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Based in Holland, Club3D has been manufacturing graphics cards for more than a decade, but with more focus into Europe than the UK. With the appointment of a brand new distributor, it looks like expansion is the name of the game for 2013. KitGuru plays its hand close to its …

While Apple itself is not sure about apps that run outside of the Jobs-o-sphere, companies like iGotYa were doing such good trade outside the OSX law, that their software seems to be getting installed more and more. What does it do? Simple. It photographs people that attempt to use your …

Watching ‘The Social Network', you can see just how much Facebook's founders value ‘up time'. They are almost maniac about it. In the real world, the globe's second biggest site does a great job of staying up and running, but something strange seems to have hit the interwibble this evening. …

We're all aware of AMD's ‘Never Settle' campaign for Xmas, where the purchase of any decent spec card is accompanied by some cool new games for your stocking – free of charge. But it seems that the chaps at Aria have taken this one or two steps further. KitGuru plays …

We've said it on KitGuru a number of times: If you were boiling hot on a summer's day and had the choice between (a) sitting in a small, dark room with a fan on you or (b) diving into a swimming pool, then we all know which one cools best. …

While IDC and Gartner battle it out to produce the best overall estimates of the market in terms of how many units will ship into the various markets, other analysts focus on a specific set of components within those systems – and use that as a way to predict overall …

Should artists be paid for their work? If so, how much? Should it be, at any stage, OK for people with little/no money to enjoy the artist's work without paying? Should IP be policed harder or is sharing the fault of middle-man companies that want to charge too much. These …

Firework displays are good, but even if you spend £30 on an air-bomb battery of some kind, it's all over in a few seconds and the impression is rarely lasting. If you invest £10,000,000 on an event, you can bet your life that it will give you memories that will …

Every year, designers up and down the country are tasked with creating a 728×90 or 300×250 banner that is so amazing, innovative and funky – that no tech-lover can ignore it. It's a touch challenge and one that Aria would like some KitGuru-reader help with .If you own a copy …

As time moves forward, so the battle between legitimate product producers and dodgy copy merchants heats up. In the latest engagement, Apple seems to have fired a rather clever broadside against the Chinese. KitGuru checks for a stable supply of (Apple) juice before investigating further. When KitGuru interviewed an Apple …

On the very loose basis that eBay uses technology, we wanted to bring you an interesting story from the interweb about just how much a 1960 Original Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar is being offered for on the world's top electronic auction site. It's a little bit more than it …

On 21st and 22nd November this year, a panel of expert design judges got together in Hannover to decide which companies had mad their best efforts count in the world of design. This morning , as the winners are announced, Thermaltake's Google-esque HQ in Taipei will be rocking  as its …

Often referred to as Quad HD, the next generation of TVs is chomping at the bit to arrive in our stores and living rooms. While Apple is content with packing more and more pixels into a smaller and smaller area, the TV companies seem more keen on delivering a regular-HD …

While the vast majority of the phones being connected in the future will be on ‘Full Monty – totally unlimited' contracts, we're still living at the end of the dark ages when it comes to mobile charges. Every now and then a bill doesn't make sense – and the rare …

With the last of the year's wage packets safely deposited and the kids/significant others off to school and work respectively, Monday 3rd December will be a bumper, bonanza day for online stores across the UK with spending projected to pass £222,222 a minute at some point today. KitGuru munches a …

Given that KitGuru has had quite a few conversations with AMD in the past about the benefits for creating a simple PC, in the smallest possible form factor, that could perform a wide variety of tasks – it's ironic that Intel is the company to launch the device. KitGuru takes …

We have all gotten used to the idea that we work in/around a fast-paced industry where product cycles endlessly spin out new product at lower prices than ever before, but that's not so true in the laptop sector. Even with massive competition from the tablet PC industry, laptops seem to …

While Sony and Microsoft prepare to increase the realism on the next generation of sitting-room based consoles, Nintendo has always focused more on playability. As the Wii U lands in British stores, KitGuru assesses the unit shipments required for this new box to be a success. We asked around the …

While Brits are content with sending family gold off to a smelter in order to reap some much needed cash for the Xmas/new Year period, AMD is think about hocking assets on a significantly larger scale. If you were AMD Chief Executive Rory Read and wanted an extra $200m – …

You can supply systems to people in a number of ways. In the early days, everything followed the Apple pattern. You bought a computer with certain features and capabilities – and that was that. However, in the PC space, we have grown used to the idea of upgrades and self-builds. …

There are some products that are easy to push to students and others that are a lot harder. Intel seems to be finding out the hard way that supplying the wrong kind of tablets leads to reduced sales. KitGuru hides in the bush with night vision goggles. A story reached …

One of the oldest and largest chassis creation companies in the Far East, Thermaltake has provided some interesting design ideas over the years – mostly toward the large-scale end of the market. The new SD101 is a little smaller than the Mozart or Level 10. KitGuru pulls out a magnifying …

It's not hard to see where the real costs are incurred by book publishers. You have trees to cultivate, chop,  transport, mill, form into paper, transport again, inks to make, covers to design, writers-editors-publishers to pay and, at the end of all that, you still need to ship a heavy …

While some of these names may be unfamiliar, graphics specialist Sparkle is part of one of the world's largest manufacturers of graphics cards and its Calibre series is aimed squarely at the affordable nVidia performance market. KitGuru notices something new on the site and heads off to investigate. The Calibre …

While some markets are occupied by major competitors who like nothing better than to batter each other with price promises and cuts all the time, but the world of backup solutions seems to move at a more serene pace. That's why a move on Synology caught our eye. KitGuru backs …

Over the past 7 years, Black Friday has been the busiest day in the US retail shopping calendar. It represents the last chance for retailers to flush out older lines – ahead of the new stock for Xmas rolling into the stores and onto the shelves. More recently, companies that …

Over the past few years, Intel has been acquiring a series of technologies and patents that will, it hopes, position it better for 3-5 years down the road. Alongside operating system technology and – more famously – McAfee in the software/security area, Intel has now purchased Creative's clever bits for …

As Sapphire unloads one of the most exciting systems ever seen onto an unsuspecting market, KitGuru has learned that you can win one of these beauties. Check this video for details on how to win. Sapphire's Head of Global PR, Bill Donnelly, is on hand in this video to present …

As of 6am this morning, the options available to technology lovers who want oodles of power but no noise and a stylish little package, just got a whole lot more attractive with the launch of Sapphire's Trinity APU-powered Edge VS. KitGuru peers under the bonnet to see what makes this …

When a company enters administration, one of the first things they do is blow out any remaining stock to get cash in – so that the business can be kept alive while a rescue plan is put in place. Comet seems to be going with a different strategy. KitGuru drives …