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Technology blog CrunchGear has photos from Geek Squad City taken during the opening festivities for Geek Squad’s IdeaFestival.
Working on the other end of the corporate chain from the GSC, it’s always interesting to see where those 2,300 daily shipments of customer computer hardware go to get repaired.
ExtremeTech has an entry up detailing four must-have Vista updates to improve performance and stability, especially for gamers running SLI/Crossover systems with multiple video cards.
The Flash Gordon movie re-release on DVD this week suddenly makes sense now that I’ve seen the commercials for the SciFi Channel television series premier on this Friday, August 10th.
Unfortunately, looking through the cast photogallery, I’m nearly overwhelmed at just how bland the updated characters look. While I can understand the desire to get rid of the “yellow peril” aspect within the character design of Ming the Merciless, I just can’t picture the cheap, black military uniformed Ming filling the sets with the menace that positively dripped off of Max von Sydow in the movie.
If you’ve been to your local Best Buy this week, you may have noticed signs advertising Geek Squad‘s IdeaFestival, an online contest being held to find submissions for, as the site puts it, “novel solutions for some of the world’s sustainability problems” using technology.
There are a number of entries already in categories such as “E-Waste”, “Power Conservation” and “Untapped Resources”, but anyone can submit their ideas for the possibility of winning a trip down to the “2007 IdeaFestival” in Louisville, Kentucky to work with a number of well-known thinkers on expanding their submissions.
If you use Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger as your instant messaging client, you might be interested in taking part of Microsoft’s I’M MAKING A DIFFERENCE campaign.
This program allows you to sign up to have a portion of the advertising revenue generated through your Windows Live Messenger IM client donated to any of the supported charities of your choice.