PCE Redesign Finished – Relaunch Initiated
by Taylor Flatt on October 22nd, 2009 at 7:36 pm EDT - 416 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.
Category: General
Tags: PCE Redesign, podcasts
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0 CommentsPCE Relaunch Eminent
by Taylor Flatt on September 19th, 2009 at 9:20 pm EDT - 623 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.
Category: General
Facebook Support? What Support?
by Taylor Flatt on May 7th, 2009 at 6:42 pm EDT - 1,030 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:
House Says “No” to DTV Delay.
by Chris Willhite on January 29th, 2009 at 2:38 pm EDT - 731 views
After the Senate passed a bill with the intention of delaying the switch to ditigal television on February 17th, the House of Represenatives shot it back down. The Senate passed the bill unanimously to delay the switch with the reasoning that “our nation is not yet ready to make this transition at this time” as Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller put it.
The House needed to have 2/3 majority to pass the bill but fell short which means the switch to all digital may still go through in February. It all depends on if the House attends a debate on the matter and changes its’ mind.
I honestly can’t wait for the digital switch. Not because I enjoy digital television over the air (I rarely watch our satellite let alone broadcast TV) but because freeing up the airwaves of analog signals could lead to newer, faster, and better wireless technologies. How long have we been using 2.4Ghz now? Yah, America can go without a little TV for a bit. After all, it’s their fault if they didn’t prepare.
Source: ArsTechnica
Image courtesy of Schoolhouse Rock.
Internet Usages Reaches Over 1 Bil
by Nathaniel Ed on January 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am EDT - 987 views
In the month of December, over one billion individual users were served worldwide. 41.3% were from the Asia-Pacific region, according to comScore, and internet traffic measurement firm.
Second place went to Europe with 28.0 percent, then North America with 18.4 percent. Latin America made up 7.4 percent, and the Middle East/Africa region made up 4.8 percent.
The statistics of actual users are: Asia/Pacific with about 416 million users, Europe had 283 million users, North America had 185 million users, Latin America had 75 million, and the Middle East/Africa had about 49 million unique users.
Country wise, China came in first with 17.8 percent, or about 180 million users, then the U.S.A. with 16.2 percent, or about 163 million users, and Japan came in third with 6 percent, or about 63 million users.
Obama’s Plan to Broaden Broadband
by Chris Willhite on January 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 pm EDT - 460 views
We all know by now all about Obama’s stimulus package that he’s proposing, you know the one that asks for trillions of dollars to get the economy kick started. Well, as it turns out, parts of the plan contain net neutrality proposals. The whole point of net neutrality is the idea that imposing limits on how much content a user can download from the internet is a violation of free speech, wether it’s filtering content or just buckling down download caps.
Well on Thursday the House of Representatives started working on the $37 billion plan to stimulate technology related portions of the economy. About 25% of the funding will go to rural areas that do not have broadband service, the other 75% will go to helping underdeveloped areas that have broadband but services that lagg behind.
What the plan really calls for is that instead of internet service providers limiting access to their networks, they will instead get a good boost of funding if they increase their broadband services and capacity. You can think of it as an interstate that’s quite busy and instead of having a law where people can only drive so often on that road, you just put in more lanes.
Category: General, Industry News, Online
Tags: broadband, net, neutrality, Obama, stimulus
Mac Gets New Virus
by Chris Willhite on January 22nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm EDT - 1,201 views
On Thursday Intego, a security software company for Mac OS, sent out a warning to everyone about a new trojan horse virus that is spreading around the internet. Currently the trojan is only found in pirated versions of Apple’s iWork ‘09 software.
The new trojan has been named OS-X.Trojan.iServices and what it does is installs when you install iWork ‘09. On earlier versions of Mac OSX (10.5.1 and earlier) there is no password prompt but on newer versions it asks for the root pass to install. If the user puts in the password and allows the trojan to install then it has complete read write and excecute permissions in root which means it can do anything to your system that it wants. It also has the ability to reach out to other infected macs and even download other components after infection.
RSS Feed Update
by Taylor Flatt on January 17th, 2009 at 10:41 pm EDT - 193 views
Recently, Feedburner went through an update and we were forced to update our feeds. With that said, our new feed link is:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/pceverything
We appreciate your patience and understanding. Thank you for updating your subscription!
PCE Staff
Category: General
Tags: Feedburner, Feeds, PCEverything, RSS
Intel’s Uphill Struggle for 2009
by Chris Willhite on January 17th, 2009 at 12:49 pm EDT - 392 views
It looks like the economy is hitting even the biggest of giants. Intel reported that during the last few months of last year, sales were down about 23%. If the figures and predictions turn out to be true then Intel will also have a gross profit in the lower 40’s. The shrinking demand of processors from the consumers really hits Intel hard, and right in the kisser. Especially considering that desktop CPU’s contribute to ~80% of their sales.
PC demand is sinking fast, which takes its toll on Intel because Intel owns 80 percent of the market for microprocessors, the brains of personal computers. Market research firms IDC and Gartner Inc. reported this week that PC sales growth in the fourth quarter was the worst it’s been in six years, with the slump expected to drag out until possibly 2010. -
This isn’t to say that AMD is doing any better however, the current state of the economy just makes consumers shy away from shiney new electronic delacacies. If I were one of these companies i’d stop releasing new chips and rev up R&D to get some new innovation ready for when the economy gets back on track, but I’m no buisinessman.I don’t think Intel or AMD will be going away anytime soon, they’re the only real players in the CPU scene today, but they will have some hard roads ahead of them…Let’s just pray they don’t end up like the auto companies. 
Read more here at Wired.com
Image courtesy of Intel
Motorola Job Cuts
by Stephen Spring on January 15th, 2009 at 10:39 am EDT - 678 views
Motorola announced Wednesday that it would be axing another 4,000 approximate jobs in 2009. This comes only a year after the mobile phone company realeased 3,000 of their workers in the 2008 year.
The 7,000 total job cuts are said to save the company around 1.5 Billion dollars in annual savings. The majority of the job cuts are mostly realated to the moblile phone business, however corporate Motorola see’s to lose around 1000 jobs. The cuts are a major initiative in the cost-cutting measures being taken by Motorola. But, to give some props to Motorola they are cutting their Executive’s pay in these trying economic times. Which is better than we can say about some of the bailout banks like AIG financial.
This is no suprise with many other companies doing similar job cuts. However, you wouldn’t think companies like Motorola would have to cut jobs after a pretty action-packed year.
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