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A friend introduced me to a thing called Vsauce. It goes something like this: "Vsauce, Michael here..." - it is a Youtube channel that features a guy called Michael. The camera is always quite close to his face, and he wears black rimmed glasses. It's probably one of my favourite Youtube channels! The topics he covers varies greatly, but they are always extremely interesting and even educational (but not in a boring way at all!). For example, they answer questions like Why are we morbidly curious and whether Cereal can be classified as soup. It doesn't stop there, and they have tons of videos answering all kinds of strange and interesting questions about everyday things. It's great, check it out here After watching so many Vsauce videos, Youtube started suggesting other channels in the same genre as well, and I've recently discovered SciShow. These guys answer more science related stuff, but it too is extremely interesting. Why do we have baby teeth you as...

Microsoft has revealed some really awesome stuff about Windows 10. The first one, and I think this is a kickass move on their part, is that in the first year of the new OS's life, if you run a Windows 7 or 8.1 pc, you can upgrade to Windows 10 FOR FREE. A lot of people thought that this will become some or other subscription model, but it's not, you can do the upgrade for free in the first year, after that, if you want Windows 10, I assume you'll have to buy it. This is such a great way to get people to try the new OS, I know I'm going to do so as well, after all, it's free! I wonder how big the download will be in the end... Are you going to upgrade? Comment below and let me know! Then, Microsoft is apparently emphasising gaming with Windows 10. So a quite nifty feature it will include is that you can stream gameplay from you XBOX One to any Windows 10 PC or Tablet. That is rather cool - I just wonder if you'll be able to play with your keyboard and mou...

Funny how just this morning I blogged about looking forward to the GeForce GTX960 when it finally launches, and I just read that the card will finally launch around the 24th of January 2015. There will apparently be a 2GB and 4GB version, running on a 128bit bus and GDDR5 Memory. Frequency for the memory will be just over 7000Mhz, and power needs will be very low at just 120W. From what I gather, they will sell for around $200, so I guess around R3000 in South Africa. Can't wait!

I think 2015 is going to be a rather interesting year. There are a few things, though, that I'm very excited for (or very hopeful for!): GeForce GTX 960 nVidia launched their awesome 970 and 980 cards last year, and it is inevitable that the mid range cards are on their way. In South Africa, the GTX 970 starts at around R5300 - that translates to about $450, a cool $100 more than you lucky peeps in the States. That means the GTX960 will probably the one we can get for the price of the 970 overseas more or less. Anyway, I'm not sure when it'll come, but it's coming, and that'll be the upgrade I go for for my gaming PC :) GTA V for PC Ahh, Grand Theft Auto Five. What an excellent game! I already own it on my aging Xbox 360 and I'm crazy about this game, but I'll always be a PC gamer first, and console gamer second. I absolutely cannot wait for GTA V to finally come to the ultimate platform - the PC! Here are the specs you'll need to be able t...

After moving to our new house, we don't intend on moving again any time soon at all! So this time around, I decided to make the place fully networked with good old fashioned UTP (unshielded twisted pair, aka network cable if you didn't know). We use a media center PC to do our TV watching on, and this also happens to be the place where my ADSL router is situated (nice and central to give a better wifi coverage). So, in the living room I have a 5 port gigabit switch, which connects to our study with a network cable through the ceiling. In the study, it connects to an 8 port gigabit switch. In the study there's our work PC's and the NAS. Today, I've decided to take a cable from the study to my man cave through the ceiling as well - it was using an old 54mbps Netgear wifi dongle that I've had for ages, and the thing is just not stable enough for anything other than browsing the internet. So, now I have my man cave PC also connected with a proper cable onto the ...

I just saw this thing yesterday, and I'm still drooling! Very sexy car!

My gaming PC is up and running! So far I've only played Dragon Age: Inquisition on it, and it is performing admirably indeed! Running the game at 1600x900 (highest my screen can go remember) with almost everything turned to the max. It runs great! Also, the Creative Speakers my awesome wife got me arrived, and they sound great. It's not a very big set, it's the Creative SBS A250 2.1 Desktop Speakers - they give around 11W RMS, which is more than what I need (for now hehehe...). And they look quite nice too :) Then, the mouse I'm currently using is my old Logitech G300: But, I did buy a very nice G402 recently, which is connected to my work PC at the moment - I'm contemplating moving it my man cave PC - in fact, I will do just that - I mean, look at how cool this thing is! And I did buy it for my gaming PC anyway, so it's the right thing to do: And, this is, sadly, the keyboard I'm currently using, a Logitech UltraX Premium Keyboard - it ...