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Article | 23/08/2011 Apple's iOS 5 beta 6 jailbroken

It shouldn't come as a shock that iOS 5 beta 6 has succumbed to jailbreaking. But unlike the usual speedy jailbreak action we're used to seeing (i.e. ...

Article | 3/08/2011 Graphics Card Museum Gives Geeks A New Excuse to Travel

Ukrainian PC enthusiasts now have one more place to visit on their summer vacation this year, as a museum dedicated to the history of graphics cards i...

Article | 5/05/2011 How 'new' is the new iMac? iFixit teardown tells all

Apple announced its new upgraded iMacs earlier this week, and sure enough, the geeks over at iFixit have already cracked one open to discover their de...

Article | 5/05/2011 Android 2.3.4 on Nexus One, no Google Talk Voice Chat

Attention, Nexus One owners: the latest variant of Gingerbread is here! But don't get too excited as this "special" Nexus One version of Android doesn...

Article | 29/03/2011 Robot hand picks up gooey mess with scary accuracy

A patent-pending robot hand, originally revealed back in October, seems to be capable of picking up liquids, messy mayonnaise and other sauces without...

Article | 23/03/2011 Mozilla site shows Firefox 4 downloads in real-time

Mozilla Firefox 4 was officially released on Tuesday, and within just a few short hours the browser had been downloaded more than a million times. To ...

Article | 19/03/2011 HTC Thunderbolt rooted as fast as lightning

HTC's new Thunderbolt smartphone has already been rooted -- just one day after launch.

Article | 17/03/2011 Firefox 4 release date revealed, coming March 22nd

Just a few short days after delivering the first Release Candidate build of Firefox 4, Mozilla's Senior Director of Engineering Damon Sicore has confi...

Article | 8/03/2011 Nintendo 64 emulator arrives on Android

You can now play old Nintendo 64 games on your Android smartphone thanks to new app, N64oid.

Article | 3/03/2011 iPad 2: What's new with Apple's A5 processor

Steve Jobs and friends took to the stage this Wednesday to reveal Apple's second generation iPad. The new tablet device, which is due to ship later th...

Article | 28/02/2011 Photoshop turns 21: We take a look back

Adobe's Photoshop celebrates its 21st birthday this month, and with 12 major releases under its belt GeekTech decided to take a brief look back at the...

Article | 1/02/2011 Windows Phone 7's Live Tiles come to iPhone

Have you ever looked at a Windows Phone 7 device and thought that its UI offered a refreshing little change from the typical grid-based icon-and-folde...

Article | 12/01/2011 Kinect, Wii used to play Call of Duty in gadget mashup hack

So, you want to play some Call Of Duty on your PC? You could do that the old fashioned way, or you could spice things up a little by hooking your PC u...

Article | 7/01/2011 New Asus Motherboards Support Intel's Sandy Bridge

The love for Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors shows no sign of slowing down at this year's CES. Taiwanese computer manufacturer Asus revealed updat...

Article | 5/01/2011 CES - Samsung Develops World's First DDR4 RAM

CES just wouldn't be the same without its fair share of "World's first" claims. So, keeping up with tradition is Samsung, which has announced that it ...