Oct 9, 2009

One of the primary issues that I found when running my first installation of Windows 7 RTM was a very serious problem with the sound drivers for the embedded sound card on my Gigabyte motherboard. While I certainly had sound, in many areas it was simply unusable. This manifested itself in that, when using a microphone, there was a significant (maybe a quarter-...

Sep 24, 2009

It’s only been in our hands for a few hours so we’ve taken the second generation of the Wacom Bamboo graphics tablets out for a spin to show you just how the new touch functionality with gesture control works. In this demo, we’ll look at the Wacom Bamboo Dock, drawing in Twitter, and how this new tablet runs with Adobe Photoshop, Audition, and...

Sep 24, 2009

Here at the Gadget Grill we have a computer or two. Or three or four or … yes, a more than ample sufficiency, truth be told. And of course, we felt a need to upgrade at least a couple of these to the all new, bright and shiny Windows 7, and so this has now been accomplished… but not without a little bit of pain. Both of the systems that we wanted to...

Sep 14, 2009

It’s probably safe to say that Windows Vista is about to remove itself from existence and to that, we say… YAY! WOOHOO!!! Let’s all party and go get naked and run around screaming at the top of our– Where was I? Oh yes. Windows Vista is about to be gone. So with Windows Vista getting out of dodge, that means Microsoft’s new crowning...

Apr 21, 2009

As technology gets better, more compact, and a hell of a lot more powerful, developers & manufacturers will come up with ways to make computer parts smaller & more energy efficient. One of the developments in this area is in storage technology, so on this show we’re looking at Solid State Drives versus Hard Disk Drives. It’s likely that your...