Keeping track of your finances is especially important if you’re a freelancer- after all, you don’t tend to receive paychecks in the same way you would in a more structured setting. The job of tracking your finances- ensuring you’ve been paid your due in a timely fashion- is entirely on you. No one’s going to come to you and let you know...

To some who read this, the title of this article sounds a bit ridiculous. “What do you mean ‘teach kids how to do things offline’? Are you serious?” Yes, I’m quite serious. There are kids today who literally do not know how to find a job without using the internet. Many also know nothing about how to save cash from the use of...

Nowadays, games are bigger and better than they’ve ever been. We’ve got hyper-realistic graphics, top-notch voice actors, sweeping, operatic musical scores and epic plots that span galaxies, worlds, and universes. The sky’s the limit- gaming’s never been better. Right? If all that is true, why do so many people seem to be feeling such a...

So, you’ve got yourself a new game, but it doesn’t quite appear to be working as intended. For whatever reason, your system’s unable to play it properly. It lags. There’s graphical tearing. It locks up at random, or doesn’t start up at all. Naturally, this is a problem you want to fix- and fast. Assuming you’ve already tried...

You’re going to find this both cute and probably slightly disturbing at the same time:So what we have here is yet another demo of a walking robot, this one ant-like with its six legs (if it were spider-like it would have eight). When you start to see this thing walking, then running, that’s when it gets creepy. If I saw this thing coming at me and...

Now, the word “technology” used to mean anything that a person used to make their life easier in some fashion. At one point forks, spoons, and knives were considered to be technology by virtue of that definition. The term has undertaken something of a different meaning in recent days, however.  Instead of cars or forks or knives or even electricity,...

There’s an old saying that presentation is everything. There’s a lot of truth to that, and it’s also true you can see some electronics presentations at their worst at Wal-Mart. Recently, I went into a Wal-Mart to pick up some AA batteries. The electronics department is usually the best place to go for these because you’ll find choices not...

And now for another lovely article from the Tin Foil Hat club, of which I am a charter member. (Yes, that’s a joke, but the rest of this article isn’t.) It’s too easy these days for one to get totally freaked out by the sheer amount of surveillance there is out there. On just about any interstate in America, you’re on camera. At every...

This is going to be one of those blogs where I go into Old Man Mode, and bear in mind I’m only 37. Whenever I go into a big box retail electronics store (Best Buy, hhgregg, etc.), beforehand I have gone online, found the exact thing I need, confirmed it is in the store I will be going to via that store’s website, and written down the SKU number along...

This isn’t your traditional computer-related article, but it does have to do with a computer you use every day – the one in your car. Computers that handle engine stuff have been in cars for a good long while, although generally speaking the ones that can be easily connected to are vehicles made from 1996 to present; this is because of the advent of...