Vavle has released a Steam client update. As always to apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select “Check for Steam Client Updates…”. The changes listed include:
New Features
Updated friends chats to use new tabbed chat interface (see Friends tab in the Settings dialog to turn off opening [...]
Well, according to Bruce Schneier, Intel has purchased McAfee.
Honestly, I don’t see this as a bad step. The McAfee products were starting to become long in the tooth, and the fresh blood may just get the entire product back on it’s feet. But this is all my opinion… What do I know?
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Valve has officially revealed the release date for its highly anticipate puzzle/shooter sequel, Portal 2. Fans will be able to return to Aperture Science and suck sentient turrets through giant tubes on February 9, 2011!
The game was originally slated for release this year, but got pushed back, reasons unknown. Also, Stephen Merchant will [...]
I just did something that I never have done in the past…. And I shouldn’t be surprised at the results…
I just read the “What’s the risk” help screen for the ActiveX installer prompt. You know the annoying prompt, where it asks “do you want to install this ActiveX control” or “What’s the risk?”.
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Great news for Steam users who are fans of Plants vs. Zombies. PopCap and Valve announced the release of Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year Edition for Steam.
It’s just like the regular PC version which released a couple of weeks ago, with the zombie avatar creator and achievements. Except the Steam release offers [...]
Gish, the PC/Linux/Mac game is completely DRM free, and comes with an update including 40 user made levels. They are asking for a Minimum price of $1, but there is no limit on what you can pay…. If you enjoy it, why not pay $3-5? This is not a limited time offer, this is a [...]
Assuming that you don’t have a Macintosh, and you want to use the Magic Trackpad on a Windows system. All you need is the Apple Magic Trackpad Update 1.0 for Windows, from apple’s site, and a copy of 7-zip. Extract the contents of the exe, then extract the contents of the MSP file inside. [...]
Short Sharp Science: PC giant warns of hardware trojan: “News that Dell may have a hardware trojan problem emerged on a support forum after a user was warned by a Dell call centre that the firm’s PowerEdge R410 server motherboard contains spyware of unspecified function that a Dell engineer needed to come and remove.
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So you’ve found moe.exe running on your Windows system, and have no idea why it is using memory and CPU time. You haven’t started it, so is it dangerous?
So What Is It?
Moe.exe is the Mesh Operating Environment, which is the core syncing engine for the new Windows Live Sync Beta, as well [...]
Destructoid discusses what we know about Portal 2 at this point. And has lots of nice things to say aboutit.
The evil genius of Portal 2- Destructoid.