Getting a great work lamp for working inside a PC isn’t exactly the easiest thing in the world to find because there aren’t that many choices available. In addition, there aren’t too many lamps that are specifically made for PC use (there is decorative, but I’m talking about work lamps here). A truly great PC work lamp is one that’s...

I’ve a confession to make: I don’t actually have a cable connection. For obvious reasons, I’ve eschewed television altogether. What few shows I actually do watch, I can legally view online. Why bother paying an extra thirty to one hundred a month for something I’m not actually going to use, right? But I digress – we’re getting...

So, your computer’s not running as smoothly as it used to? Is it having trouble performing tasks that other people’s systems seem to find menial and untaxing? It might be time to upgrade your system’s Random Access Memory, or RAM. This’ll give your system that extra ‘oomph’ and go a very long way towards helping it more...

Happy Leap Year Day, everyone (today is 29 Feb, a month that traditionally has 28 days). Many moons ago the big deal with personal computers was what used to be called "home publishing". The Mac in particular often used its home publishing capabilities to sell itself, as at one point the Mac had much better fonts, printing apps and so on. The days of...

I’ve always maintained a neutral stance where the console wars are concerned. Each device has both advantages and disadvantages, merits and detriments. The largest advantage of the Xbox 360, hands down, has to be a lovely little issue known as the Red Ring of Death. Most everyone who doesn’t have a new model has probably suffered from this at least...

Dot matrix printers may still be used in business (they’re particularly good for printing double and triple-copy receipts, as in the white-yellow or white-yellow-pink kind), but in the home they’ve been gone for decades, replaced by inkjet and laser. I’m pretty sure nobody will argue with me when I say the dot matrix printer was one of the...

Before even starting this one, no I’m not telling you to all go join the Tin Foil Hat Club. This is simply a comparison of the differences between desktops and laptops concerning security. Security features come in two flavors, hardware and software. When you pit the desktop vs. the laptop, which of two has the better security features? Kensington...

When I say "most-talked-about" I’m referring to "most-reviewed", as in the optical media most people were willing to write reviews about on popular tech-shopping web sites. The results I found were interesting, because the top 5 may not be what you thought would show up in this list. 1. Verbatim 8.5GB 2.4x DVD+R DL 95310...

Remember when a wireless computer mouse was really expensive? Well, they aren’t anymore and you have many choices when it comes to them these days. Below are 5 mice of varying styles, all wireless, and all good. Logitech Performance Mouse MX (up to 30% off through the above link!) The MX is a high-performance mouse with its biggest perk being that...

Over the last few years there’s be a large effort by a dedicated few to preserve as much software as possible; this has especially ramped up considering many of those old floppy diskettes – particularly the 5.25-inch kind – are literally disintegrating due to age. A major problem that those trying to preserve software run into is trying to get...