7 Ways to Avoid Paying $99 for Amazon Prime Free Shipping
As PCMag points out, there are always alternative ways to beat the system and have given disgruntled Amazon Prime members a way to get around the $20 a year raise recently put into place.
At the end of the day, members are only paying $20 more a year or about $1.66 more per month – pocket change. But this is the Internet, so some people were predictably peeved.
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AT&T Absorbs Cricket: What You Need to Know
If you are one of the 4.6 Million Cricket customers who were just absorbed by AT&T, there are several fun facts you may need for a successful transition.
You get to keep your service plan until you suspend your service or have to switch to an AT&T-network-compatible phone. So, you'll get to keep it for a year or so.
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[H]ard|OCP Week in Reviews
Today is Friday and you know what that means! It is time once again for the [H]ard|OCP Week in Reviews! For anyone that might have missed them, we like to take a quick look back on the hardware evaluations and articles we posted earlier in the week. We kicked the week off with our AMD Radeon R9 270X and R9 270 video card review, followed by our evaluation of the Phanteks Enthoo Primo ultimate PC chassis. Finally, we took the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD7-TH LGA 1150 motherboard out for a spin to see what it was capable of.
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Valve Shows Off New Steam Controller
Valve is showing off the latest version of its Steam controller in an effort to get feedback from the community. What do you think?
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U.S. To Relinquish Remaining Control Over The Internet
Well...this sucks. At this point, I think we all just need to be optimistic and cross our fingers and hope for the best.
U.S. officials announced plans Friday to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet, a move likely to please international critics but alarm some business leaders and others who rely on smooth functioning of the Web.
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After Borking Lots Of Crowdfunding Campaigns, PayPal Updates Policies
The best way to avoid payment issues like the ones described in this article? Don't use PayPal. Presto! No more problems.
Initially, PayPal froze $45,000 in funds that were raised by indie e-mail client developer Mailpile, citing the potential for fraud. PayPal told Mailpile that those funds would remain frozen "for a full year or until they have a verifiable 1.0 release of their product." Mailpile's other option was to send PayPal "an itemized budget and your development goal dates" for the project. None of those demands seemed justified to Mailpile's Iceland-based developers.
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Google Docs Users Targeted by Sophisticated Phishing Scam
If you are a Google Docs / Google Drive user, you should probably read this article.
The fake page is actually hosted on Google's servers and is served over SSL, making the page even more convincing. The scammers have simply created a folder inside a Google Drive account, marked it as public, uploaded a file there, and then used Google Drive's preview feature to get a publicly-accessible URL to include in their messages.
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bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 3
FrostyTech has published a review of the bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU cooler this afternoon. For comparison purposes, you can see our evaluation here.
The Dark Rock Pro 3 was announced last month at CES 2014 and best of all, it's rated to 250W TDP! The Dark Rock Pro 3 is dual tower, dual fan, low noise CPU heatsink. In other words, if you want a quiet heatsink that handles like a performance cooler AND you have a motherboard which can accommodate it's boxy footprint, you're reading the right CPU heatsink review!
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Stupid Criminal of the Day
The title of "stupid criminal of the day" goes to this moron who thought this would be a good idea.
Police have arrested a 20-year-old Los Angeles man who allegedly threatened to shoot a random pedestrian if his Twitter post was retweeted a hundred times. The investigation began Wednesday morning when police officers were notified about a photo on Twitter. It showed a rifle pointed at a Los Angeles street with the caption "100 (retweets) and I'll shoot someone walking."
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Google Wants E-Mail Scanning Information Blocked
If you replaced "Google" with the "NSA," people would be up-in-arms over this story. But, since we're not talking about the NSA, no biggy.
Google, fighting a lawsuit claiming its interception of e-mails amounts to illegal wiretapping, asked U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh in a filing yesterday to redact "confidential" information from the transcript, without being more specific. The main revelation at the Feb. 27 hearing was the existence of "Content Onebox," used by Google to intercept e-mails for targeted advertising and to build user profiles, Sean Rommel, a lawyer for plaintiffs, told the judge at the time.
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PS4 and Xbox One Are Neck-And-Neck
NPD, the people that keep track of video game sales, say that the PS4 and Xbox One are neck-and-neck.
"PS4 led hardware sales in February 2014, but by a narrow margin with Xbox One selling over 90% of what the PS4 sold in terms of unit sales," stated the NPD Group's Liam Callahan. "However, with Xbox One's higher price point it led hardware sales on a dollar basis."
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SimCity Offline Mode "Almost There"
According to Maxis, SimCity offline mode is "almost there." I guess that's a whole lot better than when the company was claiming offline mode was "impossible."
Maxis tweets that update 10 for SimCity is almost complete, which will bring the promised ability to play the urban planning game without being connected to the Internet, saying: "Update 10 is in final testing. Almost there Mayors," and confirming: "This is the one that will add Offline Play."
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RIAA Wants Google to End Piracy "Whack-A-Mole"
It is painfully obvious that the RIAA has no idea how the internet works.
RIAA CEO Cary Sherman wants search engines to take significant action against pirate sites. The RIAA says Google should implement special anti-piracy measures as copyright holders can't properly take down constantly reappearing links to infringing content. "It's like 'Groundhog Day' for takedowns," Sherman says.
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GIGABYTE Z87X-UD7-TH LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
We've covered a lot of budget motherboards lately and shown that you can get quite a lot for your dollar. The GIGABYTE motherboard we are looking at today is not a budget motherboard. In fact it's on the complete opposite of the spectrum, competing with ASUS' WS offerings and MSI's Big Bang XPower series.
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