How can you improve the readability of any Web page for free?  Could a RAM upgrade be in order? Will Karma and a bad economy conspire to make Linux more popular? Are you a TiVo fanatic? How can you easily edit PDFs for free? If you’re looking for the best way to maintain your home or office n...

The notion of cutting the cable cord has gotten a lot of hype lately, but that’s because there are now more ways then ever for consumers to access premium content on their TVs without using a cable or satellite provider. In fact, the landscape of choices has changed dramatically even since we ...

Here’s a roundup of some of the questions that I recently recieved via this site’s feedback form.  Feel free to chime in via a comment…. Jan Wrote (via YouTube) : This must be the series 3? I have a series 2 here at the house and was wondering what would happen if I plugged in one...

1. Above is the latest Terminator: Salvation trailer , which reveals some interesting aspects about the upcoming film—at least according to film critic Peter Chattaway who writes about some interesting parallels between the Terminator and Star Trek films (which also has a new installment on the wa...

Filed under: Kids 8-11, Fun & activities In the summer, my kids have a lot of freedom to play outside and generate their own fun. In the winter, however, the bitter cold (it's almost zero degrees today in northern Wisconsin!) means a lot of time spent indoors. To entertain themselves, my kids pl...

I just moved to a new house and the alarm panel (I believe it's a Napco) doesn't have any hookups labeled tip or ring on the panel where the battery is. So how am I supposed to hook this up? I had it all done nice in my old house with the old alarm system where it had those connections. All I see on...

The expenditure of political viritol in '08 had left me in a rather passive state these last few months, obviously not helped by the fact that (a) "we" won and (b) the oh-so poorly timed break Real Time took right before the election cycle wrapped. To which nothing gets the pilot light back to the o...

Mentalfloss has a list of eight tech product names, their origins and what they could have been called. For example, TiVo could have been Bongo, and Hulu means butt in Indonesian. Haha, butt.......

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, News Here is (what should be) a great piece of news from the aviation world - domestic US carriers are losing fewer of our bags. A staggering 1.3 million bags were not lost when compared to statistics from the previous year. Normally, airlines would have a good reaso...

Look into those eyes. This guy will kick your ass and then fuck your wife. Not vaginally, mind you, but rather, aurally. His role on The Wire was merely a ruse. He's no suit, but rather a stone-cold player, one equally at ease finding solitude on a beach as much as making love to the camera. Headsho...