What next for the smartphone? The latest generation of swishable, app-packed mobiles would appear to have it all, with enough processing power to send a rocket to the moon while uploading lunar images to Facebook in real time. What can we expect the next generation of smart phones to bring us – other than an even sleeker profile and a few more spurious...

This is a full recording of PCMech’s first ever LIVE, INTERACTIVE workshop. This is the first of many such workshops we will be holding inside of our PCMech Premium program. All of our workshops will be either instructional, interviews, or open Q&A where you can talk to us and we’ll discuss your matters of interest and answer your questions. To...

While we’re all waiting for USB 3.0 to become widely availble so we can use something much faster than the 2.0 spec, Intel is developing a technology called Light Peak that they believe will succeed USB altogether. How fast is Light Peak? Intel says it will transfer an entire full-length Blu-ray movie in 30 seconds. Yep. That’s fast. For those of you...

The title of this tip is taken directly from an article on EcoGeek.org with the same name. I found this article rather interesting because many advertisements now tout how ‘green’ their products are. Personally, I don’t take any facts on an advertisement at face value because you can manipulate/stretch them any way you want so this article...

Remember the days when the the Internet was new and when we were all spellbound at the idea of having our own desktop computer? Learning the workings of the computer was of prime importance. You had this piece of powerful equipment on your desk and you wanted to explore all the possibilities it presented. Fast forward to today. Things have most certainly...

Do you feel way behind when it comes to technology? Do you find that most tech sites are throwing terms around that you’ve never heard of? You’re not alone. Some people (like myself) follow this stuff full time. We’re early adopters and we’ve generally tried something and gotten bored with it by the time the rest of the internet catches...

We all know that the price of gas has increased exponentially for the last several months. Here in the Tampa Bay area, the average price per gallon is around $4.00. It now costs me about $60 to fill up my wife’s Honda Accord. In a word: damn. Now, my wife and I are lucky in that we don’t commute. My wife is at home taking care of the little one and I...

Yep, that’s right. I turn 33 today, so you can clicky-clicky on your mouse on over to here or here and send a card to rich@frostedside.com. Being that I was born smack dab in the mid-70s (1975), my generation was literally the last that experienced the world before internet. As a matter of fact, my generation was also the last before the advent of pagers...