When I heard this story, I was more saddened than anything else. Frankly, there’s no love lost between Facebook and I – I don’t find the service quite the panacea communications platform that so many other people do, but I…
PC Mag’s Biggest Tech Pet Peeves
The folks at PC Mag sat down and got busy thinking about what some of their biggest pet peeves around technology were. Horrible autocorrect? Check. People trying to multi-touch all over your laptop or desktop display? Check. People who want…
How to Build a Powerful Portable Gaming Desktop PC
Now here’s a project that I think I could take on – not because I need another computer, but mostly because I could use having a gaming PC that doesn’t take up as much space as my current tower does.…
PC Mag :: Going on a Digital Diet
Should you go on a “Digital Diet?” Do you spend waking hours refreshing Twitter or Facebook, reading friends blogs constantly and then commenting on each post even though you know you don’t have anything meaningful to say? Do you think…
The Worst Passwords Ever
I love these types of articles. The same way as I was intrigued when I saw the most common passwords that users had in the database that hackers retrieved from Gawker when they were hacked, I love seeing some of…
PC Mag :: The Five Most Influential Tech Products of All Time
PC Mag took your votes in multiple categories to come up with a definitive list of the most influential products of all time. From mobile devices to gaming to desktops to operating systems, they laid out the candidates and the…
PCMag :: The 10 Best Phones with Keyboards
I hear it all the time: everyone wants a smartphone, but not everyone wants to type on a screen, no matter how good alternative screen keyboards like Swype or SwiftKey really are. Considering the most powerful and popular phones entering…
RIM Releases the BlackBerry PlayBook
So RIM – the company behind the BlackBerry and its line of products – finally managed to ship the BlackBerry Playbook. The reviews have been flying, with most of them falling into two categories: BlackBerry fan sites that are heralding…
PC Mag :: Six Apple Stores To See Before You Die
Some people say that the art and architecture that goes into making Apple retail stores as beautiful as they are borders on the attention that ancient cultures put on their temples and places of worship, and I don’t completely disagree.…
Commodore Announces New Commodore64
It looks like Commodore, that’s right, of the iconic Commodore 64 computer system – one of the first PCs that people remember having in their homes – is back, and they’re bringing the Commodore 64 name with them. The company…