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Dispatches from the Nexus This past summer, the power button my Palm Pre started misbehaving. At last, I had an excuse to replace the aging handset with something... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Personal tech |
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A tale of tablet flashing 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... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems |
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My six days with Windows 8 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... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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Oh, Sublime Text, how do I love thee? 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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Sennheiser's HD 558 headphones are cans of whoop-ass It's rumored that if you give a mouse a cookie, he'll probably ask you for a glass of milk. They also say that if... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Goodbye, Google+ I asked Google to delete my Google+ account the other day. I did it without second thoughts, without regrets, after using the service for barely a... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Internet |
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Have Internet, will travel 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... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Personal tech |
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Windows 8 frightens me, and here's why 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... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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If data can be lost, it will 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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Windows 8-Ball Consumer Preview 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... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems |
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The misadventures of Blu-ray in HTPC land If you'll humor me, I'd like to take a brief break from all the CES coverage to complain about the sad state of Blu-ray on... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Where's my 21st-century television? Gabe Newell said something that caught my eye the other day. As part of a broader interview with The Cambridge Student, Newell shared some... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Are sound cards still relevant? Recently, I supplemented my desktop's arsenal of hardware with a stand-alone Asus Xonar DX sound card. This upgrade was something of a shot in... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Windows 8 and the marginalization of geeks 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.... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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The next computing revolution will be televised Up until very recently, I had been able to remain faithful to my home-theater PC. Well, that's not entirely true. I've gone through... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Ubuntu ushers me out of the Windows XP era 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,... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems |
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Our slow migration into the cloud There's been a lot of talk about the cloud lately. I'm not sure exactly when clouds came to represent noisy server farms thousands of miles... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Internet |
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Teaching an old PSU new tricks Years back, while still an angsty teenager, I had a bug in my head telling me that A+ certification sounded like good times. With... |
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| AMD's A4-5000 'Kabini' APU reviewed | 41 |
| I'm sorry but if there's enough market demand for 13.3" 3200x1800 screens, there's MORE than enough demand for 24" 2560x1600 screens. | +47 |