It seems everyone is going green these days. This year, even the infamous ball in New York City that helps many of us ring in the New Year will also be “green.” Last month, the co-organizers of New Year’s Eve in Times Square unveiled a new Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball that is double the size of previous balls and weighs 11,875 pounds. What makes the ball “green” is its 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs, which is more than three times the number of LEDS used last year. So how can this ball be considered green,

It seems everyone is going green these days. This year, even the infamous ball in New York City that helps many of us ring in the New Year will also be “green.” Last month, the co-organizers of New Year’s Eve in Times Square unveiled a new Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball that is double the size of previous balls and weighs 11,875 pounds. What makes the ball “green” is its 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDs, which is more than three times the number of LEDS used last year. So how can this ball be considered green,

The X-Blaster supports AT, baby AT, ATX and micro ATX motherboards and features 1mm thick high grade steel. The X-Blaster has 10 drive bays. Four tool-free 5.25″ drive bays, one external 3.5″ bay and five internal 3.5″ bays. PCI and AGP cards can be installed and secured to their slots without tools. This deal ends Friday at 12:00pm ET.

All New Ultra LS power supplies offer a Lifetime Warranty, more connectivity choices than the typical power supply, and have built in short circuit protection. The LS supports all Intel and AMD platforms, SATA devices and PCI Express graphics cards. All LS power supplies also come standard with short circuit protection, in-rush current protection and thermal overload cutoff protection. This deal ends Friday at 12:00pm ET.

As Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and Apple’s Safari all compete against one another to try to see who can be the No. 1 Web browser, certainly privacy is a key factor that influences success. While many of us hope to never have to deal with the repercussions of a flawed browser and/or stolen information, there are no guarantees. As a result, we must all realize surfing the Web is a bit of a gamble, though often times it’s a very small one. Being informed of the latest threats

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is in negotiations with Intel seeking a slackening of its current restrictions which limit the use of Atom series processors only in netbook PCs with up to 10.2-inch panels, according to Taiwan-based notebook makers. HP hopes to use Atom in new mini-note PC models with larger screen sizes.

In light of competition from Asustek Computer and Acer in promoting netbook PCs, HP's 2009 roadmap shows that the company hopes to enhance its netbook lineup by offering an 11.6-inch model in the second quarter of 2009 and an 13.3-inch model in June 2009, the sources pointed out.

Always short of time? Not enough moments in the day? Tonight you'll get an extra second to enjoy 2008. Use it wisely; perhaps an extra long smooch is called for. These so called leap seconds are occasionally added to align atomic time with astronomical time and ensure that the Sun remains overhead at noon, which is obviously still important.

“The difference between atomic time and Earth time has now built up to the point where it needs to be corrected, so this New Year's Eve we will experience a rare 61 second minute at the very end of 2008 and revelers… will have an extra second to celebrate.”

In what is the first such bug we can recall, where devices of one type worldwide have seemingly frozen, 30GB Zunes globally are freezing.  Reports are the freezing issue is only affecting 30GB Zunes.  It has also been reported (though unconfirmed) that the freeze is isolated to the 3.1 firmware.This has to be the greatest New Year’s gift ever for a large tech company.  Wait, it’s not New Year’s yet, you may say. Ah, but it would be, if it were not for Leap Year.  And that is a solid theory

It has been another great year for us here at HotHardware.com, thanks in no small part to all of you–our awesome readers! As 2008 draws to a close, we want to take another chance to thank you all yet again for being a part of our extended families and making this just a great place to work (and play!). Happy New Year! If you’re going to be out partying tonight, have lots of fun, but most of all be safe! We want to hear all the stories of your debauchery tomorrow, although Friday would be good too! We understand

It’s that time again folks!  Time for another giveaway here at HotHardware!  We’ve teamed up with our friends at AMD and will be giving away prizes–including a complete small form factor PC–to three lucky winners. Instead of a straightforward sweepstakes, however, we wanted to have a little fun and get all of your creative juices flowing this time around. We’re going to keep this one fairly open ended.  We want you all to stretch your legs, be as creative as you can be, and design the AMD /