Welcome to the Benchmarking Sweatshop For years, I've been meaning to do a blog post about the Benchmarking Sweatshop. Thing is, every time there's an opening in my schedule, my... Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report |
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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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Fake Different If you're a Mac fan of a certain age, you no doubt recognize... |
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Podcast delay update... but you already knew that In an egregiously belated fashion, I'm checking in with a quick update to say that we are delaying the podcast by one week and will... Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report Podcast |
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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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Daddy's got a brand new ride 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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How TR gets (some of) its squeaky-clean product photos If you follow our intrepid Editor in Chief on Twitter, you might have read his tweets about a little misattribution mishap a couple of months... Type: Blog post Tags: The Tech Report |
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When super-sized smartphones become pocketable tablets I thought I lost my smartphone the other week. Somewhere between walking my dog in the morning and heading out for lunch, my trusty Palm... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech |
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Why do mobile displays get all the love? With few exceptions, it seems, the gadgets hogging the media limelight today tend to be of the fingerprint-collecting variety. Tablets, phones, tablet-phones, e-readers, and anything... |
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The death of the Apple tax The old adage says there are only two certainties in this world: death and taxes. Steve Jobs proved that not even the Reality Distortion... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Mobile computing Personal tech |
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Apple TV UI great if you're not using Apple TV A couple of weeks ago, I purchased a new Apple TV. Which is not an actual TV. But you probably knew that. It is, however,... |
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Delaying the podcast, because we care In what is sure to be a wildly unpopular decision, we've decided to push the podcast back a week. From the underground lair of Damage... |
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Return to the the tech island in the stream Today is, by international decree of some mildly corrupt UN commission, iPad Day. Not iPad 3 day, mind you, as Apple has decided to stop... |
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I bought a Kindle Touch, and it's pretty great 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... Type: Blog post Tags: Personal tech |
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Six screens, one desk 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... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Displays |
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It's 106 miles to Chicago, it's dark, and we've got an app On this, iPad 3 Eve (and apparently Apple TV 3 Eve, as well), I thought it might be nice to step back from X-raying all... |
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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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AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X CPUs reviewed | 238 |
Remember when we all whined that Founder's Edition parts were overpriced ripoffs? Pepperidge Farm remembers. | +33 |