Tag archive for ‘software’

Twisted Deals: Video Game & Tech coupons

by Elias - on Jan 31st 2010 - No Comments

  • Download Red Faction Guerilla to your PC  for only $4.95 – Direct2Drive
  • Acer Laptop /64 bit processor + Windows 7 and free shipping $349 – Newegg
  • Get an XBOX Live 12 month gold subscription card for $34.99 - Dealzon
  • Free Shipping on games or orders that reach the $25 bucks price tag – Gamestop
  • The Dark Spire for the Nintendo DS, a Role Playing game for $499 get it at- Gamestop
  • Tr0pico 3  and yes we know that it just came out get it for $13.60 – SteamDownload
  • Get Uncharted: Drakes Fortune the original $22 bucks  for the Playstation 3 – Dealzon
  • Toshiba with 32″ screen  HD TV,  great for gaming for only $379 bucks – TigerDirect

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Geek Stuff: Better Free Programs for your computer!

by Elias - on Jan 18th 2010 - No Comments

There are many programs out there that cost a lot of money and are really unnecessary. These programs might serve some purpose, but sometimes you buy them and then you realize how crappy they are.  Free programs are also another group that suck because they are full of ads everywhere just because they are free, but the worst part of it all is that they take a lot of memory to run. We have put together a list of useful PC applications that will make your computer run smoother and even faster.  These programs have been tested  so don’t worry they work and have no viruses on them.

We are going to start with utilities, games and miscellaneous software that we all use.

CD Burning software that costs money is unnecessary

There are a ton of CD/DVD burning software, but most of it runs in the background and it’s not that you can’t disable some of it, but because the software comes with a ton of unnecessary features the users tend to get their computers a bit slower an within time is slower by the day. Instead of using something like a Roxio or Nero which are good programs if you have the memory for them try the following alternatives.

Solution: ImgBurn, CDBurnerXP, InfraRecorder

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