You’re back from a long day at the office and life sucks. Your back hurts, your wrists feel like stiff, numb boards of wood, and your eyes feel like they’re just about ready to pop out of your skull.  As an added bonus, you can’t move your neck without sharp pain shooting through your body. Computers are great, but the health problems that can...

This is an example of where the internet did things wrong. There are a lot of things it does right, but the stinkers stick out, and this is one of them. Originally, any system that required a user ID asked you what you wanted for a screen name. Simple systems only allowed letters and/or numbers. Advanced ones allowed letters, numbers, dashes (-) and underscores...

Something that continually makes an appearance in modern gaming (usually with larger titles) are Easter eggs that feature some sort of retro computing thing. Maybe it’s an interface, maybe it’s a whole mini-system of sorts, etc. Here’s an example of retro in a modern game:With the non-gaming stuff we do with computers, as much as the industry...

Green computing’s all the rage lately, isn’t it? Seems every single tech business in existence is currently competing to see who can build the greenest data center, who can design the most energy efficient tech, and who can save the most power. But why should corporations do all the work? After all, Earth’s kind of our home, too. We should all...

“Cord Cutting” defined in plain English simply means that you don’t have a paid subscription to any traditional television entertainment. In other words, no cable subscription. Personally, I’ve been a cord-cutter for 6 years. My means of entertainment on the television come from Netflix and freely available antenna-fed DTV. This works...

Everybody runs errands from time to time, and money is tight for many these days, so you might as well use the internet to save a buck or two on the stuff you buy every day. No, this is not an article about coupon codes or having to jump through any hoops for special offers or any of that stuff. The 3 ways listed below are easy, and the only thing you have to...

Anyone who has ever bought a brand new car is very familiar with the phrase, "the moment you drive the car off the lot, it instantly loses 30% of its value". Is this true? For the most part, yes. And the auto industry will continue to do this as long as they can because they know people always need new cars. Electronics of just about any kind can lose...

External hard drives are great. As an iMac user (yeah yeah, whatever )… I make use of external hard drives for backup purposes and redundancy. The thing is, they take up space. And then there’s a wire on your desk. If you’re trying to get rid of desktop clutter, then a good option is to put some of your computer add-ons (like external hard...

For this article I’m going to cover the technical side of things first, then the actual television content. Rewind the clock back 20 years to 1992. Everyone is using tube-type televisions, none of which could ever produce a true white ("really light gray" was the best you could get in all honesty). The average size of the screen in most homes was...

The sort of system you use for your computing needs speaks volumes about who you are as a person, but it’s not the only thing that does. One of the best ways to tell what sort of user someone is – aside from examining their system – is to simply look at their desk. Where you work and play is as telling as what you use to accomplish both...