Make Windows 8 look like Windows again

Windows 8 is almost here and, with it, the smartphone style interface. On a desktop? Seriously? if you're like us, you hate the phone style interface. Oh, and they changed Windows Explorer, too. No more nice, clean "look at my files on my hard drive". If you want to go back to the good old windows 7 style interface, the one you're used to, the one that actually looks like the Windows you've known since Windows 95, desktop and all, use this free utility. The nice thing about this is you can switch back and forth, so if you ever want your PC to look like a phone, you can go back. But really, why would you?

Windows 8 Metro UI Switcher

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Assassin's Creed 3 in Boston

A major part of Assassin's Creed 3 takes place in our home town of Boston. Here's some of the action taking place around town a few hundred years ago.

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Google Shopping Bad for Small Business

Okay, this is not my usual topic of pc gaming, but Google just converted Google Product Search, which allowed you to list your products for free, to Google Shopping, which uses the same format but now costs money per click. So Google sticks it to the little guy again. Now they say they did this to get more quality ads, but this just doesn't ring true. Small businesses created quality ads and spent more time on them than the deep pocket big guys because that's how we compete.

If you are up against a more powerful opponent, you have to compete with smarts and guile. I know that's what we did. And we consistently outperformed our bigger competitors because we @ Psychsoftpc paid attention to detail and created better product descriptions. Products being offered by a Fortune 500 company or a small business all showed equally under the old system. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. We were playing on a level playing field for once and could compete on quality not on who has the most money. I'm sure that other small businesses did the same.

Now all that's changed. With a pay per click system, our ads just won't get shown unless we pony up the dough. And of course, we can get outspent by our richer competitors. For example, Google showed that for some of our products, our gaming computers or graphics workstations, to show, I would have to bid $4.00 per click!! So the statement that ads would show based on quality not necessarily cost per click is wrong. The deeper the pockets, the more your ads will show and the better position it will have. Let's face it, the big guys don't have the time or desire to put great effort into creating better quality ads, and now they don't have to. They can just outspend us little guys and dominate Google like they do for other Google ads.

I know a lot of small businesses depended on Google Product search to attract customers. It was free, a level playing field with the big guys and dependent on quality not on how much you could spend. Google Shopping is going to cost small businesses everywhere in revenue, customers and, if they wish to continue having their products continue to display in Google Shopping, advertising money. And it turns out pay per click is only the beginning. Google intends to implement a percentage based system. That's right, Google will collect a percentage of every product sold as a result of a Google Shopping search. With margins so tight, who can afford that? The big guys of course!

Well, enough rants on Google Shopping for now. I promise to get back to gaming next time.

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Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut Endings

By now, you probably know how I feel about the endings in Mass defect er, sorry, Mass Effect 3. They sucked. Too many plot holes, too many unanswered questions and Shepard sacrificing herself at the end. Well, frankly I was and still am in no mood to kill off the greatest hero of the galaxy at the say so of little ghost boy. People lie and I don't trust anything that takes the form of a child to be more believable. So, I refuse to finish the game. My Shepard is happily on the Normandy with her crew, occasionally visiting her favorite stores on the Citadel. Shepard lives!

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Anyway, if you're like me, you are curious about the "extended cut" endings. Let me tell you, I still think they suck, just, as my friend Steve Jobs once said, they suck less. but don't take my word for it. Go ahead and see for yourself. Here they are in all there sucky glory so you don't have to finish the game and kill off Commander Shepard to see them. So, watch the videos and let her stay on board the Normandy.

Control Ending



Synthesis Ending



Destroy Ending




Do Nothing Ending or the "slap to the face of the fan base" ending, as I'm calling it.



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Assassin's Creed 3

Well, here is the assassin's creed 3 trailer. This game is set in colonial US and adds sea battles. Hasn't there been way more than 3 of these games already? anyway here is the trailer.

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Psychsoftpc High Performance Computer Lines Now With Intel's New Sandy Bridge Platform

As part of our ongoing commitment to offering our customers the latest cutting edge technology in all of our high performance computer systems, we @ Psychsoftpc, a manufacturer of high performance computers, gaming PCs, graphics workstations and tesla personal supercomputers are now using Intel's 2nd Generation Core i7 and i5 processors called "Sandy Bridge" by Intel across the board in all of our PCs, workstations and personal supercomputers.

Sandy Bridge incorporates improved memory bandwidth and utilizes Intel's Turbo Boost Technology to provide even more performance when needed. Super-Smart. Ultra-Threaded. Absolutely Uncompromised. The 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 and Core i5 processor family delivers a more life-like experience for the ultimate in hyper-real gaming and performance boosts for business, workstation and supercomputing applications. For more information on Sandy Bridge technology, visit Intel's site @ www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/core-i7-processor.html?cid=sem117p3988

Of course, a great processor doesn't do much good by itself. This is where the good folks at Psychsoftpc come in. Using only the finest components and paying special attention to power and heat issues, the folks at Psychsoftpc design each system with the utmost care for performance and reliability. This is why people as diverse as 3d film makers, graphic artists, mathematicians researching prime number theory, medical and pharmaceutical researchers, climatologists and aerospace engineers working in businesses, colleges, universities and government facilities throughout the U.S. rely on Psychsoftpc for their high performance computing needs.

For more information or to purchase a Psychsoftpc computer system featuring Sandy Bridge technology, please visit Psychsoftpc @ www.psychsoftpc.com

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Psychsoftpc is a maker of high performance personal computing systems designed with performance in mind. Psychsoftpc configures each machine using the highest quality components with the attention to detail you would expect from a bunch of Ph.D computer geeks. Founded in 1987 as part of an AIDS research project for NIH, Psychsoftpc is based in historic Quincy, MA. For more information, visit www.psychsoftpc.com or call us @ 617-471-8733. You can also find us on facebook @ facebook.com/psychsoftpc

Mass Effect 3

The much anticipated Mass Effect 3 arrives on March 6, 2012 and from the trailers, it promises to be quite a ride. What happened to your ME2 crew? will they make a return? Who are the new crew members?

It has been confirmed the Jessica Chabot will make an appearance as a new crew member. Tali will be back, if she survived. Ashley will be there also, if you didn't nuke her in the first Mass Effect. And of course, our favorite blue alien, Liara, will make a comeback.

So, pick up your crew, make allies with different planets and go save the universe, again.