The “reimagined” version of Windows that Microsoft is currently working on holds a lot more secrets than that new Metro-style Xbox Live app. Along with many other UI and feature changes, Windows 8 will have a brand new Blue Screen of Death or BSoD for every time that it runs into an error or crashes for some reason (and how often does that kind of thing happen, right?).

Pictured above, Windows 8′s new BSoD is still blue, however it won’t be showing you a great big white wall of text this time around. Instead, it will simply say “Your PC ran into a problem that it couldn’t handle, and now it needs to restart.” On top of that, there will be a rather huge sad face right above the couple lines of text.

So now, the BSoD is even less helpful than before in letting you know exactly what went wrong, but at least it knows how you feel. And isn’t that what’s important?

Via PC World

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The BlackBerry Partners Fund has already launched this year’s BlackBerry Developer Challenge, and there is a cool $3 million USD worth of prizes up for grabs. There are three competitions in total this year, and developers of both BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet applications are invited to join. If you’re not a developer for either BlackBerry platform yet, a good time to become one would be now.
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It is a well-known fact that netbooks suffer from having horrible performance when it comes to gaming, and even with developments such as NVIDIA’s ION graphics chip, gaming performance is still only passable at best. Is there any way to improve netbook gaming performance without giving up on the ultraportable platform altogether to settle for a more powerful full-sized laptop or desktop? Apparently, there is, as far as Steam games are concerned, and it involves getting down and a bit dirty with the program to enter a few commands.

To be able to optimize any netbook for Steam games like Half Life 2, Portal, and Counter-Strike: Source, you need only follow the steps enumerated in the Blogee forum thread that we’ve linked to below. You can do this right now as long as you have Steam installed, as well as a couple of games, of course. But know that this is not 100% guaranteed to allow users to play without causing a great deal of frustration. Still, anyone is free to perform the “mods” necessary for this trick and the worst that could possibly happen is that you’ll have to reinstall your Steam client. Check out the full instructions below.

Forum thread Via Blogeee

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If you’re one of the many people who have been looking forward to the release of Google’s open-source Chrome operating system since the day it was first announced, then you’ll be glad to know that Google’s VP of product management Sundar Pichai spoke at Computex 2010 in Taipei and said Chrome OS is on track to be released by the fall of 2010. It will debut in a notebook, and while it wasn’t specified what brand and model it would be, there’s hope that it might be an upcoming netbook from Acer, as earlier rumors have suggested. He didn’t mention any other details about the open-source OS, other than trying to explain how Google sees it differently from Android, as it is intended for use in the desktop PC environment while Android is for handheld devices.

Via DigiTimes

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The video below shows a very telling demo that proves what HyperBoot is capable of.  Asus plans to integrate the tool into new notebook releases though the models that will get the upgrade haven’t been announced.

This should be a good solution for netbooks that can’t be bothered to use the sleep function or even hibernate. The first EeePCs, those that ran on smaller flash storage, are an ideal type of netbook for this tool. Let’s hope it becomes available for other computers as well.

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If you’ve got an iPhone or iPod touch and are thinking about running Ubuntu some time in the near future, you’ll be glad to know that either device can be plugged in via USB without much fanfare as Lucid Lynx, the latest version of this famously user-friendly distro offers out-of-the-box support whether Apple likes it or not. That’s right, the iPhone “just works” with Ubuntu, and so does the iPod touch. The only thing left now is for there to be a Linux version of iTunes. And for Apple to not work against this built-in feature by issuing a software update or something similar. Enjoy it while you can, anyway.

webupd8 via Download Squad

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If you’re looking for ways to ‘trick out’ your netbook then GigaOM have posted up a great list of free ways to do just that.

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