Archive for July, 2010

Hello readers, I just got back home from one long night of waiting in line, in the sweltering desert heat of Las Vegas (yes even in the middle of the night you feel like you’re melting.) But it was all well worth it, as soon as I walked in I cracked open my Collector’s Edition of Starcraft II and I am currently anxiously waiting for it to finish installing. That’s all besides the [...]

Hello everyone, I happy to bring about a new feature to all of you loyal techgoo readers. “This Week In Games” We’ll cover what hot new games are coming out this week, and blast off with some opinions, and reviews for listed games later on in the week after their release. So let’s get to it. This week coming out we have of course Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, coming out 12 [...]

Nokia’s Q2 result  brought further sad news regarding the company’s performance in the highly competitive mobile phone market. It’s profits fell 40% to 227 million euros. Sales rose by 0.9% to 10 billion euros but the huge drop in profit as compared to Q2 2009 clearly shows that Nokia’s grip on the market, both smartphone and feature phone is loosening. Companies like Samsung, [...]

Microsoft continues to amaze us. They have announced a new milestone in Windows 7 sales – 175 million copies. Microsoft says that this means they are selling more than 7 copies per second. As of 22nd of July Windows 7 is running on 16% of the worlds computers. This is the fastest selling operating system in the world now. It’s always nice to see that the tech world is making progress, like [...]

The YouTube API Blog announced that YouTube has released a new embed code which uses the <iframe> tag. The new code looks like this: <iframe type=”text/html” width=”640″ height=”385″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID” frameborder=”0″> </iframe> But what is the benefit of this new release? YouTube says that this new [...]

I had been using Mozilla Firefox for the past 3 or 4 years, and i loved it. It incomparably customizable with so many addons and plugins. It had weather forecast, news, music manager, an IE rendering engine as an alternative to IE, a .pdf opener, ad-blocker, and a whole lot more of addons which were soon replacing my other third party softwares. But a few weeks ago, i was finding the browser becoming [...]

The battle between Windows and Linux is infinite. The vast majority of the world still use Microsoft Windows as their operating system. This is because application developers and regular users have became familiar with the interface that MS Windows uses. But what about Linux? Linux was never close to the popularity that Windows had. Linux was portrayed as a complex OS that regular, non-nerd, users [...]

  Pretty much all of us have played a Rockstar game or two, you know they’re only the publishers of games like: Red Dead Redemption, and the GTA series. Well now is the perfect time to learn about their roots in the gaming world.  Nearing their ten year anniversary next month, Steidl - a german publishing company is set to release a three hardback book set detailing the ins and outs [...]

Hey there TechGoo readers! Have your say in the iPhone 4 LOVE or HATE poll! We might make a post based on this poll.

Fat, ugly, lacking any form of social skills, living in his mother’s basement. That is the general stereotype of a video game player. But there are some gamers out there, some people who just couldn’t stand this stereotype being forced on them anymore. So they decided to make things right. And they went into killing sprees. Thus, the eternal argument of “Video games are evil and they must be [...]