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...

Video game consoles started out originally using game cartridges, commonly referred to simply as carts. They always worked, and the only time you ever had a problem with one is when the contacts physically eroded over time – but it took a long time for that to happen. Heck, there are 25-year-old NES carts even now that still work as good as the day they...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock in Internet Land, you’ve heard about Apple’s iPad launch. How Apple sold 700,000 of the things, how some encountered USB battery charging issues, how somebody purposely smashed up three of them (my personal favorite), how netbook sales went down (duh) when the iPad was launched, etc. Some (many, actually)...

The Iphone is just cool. Calling it a phone is almost a disservice because what it really is is a full mobile computing platform. And in that vein, it can also be a mobile GAMING platform. Now, I’m not a big gamer (my regular readers know that). But, I did spend a little time playing around in the App Store looking for some decent free games for the...

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