New Macbook Pro lineup and details

The newest MacBook refresh has been announced, and I have to say I like what I see.  Physically it hasn't changed much, which is a good thing as the Pro remains one of the best looking laptops available.  Under the hood is where it gets interesting.

Best ways to upgrade your gaming PC

I'm sort of a gaming enthusiaist when it comes to PC gaming. I dont play that many PC games but I like building a PC that can handle just about anything. I just recently
made some pretty major upgrades to my PC. Some that are easy to install and others that arent.

You wanna first make sure that whenever building your first PC you have a great case, one that you like so in the future when upgrading you wont need a new one and will have plenty of space to install your upgrades. And I like to always future proof my motherboard, meaning that when I do buy a mobo I get the best one that I can find since in the future all things connect to it and I want it to be compatible.

A very cheap and effective way to upgrade your PC is with memory. RAM is super cheap nowadays and if your mobo supports it, the is no reason not to go for 8 or 16 gb. I would personally stick to brands like Gskill or Corsair.

SSDs are all the rage now and for good reason. Get a good 120gb ssd from corsair or crucial and make your primary OS hdd and be amazed at how fast you OS boots up and how much faster your gameas load. Worth it.

Gamers sort of go hand in hand with overclockers. And there is one thing that is most important for overclockers such as myself, cooling. Without proper and exceptional cooling overclocking cannot be achieved. The most effective way of cooling is liquid cooling. Liquid cooling used to be a very expensive and time consuming journey that only the hardest of the hardcore overclockers ventured into. Nowadays however there are many chaper and easier ways to achieve liquid cooling on your cpu. Both corsair and coolit systems have made cheap and effective closed loop cooling systems for your cpu. They are easy to install and require no maintainence. However I opted to go with the XSPC water cooling kit. It is an open loop cooling kit that takes a few hours to install correctly, but I can add my gpu to the loop later on if I so choose. I can also choose specifially what kind of coolant I want to use, and what kind of waterblocks.

Last comes the graphics card. Unfortunately in this area if you want to pull no punches its gonna cost you. The latest nvidia graphics cards are almost 500 dollars. But if you drop down a model, you drop about 150 dollars in price. The 580 GTX is almost 500 but the 570 GTX is around 350. So I opted to just buy 2 of the 570s and run them in SLI to blow the 580 outta the water.

Everyone should build a PC to suit there own needs. IF you dont game at all then skip the graphics cards and invest elsewhere. But thats the beauty of a custom built PC, you can build it exactly how you want to.

Greenpois0n jailbreak for all iDevices, and FaceTime on 1st gen iPad

Sunday brought about the release of the latest Jailbreak by the famous Chronic Dev Team. Greenpois0n is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux and can give you an untethered jailbreak for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch running the latest 4.2.1 firmware. Global users beware however because updating your phone to the newest firmware will upgrade your base band as well, forcing you to wait until another unlock is released before you can use your phone on another GSM network.

This untethered jailbreak also appears to work on the new CDMA Verizon iPhone. For those of you who don't know what untethered means, a tethered jailbreak means that every time your phone is completely turned off, in order to boot back into a jailbroken state you will need to connect it to computer. Untethered means you are free to reboot whenever, your phone will always boot into a jailbroken state.

Personally I've held off on upgrading my iPhone's firmware since there haven't really been any significant changes to the os yet. So my phone is still running 4.1 which is fine for now.

In other news, Italian iPad blog site ipadevice.com posted a video showing facetime running on a jail broken iPad running the latest 4.3 beta. This is further proof that the iPad 2 will feature front and back camera's. However the fact that the application ran at 1074x768 resolution (which is the current iPad's resolution) could mean that the iPad 2 will not feature a retina display, which is highly disappointing. It could also mean that we could see the release of the iPad 2 shortly after the release of the 4.3 update.

Sony PSP2 announced: codenamed NGP

With Nintendo launching the 3DS soon, Sony had to make a big splash with it's new mobile system.  The PSP Go was a huge flop, now they are looking to right the ship with the PSP2.  Follow the link for full details.

Nintendo 3DS, Dated, Priced, Awesome

The Mobile Gaming king Nintendo has officially dated their latest offering.  The Nintendo 3DS, the glasses free 3D mobile gaming system will be released on March 27th with a price of $249.99.  The price is around what was expected but also more expensive then a Wii and Xbox arcade edition.  Nintendo has promised 30+ games between the initial launch window of March-June  Some of those titles include Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D, Dead or Alive Dimensions, Rabbids 3D, Resident Evil: Revelations, a new Paper Mario, and Madden.  Remakes of some of the Gameboy and Gameboy color games will be added to the Virtual Console as well (Advance Wars, Final Fantasy Tactics anyone?).  The new system is literally stuffed with features.  Read on for the full details.

Verizon Gets the iPhone 4 Finally

Verizon's iPhone 4 was announced today as expected.  The 16GB and 32GB versions will be officially released on February 11th for $199.99 and $299.99 with a 2 year contract.  The news has sent shock waves through AT&T and Apple.  AT&T's stock has already fallen $40 a share, while Apple's has jumped $30.  The move will further increase Apple's hold on the smartphone market, by offering the #1 smartphone to the customers of the carrier with the most subscribers.  The phone has a CDMA antenna installed, the top notch has been moved to the left side, and the phone can now act as a 3G mobile hotspot for up to 5 devices.  These are the only changes Apple has made for the Verizon release.  The antenna move has does was not to fix any antenna issues, it was purely to accommodate the CDMA antenna.  The phone is 3G compatible only, no 4G support is available as some had hoped.

The Verizon iPhone will require different cases due to the notch move.  As you can see the volume and silence toggle have been moved ever so slightly down.  So all new cases will have to be made.  Apple's bumper also won't work on the Verizon model.  Follow the link for more details.   Verizon iPhone 4

Man-Made Rainbow Machine

The awesome guy of the week has built his very own rainbow machine.  Michael Jone McKean, a college professor and artist at Virginia Commonwealth University has done something unique and cool.  Everyone likes seeing rainbows, and the professors machine produces two-story rainbows whenever he wants.  He has been researching rainbows since 2002 and now has developed this machine which is made of commercial jet pumps and custom nozzels.  It shoots a wall of water into the air in order to produce the effect.  He is going to put the machine on the roof of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha Nebraska this summer.  It will make rainbows for 15 minutes, two times a day.  It will also only use rainwater and solar power.  I think every building should have a rainbow machine.

via: gizmodo