One of the best-running platforms on a smartphone and several featuresphones is Java. If you have a multimedia-capable handset that’s not Android or iOS-based, all the apps you have are probably Java-based. New touchscreen smartphones these days are really cheap and in some instances well under 50 bucks new. Okay, you’ve got a smartphone but...

Everybody runs errands from time to time, and money is tight for many these days, so you might as well use the internet to save a buck or two on the stuff you buy every day. No, this is not an article about coupon codes or having to jump through any hoops for special offers or any of that stuff. The 3 ways listed below are easy, and the only thing you have to...

So, you’ve got yourself a brand new, shiny computer. Trouble is, your whole desktop looks a little…impersonal. You’re sitting there thinking to yourself, “high time I changed this.” Trouble is, you’re not sure how to go about doing so. Have no fear- it’s actually an incredibly simple process. Step 1- Access the...

Remember when a wireless computer mouse was really expensive? Well, they aren’t anymore and you have many choices when it comes to them these days. Below are 5 mice of varying styles, all wireless, and all good. Logitech Performance Mouse MX (up to 30% off through the above link!) The MX is a high-performance mouse with its biggest perk being that...

Anyone who has ever bought a brand new car is very familiar with the phrase, "the moment you drive the car off the lot, it instantly loses 30% of its value". Is this true? For the most part, yes. And the auto industry will continue to do this as long as they can because they know people always need new cars. Electronics of just about any kind can lose...

Over the last few years there’s be a large effort by a dedicated few to preserve as much software as possible; this has especially ramped up considering many of those old floppy diskettes – particularly the 5.25-inch kind – are literally disintegrating due to age. A major problem that those trying to preserve software run into is trying to get...

It’s a truth more often than not that people don’t replace monitors because the old one broke, but rather because they wanted something bigger or with the newer LED-backlighting methods that provide better light and color. What this means is that you probably have an older LCD panel monitor that’s in perfect working order and aren’t doing...

You don’t have to go far in the PCMech community to find people who don’t own a smartphone, citing that they "hate smartphones". Smartphone haters hate two things primarily:Wireless plan contracts of any kind The ridiculous prices of the phones themselvesIt’s never the actual phone that these people hate, because if it did sell...