The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.
Monday, December 23, 2013
The Hobbit 2 - The Desolation of Smaug
The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey (2012)
A younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out on an "unexpected journey" to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim their stolen mountain home from a dragon named Smaug.
Friday, November 1, 2013
Manchester United History
Founded: 1878
Address: Old Trafford, Manchester England
Phone: 01618688000
Fax: 01618688804
Email: enquiries@manutd.co.uk
Official URL: http://www.manutd.com
Chairman: Joel & Avram Glazer
Club Director: Edward Woodward
Stadium: Old Trafford
Club History
Manchester United roared back to form last season to reclaim the Premier League title they had last won in 2002-03. It might have been a Double but Chelsea beat them in a forgettable FA Cup final, while AC Milan outsmarted them in the semi-final of the Champions League - but only after United had eclipsed AS Roma in the quarters with a breathtaking 7-1 victory in the second leg at Old Trafford. That was United at their very best, and if they only scaled such heights occasionally they were certainly good enough on a consistent basis to sweep to their ninth Premier League title. It was also the ninth title for the seemingly evergreen Sir Alex Ferguson. The managerial succession at Old Trafford will have to be addressed some time, but Ferguson shows no inclination to call it a day just yet. Indeed, he was looking ahead the moment the season ended, bringing in Owen Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson almost immediately, then adding Carlos Tevez when the issue of the Argentine's registration was finally resolved later in the summer. The new signings underlined that United are serious about defending their title. Ferguson knows they will need to be because their challengers are all stronger this season. A sluggish start to the 2007-08 campaign was not what the manager had planned, but there is every reason to believe United will be formidable adversaries again this season. Their latest title triumph ended a relatively barren spell in which "only" the FA Cup in 2004 and League Cup in 2006 were lifted. That was regarded as something of a trophy drought at Old Trafford. So United began the 2006-07 campaign desperate to be crowned Premiership champions again - and as always the Champions League was also high on their list of priorities. First Arsenal, and then more ominously Chelsea had knocked United off their pedestal, and the club's takeover by the Glazers changed the boardroom landscape. Ferguson had brought the club unprecedented success, but was under growing pressure to sustain it - something that became harder after Mourinho arrived at Stamford Bridge and the likes of Roy Keane,David Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy left Old Trafford. Against that background, United's 2007 title triumph was one of Ferguson's finest achievements. It owed much to the goals of Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, two of the brightest talents around.. It is a near-certainty that United will be in contention for all the major honours again this season. But this glamorous club's origins were somewhat more humble. In 1878, the dining room committee of the carriage and waggon works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company formed Newton Heath L and YR Cricket and Football Club. They won the Manchester Cup in 1886 and in 1892 were elected to Division 1 of the Football League as Newton Heath. After North Road the club played at a ground on Bank Street, Clayton. But they struggled, especially after relegation in 1894, and by 1902 attendances had fallen to as low as 500 while debts had risen to £2,000. Just as Ardwick went bust in 1894 to be re-born immediately as Manchester City, Newton Heath went into liquidation in 1902 - only to be rescued by wealthy brewer John H. Davies, who converted the Heathens into Manchester United. The ambitious Davies took the massive risk, at the time, of buying a site five miles from Clayton, close to the Old Trafford cricket ground. Old Trafford officially opened on 19 February 1910. Liverpool were the visitors (and had the poor taste to win 4-3), but the obvious potential of a ground with an 80,000 capacity aroused jealousy of "Moneybags United", as they were quickly labelled. However, between the two world wars, United"s fortunes waned. They were relegated from the first Division in 1931, and only 3,500 turned up for their opening Second Division game. By Christmas 1931 the banks were prepared to pull the plug on United. Bankruptcy was only avoided by the intervention of another wealthy businessman, James Gibson. He paid off United's £30,000 debts, but the team continued to struggle and in 1934 only narrowly avoided relegation to the Third Division. Although the club"s return to the First Division in 1936 was only brief, bigger problems loomed. The stadium"s proximity to Trafford Park docks made it a prime target for German air raids when War broke out. In March 1941, bombs destroyed the Main Stand, dressing rooms and offices, as well as the United Road terrace and cover. United gratefully accepted City"s offer to share Maine Road, and were exiled from a forlorn-looking Old Trafford for the next eight years. Homeless and debt-ridden by the end of the War, United were saved this time by a run of success on the pitch - masterminded by former City star and now United manager Matt Busby. They returned to Old Trafford in August 1949. The first of Busby"s three great sides won the FA Cup in 1948 and the League championship in 1952, as well as finishing runners-up in the League four times in five seasons. When that ageing team broke up, Busby turned to youth with dazzling success. His Busby Babes might well have become England"s greatest ever club side. They won the League championship in 1956 and retained it in 1957 (when they unluckily lost the FA Cup Final), and in 1956-57 pioneered British entry into the European Cup, against the short-sighted wishes of the Football League. They reached the semi-finals at the first attempt, and had just reached the same stage the following season, by virtue of of 3-3 draw with Red Star Belgrade, when tragedy struck on 6 February 1958. The plane bringing the United party back from Yugoslavia touched down at Munich to refuel. In appalling weather conditions - a blizzard was blowing - the pilots attempted to get the plane home rather than stop over for a night. Attempting to take off from the icy runway for the third time, the plane was unable to get enough height and hit a house. Twenty-three of the passengers were killed, including eight of the legendary Busby Babes: Roger Byrne, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, Eddie Colman, Billy Whelan, Tommy Taylor, David Pegg and Geoff Bent. Busby himself was critically injured, while Johnny Berry and Jackie Blanchflower were unable to play again. Four survivors - Bobby Charlton, Bill Foulkes, Harry Gregg and Dennis Viollet - played for United in the FA Cup Final defeat against Bolton three months later, after a makeshift squad had reached the Wembley showpiece on a tide of national emotion. Busby then set about building another great side. By the mid-1960s, he"d succeeded. Charlton and Foulkes were links with the Babes, and with the addition of stars such as Denis Law and George Best, plus Pat Crerand, Nobby Stiles, Tony Dunne and Shay Brennan, United won the League title in 1965 and again in 1967. They were back in the European Cup, and in 1968 - ten years after Munich -Busby's dream was realised when United beat Benfica 4-1 at Wembley in extra-time. That was the high-point of Busby"s reign, and from then until the early 1970s the club fell into a slow decline, exacerbated when Busby, who stepped down as team manager, proved virtually irreplaceable. The unthinkable happened in 1973-74: United were relegated. Under Tommy Docherty, though, they bounced back within a season. Docherty"s exciting side reached successive FA Cup finals, winning the second, but he was promptly sacked for non-football reasons. With arch-rivals Liverpool now dominating English football, United endured a frusting decade in the 1980s, FA Cup victories failing to compensate for an inability to win the League. Alex Ferguson was appointed manager in succession to Ron Atkinsion in November 1986, and he too struggled to find the right formula at first. But FA Cup success in 1990 was followed by European Cup Winners" Cup victory in 1991, a near-miss in 1992 and then, in the inaugural season of the Premier League, the elusive title. It marked the start of a remarkable hegemony over English football by United that spanned the 1990s and continued into the new century. Ferguson"s sides - inspired and embellished by the likes of Eric Cantona, Peter Schmeichel, Mark Hughes, Paul Ince, Denis Irwin, Steve Bruce, Gary Pallister, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, Nicky Butt, Gary Neville, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - have won nine of the 15 Premiership titles so far contested. They've also won three domestic Doubles including, in 1999, an unprecedented Treble of Premiership, FA Cup and European Cup. Between 1997 and 2004, Arsenal emerged as United"s most consistent rivals, the two clubs sharing the title in alternate seasons during the last four of those campaigns. But then Chelsea became the team to beat. United are almost always a potent force and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Indeed, their remarkable success had made them world football's wealthiest club until Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea. United remain a marketing giant with the capacity to generate huge revenues around the world. Their financial muscle was flexed in the summer of 2007 when, as newly-crowned champions, they were the Premier League's biggest spenders, laying out more than £50 million on new players to help them stay on top.
Manchester United roared back to form last season to reclaim the Premier League title they had last won in 2002-03. It might have been a Double but Chelsea beat them in a forgettable FA Cup final, while AC Milan outsmarted them in the semi-final of the Champions League - but only after United had eclipsed AS Roma in the quarters with a breathtaking 7-1 victory in the second leg at Old Trafford. That was United at their very best, and if they only scaled such heights occasionally they were certainly good enough on a consistent basis to sweep to their ninth Premier League title. It was also the ninth title for the seemingly evergreen Sir Alex Ferguson. The managerial succession at Old Trafford will have to be addressed some time, but Ferguson shows no inclination to call it a day just yet. Indeed, he was looking ahead the moment the season ended, bringing in Owen Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson almost immediately, then adding Carlos Tevez when the issue of the Argentine's registration was finally resolved later in the summer. The new signings underlined that United are serious about defending their title. Ferguson knows they will need to be because their challengers are all stronger this season. A sluggish start to the 2007-08 campaign was not what the manager had planned, but there is every reason to believe United will be formidable adversaries again this season. Their latest title triumph ended a relatively barren spell in which "only" the FA Cup in 2004 and League Cup in 2006 were lifted. That was regarded as something of a trophy drought at Old Trafford. So United began the 2006-07 campaign desperate to be crowned Premiership champions again - and as always the Champions League was also high on their list of priorities. First Arsenal, and then more ominously Chelsea had knocked United off their pedestal, and the club's takeover by the Glazers changed the boardroom landscape. Ferguson had brought the club unprecedented success, but was under growing pressure to sustain it - something that became harder after Mourinho arrived at Stamford Bridge and the likes of Roy Keane,David Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy left Old Trafford. Against that background, United's 2007 title triumph was one of Ferguson's finest achievements. It owed much to the goals of Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, two of the brightest talents around.. It is a near-certainty that United will be in contention for all the major honours again this season. But this glamorous club's origins were somewhat more humble. In 1878, the dining room committee of the carriage and waggon works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company formed Newton Heath L and YR Cricket and Football Club. They won the Manchester Cup in 1886 and in 1892 were elected to Division 1 of the Football League as Newton Heath. After North Road the club played at a ground on Bank Street, Clayton. But they struggled, especially after relegation in 1894, and by 1902 attendances had fallen to as low as 500 while debts had risen to £2,000. Just as Ardwick went bust in 1894 to be re-born immediately as Manchester City, Newton Heath went into liquidation in 1902 - only to be rescued by wealthy brewer John H. Davies, who converted the Heathens into Manchester United. The ambitious Davies took the massive risk, at the time, of buying a site five miles from Clayton, close to the Old Trafford cricket ground. Old Trafford officially opened on 19 February 1910. Liverpool were the visitors (and had the poor taste to win 4-3), but the obvious potential of a ground with an 80,000 capacity aroused jealousy of "Moneybags United", as they were quickly labelled. However, between the two world wars, United"s fortunes waned. They were relegated from the first Division in 1931, and only 3,500 turned up for their opening Second Division game. By Christmas 1931 the banks were prepared to pull the plug on United. Bankruptcy was only avoided by the intervention of another wealthy businessman, James Gibson. He paid off United's £30,000 debts, but the team continued to struggle and in 1934 only narrowly avoided relegation to the Third Division. Although the club"s return to the First Division in 1936 was only brief, bigger problems loomed. The stadium"s proximity to Trafford Park docks made it a prime target for German air raids when War broke out. In March 1941, bombs destroyed the Main Stand, dressing rooms and offices, as well as the United Road terrace and cover. United gratefully accepted City"s offer to share Maine Road, and were exiled from a forlorn-looking Old Trafford for the next eight years. Homeless and debt-ridden by the end of the War, United were saved this time by a run of success on the pitch - masterminded by former City star and now United manager Matt Busby. They returned to Old Trafford in August 1949. The first of Busby"s three great sides won the FA Cup in 1948 and the League championship in 1952, as well as finishing runners-up in the League four times in five seasons. When that ageing team broke up, Busby turned to youth with dazzling success. His Busby Babes might well have become England"s greatest ever club side. They won the League championship in 1956 and retained it in 1957 (when they unluckily lost the FA Cup Final), and in 1956-57 pioneered British entry into the European Cup, against the short-sighted wishes of the Football League. They reached the semi-finals at the first attempt, and had just reached the same stage the following season, by virtue of of 3-3 draw with Red Star Belgrade, when tragedy struck on 6 February 1958. The plane bringing the United party back from Yugoslavia touched down at Munich to refuel. In appalling weather conditions - a blizzard was blowing - the pilots attempted to get the plane home rather than stop over for a night. Attempting to take off from the icy runway for the third time, the plane was unable to get enough height and hit a house. Twenty-three of the passengers were killed, including eight of the legendary Busby Babes: Roger Byrne, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, Eddie Colman, Billy Whelan, Tommy Taylor, David Pegg and Geoff Bent. Busby himself was critically injured, while Johnny Berry and Jackie Blanchflower were unable to play again. Four survivors - Bobby Charlton, Bill Foulkes, Harry Gregg and Dennis Viollet - played for United in the FA Cup Final defeat against Bolton three months later, after a makeshift squad had reached the Wembley showpiece on a tide of national emotion. Busby then set about building another great side. By the mid-1960s, he"d succeeded. Charlton and Foulkes were links with the Babes, and with the addition of stars such as Denis Law and George Best, plus Pat Crerand, Nobby Stiles, Tony Dunne and Shay Brennan, United won the League title in 1965 and again in 1967. They were back in the European Cup, and in 1968 - ten years after Munich -Busby's dream was realised when United beat Benfica 4-1 at Wembley in extra-time. That was the high-point of Busby"s reign, and from then until the early 1970s the club fell into a slow decline, exacerbated when Busby, who stepped down as team manager, proved virtually irreplaceable. The unthinkable happened in 1973-74: United were relegated. Under Tommy Docherty, though, they bounced back within a season. Docherty"s exciting side reached successive FA Cup finals, winning the second, but he was promptly sacked for non-football reasons. With arch-rivals Liverpool now dominating English football, United endured a frusting decade in the 1980s, FA Cup victories failing to compensate for an inability to win the League. Alex Ferguson was appointed manager in succession to Ron Atkinsion in November 1986, and he too struggled to find the right formula at first. But FA Cup success in 1990 was followed by European Cup Winners" Cup victory in 1991, a near-miss in 1992 and then, in the inaugural season of the Premier League, the elusive title. It marked the start of a remarkable hegemony over English football by United that spanned the 1990s and continued into the new century. Ferguson"s sides - inspired and embellished by the likes of Eric Cantona, Peter Schmeichel, Mark Hughes, Paul Ince, Denis Irwin, Steve Bruce, Gary Pallister, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, Nicky Butt, Gary Neville, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - have won nine of the 15 Premiership titles so far contested. They've also won three domestic Doubles including, in 1999, an unprecedented Treble of Premiership, FA Cup and European Cup. Between 1997 and 2004, Arsenal emerged as United"s most consistent rivals, the two clubs sharing the title in alternate seasons during the last four of those campaigns. But then Chelsea became the team to beat. United are almost always a potent force and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Indeed, their remarkable success had made them world football's wealthiest club until Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea. United remain a marketing giant with the capacity to generate huge revenues around the world. Their financial muscle was flexed in the summer of 2007 when, as newly-crowned champions, they were the Premier League's biggest spenders, laying out more than £50 million on new players to help them stay on top.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Razer Surround
Razer Surround gives gamers the best virtual 7.1 channel surround sound experience with any stereo headphones.
Current generation virtual surround technologies are often inaccurate given that every individual has a unique response to simulated sound stages – as such, virtual surround sound is often regarded as inferior to discrete surround sound set ups.
Using state-of-the-art technology, the surround sound algorithms powering Razer Surround creates an unbelievably accurate surround sound environment and allows gamers to calibrate positional sound to match their own unique preferences. This level of calibration allows Razer Surround to provide an incredible level of precision in-game, allowing gamers to have the unfair advantage.
Razer Surround allows a personal calibration fit for your ears, giving you the ability to configure your perfect individual setting. Experience a greater sense of involvement in your favorite titles through our advanced audio application that accounts for the particular shape of your ears and the features of your headphones.
Your Personalized Surround Sound
Through a series of simple listening tests, you’ll be able to intuitively map the way you listen to your games. By taking into account time delay, audio interference, amplitude, and other complex factors, our industry-leading gaming audio algorithms convincingly create sounds from any direction and distance. Your personal audio calibrations will automatically be saved in the cloud, ready for use wherever you game.
Login at your local LAN-Café, at your friends place or at your next competition and experience the best possible surround sound based on your personally calibrated audio algorithms. Getting into the game has never been easier
Create your personalized positional audio calibration and unleash the full potential of next-gen video game sound with Razer Surround., taking your ability to pinpoint foes to the next level. Experience the sweet sound of gaming that will immerse you in your games in a whole new way.
- See more at: http://www.razerzone.com/surround?src=pgm.91612700&utm_source=RazerStore&utm_campaign=RzrSurround&utm_medium=edm_EN#product_specs
Current generation virtual surround technologies are often inaccurate given that every individual has a unique response to simulated sound stages – as such, virtual surround sound is often regarded as inferior to discrete surround sound set ups.
Using state-of-the-art technology, the surround sound algorithms powering Razer Surround creates an unbelievably accurate surround sound environment and allows gamers to calibrate positional sound to match their own unique preferences. This level of calibration allows Razer Surround to provide an incredible level of precision in-game, allowing gamers to have the unfair advantage.
Best-In-Class 7.1 Virtual Surround Sound
Razer Surround is an advanced 7.1 virtual surround sound engine that immerses you deeper into the game. Traditional virtual surround solutions use a one-size-fits-all approach with algorithms built on averages of ear sizes and shapes attempting to create a generic virtual surround sound that is not personalized and optimized for each gamer.Razer Surround allows a personal calibration fit for your ears, giving you the ability to configure your perfect individual setting. Experience a greater sense of involvement in your favorite titles through our advanced audio application that accounts for the particular shape of your ears and the features of your headphones.
Your Personalized Surround Sound
In The Cloud
Through a series of simple listening tests, you’ll be able to intuitively map the way you listen to your games. By taking into account time delay, audio interference, amplitude, and other complex factors, our industry-leading gaming audio algorithms convincingly create sounds from any direction and distance. Your personal audio calibrations will automatically be saved in the cloud, ready for use wherever you game. Login at your local LAN-Café, at your friends place or at your next competition and experience the best possible surround sound based on your personally calibrated audio algorithms. Getting into the game has never been easier
Works With Any Stereo Headphones!
Razer Surround is compatible with any headphones, headset and even earphones. You are experiencing only half of your game audio’s true potential with the technology of your standard stereo headset.Create your personalized positional audio calibration and unleash the full potential of next-gen video game sound with Razer Surround., taking your ability to pinpoint foes to the next level. Experience the sweet sound of gaming that will immerse you in your games in a whole new way.
- See more at: http://www.razerzone.com/surround?src=pgm.91612700&utm_source=RazerStore&utm_campaign=RzrSurround&utm_medium=edm_EN#product_specs
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Razer iPhone 4 Protection Case
It comes as no surprise that you care about your iPhone 4 in the same way you care about gaming and life – with a hardcore
attitude.By armoring your iPhone 4 in the silicone Protection Case by Razer, you’re telling the world to bring it because now
your gaming, your life, and your smartphone are ready to take on any and all challenges for the win.
attitude.By armoring your iPhone 4 in the silicone Protection Case by Razer, you’re telling the world to bring it because now
your gaming, your life, and your smartphone are ready to take on any and all challenges for the win.
*The iPhone 4 Protection Case by Razer will fit your iPhone 4S
Heavy-duty silicone for heavy-duty protection
Designed with industrial-strength silicone, your armored smartphone is just like you – hardcore and ready to take on all of life’s
hard knocks.
Designed with industrial-strength silicone, your armored smartphone is just like you – hardcore and ready to take on all of life’s
hard knocks.
Rubberized finish and design for better grip
The protection case’s special rubberized design ensures your beloved smartphone stays firmly in your grip even in the thick of
action.
The protection case’s special rubberized design ensures your beloved smartphone stays firmly in your grip even in the thick of
action.
TECH SPECS
- Heavy duty silicone to protect your iPhone 4 from the elements
- Rubberized finish for better grip
Friday, June 7, 2013
Razer Game Booster
Getting the absolute best performance out of your system and games isn’t rocket science but it can sure be tough to figure out. In partnership with IObit, Razer Game Booster is your simple yet powerful solution.
All it takes is a click of a button, and it will automatically enhance the state of your system and focus all its resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it’s supposed to be played without wasting time searching online for the best game settings or configurations.
Pick your game, click on the "Launch" button and let us do the rest to reduce stress on your computer and improve frames per second.
Getting the absolute best performance out of your system and games isn’t rocket science but it can sure be tough to figure out. In partnership with IObit, Razer Game Booster is your simple yet powerful solution.
All it takes is a click of a button, and it will automatically enhance the state of your system and focus all its resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it’s supposed to be played without wasting time searching online for the best game settings or configurations.
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All it takes is a click of a button, and it will automatically enhance the state of your system and focus all its resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it’s supposed to be played without wasting time searching online for the best game settings or configurations.
Game Mode
This feature focuses in on your game by temporarily shutting down unnecessary functions and applications, putting all your resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it’s supposed to be played without wasting time on settings or configurations.Pick your game, click on the "Launch" button and let us do the rest to reduce stress on your computer and improve frames per second.
Configure Settings
Worried about what programs are being temporarily shut down? Click on "Configure" to see what processes are being temporarily shut down. Feel free to take control and decide what runs and closes. To assist you, this mode provides you with details of your PC, from how much memory the processes and services are taking up to the percentage of CPU usage each program consumes. It’s time to free up some space for your games!
Stay calm and keep cool
Integrated at the bottom of the launcher screen is a temperature monitor to make sure you can keep an eye on your PC overheating.Getting the absolute best performance out of your system and games isn’t rocket science but it can sure be tough to figure out. In partnership with IObit, Razer Game Booster is your simple yet powerful solution.
All it takes is a click of a button, and it will automatically enhance the state of your system and focus all its resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it’s supposed to be played without wasting time searching online for the best game settings or configurations.
Game Mode
This feature focuses in on your game by temporarily shutting down unnecessary functions and applications, putting all your resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it’s supposed to be played without wasting time on settings or configurations.
Pick your game, click on the "Launch" button and let us do the rest to reduce stress on your computer and improve frames per second.
Pick your game, click on the "Launch" button and let us do the rest to reduce stress on your computer and improve frames per second.
Configure Settings
Worried about what programs are being temporarily shut down? Click on "Configure" to see what processes are being temporarily shut down. Feel free to take control and decide what runs and closes. To assist you, this mode provides you with details of your PC, from how much memory the processes and services are taking up to the percentage of CPU usage each program consumes. It’s time to free up some space for your games!
Stay calm and keep cool
Integrated at the bottom of the launcher screen is a temperature monitor to make sure you can keep an eye on your PC overheating.Calibrate Mode
Simplify the process of setting up your PC’s performance by conveniently providing you with the option to Tweak, Defrag, or update any outdated drivers.
Don’t know where to start to optimize your computer and gaming settings? Remove all the confusion with the "Tweak" tool, which will automatically analyze your PC and enhance all configurations for you.
If you want to decrease the load time of your games, try using the "Defrag" tool. Defrag will organize your game file folders and keep it organized to run more efficiently.
The driver tool will keep your PC up-to-date. Click on “Drivers”, for a quick scan of your computer components and see what’s outdated and needs to be upgraded.
Don’t know where to start to optimize your computer and gaming settings? Remove all the confusion with the "Tweak" tool, which will automatically analyze your PC and enhance all configurations for you.
If you want to decrease the load time of your games, try using the "Defrag" tool. Defrag will organize your game file folders and keep it organized to run more efficiently.
The driver tool will keep your PC up-to-date. Click on “Drivers”, for a quick scan of your computer components and see what’s outdated and needs to be upgraded.
Expert Mode
Consider yourself an expert in the PC Realm? Click on the "Tweak" tool and checkmark "Expert Mode". From here, you will have access to several processes and services to optimize and tweak just to your liking. The "Restore" dropdown list will allow you to undo your tweaks and return to Windows default settings. You can also save your personal tweaks with the "Operate" dropdown list. Export your personal tweaks and provide them to a buddy to import, so the both of you can run your games in peak performance.
Know the ins of your system
Go to the "Diagnose" screen and click "Analyze" to know exactly what’s going on with your computer. This will provide you with a full detailed report of hardware and software information pertaining to your computer. This report can then be exported or copied and sent to a computer guru to provide you with additional advice to enhance your PC.
Share Mode
Have you ever wanted to record video from your favorite game? Enjoy Share mode, a bonus feature where you can show off your skills, create tutorials, and more with the ability to record real-time audio/video and capture screenshots.
Create Machinima and join the You Tube revolution! Set up the keys the way you want to show/hide your frames per second, record high-quality gameplay footage, and capture in-game screenshots. Now you can share your favorite gaming moments and scenes with all your buddies.
Create Machinima and join the You Tube revolution! Set up the keys the way you want to show/hide your frames per second, record high-quality gameplay footage, and capture in-game screenshots. Now you can share your favorite gaming moments and scenes with all your buddies.
Screen Capture
Did we mention how easy it is to take high-quality in-game screenshots? With a press of a key, you can capture an epic moment and share it with a friend or use it as a desktop wallpaper.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
Razer Announces Haswell-based Blade, Blade Pro Gaming Notebooks
We’ve spent a fair amount of time with the first two generations of Razer Blade, and honestly really enjoyed most of it. The original Blade released as a highly ambitious 17” Sandy Bridge gaming notebook from a company that previously had no history in the PC space. While the design was very polished, it had issues with performance, thermals, driver stability, and above all, price. The second generation Blade released with Ivy Bridge and improved on all of its predecessor’s issues - far more compute and GPU horsepower, a refined cooling design, and it was a good bit cheaper, to boot. Now, with Haswell right around the corner, we have the third generation of Blade. And this time, there are two of them.
The 17” is still around, now known as the Blade Pro, but the big news here is the new $1799 14” Razer Blade. It’s a 0.66” thick notebook with a quad-core i7 Haswell mobile processor and NVIDIA’s new GTX 765M graphics with 2GB of GDDR5 video memory, along with an mSATA SSD and 8GB of DDR3L-1600 memory. It’s a little bit smaller than the 15” retina MacBook Pro in all dimensions - 13.58 x 9.25 x 0.66” versus 14.13 x 9.73 x 0.71” - and takes a healthy amount of design inspiration from the latest Apple portable. Given the form factor and weight (4.1 pounds), the Blade 14” has a staggering amount of compute on board.
The CPU is one with GT2 (HD4600) graphics, which makes sense given that there’s little incentive to ship a SKU with a better on-die GPU with the presence of a powerful dedicated graphics card. Dustin is covering the GTX 700M launch, but it’s worth going over GTX 765M quickly: it’s still 28nm Kepler, a cut-down version of GK106 with four SMXs active instead of five for a total of 768 CUDA cores, a 128-bit memory bus, and support for GPU boost. It’s basically the same as GTX 760M except with a higher base clock of 850 MHz instead of 657 MHz; both 760M and 765M have a 2 GHz memory clock. This would seem to bring back a level of differentiation between the GT and GTX designations in the GeForce lineup. GT 750M is also GK106-based, but with only two SMXs active, it definitely has a lot less horsepower than GTX 760M and 765M. (Some GT 750Ms will be based on GK107, but that’s a different story entirely.) GTX 660M (in the 2nd gen Blade) was really just an overclocked GT 650M GDDR5, and some, including your humble narrator, felt that the performance wasn’t elevated enough to merit the GTX name. There shouldn’t be any such issues this time around.
Other specs include dual-band WiFi courtesy of Qualcomm, a 70Wh battery (claimed 6 hours of runtime), usual Razer goodies like a backlit, fully anti-ghosted Synapse 2.0-enabled keyboard, a Synaptics touchpad with real, physical mouse buttons, 3 x USB 3.0 ports, HD 720p webcam, and a 14.0” 1600x900 TN display. This is the only thing on paper that really stands out to me as an issue - no thin and light notebook shipping at this price point should come with a non-IPS, non-1080p display. I don’t think response time is enough of an issue to merit not shipping a wide-angle display. ASUS has been shipping 11” and 13” notebooks for $1000 or less with 1080p matte IPS displays, so has Vizio, amongst others. It’s a big miss. I’m not going to judge panel quality until I’ve seen it (assuming it will be as good as the TN panel of the 17” Blade/Pro), but I still don’t like the choice of display on paper.
The other issue I have is that the base $1799 model ships with just 128GB of disk space - solid state drives are cheap enough at this point that it shouldn’t be an issue to ship a 256GB drive standard in a computer at this price point, especially when you consider the size of game installs these days. Razer charges $150 to go from 128GB to 256GB on the Edge Pro, so I’d expect something similar for the upgrade pricing here as well. A 512GB SKU will be available as well.
If you’re counting, that’s a 37W CPU and a 50-60W GPU, so very quickly we see that the power envelope of the 14” Blade is a lot higher than what we’re used to seeing in this size class. The design challenges that come with a 100+ watt TDP in an ultrathin chassis will be interesting to see - we know that the bottom is pretty well vented, with an additional intake and exhausts hidden the hinge as well, but I don’t see the Blade running particularly cool in loaded situations without some thermal engineering fairy dust. What it does have, in spades: insanity. I’ve talked about this before in some of my reviews, but I think it’s something that the computer industry has lost a bit of recently. We just don’t see these ridiculously ambitious thermal envelopes anymore. Laptops like Alienware’s original mid-2007 M15X (C2D/C2X and Nvidia’s 8800M GTX in a 15.4” notebook) and the ASUS A8Js (C2D/GeForce Go 7700, 14”, 5.3lbs), amongst others - they don’t come around very often these days (exceptions: Clevo’s W110ER and the rMBP15). The era of performance thin and lights seems to have mostly ended at the hands of the ultrabook, and there aren’t too many performance ultrabooks out there. So, as to me at least, this Blade is an incredibly exciting system simply for the amount of power it harnesses in a system of this size.
The 17” Blade Pro specsheet reads really similarly - the Haswell quad (a 47W part this time), GTX 765M at the same clock speeds as the smaller Blade, 8GB of DDR3L-1600, and 128/256/512GB SSD options are all here, this time with a 17.3” 1080p display and the now-familiar Switchblade UI. It retains the aluminum chassis from the second generation Blade, which was basically just an internally reworked version of the original Blade shell - the industrial design, which I very much enjoyed the last two times, is back for another go around. The display is likely to be the same AUO TN panel from last time as well; it was good enough in the previous Blades but I would still like to see some kind of wide-angle panel technology used.
Price has dropped to $2299, though that’s for a model with just 128GB of storage. Oddly, the mSATA SSD is the only storage device mentioned in the press release, so I’m not sure what is located in the 2.5” bay (the 2nd generation Blade had 2.5” 7200RPM hard drive paired with a large 64GB mSATA cache, while the original shipped with a 2.5” 256GB SSD). Razer’s specsheet claims a slight weight reduction to 6.58 pounds, but otherwise it’s dimensionally identical to the Blade R2.
Based on the marketing materials and videos provided, it seems like the intended market for the 17” Blade Pro has shifted towards creative professionals – game designers, filmmakers and video producers, graphic artists, even musicians. The change makes sense, given the similarities the Blade Pro has to another favorite of creative professionals, the dearly departed 17” MacBook Pro. Razer has also added Switchblade apps for Photoshop, Premiere, Maya, GIMP, and other popular photo, video, and audio creation programs to leverage the unique abilities of the SBUI panel. In the Blade Pro introduction video, you can see members of the alt rock band Fall Out Boy, YouTube comedian Freddie Wong, and other professionals from the entertainment industry talking about the Blade Pro in compute-heavy working environments. It’s certainly interesting, and Razer is pushing it further by offering the Blade Pro at a discount to design students, game developers, and other professionals in the various digital arts fields through their creative professional pricing program.
Both Blades are slated to go on sale in Q2, so they’ll probably be available sometime in the next few weeks. We’ll be going hands on with both the new Blade and the Blade Pro shortly, and will update with impressions after that.
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Evil Dead 2013
A trip into the woods turns into a terrifying battle against the forces of evil in this remake of Sam Raimi's ferocious 1981 horror classic. Mia (Jane Levy) is a heroin addict whose most recent overdose was nearly her last. Recognizing that she won't survive another, Mia's longtime friends Olivia (Jessica Lucas) and Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) take the troubled girl to her family's old cabin in the woods to quit cold turkey. It isn't their first attempt, but this time they're hoping that with Mia's brother David (Shiloh Fernandez) around, she'll have the support she needs to weather the coming storm. The moment David arrives at the cabin with his girlfriend Natalie (Elizabeth Blackmore), strange things start to happen; Mia complains about a foul smell that none of her friends can sense, and upon descending into the fruit cellar David and Eric discover what appears to be the scene of a dark ritual. Scattered amongst the animal corpses and mysterious artifacts is an old book that's been sealed shut with heavy-duty plastic and barbed wire. Intrigued, Eric manages to cut the book free and makes a disturbing discovery -- the book has been bound in human flesh, and it comes with an incantation that will unleash a powerful force of evil. Ignoring the warnings not to speak or even hear the incantation, Eric reads the words aloud, sealing his own dark fate, as well as those of his closest friends. One by one they will be possessed until no soul has been left unclaimed. The lucky ones will die first, their souls condemned to suffer as their bodies are twisted into an obscene aberration of flesh. Will the last person standing have the courage to send these sadistic demons back to hell, even if it means killing their friends and loved ones in the worst way imaginable, or will the forces unleashed by this unholy book prove too powerful for any one mortal to defeat?
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