PCE Redesign Finished – Relaunch Initiated

by Taylor Flatt on October 22nd, 2009 at 7:36 pm EDT - 414 views

Hello everyone,

The redesign is finally complete and we will be beginning to bring the interesting PC News and Unique Reviews. Like before, if you wish to request a review of a product or have any information regarding hardware troubleshooting, you are able to contact us through our contact us section. However, we do ask you leave accurate information so we are able to help you.

In addition to all of this, we have decided to provide a monthly video podcast review of a product whether it is a game, software or hardware. We hope to start this soon as it is a work in progress.

If you wish to submit any other suggestions, please contact us and we can get back to you.

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PCE Relaunch Eminent

by Taylor Flatt on September 19th, 2009 at 9:20 pm EDT - 621 views

We are currently redoing the interface of PCE and rotating our staff to bring in some fresh faces and new ideas. If you are interested in becoming a writer and know your stuff, feel free to email us.

We would like to welcome our new partners as we join the lvl2 Network. With us is The Carthusiast and Airplane Daily which bring fresh content daily. We will be joining them in a few weeks when we reactivate our website and bring you updated and unique news, reviews and information.

Thanks for everyone who has stayed with us. We appreciate your support and emails as always.

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Facebook Support? What Support?

by Taylor Flatt on May 7th, 2009 at 6:42 pm EDT - 992 views

As some of you may know, I still run on dial-up. Recently, Facebook switched to their new GUI and added features and “cleaned it up”. However, with the switch came many bugs that aren’t seeming to be addressed no matter how many emails I send their support staff.

First of all, I can’t even login anymore. Basically when I type in my username and pass it doesn’t load and process the attempt. This instantly told me it was a server-side script issue and nothing to do with my internet or computer. Nonetheless, I went ahead and attempted the following steps:

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Gaming Sales Finally Decline

by Taylor Flatt on April 16th, 2009 at 7:06 pm EDT - 728 views

The gaming industry has finally seen a decrease in sales for the first time in the economic situation. While hardware sales dropped 18%, video game sales dropped 17% from $1.72 billion to $1.43 billion and software sales dropped 17% as well. This decrease is reported by the NPD while conducting their monthly studies in March. Although the situation has effected all other industries, it is no surprise that the gaming industry is one of the last to suffer. Offering recreation and infinite possibilities, it makes only sense that this would be one of the last to find their brick wall.

A NDP analyst, Anita Fraizer, had this to say about the situation,

While it might be tempting to jump to the conclusion that the sky is starting to fall on the video games industry given this month’s results, it’s important to remember that two very big things are different this year than last. First, Easter fell in March last year whereas it fell in April this year, and last March included the release of Super

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Microsoft Allows Users to Remove Software

by Taylor Flatt on March 8th, 2009 at 10:41 am EDT - 6,148 views

Microsoft finally allows users to remove software that they include on your system when you buy their new Operating System, Windows 7, next year. In response to the EU’s protests and the US’s anti-trust suits they are finally allowing users to remove key programs like Internet Explorer and Media Player from their system by placing an icon in the Control Panel.

However, when you “remove” it from your system, it will remain installed but lack substinence. This is a big step forward from all the years of problems Microsoft has faced under Bill Gates regarding these issues. Now, it seems, that the new CEO will be complying more and more with international governments to eliminate such obstacles.

These new developments are gold to the ears of companies like Google and Mozilla who have been bottle necked by the bundling Microsoft has done to quell competition over the years.

Image courtesy of thetechherald.

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Yahoo Restructure Looming

by Taylor Flatt on February 22nd, 2009 at 2:51 pm EDT - 1,864 views

Carol Bartz, the new Chief Executive, is said to begin reconstruction of Yahoo sometime next week. From sources within Yahoo, Carol is supposedly placing a traditional structure on Yahoo much like the one she employed at Autodesk. From another prominent source,

Most expect Bartz to do a C-level style set-up, with executives like a chief operating officer, chief technology officer and also a new, more powerful chief media officer (who will also head PR), all reporting to her.

After losing many of their executives to Microsoft including Larry Heck (VP of search and advertisement sciences) and Qi Lu (VP of engineering for search and advertisement sciences), it looks like there might be a tough task ahead of Ms.Bartz.

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Google Hacked?

by Taylor Flatt on January 31st, 2009 at 11:26 am EDT - 1,557 views

Saturday, all searches on Google resulted in errors saying the site may contain harmful material and that you should pick another website. Webmasters, including ourselves, were going crazy when we noticed this glitch. However, Google has since fixed the “glitch” and is going to be releasing an official statement soon.

There was a fault. We don’t know the nature of it yet. Everything has been solved. We are still making initial enquiries

a Google spokesperson told BBC News. These kinds of “faults” are something that Google isn’t really well known for which has surprised us all. Although they have fixed it, everyone is wanting to know, What happened? Let us hope something worse doesn’t happen if they were truly hacked or if it was just a simple mistake.

Update: Google attributes the fault to human error. The error occured for about 40 minutes when Google accidently flagged all sites as dangerous. Marissa Mayer, VP of search products and user experience had this to say, “What happened” Very simply, human error. We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again”.

Source: BBC
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Hackers Rumor Steve Jobs Death

by Taylor Flatt on January 24th, 2009 at 11:05 am EDT - 537 views

Hackers made their way into the world renowned Wired.com and posted an article that Steven Jobs had died after going into cardiac arrest in his California home. The story was then leaked to multiple social networks which only makes the embarrassment worse. However, the article was posted under a writer, John Abell, who is known to write about Steve’s health. John had this to say about the article,

A widely-circulated URL… that purports to be a Wired.com story about Steve Jobs’ health is a hack job. I’ve written a number of stories about Jobs health hoaxes… but the true author of this crude fake, which hit far closer to home, remains a mystery.

With all the rumors running their courses around the internet, it is no surprise that something like this would come up. However, it was a cruel joke that was completely unethical. No matter who you are for, PC or Mac, everyone has to agree that both Gates and Jobs are great men with powerful ideas and smooth preserve.

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Microsoft Releases MED-V Beta

by Taylor Flatt on January 19th, 2009 at 3:06 pm EDT - 1,000 views

Microsoft has released another beta that runs a legacy program which essentially allows you to run Windows XP and 2000 apps on Vista without the need of migration or testing. The beta, called MED-V, creates a virtual PC of the legacy version of Windows that you would like inside Vista. The whole project is said to be completed by at least second quarter.

If you are looking to give this new technology a try, you can download it here, but don’t forget to register or you won’t be able to take part!

This seems like some technology that should have been developed along with the release of Vista or shortly thereafter. However, it seems quite pointless to release it now with Windows 7 coming next year. Maybe they should begin developing technology for Windows 7 instead of the soon-to-be-obsolete Vista.

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Microsoft Stalked By EU

by Taylor Flatt on January 18th, 2009 at 1:26 pm EDT - 330 views

Microsoft has just been notified this Thursday that they will be required to appear in court due to the fact that they have been violating antitrust laws passed down by the EU.

However, this is not the first time the EU has pursued Microsoft and ask for money. Years ago, the EU fined Microsoft 1.35 billion because they were overcharging software manufactures. I’m not surprised one bit that the EU is seeking out more money from their best friend Microsoft. Microsoft also released a lengthy statement saying they are going to comply with EU’s regulations,

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