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Can Your PC Handle Battlefield 3? iPhone 5: We'll Know Tomorrow, E Ink: Because Reading On A Phone Sucks! Fiverr.com, Build An Ultra Quiet PC and More

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 – running time 36:50
The iPhone 5 announcement is tomorrow! Ryan Shrout's been testing Battlefield 3, and he knows what you need in your PC for the best performance. Your ideas for securing Nintendo DS Wi-Fi. What can you get somebody to do for $5? Check out Fiverr.com! Patrick's latest Quiet PC build is affordable... but we've got some over the top super-quiet upgrades. Reading books on phones and tablets SUCK: we'd rather use a reader with an E Ink screen.

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The iPhone 5 announcement is tomorrow! Ryan Shrout's been testing Battlefield 3, and he knows what you need in your PC for the best performance. Your ideas for securing Nintendo DS Wi-Fi. What can you get somebody to do for $5? Fiverr.com! Patrick's latest Quiet PC build is affordable... but we've got some over the top super-quiet upgrades. Reading books on phones and tablets SUCK: we'd rather use a reader with an E Ink screen.

iPhone 5 Tomorrow! Apple's One More Thing. Thermal Compound Help!

Oracle has taken over San Francisco. And why yes, there is a lot of speculation around the Apple announcement coming Tuesday October 4th. Will Tim Cook reveal Assistant as the "one more thing," or is there a hardware surprise? BTW: follow the directions from Arctic Silver, apply your thermal compound properly and you might see a massive reduction in CPU temps! (Like 40 Centigrade, if somebody really screwed up the original install!)

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Kindle Fire vs. Kindle Readers... Reading on the iPhone Sucks!

Veronica's Sword and Laser Podcast inspired Patrick to read Neal Stephenson's 1,056 page long Reamde in hardback and Ernest Cline's 384 page Ready Player One on the iPhone. The iPhone trashed Patrick's eyes, so Veronica and Patrick explain why E Ink is so amazing for reading. Then, they answer Roy's question about the Kindle Fire and talk about how fast the new $79 Kindle is!

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Is Your PC Ready for Battlefield 3?!

Ryan Shrout from PCPer.com did some epic testing of Battlefield 3 to produce the Battlefield 3 (BF3) System Build Guide... he joins us to talk about why you might need (or want!) to upgrade your GPU or CPU to get the most of out BF3!

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Fiverr.com: What Can You Get Somebody to Do For $5?

Got 5 bucks burning a hole in your pocket? Want to figure out a way to supplement your income by selling a skill... or doing something completely ridiculous? Then check out Fiverr.com, this week's "Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of" aka "The place for people to share things they're willing to do for $5." Watch the video and Veronica will let you know the best section to check out for the coolest offers, and which section reeks of SCAM!

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Build a Quiet PC

Want a quiet PC? Patrick did, and pulled together a collection of affordable parts that keep the noise down, even if the noise is coming from 12 TB of hard drives! He shows off what works and why, like Antec's P183 v3, then offers suggestions for folks that are willing to spend big bucks for an even quieter machine!

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IfThisThenThat Recipes!

A few weeks ago Veronica asked you to send in your favorite IfThisThenThat recipes, you sent in some got some nifty like Sven's, who'll never miss another episode of Tekzilla again. And Kim L, who uses SMS to send reminders from her schedule!

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Hack Nintedo DS Friendly Secure Wi-Fi!

Last week a viewer needed help getting his wife's Nintendo DS on Wi-Fi without having turn off WP2 or using WEP... Peter, Joe and Chris have some great ways to make this happen!

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