Many moons ago there used to be several electronics store chains that were truly good at what they did. Back in New England where I grew up, Massachusetts had quite a few of them both regional and national, such as Tweeter, Nobody Beats the Wiz! (which still exists,) Fretter and so on. Even Service Merchandise (which also exists but online-only) had a truly...

In 2007 and 2008 the netbook laptop format made a big splash and continues to do so in 2009. But what about having this mini-sized format in a standalone desktop computer? Is there an option and moreover it is cheap? Yes and yes. Enter the booksize PC format. These PCs are called as such because they are similar to the size of hardcover printed books. And they...

On Monday I wrote an article about Office Live and Google Apps. In that article I said: Neither has any blogging capability whatsoever. I was corrected on this concerning the Microsoft offering. By whom? The Microsoft Office Live Team themselves (see comments in that article). Microsoft Office Live does do blogs and rather easily by using Live Spaces. This is...