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...

If you’re the sentimental sort, you probably have a computer you’ve owned for years and years. It’s a reliable old rig, chugging along through whatever tasks you assign it like an old, puttering station wagon. Sure, it might not be the most glorious system out there, but it works, right? It does what you want it to do. That’s the worst...

Chances are pretty good most of you out there will be installing a solid state drive soon or within the next year or so. However we’ve been told for almost 18 years (MS-DOS 6 was released in 1994 which featured the DEFRAG.EXE utility) that we’re supposed to periodically "defrag" our hard drives to optimize performance. But is this necessary...

It was recently discovered that upon a search of the Dell web site, the Inspiron mini line shows an inventory of zero. Uh-oh.. When Dell decides they’re going to stop making a specific computer, the industry as a whole usually follows suit because Dell does have that kind of influence. Now I’m not saying that it’s fact that Dell will cease...

I’m going to touch on the subject of Post-PC again by daring to ask if you could live without one. For some of you, even the thought of not having a PC will make you nervous – especially those of you who have been using PCs for several decades. I can’t speak for the masses, so I thought about what I would do if I didn’t have a PC,...

A standalone wireless hard drive is: A 3.5-inch hard drive in an enclosure where the enclosure on its own has Wi-Fi connectivity. Does such a thing exist? Yes. One such example is the Imation Pro WX, released in 2009 if I’m not mistaken. The Pro WX basically looks like a large-ish wireless router, except it’s a hard drive with its own wireless...

Digital SLR cameras take awesome photos. We all know that. However, any of them built within the last couple years or so usually also include the ability to record videos. Due to the optics of a DSLR, the video quality is AMAZING. They really blow away traditional video cameras in a lot of ways. The newer, more expensive DSLRs come with a lot more bells and...