The News: Friday, October 18 Edition

Huh. Seems I have misplaced Thursday. This whole week (as I believe I’ve mentioned) has been full of learning a new yet familiar system for the LED boards at our arena. The first game is tonight, which comes with not only home opener stuff as usual but some special presentations and a banner raising ceremony because we are the defending AHL Calder Cup champions. It’s a whole lot of stuff to have going on, and we’re doing our level best to make sure everything goes smoothly. Which is something of a challenge when dealing with all new stuff and mostly new people. So here’s hoping that tonight goes well from a production standpoint, and also that the boys come out on top at the end of the game.

Futurelooks starts us off with Windows 8.1 Available Now Will You Be Updating?

KitGuru examines the Mach Xtreme Technology MX-ES 32GB USB 3.0 Pen Drive

hardCOREware takes a look at the Diamond Multimedia Radeon 7870 7870PE52GV

ThinkComputers counters with the Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Toxic Video Card

techPowerUp comes back with the ASUS R9 280X DirectCU II TOP 3 GB

TweakTown sits down with the GIGABYTE P25W Gaming Laptop

PureOverclock goes inside the Cooler Master N-200 Mini Gaming Tower

Modders-Inc. sees that and raises the Cooler Master HAF Stacker 935

BCC Hardware spends some time with the Samsung 7100-Series 60″ Smart 3D HDTV

MadShrimps gets into the Synology DS213j Home to Small Office 2-bay NAS

HardwareHeaven presents its ASUS Z87 Motherboard Roundup October 2013

TechwareLabs tests out the Ooma Office: VoIP Small Office Phone System