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I’m laughing on the inside with this post but deep down I know it’s wrong to laugh. In fact I should be angry that Apple is going about bricking iPhones with it’s v1.1.1 patch. According to Jonathan Seff over at iPhone Central, he updated his hacked iPhone, and it promptly turned into a rather expensive paper weight. From the sound of things Apple has released an update that bricks all phones that have unlocked SIM cards and even a few completely legit phones were temporarily iBricked in the process. Way to go Apple, I imagine a large majority of the phones you disabled were loyal Apple customers.

Source: iPhone Central

Lately I’ve been in a sort of gaming binge in which I pick up a game for a week, play the hell out of it and then drop it for something else. This is rather unusual for me as I usually know which game I want to play and I’ll play this game for months until something else manages to wrench me away. The one benefit of this cycle is that I’ve had the chance to experience some unique and different games. Today I’m going to take a look at Stranglehold, a blockbuster title with John Woo assisting in development and a crack cast of actors including Chow Yun Fat as Inspector Tequila Yuen. Just when I thought hilarious Chinese cop stereotypes wouldn’t cross the divide into gaming I was proven wrong, to much pleasure.

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Not so long ago AMD was living the goodlife with the performance crown firmly in it’s green hands. AMD’s FX line of processors, the pinnacle of overclocking performance, were fetching a hefty price in the $1000/processor range and all the top benchers of the world were churning through this chips like the world was ending. This all promptly ended when Core 2 was unleashed and swiftly kicked the Athlon 64 in the nuts and called it a day. For the last 9 months or longer AMD hasn’t had a flagship processor, the old FX-62 is practically being given away at $169 (used to sell for $900+) and their FX-7x chips failed to raise interest in the overclocking community. Now with their K10 architecture just releasing and a ton of hype over a new product launching AMD decides to “unleash” a “monster” on us.

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Think my fingers are finally charged up and ready to pound out some articles so place your bets now on how long it takes till I jump out for another break ;) In the last 20 days since I last wrote something here there has been a lot of product launches and juicy gossip and who doesn’t like new toys and gossip? This will be Part 1 of 2, there is just so much juicy hardware gossip to contain in one article.

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