Yesterday, Apple introduced new hardware across its desktop offerings, and with one exception, the changes were pretty much hailed and welcomed by all. That one exception received, and continues to receive, fairly harsh criticism from all sides, including from our very own Tom Reestman, who argued t...

According to the Consumer Electronics Association, attendance at this year’s CES 2009 was down 10%. Feedback from people visiting the show and manning the booths was that it was down more than that. In previous years you could barely walk down the aisles. This year they were wide open. The followi...

After one of the longest home purchases ever thanks to the difficulty in getting mortgages at the moment, I finally moved into my new home last Monday.  Packing for the move and unpacking after the move effectively took me out of action every evening for the last two weeks as I couldn’t get t...

Marriage. Like death, it is inevitable. Ultimately you will encounter that one “right” person and make the leap, or maybe you will simply reach that point where it dawns on you that if you don’t hurry up and pair off with somebody you are going to grow old and die alone. We are all...

Until I started having to cope with High def file formats like h.264 and mkv I was perfectly happy installing one of the many codec packs to allow me to play my media files. The problem however with the latest file formats, is that they can be very CPU intensive, so if you don’t have a very mo...

Affordable big screen televisions and high definition have changed the average person’s attention level when it comes to their home video and audio components. It’s hard to walk by a large high def display at an electronics store and not want that experience in your home, and the masses ...

Shuttle recently announced the release of its new Home Theater PC (HTPC) in Korea, the “XPC G5 6801M“. Priced at €1250 (about $1,977), this compact PC is powered by an AMD Athlon X2 6000+ processor, a 2GB of DDR2-800 main memory, a 500GB of SATA2 hard drive, and a 256MB ATI HD3450 grap...

I’m an audiophile and invest in the best possible Sennheiser cans. Escaping to a realm of unreal music crafted by geniuses like Enya, Yanni, Tchaikovsky, and yeah- the occasional Josh Groban helps me recharge my batteries. After a bit, my girlfriend said I was being selfish. In a joking way of...

I almost cried recently when someone told they paid $120.00 for a HDMI cable at a local electronics super store. The poor bastard didn’t even know what HDMI was, the salesman scammed him into thinking it was required for his new TV to operate in 1080p. Of course the cables were Monster, the bi...