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Warning: The following is by no means an in-depth review or related to PC hardware. I used a recent ski trip as an opportunity to...

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To borrow the first line from The Streets' magnificent A Grand Don't Come for Free, it was supposed to be so easy. After a brutally...

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Almost a year ago today, I waved goodbye to the world of print books and got myself an Amazon Kindle 3. You might recall I...

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When I sit down at my desk in the Benchmarking Sweatshop, it feels like maybe I could tap into the Matrix. I've slowly added...

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Here at TR, we generally can't be bothered with things that don't raise the electricity bill or contain copious amounts of caffeine. However, over...

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Today, I finished my first book in a long, long time... probably years: On Writing by Stephen King. While King was one of my favorite...

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For more than a decade, I lugged my notebook in a simple shoulder bag. I suppose you'd call it a messenger-style bag today, but...

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There are few things that I despise more than the predominance of polished plastics in today's notebooks. Glossy finishes are the single worst...

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It's 10:35 PM on the second-to-last day of CES as I sit on the hotel bed nursing my blistered feet, throat aching from the desert...

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You've heard about the cloud, right? No, not the one that's spitting a pitter-patter of raindrops onto the roof of my home office. ...

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Well, I finally did it. After misguidedly buying what turned out to be a sub-par iPhone clone in 2008, then waiting almost five months...

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I severed my last land line about a decade ago, so I probably count as a reasonably early cell-phone adopter. Was I driven by a...

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Hey hey, kids. In case you've forgotten or are too lazy to use a...

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By now, many of you must have looked at, or at least heard of, the experimental, HTML5 version of YouTube. And if you read...

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As Chicago said back in 1970, does anybody really know what time it is?...

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No, I'm not talking about getting your dog or cat fixed. I'm talking about the Sansa Clip MP3 player, and my recent foray into...

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Traditional GPUs render a scene by taking the scene geometry (expressed as 3D meshes of triangles) and "pasting" 2D bitmap images (textures) onto those meshes....

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I recently acquired a Sansa Clip 4GB MP3 player (which, I might add, I'm quite happy with). After using it for a few weeks, I...

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