Newegg's Customer Choice Awards

Newegg's Customer Choice Awards
here at 22tech we love getting you the best deals , so here is Newegg's Customer Choice Awards for january-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustVoteProductWinner.aspx

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New Cool Website Find: Sodaplay.com

I was recently at my multimedia class at school when i came across a great website-
http://sodaplay.com

SodaPlay is a online community where you share your diffrent java creations and apps.
The have lots of diffrent programs to make cool games, animations, and other cool stuff! Check Them Out!!

Free Software Of The Day: Game Cam

Game Cam allows the recording of real-time in-game movies with sound and is packed with a variety of optional features. Game Cam was designed to work with most DirectX 7, 8, 9 and OpenGL games. So, if you have a game like Flight Simulator Or Halo, you can record it on your computer. For more or to download, goto http://planetgamecam.com/

Here Is A move I Made With The Free Version Of Game Cam-

Deal of the day!

I know we usually do not have any "deal of the days" but I just found an awesome deal from our buddy newegg! Get an evga 8800gt for just $229.99! This deal only lasts for 2 days, so buy them while you can! But dang.. 8800gt prices just keep on dropping. The 9xxx seires of cards are being released in a month or 2 as well, we will see how well those do .. ;).

Well, that is our "deal of the day" :P !

AMD is not out.

Everybody is talking about the new intel cpu's and how they have been killing amd, and how nvidia is the king of all video cards. Well, today we are going to focus on what AMD has done right..

1. AMD Phenom 9600 Black edition - ($224.99 @ newegg)
The AMD phenom 9600 black edition is essentially the same thing as a phenom 9600, but it comes with an unlocked multiplier (all black editions do), so you can overclock this baby really far, almost anybody who has tried overclocking this has gotten at least 3GHz from its stock of 2.4GHz. That is great for AMD, because it gives them a competitor to intel's q6600 quad and it is still cheaper by $50. This is a great cpu for the money, especially if you are upgrading from an old AMD and you want to upgrade your proc without buying a new motherboard or system

2. AMD 3850/3870
These are two solid videocards, you can find the 3850 for $160 after a $10 rebate at newegg, and the 3870 for $220. The 3850 basically has no competition, except for a slightly lower priced nvidia 8600gts, but it can school the 8600gts when it comes to games, except for ones that play stronger on nvidia systems

3. AMD 3870x2
It is basically 2 3870's in one, and it costs about $450, but it performs on par with the GTX and the 8800ULTRA at times! It also sometimes OUTperforms the ultra. AMD is back in the high end videocards range! For just 450, this is a steal!

Hoped you like the article -
Budgetperson

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Free Software Of The Day: Acidrip

Yet another open source of the day is on its way, and this time we chose Acidrip! Acidrip is a dvd burner (linux only) that will take a dvd and put it in an avi format. It has a lot of different options, you can set the file size, the number of files you want it to create, you can choose a specific title to rip, etc. It is a great program that I use for ripping all of my dvd's!

Convert any dvd/video file into another video file using free tools!

In today's howto, I will show you how to conver any dvd or video file into another video file (or dvd9 to dvd5) for absolutely FREE using free tools. Here are the tools we will be using

1. DVDFab HD decrypter (it may look a bit pricey, but after the trial expires it can still do the things we need it to do)
2. Handbrake, the utility for ripping dvd's
3. SUPER(C) , a program that lets you convert video formats to any other video format.

1 - How to rip your dvd's.
1a. Insert your dvd
1b. Open dvdfab, go into main movie and select the movie, and let it rip the dvd to your hard drive
1c. Open Handbrake, and browse to the video_ts dir of where dvdfab saved your dvd
1d. Configure your settings (Remember to click the show presets button)
1e. Let handbrake rip the dvd to your hard drive .. wait .. on an intel core 2 duo e4300 @ 2.25ghz cpu it took about 30-45min.
1f. Enjoy your new dvd! If you want it on your ipod, then just drag the mp4 into iTunes and enjoy! ;)

2. Use Super (C) to convert any video file into any other video file you want! This also applies to audio files, so relax and enjoy!

These programs will do better than any commercial app you can find! Handbrake works in linux, dvdfab runs easily uner wine, and SUPER(C) .. i dont know, I only know that all of these also work in vista.

Enjoy your ripped dvd's ;)
-Budgetperson

Open Source of the Day : Wine

Welcome to yet another open source of the day. This time the lucky winner is WINE . (Standing for Wine Is Not an Emulator). Wine is an emulator that enables SOME windows-designed products to work with linux, such as winrar, finale notepad 2008, etc.
It is not hardware emulation, so it does not slow down old computers as much as much as using a VM like vmware. Wine can not play all windows apps, you can check out the wine app database to see if you app works in wine. The operating systems it supports are linux and mac.
You can get wine from www.winehq.org.

Enjoy!