While Facebook has become the defacto instrument for communication in the 21st century, other sites have taken their place at the heart of our modern, technology-everywhere lives. Sitting around number 5 spot in the world, is Wikipedia. We all use it, but what are we searching for? The Top 10 …
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Geek Nails winner wins a new AMD video card and games!
Every so often our team can come up with some great, fun ideas – often a little ‘outside the box'. A few weeks ago, Carl, The Kitguru Facebook Monkey thought it would be a cool idea to involve the ladies who read our the Facebook page and main Kitguru site. …
Read More »Social network storage, would you pay for it?
We saw last week how Twitter will soon allow everyone to download a zip file of their activity on the social networking site, but what about having an archive of more than just Twitter? That's what Social Safe is looking to do and with a new round of funding complete, …
Read More »World of Tanks gives League of Legends a run for its money
In terms of popularity at least. We've heard before how League of Legends has amassed 30 million + active players per month and over a billion hours of play time during that same period. While World of Tanks can't boast quite as much, it's certainly catching up. In a new …
Read More »Zynga to shut Japanese studio in further consolidation
Zynga has confirmed that it will be shutting down its Japanese studio, in an effort to curb the less profitable parts of its business. Despite quickly becoming a billion dollar company, in the past year it has seen layoffs, lawsuits and player reductions that have really hit home that all …
Read More »MSI Z77A-G45 & Lightning GTX680 Review
Many people will be heading into 2013 with plans of upgrading their system. MSI sent us their capable, but competitively priced Z77A-G45 Z77 motherboard and we are pairing it up with the monster Lightning GTX680 graphics card. We test a system using these components with the latest games and try …
Read More »Instagram can sell your photos without telling you
Instagram, the now Facebook owned image sharing and retro-filtering site, has just changed its terms and conditions, allowing the site to have complete say in what happens with your photos once uploaded. It could use them in adverts or sell them to other organisations, all without telling you a thing. …
Read More »Only 2 days left to win a PC with PCSpecialist!
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Bah Humbug! you may say, but thanks to PC Specialist we have a kick ass AMD gaming system to …
Read More »EA drops off NASDAQ 100
EA Games has been dropped from the NASDAQ 100, a stock market index of the top 100 non-financial businesses that feature on the NASDAQ stock exchange, with other large firms Netflix and RIM also falling from grave. However, as some leave others must take their place and Facebook and Western Digital …
Read More »Google naming and shaming fake takedown requesters
Google receives a lot of takedown requests from companies around the world. Most of these are from large movie studios that don't want torrent links to their works appearing in the search engine's results, but sometimes these groups go way overboard, requesting links to completely legitimate content be removed. Perhaps …
Read More »Aria Christmas Giveaway Bonanza!
Tis the season to be running amazing competitions with stunning prizes, it seems! If we had a dollar for every prize being offered in December, we'd have a lot of dollars. Still, NEVER SETTLE, that's our motto – and it seems to be the motto down at Aria as well. …
Read More »Have a Black Edition Christmas with AMD – win FX8350’s!
We had a nice surprise package today straight from the AMD factory – a tray of 8 core wonderbeast chips! Yes, we going to be giving away some 8 core high end FX8350 processors to make four people very happy over the Christmas and New Year holidays. AMD make some …
Read More »EpicGear & Thortech Competition – WIN WIN!
Kitguru has a lot of competitions running this month and today we have another to win tasty EpicGear and Thortech products. The prizes are : EpicGear – one set of MeduZa + CompoXite + Skorpios and: Thortech – one Thunderbolt PLUS 850W To stand a chance of winning these fantastic …
Read More »Competitions galore – don’t miss these !
Its Kitguru giveaway month. Do you want some free hardware at the end of the year? You have a good chance with us if you make a little effort. People are getting lost with all our competitions so …. …. What can you win? Here is a list! For your …
Read More »Patriot and CM Storm Competition – win hardware!
December is a crazy month for giveaways, but I doubt too many people are complaining ! Patriot are working with CM Storm and are giving away a Scout 2 case, Patriot Intel Extreme Master 16GB memory, An Inferno mouse and a Supersonic Rage 32GB USB 3.0 pen drive. If you …
Read More »Sapphire Edge VS8 Mini PC Review
Today we are looking at the latest Edge VS8 Mini PC from Sapphire, the follow up to the Edge HD3 which we reviewed earlier this year. The new Edge VS8 is based around an AMD Quad Core A8 1.6ghz APU with onboard HD7600G graphics. Our review sample ships with a …
Read More »Win silent goodies with BeQuiet! decorate hardware!
BeQuiet! have partnered up with us for a very cool Christmas competition, running for the next week. You have the opportunity to win some quality, silent hardware with one of the industries must respected companies. BeQuiet! are giving away a – DARK POWER PRO 10 750W DARK ROCK 2 and …
Read More »Join the Kitguru team!
Do you fancy yourself as a hardware reviewer? Kitguru is expanding in 2013 and we are looking for some talented, additional hardware reviewers to meet the rising demand for our content. If you are interested and have a good digital camera and are able to take quality pictures (preferably you …
Read More »Android to dominate in US through 2016, report says
Google's Android operating system is growing and it has accounted for a very high percentage of the mobile market share this year. According to a report, they will hold strong in top position for at least another four years. We see a lot of debate about mobile operating systems on …
Read More »Seasonic Christmas Platinum Giveaway – win PSUs and more!
Deck the labs with heat resistent holly, 'tis the season to be VERY jolly, especially now YOU have the chance to win what KitGuru recently described as “One of the best PSU designs ever!”. Seasonic’s Platinum series comes in 3 flavours, from the Fanless 520w, through a balanced 860w luxury …
Read More »Winner of the ADATA and GEIL memory kits!
Kitguru runs a lot of competitions every month, and two have just ended this weekend. We had to go through all the data and pick the winners. Geil kindly gave away two EVO Veloce 8GB 1866mhz kits and the two winners have been picked today. The answer was ‘a: Golden …
Read More »Eating out and mobile phones, do they mix?
I posted earlier this week about the increasing dominance of technology in our lives. I think we all struggle when we don't have our phones, or tablets, or laptops handy. I was in a restaurant earlier this week for dinner with a couple of friends, and I noticed around me …
Read More »Apple ‘anti fanboys’, just as bad?
Did I ever tell you about my friend Dave? Dave simply hates Apple computers. Dave isn't his real name, but he has a Facebook account and reads this page, and likes his privacy. I like that about him. He likes the Kitguru Facebook page because ‘Most people commenting there seem …
Read More »Female Geeks – win hardware, be creative!
Hi, im Carl, I am a recovering alcoholic. Ermm… yes im kidding. I really do never know how to start these posts. Many of you will know me as the Kitguru ‘Facebook Monkey' – I may post under the name ‘Kitguru' but behind the posh name its just Carl, an …
Read More »Win a Gaming PC with PC Specialist and Kitguru!
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la, la la la la. Bah Humbug! you may say, but thanks to PC Specialist we have a kick ass AMD gaming system to …
Read More »Win Corsair AX860i, AX760i, AX860 & AX760 power supplies!
Corsair have had a great 2012. They have been releasing the highest quality hardware for the enthusiast community and we have partnered up to give away all of their latest power supplies! Yes, we have four brand new AX760, AX760i, AX860 and AX860i power supplies to pass over to four …
Read More »PC Specialist Inferno 11.6 inch Laptop review
If like me, you don't like lugging around a super size 17 inch laptop then today's review product will be interesting. PC Specialist have created a super small 11.6 inch system and they are aiming to make it one of the most powerful on the market, by incorporating the powerful …
Read More »Win prizes with BeQuiet!
Our good friends over at BeQuiet! are running a competition right now to win a power supply and 120mm Silent Wings 2 fans. These fans are PWM Versions, not available yet for purchase. They are clearly in a festive mood as they are giving away 30 special Advent Calendars as …
Read More »Win OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCIe SSD and Kitguru fans!
We have yet another competition up for grabs today for 3 lucky people. OCZ have donated a spanking brand new 120GB RevoDrive 3, still sealed in the box. OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCI-Express SSD 120GB PCI-E Solid State Drive / Workstation-Class / 130,000 IOPS / 120GB-480GB Designed with power users and …
Read More »Anonymous targets Israel with protests, hacks
While Israel might have the support of Western governments with regards to its Palestinian conflict, it doesn't garner quite the same feelings from the online world. Apparently over the weekend, the Israeli government was hit by over 44 million hacking attempts, some of which came from the faceless hacktivist movement, …
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