The market for high-end gaming peripherals just got a little more crowded. On Thursday, the French outfit Nova GamingRazer and Saitek in the United States by introducing a gamer-centric line of mice, keyboards, LAN bags and other accessories this fall. Its first offerings for the U.S. market will include the brand new Slider X 600 mouse and Over mouse pad. announced that it would join the likes of
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Open Source for Everyone
Mention open source to most computer users and you’ll receive a blank stare. Talk to a techie and his eyes will light up. For far too long, open source has been the province of the geeks, who havebeen eager to embrace its workings and improve it. But these days, open source is becoming something for everyone.
So what is open source, anyway? It’s software, available to anyone, where the code that makes it run is openly displayed, and often of much better quality than you’ll find in commercially availableware, as people contribute to improve it. Best of all, it’s free to download and distribute.
For several years, open source has been associated with Linux, the PC operating system that was the root of it all. These days, there are literally a few hundred versions of Linux, each called adistro. For a long time, loading it onto your machine was as daunting as the labor of Hercules for the average user, but the new generation of Linux has become very user-friendly. OperatingSystem If you’re a newbie, the place to go for your Linux OS is Ubuntu. The 7.04 version is freely available for PCs and is easy to downloadand set up. More than that, it looks — and is — easy to operate. Yes, it’s like having a car with a transparent hood where you can see all the workings, but don’t let that worry you. Infact, what you’re seeing is essentially just a fascia, and it’s quite easy to swap for another.
Unlike Windows, you’ll find the desktop very clean and surprisingly easy to navigate, and there’s a task bar where you can be notified about updates and security patches. Since open source is verymuch about community, there’s plenty of online help available if you need it.
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Saitek Ships Pro Gamer Command Pad
Saitek Industries Ltd. has announed that its Pro Gamer Command Pad is now shipping. The ergonomically-designed left-hand gaming unit enables users to configure up to 144 command via 20 buttons
SteelPad 5L: A Serious Mouse Pad for Gamers
Serious PC gamers need a serious gaming…mouse pad? That’s the idea behind the new SteelPad 5L gaming mouse pad announced yesterday by SteelSeries, a maker of gaming gear. This mouse pad on steroidsis priced at $39.99. The SteelPad 5L gaming mouse pad, said SteelSeries, reportedly allows users the ability to maneuvertheir optical, laser and ball mice with a high rate of ease and speed as they frankly click away to kill something. The pad has a special five layer design which combines plastic, polyisoprene,cloth, and rubber to create a unique surface. More details on what each layer offers the SteelPad 5L, according to SteelSeries:
- A top layer of thin plastic coating, ensuring the durability and maintaining the texture of the underlying material.
MS stops bundling chunky Xbox pad
The pad was of course succeeded some six months later by the much better, lighter and hand-fitting Controller S, and this will of course replace the original pad in system packages and presumablybundles.
However much we like beating them up about the original pad (flame away), this is a welcome move, eliminating the final few quid we’d spend on top of the price of the console. Now it’s just £129.99 – no memory card, no replacement pad – and then games, making Xbox the most cost effective console choice, even if you do want DVD functionality.
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