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So, you heard the news: PC sales are tanking. Apparently, nobody wants to buy Dells or HPs anymore; nobody cares about clunky laptops and bulky...

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This past summer, the power button my Palm Pre started misbehaving. At last, I had an excuse to replace the aging handset with something...

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So, we meet again. Last time, we were, ahem, discussing religion: the

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About a year and a half ago, I picked up Asus' original Eee Pad Transformer tablet. This precursor to the growing crop of Win8 convertibles...

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So, I installed Windows 8 on my desktop PC last week. It was late on the eve of the launch. The download link for the $39.99...

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Let me count the ways... Okay, so I never dreamed I'd ever spend $59 on a text editor. I mean, there are perfectly good ones out...

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Some people just hate change. It can't be helped. Those people cling to old versions of their favorite software as long as they can. When...

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Murphy was right. If something can go wrong, it will... eventually. Earlier this week, the water main connected to our house burst, submerging...

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Man, I cannot wait to get started on my next build. Nearly all the necessary components are already laid out on my workbench. Some were...

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The old adage says there are only two certainties in this world: death and taxes. Steve Jobs proved that not even the Reality Distortion...

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There aren't many experiences in life more disconcerting than waking up and not knowing where you are or how you got there. I was...

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As I mentioned on the podcast this week, I have been working to re-fit Damage Labs with new hardware all around....

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On Tuesday, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Developer Preview available publicly without demanding so much as a Windows Live login name and password in return....

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Join us as we offer a live account of Mooly Eden's day-opening keynote from the Intel Developer Forum 2011 in San Francisco.  Reload...

Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Systems

Well, it finally happened. Windows XP is no longer the primary OS on any of my day-to-day machines. The last holdout was my laptop,...

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Last week, Apple updated its iBooks app for all iOS devices. The world, even the book nerd world, did not break out into flash mobs...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mac Personal tech Copyright

I spend an almost embarrassing amount of time in front of my desktop PC. It's my workhorse, and the system that I endeavor to...

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