CNET has posted up their comparison of universal remotes. The included much of Logitech's Harmony series along with a few other options out there. Check it out if you are tired of your 5 or 6 remotes and would like to consolidate them into one without losing functionality.

It's long been known that the remedy for a common case of remote clutter is the universal remote. However, when it comes to turning five remotes–or even more–into a single uber-controller for all that equipment stacked beneath your TV or in your towering audio rack, you have a lot of choices. Yes, they're supposed to do the same thing, yet they all seem to go about it slightly differently and offer a variety of interfaces and designs. These remotes represent the best of the bunch, so you can find the perfect remote that lets you banish all those clickers to a drawer–forever.

AMD has released the ATI Catalyst Software Suite 9.2 drivers. As always, there are a number of fixes and enhancements to be had. Check out the list of changes in our forums and see if you should download the updated drivers today!

Performance Improvements
Catalyst 9.2 brings performance benefits in several cases where frame-rates are
CPU-limited. Some measured examples are:
Crysis DX10 gains up to 20%
Crysis Warhead DX10 gains up to 20%
World in Conflict gains up to 5%

Google added themes to Gmail in November, but for some, that wasn’t enough. They wanted full customization of their color scheme, and now they have it. On Thursday Google added a new option to the Themes settings section of Gmail (as shown above), “Choose your own colors.” To find it, go into Settings, Themes, and it’s the last option on the right and down. While nice, it starts you from scratch. So you can’t take a pre-made theme like Candy and customize it. You can change colors for just about any element,

As it stands today, there are quite a few television shows available online for free via Hulu and broadcast websites, provided you’re willing to sit through a few ads. The cable companies are losing out on customers because of this content, so now they’re looking for a way to strong-arm customers into paying for cable. Their solution? To offer large numbers of cable shows online, but make that content only accessible to cable subscribers. The Wall Street Journal reports that Comcast and Time Warner Cable are

This week brought news of two advances in nanotechnology that could bring us ever-smaller devices with ever-increasing capacity.One brought us transistors a mere fraction of the size of most the advanced currently used on silicon chips. The other gave us the ability to store 250 DVDs worth of data on the area the size of a U.S. quarter.First, the transistors:A team from the University of Pittsburgh, led by Jeremy Levy, “created its nanotech transistors using two ceramic crystal materials known as lanthanum aluminate

NVIDIA responded to a court filing in which Intel alleged that the four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed does not extend to Intels future generation CPUs with integrated memory controllers, such as Nehalem. The filing does not impact NVIDIA chipsets that are currently being shipped. Intel is trying to delay the inevitable value shift from the CPU to the GPU. NVIDIA believes that our bus license with Intel clearly enables us to build chipsets for Intel CPUs with integrated memory controllers. We are aggressively developing new products for Intels current front side bus (MCP79 and MCP89) and for Intels future bus, DMI.

The soul of the PC has become the GPU and the CPU is becoming less relevant. Intel is trying to prevent GPU adoption since the evidence is undeniable that the CPU has run its course. The rapid shift to the smallest and lowest price CPUs like Atom is a clear reflection of this trend. NVIDIA has delivered significant platform innovations to the market over the last few years such as SLI, Hybrid Power, and CUDA. ION, our most recent platform innovation, has tipped the industry to favoring the GPU. When paired with a low cost CPU, it is a 2 chip platform offering 10x the performance of Intels current three chip design using the same low cost CPU. This is a clear attempt by Intel to slow the broad adoption of NVIDIA platforms and to protect a decaying CPU business.

If you’re looking for a new PC case, and you tend to prefer things with a flair for the dramatic, your PC case maker is Lian Li. Shortly after announcing its PC-Q07 Mini-ITX Chassis, the company has just revealed its newest HTPC enclosure. The PC-V351 HTPC Chassis is an all aluminum box with dual front mounted 120mm fans along with a rear mounted 80mm extraction fan. Of course, those looking for a subtle, easy to camouflage HTPC case should probably turn elsewhere, as even the black version (red and silver are

Sprint released their Q4 2008 results on Thursday. It wasn’t pretty. Yet their stock soared nearly 20%. Why? Sprint lost 1.3 million net wireless customers in the quarter. Overall, in 2008, Sprint lost 4 million customers. At the same time, in Q4 2008, Sprint had a net loss of $1.62 billion, or $0.57 a share, on revenue of $8.43 billion. Yet the stock rose $0.54 a share, 19.93%. Once again, why? The Palm Pre, and a rumor, that’s why. An anonymous source told CNBC that Sprint has exclusivity on the Palm Pre until

Today Legit Reviews looks at the new Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 which features 1600 Stream processors, 2GB of GDDR3 memory running at 993MHz and two GPU’s clocked at 625MHz! Sapphire is the only manufacturer to produce and sell the 4850 X2 which competes directly against NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX280. How will the Radeon 4850 X2 do compared to comparably priced GeForce GTX 200 series? Read on and find out.

One could argue that the past 12 to 18 months have been all about netbooks, but all-in-one PCs sure are making a comeback here lately. Following up on efforts from Lenovo, MSI, Dell, Averatec and countless others is BenQ, who has just unveiled its stylish nScreen i91. As you’d expect, this is the company’s very first all-in-one PC, and clearly its design team spent some long nights piecing things together.BenQ seems to be marketing this as more of a household / lifestyle PC than a workhorse, leaving most of