I think it’s safe to say that netbook fever has died down to a dull roar at this point and that people are looking more towards traditional (as in 13-inch and above) laptops again. While netbooks continue to improve concerning speed, battery life and so on, people tend to like the larger screens better. Price Range Five years ago the price range that gave...

(Note: This will also work in Windows Vista) Something that’s still a problem in Windows – even in 7 – is that there is no easy way to remove items from the “New” menu. The “New” menu is what you see when you right-click on an empty area of the desktop and hover over “New”. Some of us, yours truly included,...

Four months ago we were given an opportunity to preview the new design of MSN.com. I personally gave it the thumbs up because it was my opinion that the new design was modernized in all the right ways. The old design was very "Web 1.0" and I considered it good that it was ditched for something more streamlined and useful. The new MSN.com design has now...

The Nexus One (a very creepy name I must say) has been leaked that under contract will be $180 through T-Mobile, and for an unlocked version will be a whopping $530. I’m not kidding. Yes, this is a Google Android phone and quite a ritzy one at that. Per that $530 price tag, some will be more than willing to pony up the cost to have a completely unlocked...

Yes, I am talking about that MSN.com. The web site that has the blue background. The one with the text that’s way too small. The one that the only reason anybody ever has it as their home page is because they don’t know how to change it to something else. That being the case, MSN’s upcoming changes are sure to get noticed. The logo changes...

I am not a journalist. Or am I? Keep that question in mind as you read through this. Dave attended BlogWorld Expo this year, and one of the things he noted is that Leo Laporte stated in so many words that new media will be the new standard in journalism soon enough. "New Media" is a very overhyped term, but is the only one that accurately defines the...

Yahoo, yes (that Yahoo) made some significant changes to their main web site. While this angered some, to those I say this: Yahoo is not Google, and I’m glad it’s not. If you’re expecting Y! to be another Google clone, it isn’t. And it shouldn’t be. The first thing I do on Yahoo is switch over to the compact view and change the...

It’s not just a keyboard, it’s the whole computer. A keyboard with the computer built in and an 800×480 touchscreen display/trackpad on the right. I had two initial thoughts when I saw this thing on Engadget. First, there’s going to be a lot of strained necks. This is absolutely not ergo-friendly whatsoever. Cool, yes, but not...

Put simply, I don’t upgrade operating systems. Ever. I install any OS new and recommend the same to anyone else. It doesn’t matter if it’s Windows, OS X or Linux. Don’t upgrade. Back up your stuff, wipe the drive and start from scratch with the new OS. To note, I don’t do this with incremental updates (e.g. XP Service Pack 2 to 3)...

Happy ’09, everyone. Hope yours is a good one. It is tradition in the United States that people make what’s called their "New Year’s Resolutions", i.e. a  to-do list of things they want to get done. This can be things such as losing a few pounds, paying off a few debts, getting some housework done, etc. These are my tech...

There’s a reason I used the odd-cased HoTMaiL in the title because that’s the way it was originally written out. You’ll notice the capital letters are HTML. Hotmail was spelled that way many moons ago to really drive home the fact it was HTML (meaning web) based mail. Microsoft this week decided to roll out the new-and-improved interface across...

Note: My upgrade didn’t work but my new 8.10 Ubuntu is freshly installed. Here are the immediate things I noticed from my initial use of the OS:Above: When I customize my appearance settings to “Subpixel smoothing (LCDs)”, “Slight” is now automatically selected and this is cool. Saves me a few clicks.Above: You can now create a...

Some of you out there who use Hotmail might have seen this today:(click image for full size) The reason I say some is because this is a gradual roll-out of the updated Windows Live Hotmail service. If you use this e-mail, you will see this upgrade possibly today, tomorrow, next week, etc. But it will eventually happen. The bad sense of humor comes from the 2...

Mandriva Linux 2009 now available Back in 1998 (a long time before many people ever heard of that thing called "Linux"), Mandrakelinux (sometimes just called "Mandrake") was released. People liked it. A lot. Well here we are ten years later and Mandrake, now under the name Mandriva, has a new release. It’s packed with GNOME v2.24,...

Many moons ago when I was attending college getting my Video/Radio Production degree, the primary computers the school used for animation rendering were Commodore Amiga 2000 and 4000 boxes with LightWave software. For our younger readers, this is before Microsoft Windows 95 even existed. Amiga computers did things back then which were nothing short of...

From the "Nobody really gives a flying f*#$" category (but a good watch anyway), Microsoft has already unveiled some new ads which are more on target with what they normally do. Here’s one of them. It’s all about "I’m a PC". Just to show you how bland the above ad is, Microsoft hasn’t really done any decent ads since...