It’s a truth more often than not that people don’t replace monitors because the old one broke, but rather because they wanted something bigger or with the newer LED-backlighting methods that provide better light and color. What this means is that you probably have an older LCD panel monitor that’s in perfect working order and aren’t doing...

The Secure Digital card, commonly abbreviated as SD (or SDSC, SDHC, SDHC, SDIO, microSD, etc.), is an old enough technology at this point where many of you have cards that are several years old. SD cards are used by a whole bunch of different devices, but the most common applications are in digital cameras/camcorders and mobile phones. Like with all memory...

Barbara writes: I’m running Win XP Professional with Office 2007, Windows Live Mail (version 2009, seems that’s the most current one) along with IE8. I have Cablevision as my provider for Internet/TV/phone services. Is there an open source (I take it that means "free", right?) fax program that’s easily installed/used with...

This is an attempt to explain to you why your computer tells you "conflicting" (but not really) information on exactly how much usable space you have on any given storage medium. In my possession I have a really old 512MB Sandisk cruzer micro USB stick. To make absolutely sure I was going to get the maximum space out of it, I low-level formatted it...

Above is the newly-unveiled TRENDnet TEW-811DR and the TEW-800MB wireless router and bridge using the 802.11ac specification that allows for 1.3Gbps wireless connectivity. No, they’re not available for sale yet (that will happen later this year), but yes they will be backward compatible with Wireless N as long as you stay on the 5GHz band. The question...

Now that you’re all settled in at your new place (and in possession of the hard-earned knowledge that metal and microwaves don’t mix), it’s time to get your internet up and running. The process of getting the internet set up and running is fairly straightforward (just make sure you do a bit of research on all the possible providers before...

So, you want a bit more storage space for your files, do you? Got too much music? Too many movies? Too much material of an illicit nature? Whatever the reason, you’re going to want an external hard drive. And in much the same way as a computer, you’re going to want to care for it and maintain it. External drives might not require as much maintenance...

A while back you probably heard of the itty-bitty Raspberry Pi computer; a computer which is essentially nothing more than a board with the proper ports for things like a keyboard, mouse, video and network. (Note: No-network version is $25 and the one with Ethernet is $35.)Some of you may be asking, "Why would I want a computer with a sub-1GHz CPU that...

We’re all watching more video on the internet than ever before, be it via YouTube, Netflix or any number of other video delivery/sharing sites. You’ll notice however that some monitors provide true widescreen (meaning the entire screen is filled on press of the "fullscreen" button) easily while others don’t. The reason for this is...

Philip writes: Are there any good reference books/Guides to motherboards? I mean really, how come nobody seem interested in making many with USB 3.0 ports? Maybe 1/10th of the motherboards made in 2011 seem to have this simple thing. And it makes your connections ten times faster at no real extra cost? Per the first question, I personally find motherboard...