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CHIP CONTENTS:
NEWSWIRE
In the News...
A look at what's making news in the world of technology.
What Got You Talking In 2010
A look at the hottest topics of discussion across Facebook, Twitter, and Google in 2010.
New Products Launched
A round-up of the latest products that are hitting shelves now.
Arriving in 2011
CHIP unveils the 25 novelties that will revolutionize personal computing this year.
20 Years of WWW
The first web server was launched in December 1990. Now, life without the Web is unthinkable.
TEST CENTER
Product Spotlight
Does the beautiful new MacBook Air 11-inch justify its price?
Hardware Tested
The latest PC hardware, cameras, mobile phones and peripherals tested and rated.
Software Spotlight
A fun digital media suite for most users, but is the Apple iLife a must-have?
Software Tested
Everything from back-up tools and disc burning utilities to video editors and photo managers.
FEATURED
Connecting Everything
We show you how to set up your super Wi-Fi home using built-in Windows 7 functions.
Versatility With Value
We compare 12 mainstream motherboards based on AMD’s latest 880G and 870 chipsets.
UEFI: The New Super BIOS
The end of the old BIOS is imminent; UEFI is faster, safer and more efficient.
Turning a Digital Page
The popularity of the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad prove that e-reading is here to stay.
Career Trends For 2011
The IT industry is ripe with career opportunities that promise exponential growth.
Apps for Android and iOS
This month's picks for work and play on your smartphone while you're on the move.
HANDS ON
Dr CHIP
Our in-house expert helps you out with your computing woes.
Remote Access for Free
We show you how you can access and control your PC from anywhere in the world for free.
Tips N Tricks
Some useful tweaks and hidden application features you may not know about.
UNWIND
Kinect for Xbox 360
We test out the Xbox 360's new controller-free motion tech along with three Kinect games.
Gran Turismo 5
It took five years to make, and it's got enough in it to last you another five years.
Nail'd
Techland's crazy new off-road racer makes Burnout look slow!
Super Meat Boy
A red chunk of meat up against saw blades, spike beds, and a boss battle against a turd.
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
After Florence and Venice, Ezio and Desmond return to conquer Rome.
REGULARS
Editorial
Colophon
In the News...
New Products Launched
PC Configs
Web Watch
Dr CHIP
Tips & Tricks
Market Watch
Contests
Letters
Personal Tech
CHIP PLUS CONTENTS:
FEATURES
Netbooks for Different Needs
A quick guide to help you decide why you need a netbook to begin with
Reading between the lines
A checklist of thing to consider while buying a netbook.
Loading up your netbook
Choosing applications that help you make the best use of your netbook.
picking the best computing device
Comparing the most popular compuing devices available today.
surfin' with style
Picking a browser that enhances your Internet surfing experince on a netbook.
Goodies for your netbook
Some must-have peripherals to help you migrate to a netbook with ease.
fresh out of the over
A look at the latest netbook models that hit the markets.
Operating Systems for netbooks
Selecting the best OS to maximize the potential of you netbook.
What the industry leaders have to say
Four major players in the netbook market share thier point of views.
the future of netbooks
A list of potential upgrades in the current netbooks to take them to the next level.
BUYING GUIDE
Netbooks Specifications and Prices
A comprehensive buying guide powered by CompareIndia.in.com.
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DISK CONTENTS
JAN 2011
RED HOT
Autodesk MotionBuilder 2011
VIDEOS
Tech Toyz Episode 117
Tech Toyz Episode 118
Tech Toyz Episode 119
Tech Toyz Episode 120
TOYS
FULL GAMES
Sudden Strike 2
Dream Cars
Samurai Last Exam
Rainbow Web 2
Galaxy Strike
GAME DEMOS
FIFA Manager 11 Demo
Football Manager 2011 Vanilla Demo
Sonic Fan Remix Demo
Farming Simulator 2011Demo
Bloom Demo
Defenstar
Pirates of New Horizons
Immortal Souls Demo
CrazyBoat
Ice World
DreamRace 1.1
Ayla Demo
DarkSide 1.05.1
OctaCore 1.0
GAME TRAILERS
Mortal Kombat Sub-Zero Trailer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Quest For The Horcruxes Trailer
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 - Launch Trailer
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood MP Launch Trailer
DiRT 3 - Teaser Trailer
Fable 3 - Accolades Launch Trailer
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Webdoc Trailer
Kaptain Brawe - A Brawe New World Trailer
Michael Jackson: The Experience - In The Closet Gameplay Trailer
LEGO Universe - World Builder Gameplay Trailer
GAME ADD ONS
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King v4.0.1.13164 to v4.0.1.13205 Incremental Patch
Strategic Command WWII Global Conflict v1.04 Patch
WRC FIA World Rally Championship Patch 1.01
Din's Curse Patch Beta 1.0010
Angels Online Patch 3.5.0.0 to 3.5.1.6
Farming Simulator 2011 Patch 1.4
Priston Tale 1 Patch 3137
ZERO Online Client Cumulative Patch 2928-2937
Mafia II Music
LINUX
LINUX DISTRIBUTION
Fedora 14 Desktop Edition
LINUX TOOLS
Goggles Music Manager 0.11.5
XPaint 2.9.8
MythTV 0.24
gThumb 2.12.1
Goobox 2.2.0
Nanoshot 0.2.7
Brasero 2.91.2
Chrome TV 2.0.3
Transmission 2.12
TOOLS
MULTIMEDIA
TwistedBrush Open Studio 17.20
CyberLink TrueTheater Enhancer 1.0.0.114
Portable AmoK CD / DVD Burning 1.10
Nero BurnLite 10.0.10500
iTunes 10.1.0.54
CDBurnerXP 4.3.8.2474
DAEMON Tools Lite 4.35.6 (with SPTD 1.62)
Phantom CD 2.0.0.0
Paint.NET 3.56.3972.42619
The Gimp 2.6.11
Accord CD Ripper Express Free 6.5.6
Astroburn Lite 1.3.0.0100
SunlitGreen Photo Manager 2.3.4 Build 413
Kestrel GX 1.0
UnFREEz 2.1
JPEGsnoop 1.5.1
ASCII Animator 1.2
Batch Image Resizer
Yuzhe Flash Menu 1.0 Build 100824
Comic Life 1.3.6 Build 71
Dynamic HTML Editor Free 1.9.9
WinMPG Video Convert 9.1.8.0
K-Lite Video Conversion Pack 1.8.5
XMedia Recode 2.2.8.4
Aku Video Converter 6.1
Quick Media Converter 4.5.0.0 Beta
Free Eahoosoft Video Converter
SUPER 2010 Build 42
Satsuki Decoder Pack 4.3.0.8
FeyRecorder 1.2.0
Free Audio Recorder 6.2.0
DirectShow FilterPack 4.0
RealPlayer SP 1.1.5
Real Alternative 2.02
Winamp 5.59 Full Beta 3033
Xion Audio Player 1.0 Build 127
SPlayer 3.6 Build 1558 Beta
Ubiquitous Player 1.5 Beta
INTERNET
Free IP Scanner 1.8 Build 20101021
Quisple 1.5.0
TeamViewer Portable 5.1.9385
Transmute Portable 2.09
NetDrive 1.2.0.3
Readon TV Movie Radio Player 7.2.0.0
TVUPlayer 2.5.3 Build 2025 Beta 1
anyTV 2.57
Web TV Easy 1.0
Pidgin 2.7.6
uTorrent 2.2.0 Build 23235
FeyAccelerator 1.2
mergetorrent 2.0
Yahoo! Messenger 11.0.0.1751 Beta
Google Chrome 9.0.587.0 Beta
Firefox 4.0 Beta 7
Internet Explorer 9 1.9.8023.6000 Platform Preview 7
Opera 11.0 Beta 1 (Build 1111)
MOBILE
Android Manager WiFi 2.1 Build 1010.846
iPhone Configuration Utility 3.1.0.256
IPhone Analyzer 0.9.8
3D Snake (Java) 1.0
Sudokumaster 1.0
PhotoFun 1.2
eBuddy 1.9.0
Dr.Web for Android 6.00
Nokia Internet Radio for Series 40 1.0.1 beta
SECURITY
F-Secure Internet Security 2011 10.50 Build 197
Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus 10.0.0.592
NOD32 AntiVirus 4.2.67
ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.96.4
Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition 1.3.0
PC Tools AntiVirus Free 8.0.0.608
Comodo AntiVirus 5.1.37755.1159
Blue Atom Antivirus 3.0.03B Beta Aqua Lucida
BRIGADE Antivirus 6.0.5.0
Malware Destroyer 5.2.20.153
Norman Malware Cleaner 1.8.2 (2010.11.09)
RemoveAny 2.8.23
TweakNow SecureDelete 1.0.0000 Beta 3
Secure Eraser Standard Edition 3.204
Sygate Personal Firewall Free 5.6.2808
Secure Folder 3.2.0.0
Privacy Winner 5.6.9.18
Spamihilator 0.9.9.53
Cypherix LE 9.0.2
Crypt4Free 5.43
Encrypt4all 1.4
Visual Porn Blocker 2.1.0.0
USB Flash Security 3.3.0
Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool 3.13
AppAdmin 1.1.0.0
SYSTEM
Adobe Reader 10.0
Advanced Defrag 2010
Super Flexible File Synchronizer 5.20c Build 139
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Home 4.2
Wondershare Disk Manager Free 1.0.0
Backup & Recovery Free Advanced Edition (formerly Paragon Drive Backup Express) 2010 Build 10444 (14.07.10)
SSuite Office Portable 2.0
SSuite Office - My Daily Digital Journal 2.0.0.1
WinUtilities Free Edition 9.91
Windows Registry Recovery 1.5.1.0
Partition Assistant Home Edition 2.6
AbiWord 2.8.6
Foxit Reader 4.3.0.1110
CCleaner 3.01.1327
Process Explorer 14.01
SIW 2010 Build 0714
Sandboxie 3.51.04 Beta
ESET SysInspector 1.2.021.0
Window Detective 1.3.0
Sandra Lite 2011 (17.15)
CustoPack Tools 1.0.0.14
Sysinternals Suite 1.0 Build 16.11.2010
HDClone Free Edition 3.9.5
Eraser 6.0.8.2273
UltraDefrag 4.4.0 (32-bit)
Game Fire 1.0.28 Beta 2
FileWing 2.2
doPDF 7.1 Build 349
Glarysoft Disk SpeedUp 1.1.0.317
LiLi USB Creator 2.6
Uranium Backup 8.4.3 Build 4381
Advanced SystemCare (formerly Advanced WindowsCare) 3.7.2.732
MSI Afterburner 2.1.0 Beta 4
CSVStar 1.4.0
Registrar Registry Manager Lite 6.50 Build 652.30707
Acronis Drive Monitor 1.0 Build 507
Office Document Builder 1.0.1
Bambini 3.4
Real Desktop 1.62
Dexpot 1.5.7 Build 1394
HJSplit 3.0
Yadis! Backup 1.9.17
IE9 Tweaker 1.0
Memory Improve Master Free Version 6.1.2.340
Memory Optimization 1.1.0.1920
Adjiesoft RAM Accelerator 1
SlimComputer 1.0.1
Canta 1.11
ZipGenius 6.3.1.2613
WinRAR 4.00 Beta 1 (32-bit)
WinZip 15.0.9302
MUST HAVES
DirectX 9.0c (Jun 10)
NVIDIA Forceware 263.09 WHQL XP
NVIDIA Forceware 263.09 WHQL Vista
ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.11 XP
ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.11 Vista
Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0.22 (32-bit)
.NET Framework Version 4.0
Silverlight 4.0.50917
Realtek High Definition Audio 2.54 XP
Realtek High Definition Audio 2.54 Vista
ADOBE PLAYERS
Flash Player 10.1.102.64 (IE)
Flash Player 10.1.102.64 (Non-IE)
Adobe Air 2.5.1.17730
Shockwave Player 11.5.9.615
FULL SOFTWARE
Kodu 1.0.92.0 Technical Preview
Panda3D 1.6.1
Unity 2.6.1f3 Build 31223
3DVIA Studio Beta Build 2.5.75
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