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...

In the world of PCs, what makes or breaks an operating system most of the time is what’s known as the "killer app". In Microsoft Windows, the killer app is Microsoft Office because it’s the best there is for office suites (and Microsoft knows this). On Mac OS X, the killer app is iTunes. While true iTunes can be run on Windows, it runs best...

For many thousands of people, America Online (AOL) was first ISP they ever used to access the internet. In fact, it was my first way of getting on the internet but that didn’t last long because the local access number was a long-distance call. (My local phone company eventually offered local ISP access and that’s what I ultimately used.) Sucks in...

In less than a week it will be 2012. As usual, a whole bunch of people are going to mistakenly write ’11 or 2011 on their checks and other places for a few days before they get used to the new year, and that’s normal. Banks are used to this, by the way. Since year 2000, there’s been more than a little confusion about how to write the year and...