

TweakPC rocks the house with the Edifier S730 2.1 Soundsystem

Gamepyre takes on Top Spin 3 – 360

Finally, Benchmark Reviews goes inside the Antec ISK300-65 Mini-ITX HTPC Computer Case

The folks at NZXT have been hard at work trying to come up with a way to top their original Sentry drive bay mounted system monitor. Although the original Sentry was an extremely impressive sight to behold, the fact that it took up two bays made it difficult to install in anything but a full tower case.

Like the original Sentry, the Sentry 2 gives us similar features like our temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit and allows users to control fans (up to 5) with the option for manually tuning individual fan speeds. You can also just set it on auto and let it do its thing by setting a specific target temperature. An alarm will sound if the temperature exceeds the target and even stores saved settings even after it is turned off.

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