Something that people truly miss from the Microsoft Outlook Express 6 email client was the ability to easily have multiple identities and the ability to password-protect them in a very simple way. Granted, the security was “fair” at best, but hey, it was...

Minecraft’s a pretty awesome game to play, but what makes it truly awesome- what makes the game truly enjoyable- is the online play. There’s something uniquely satisfying about logging in and seeing an entire city stretching out before you, with the knowledge that you helped build it. There’s something undeniably enjoyable about collaborating...

I think we all knew at some point that computers would have to start being built here to serve the US market better, and as it turns out, Lenovo is going to do it in the state of North Carolina. Why NC? Because that’s where there main operations offices are, along with a distribution center. Having all those operations close to each other saves operating...

This one will make today a happy Thursday for you. “Scareware” is stuff you see on the internet where people are literally tricked into buying certain software that supposedly ‘protects’ your computer from ‘bad stuff’ when in fact it really does nothing at all. And yeah, this has been going on a good long time. Well, one of...

Patent troll. There are few words that inspire more ire, few phrases which provoke more disgust in someone who knows anything about copyright law. Patent trolls are the bottom-feeding scum of the industry. They purchase, acquire, or invent ludicrously general software patents- for example “a security solution which makes remote license check to a remote...

Said honestly, I never understood ultrabooks just by the name alone. Previously, “ultrabook” simply meant “top model of cetain series of laptop”. For example, Dell would release a line of Inspirons and they’d usually have three models, which were simply base, better and best. “Best” then changed to this thing called...

To invoke Godwin’s Law right at the start here (because it would be guaranteed to come up anyway), yeah, um.. there’s really no way to interpret this other than a Nazi state maneuver or outright being Orwellian. Take your pick, because both apply. Warrantless wireless spying by the US government on anyone for any reason is basically here to stay. As...

Another quickie today, folks. I’d like to draw your attention to a nifty tool for benchmarking your PC, by Passmark Software. It’s not really all that difficult to determine if one graphics card(or PC, for that matter) has more power than another. In a lot of cases, you can simply look at how much video memory it’s got. Plus, it’s a safe...