Over the years there’s been several attempts to get people hooked on internet audio, so to speak. I’m not talking about listening but rather publishing. In the early-to-mid 2000s there were several attempts by companies to tie blogging into audio, but it just never worked. SoundCloud, on the other hand, does work; they are basically the only game in...

The sort of system you use for your computing needs speaks volumes about who you are as a person, but it’s not the only thing that does. One of the best ways to tell what sort of user someone is – aside from examining their system – is to simply look at their desk. Where you work and play is as telling as what you use to accomplish both...

Making the rounds across the blogs is the fact the decade-old Microsoft Windows XP operating system saw a record decline is usage for Dec 2011. You can hem and haw all day about percentage and points and so on, but the fact is that people are dropping the XP OS in droves; these users are either upgrading to Windows 7, outright replacing their old computer with...

In the world of PCs, what makes or breaks an operating system most of the time is what’s known as the "killer app". In Microsoft Windows, the killer app is Microsoft Office because it’s the best there is for office suites (and Microsoft knows this). On Mac OS X, the killer app is iTunes. While true iTunes can be run on Windows, it runs best...

If you spend any time in the blogosphere at all, you’ve probably heard at least one person make reference to SOPA- the Stop Online Piracy Act. See, businesses are at the end of their ropes- no matter how many people they sue or how many file-sharing websites they take down, more pirates always crop up, using the ‘persecution’ they feel along...

On the eastern side of the United States, today is best described as an ice cube – even for Tampa Florida where PCMech is based: Even though it happens rarely, cold snaps causing freezing temperatures do happen in Florida. In a truly cold area for this time of year, like Boston, Massachusetts, that’s where you see the Fahrenheit numbers really take...

Why bother to know where open Wi-Fi locations are? There are several reasons, but one of the biggies is to save money. If for example you have a Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone or iPod Touch and a $2.99/month Skype account, that does mean wherever there’s Wi-Fi, you can place calls using that instead of a wireless carrier’s network. And if connecting...

The 64-bit Windows desktop environment is still going through a maturation process because most of the apps we use are 32-bit only. However, some of you like the idea of running a 64-bit browser (namely Internet Explorer 9), and for that to work properly with most content on the internet, you need 64-bit Flash and 64-bit Java. Yes, there are two separate IE...