Who wants to be stuck standing at the grill when you’re having a party? I mean, if your friends are having fun, shouldn’t you be as well? But someone has to tend to dinner, and unless your house works…

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Ninite is more of a tool disguised as a website. It was built for 1 purpose and it does that 1 purpose very, very well. Ninite is a mass installer/updater; however, that can be far more usefully than you might think.

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Portable Apps is a self contained launcher platform you can install on a Thumb drive and the core is only 2MB. It looks a lot like a start menu, but it pops up on the right side from the task bar. You can install all the basics of a normal computer environment like an office suite, music player, video player, DVD burner, and web browser.

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I have been sitting here for quite a few minutes trying to figure out if this is a good thing or a bad thing. The liberal part of me is screaming…

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Every week, we post a lot of great stuff on MegaTechNews, so it’s understandable that you might miss a post or two. Subscribing to the RSS feed is one of the best ways to make sure you stay…

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Earlier this month at TechForum Monday, Microsoft addressed a rumor that Windows 8 will have a radical new user interface. The answer Microsoft Chief Research and Technology Officer Craig Mundie gave was yes. He demonstrated this new UI on the Microsoft Surface 2 using his Windows 7 Smart phone as a motion based controller.

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Day 2 is the day smart phones take their revenge for the defeat of their full size computer brothers. Violating the security on a smart phone is a very different concept when it comes to computers. Smart phone Operating systems (with the exception Android) are not public information.

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Killer Wireless-N adapters support IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n standards, operate on 2.4 GHz and 5GHz frequency bands and come in a half-size mini-PCIe form factor. Killer Wireless-N 1103 and 1102 adapters deliver data rates of up to 450 Mbps and 300 Mbps, respectively, using range-enhanced 802.11n.

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"Have you ever wondered what it would have been like if wizards were allowed to roam the jungles of war-torn Vietnam, attempting to bring peace and stability to the region by casting spells on all opponents?" reads the press release. "Wait, you haven’t ever wondered that? Ever? Okay, so we’re probably the only ones who have but in our defense: here’s your chance to stop being so closed-minded."

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Valve's announcement is light on details, since the firm is setting the stage for a full reveal at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco later this week. However, it does gloss over a few key facts: "big picture" mode will provide "controller support and navigation designed for television interaction," and it will allow players to "enjoy Steam and their library of Steam games on more screens throughout the house."

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AMD today announced the introduction of the OpenCL University Kit, a set of materials that can be leveraged by any university to assist them in teaching a semester course in OpenCL programming.

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MSI’s AfterBurner software has been the choice of GPU overclockers for quite a while now. While the applications are written to unlock things like over volting and shader clock adjustments…

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