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Event Coverage: Knight 4 Gamers

September 18th, 2009 saw over 2000 attendees pour through the doors of the Pegasus Ballroom at the University of Central Florida. The event, Knight 4 Gamers is an expo of technology and gaming that occurs each year at UCF. On hand for the event was Dell, Apple, Asus, Blue Orb, Alienware, Logitech, and more. Of course Techwarelabs was there pimping several of our rigs in a COD4 Tournament as well as showing the crowd some pretty damn impressive machines and technology. Check out our pictures, video's, and the prizes some people took home.

Why Must Everything Be Online?

Remember the days when you could call your bank and speak to someone on the phone. Why do I have to Check my balance online? Remember when you could go to Blockbuster and pick out a movie? Why must I pick out the movies on their website and have them shipped to me now? Why oh why must everything be online?

An Exercise in Bait and Switch Online Fraud and How to Stay Safe

Staying safe with purchases online continues to get more and more difficult. Today I share with you an exercise in which I voluntarily subject myself to one of the classics in fraudulent activity, the Bait and Switch. Take a walk with me down my experience and see the dirty underbelly that these scam artists don't want you to see.

Defcon 17

While Black Hat may be a celebration of the security industry, Defcon is a celebration of the hackers and script kiddies that make the security industry the industry that it is. This is the 17th Defcon and they are pulling out all the stops. Join Chris as we check out what the security industry has to offer this year

Black Hat 2009 Convention

We put on our black hat while you put on your tin foil hat, as TechwareLabs visits this year’s Black Hat convention. Black Hat is a yearly event which is known for providing new and exclusive insights about upcoming information security trends. It serves to inform the IT community of potential threats that will sweep the internet.

Modifying the Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive: Unleash the Hidden Performance Within

Overclocking is all about squeezing every little bit of performance out of the hardware on hand. Today we look away from the traditional definition of overclocking and hit something closer to home base, the hard drive. This editorial shows how to get that last megabyte of performance out a Seagate Barracuda 1.5 Tb hard drive when all other options have been used up. In the end you will be suprised by our results. . . as the Seagate drive wipes the floor with the Western Digital Velociraptor.