Smartphone Capability Comparison

Google search: redesigned

New Google Redesign

Google has rolled out a redesign of their search engine. BATP takes a look back to 2007 at the origins of this transition.

The silent death of Technorati

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In October to November of 2009 a peculiar problem arose, as a search engine Technorati is not indexing any of the 26,000,000+ new blogs which were created in the past 2+ months, according to math.

YouTube phases out old accounts

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If you signed up for YouTube prior to Google’s acquisition you may be displeased to see that you are no longer allowed to use your YouTube account independent of your email. The change merges your YouTube account with whatever email was associated with it at the time.

Future of Torrents; DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained

Bittorrent Explained

DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained. The Pirate Bay has shutdown their tracker; now DHT, PEX, and Magnet Links will decentralize Torrents and remove the necessity of trackers like TPB.

Security Essentials weekend report

Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft’s leap into the Anti-Virus market. The suite aims at tackling viruses, trojans, worms, and malware. It is surprisingly light on resources (unlike a certain Windows-Defender) and has features to match its competitors.
This is the first week that Essentials has been out of beta, and the MS Malware Protection Center has released some interesting statistics.

Insignia HD Camera NS-DCC5HB09 Review

Face it, your mobile phone camera sucks. In the age of blogs, social networking, and viral videos it almost becomes a necessity to own a competent HD recording device. The NS-DCC5HB09 steps up to the plate at an exceptionally affordable price, 3 inch LCD screen, and HDMI output.

Overclock a laptop mobility Radeon

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Studio 15 laptopNot only unsupported, Mobility Radeons are further crippled by their drivers. Laptop distributors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc) limit the clocks on the bundled video cards and restrict access to the GPU BIOS. There are a number of logical reasons behind this, namely warranty overheating issues.

Overclock your laptop’s video card (gpu) by using an unlocked catalyst driver version with the addition of the AMD GPU ClockTool. This method does not require any bios mods or hardware alterations.