Oopen Source Of The Day Is Changing To Free Software Of The Day!!!

We are changing the "Open source of the day" to "free software of the day". Its still al the same cool free software, but just a new name!!!

-Tech drummer

The "IM" Wars

We all like to im and talk to our friends online. But What is the best way? We all love AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, ICQ, Skype, and many more, but witch is the easiest? The Fastest? The Most Features? Here is a list for the type of user you are and what you need.


1-on-1 at home chat & Chat On The Go
If you just like to talk to one or two of your friends and maybe a couple of group chats on you home computer, Gtalk (Google Talk) Is the one for you. It is vary fast, reliable, and simple. You can call friends, easily send files, and its fast and secure. And you can easily log onto it online from anywhere, and im your friends on the go.

2-Or-More Chat with plug ins, games, photo sharing, ext.
Do you like to share photos, play games, voice chat and much more while you im your friends? If so, Yahoo Messenger is the one for you. But this is not for you if you just need something simple to im your friends.


Pc-to-Pc Voice chat, And Video Chat
If you want to talk to your friends, and video chat, Skype is the one for you. But with skype, you can also make calls to landlines!
But Manley The Im for you is the one that you like best!
Here are some more recommendations-
AIM
ICQ


"But I Want All Of Them!!!"
It's ok. We have something For That To! Here are some programs that let you chat with all of your favorite IM services at once-
Pidgin
Trillian
Meebo


Hope You Like Them!
Comment if you have any Questions or recommendations!
-Tech Drummer

Build a great budget PC for $280!

Here at 22tech, we love having solid, fast computers. But sometimes, that does not always happen. Sometimes you might need a basic computer, like for your kids or for your grandma that needs a new computer. This totals to only $280 w/ s&h, but does not include any peripherals or software, such as windows. (We recommend Ubuntu Linux).

CPU - AMD athlon 64 le-1600 $39.99
We picked amd for our budget pc, because it was really cheap on newegg, beating all of the intel's in that particular price range. Plus it is 45 watts and 1mb cache . Nice for a cheap proc. Oh, and did I mention you get a free t-shirt :P!

Motherboard - ECS 690G motherboard $49.99-$20MIR =$29.99
This motherboard was a cheap motherboard featuring the 690g chipset, so we figured we might as well go for this, even if it does mean having to buy an ecs mobo :-( .

Power Supply - Thermaltake W00070RUC 430W $39.99-10
What? You thought we were going to skimp on the power and use the lowly 300W power included with the case? Heck no! We chose this PS to give adequate power to components, and it even gives a generous PCI Express 6 pin cable in case we ever want to upgrade. Solid!

Case - Any cheap rosewill 29.99 case on newegg will do the job perfectly on a budget.

RAM - ADADA 2gb ddr2 800 $34 after rebate
Thats right folks, 2gb of memory in a sub-$300 computer! This RAM is rated @ ddr2 800 and will do the job perfectly , and may be a bit much on a budget. But this will come in handy , especially if you are planning to put Vista on this.

HD - Maxtor DiamondMax 21 250gb hard drive
250gb in a $250 pc! That is definetly not bad. This is the cheapest hard drive on newegg with 250gb, and the ratings are still very good. (Although you can never trust newegg ratings :P).

CD/DVD drive - Lite-on black sata dvdrom drive
For this budget pc, we could have easily gotten a dvd burner, but there is no point, since nobody with a cheap pc will burn dvds. Plus, this dvdrom is also sata!!!

Well.. that just about concludes our budget pc, which comes to $280 (inlucding shipping & rebates). Even though it is a pc on a budget, it is pretty powerful. It has a 2.3ghz athlon proc (which probably could be overclocked to 2.5 or 2.6ghz), comes with 2gb of ddr2 800 memory, and has a spacious 250gb hard drive! We hoped you liked our budget pc, and please post comments about what you liked/disliked. (I forsee people killing us for using ecs)

Free Software Of The Day: Firefox

Free Software Of The Day: FireFox

FireFox Is A Great Browser for all Operating Systems! It Provides many features, plugins, and security! You Can Download It Free, Here-http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

10800GTX ... right ... lol

22tech recently found something extremely interesting we wanted to share with all of you recently. Apparently, a geocities site claims that they have a preview of the specs of a so-called 10800gtx, which will come out in The 3rd quarter of 2011, and it will play crysis @ 165fps with all of the eye candy on. Yea right. The specs of the supposed video card is on the right, but the photoshopper made one mistake - some of the edges are rounded, but some are not .. the fake picture is credited to SatchBoy of the maximumpc forums. Nice catch! But of course, it was a nice joke
LOL .. we can start a funny pc thing of the day .. ... but first we need to catch up on open source software of the day. You can talk about the article on the forum here.

Finally! A free and great hosting solution - 110mb!!

We recently found this new great hosting site that you can use to host your webpages!! The site is called 110mb.com. It is totally free (but mysql costs $5 i think if you want that), stable, and there is virtually no offline time! On top of that, it offers 300gb of space, and 3000 gigabyte bandwith, although each file is limited to 10mb. There is also a great support forum in case you need help with anything, and if you get 350 posts on there, 110mb will give you FREE mysql! That is really amazing for such a cheap host. This is 22tech's recommendation for any website. Good luck and enjoy!!

-22tech
btw, sign up for our forum!!!

We have a forum ;).

Hey all, we have an all-new forum for people to talk about computer-related stuff. Bring you geek on! http://www.freemybb.com/mybb/22tech

Enjoy!

Free Software Of The Day Is Back!-Vixy.net Converter

Everybody loves our "Free Software Of The Day" but we havent ben doing it for a while...but now its back!!

B.T.W. It should really be called "Free Software of Every Other Day" Because we normally dont do it every day. ;)
Vixy.net Converter

When i got my ipod video...i thought " what am i gonna do with 30 Gigs? I dont have that many songs!". I had a lot of videos i wanted to add, but they were all on Youtube! But then I found a way- Vixy.net

Vixy.net Converter is a fla to video converter, so basically you can convert Youtube videos to go on your ipod (or your computer). All you have to do is type in the Youtube URL, and the videos converted and you can download it to your computer or ipod!!! Their is a web version ( http://www.vixy.net/ )but you can also download the software to convert here.

p.s. You have to have web access to use it

-Tech Drummer

22centurytech@gmail.com

The Perfect low-cost Gaming Machine! Only $680 !

Hey Everybody! I recently build a "budget" Computer and it turend out great. It Only Cost $800 ! ($680 now that all the prices have droped). If your in the market for a budget computer, i recommend this one. Here are the specs-

Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard-$74.99
Video Card


EVGA GeForce 8600GTS 256MB-$139.99





Ram


2x G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 (so really 4gb) -$89.98 ($44.99 each)




cpu

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Black Edition Processor-$94.99



Case

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case -$99.99CD/DVD Drive

SAMSUNG Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner-$29.99





Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive-$79.99Power Supply


Antec earthwatts EA500 ATX12V v2.0 500W Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, CUL, FCC, TUV, CE, CB, C-tick, CCC-$69.99



All These Items Can Be Found On Newegg

Here is a video Of flying fsx on ultra high graphics on this exact computer-

-Tech Drummer

22centurytech@gmail.com