The last time I bought an all-in-one PC was back in 1997. I was a senior in high school, and it was college application time. My family’s Apple IIc was significantly underpowered and ill-equipped for things like internet and CD-ROM use. With financial help from my folks, I went out and purchased an AST 75 […]
South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end […]
These days, it’s pretty standard to see new, touchable all-in-one (AiO) devices from companies like HP, Sony, and Dell. It helps that Microsoft is banking on touch capabilities in Windows 8, and that there is a large, young generation for workers used to touchable smartphones and adjusting to tablets. Dell has upped the ante just […]
Lenovo’s been making an impressive push with its new wave of hardware. The company was kind enough to send us the new IdeaCentre B540 to give it a once over. As a regular user of Windows Vista and until a few months ago, a Windows XP user (I know!), I was excited to put a […]
There’s a new game in town. The Half The Sky Movement, which works to create opportunities for women around the world, has rolled out a new Facebook game with a charitable purpose. Half The Sky Movement: The Game allows players to follow an Indian woman named Radhika on her journey through her village and then around […]
Hackintoshing: The art of getting a non-Apple product to run Mac OS. It’s something of a pastime of mine. I used to have a Dell Mini 10v loaded with Mac OS 10.6 as my daily driver, and I squealed with joy when I got an ASUS Seashell netbook that wasn’t supposed to work to run. While I […]
According to the sales statistics of Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon, everybody loves e-books. The economically-priced readers; the ability to store and transport an entire library effortlessly and less expensively; the added benefits of highlighting, annotation, simplified note-taking, searchable text, and inserted ancillary materials. It’s no wonder e-books are popular. With the rapidly […]
In an increasingly digital world, vestiges of the romantic past grow increasingly remote and rare. Old-fashioned dating has been supplanted largely by online dating communities such as eHarmony, OKCupid, and Match.com. Beyond these more mainstream (and somewhat accepted) love-finding services, there exists a more secretive, more sex-focused, and location-oriented arena of lustful personal interactions. Nowhere […]
If there has been one absolute in the world of laptops over the last few years, it’s been the trend towards greater portability. From tiny, budget netbooks, to powerful and sometimes expensive Ultrabooks, thinner and lighter is consistently the name of the game. Sometimes, you don’t care about portability. Sometimes, it’s raw power you’re looking […]
Apple is making the MacBook Pro with Retina display faster and more affordable with updated processors and lower starting prices. The 13-inch model starts at $1,499 and comes equipped with an appreciable 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost up to 3.1 GHz and 8 GB of memory. However, the restrictive 128 GB of […]
