With the economy being as it is, one thing that people want to know is how to get a super-fast for very little money. Over the past few weeks I've put together a number of posts over on Hardware 2.0 to help people with that. Monster PC upgrades - Without the monster price tag! Here I looked at two d...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Humor, Peripherals, Apple, Mac mini, MacBook, Mac Pro As Macworld notes, this is it for the ol' Firewire 400. With the introduction of the new Mac mini the other day and the refresh of the Mac Pro and iMac lines, the old version of Firewire is left only on ...

Backgrounder - The Battling Series of Blogs Back in January 2006 .. I first created a “Battling” series of blogs, each with unique names such as .. Battling-Cancer.com .. Battling-Obesity.com .. etc. In September 2007, sparked by the enormous recurring domain registration renewals, I cre...

Okay, so maybe the newest Inspiron 1410 internals are something to celebrate if you're really looking for low-end, but you'll be hard pressed to find a real tech enthusiast that's jazzed about a 2GHz Core 2 Duo T6400 processor within a 14-inch laptop. At any rate, the aforementioned machine has been...

Deutsche Securities downgrades PKG to Hold from Buy and lowers their tgt to $14 from $20 saying they remain extremely cautious on the paper sector as they expect a very rough 12-18 months. The firm says with a challenging outlook and reduced dividend yield, it's hard to argue why one needs to "...

So tonight I got the information on accessing my new mail setup - one of the things I have wanted to do since Spam is everywhere & customers like to send MP3 album attachments (the joys of record labels) I have wanted to seperate Email from the wonderful world of my servers - but after trying 2 ...

This photo has been making the rounds since yesterday, after having originally popped up in the MacRumors forums. The photo’s poster claims that it is the business end of the new, redesigned Mac mini, which he was apparently shown by a friend. No word on who that friend might have been, but &#...

Hooray for Having the Day off! Thanks, Presidents! Slept in for a bit, but not too long. Up at about 9am and then we frittered around until about 1 - played more indiana jones lego, and hung out. We decided to hit the 4pm showing of Coraline in 3-D - but before we left, Larry swung by - he needed me...

Many Windows XP users have decided to skip the Windows Vista operating system due to countless problems reported in the early days of its release. Especially performance related issues where the main culprit why many Windows XP users decided to wait for Vista’s successor instead. The release o...

Yes, it’s happening. Microsoft has the idea that opening a storefront will somehow be a good thing this year. In truth, the lack of things to fill a store would seem to make it an improbable thing to do. You can only stack Xboxes, Zunes, and palettes of Windows 7 a few times before it becomes tedi...