There is one reality bolstered by two bits of speculation getting loads of attention today. The reality is that sales of personal computers are abysmal, in fact they just hit the lowest point since the IDC started tracking numbers nearly 20 years ago. As happens whenever numbers are released for anything, analysts swoop in to [...]
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Win a Seagate Backup Plus on Tax Day
Seagate recently pointed out to us that in 2012, over 81% of Americans filed their taxes via e-file. In addition, over 63 million Americans report that they do their banking online, and 73% of US adults pay their bills digitally; but the majority of us still store documents as hard copies in file folders [...]
APC Releases Rock and Paper Computers
The Raspberry Pi has been openly embraced by the hacker community for all sorts of projects. From roll your own set-top boxes to Amateur Radio uses, it’s become a fast favorite of the hacker community. Not to be outdone, APC has released two new computers that are sure to peak interest of the hacker community and [...]
Building a Budget-Friendly Home Theater PC
Hello again, friends and tech-lovers. Today we are going to talk about building a Home Theater PC or HTPC for short. More importantly, building a budget-friendly HTPC. In one of my previous posts, I talked about the Ceton inifiniTV 4 tuner, a great way to turn your PC into a set-top box for your cable [...]
Best Buy Tech Service Gone Awry; a GM’s Customer Service Saves the Day
I came home a few weeks ago to find my almost four year old Gateway desktop rig powered completely off. I tried turning it back on, only to find out that it had decided that it didn’t want to at all. That could only mean the power supply, since it had been on and working [...]
The Ceton infiniTV 4 – The Better Way to Watch TV
Photo courtesy of Cetoncorp.com If you’re like most Americans, I’ll bet you watch TV on occasion. Probably more than occasionally. In my household, we watch TV everyday. We have hours upon hours of shows that we record on the DVR and we don’t want to be tethered to just one TV in the house. If [...]
ViewSonic’s VSD220 21.5” Display Review
When I was at a Pepcom Holiday Event a few weeks ago, one particular item caught my eye – ViewSonic’s VSD220 21.5” display. You see, this isn’t any old display. No, this is a display and a huge Android tablet in one. That’s right, the VSD220 (sexy name right?) comes with Android Ice Cream Sandwich baked [...]
Got an Old PowerPC Mac? Resuscitate It with Linux.
Apple has long left the PowerPC based Macs of old behind; however, any G4 or G5 based Mac is still a very capable machine. Most of the G5 Power Macs I have come across are dual-core G5 machines and some of the iMacs are as well. Apple isn’t releasing updates for the last supported version [...]
AhnLab Introduces the V3 Click, the First-to-Market Personal Security Device for PCs
Viruses, trojans and spyware. These are the perennial pests of modern computing and the bane of system administrators and IT personnel everywhere, not to mention the end users themselves! When I first heard about USB flash drives being used to infect PCs a few years back, I wondered: if a USB device can infect a [...]
Lenovo Recalls Many of Their M70z and M90z Think Centre All-in-One Computers
Did you purchase a Lenovo ThinkCentre M70z or M90z All-in-One Computer? Or did you win one of the three that we gave away here on Gear Diary? If so then you’ll want to pay attention this recall notice. There are 16,000 M70z and M90z units affected, and the recall is focusing on the power supplies specifically, because [...]
Is it really the Post-PC Era, or Is the Plus-PC Era Simply Continuing?
Ten years ago I bought one of the first devices I ever had that could be classified as a post-pc device or as I like to call it, a plus pc device. That was a Toshiba e740 Pocket PC. This was the first device I had outside of a laptop that included wi-fi. I remember [...]
Samsung CES 2012 Press Conference: Pushing Boundaries
Samsung’s Press Conference brought news of some great evolutionary products. We waited in line for hours just to hear what Samsung had to share. It was worth the wait. Here’s a look…
Toshiba Announces Stylish New All-in-One DX735 – Set to Entertain!
Today Toshiba has announced a new All-in-One desktop called the DX735, expanding their line-up of stylish computers usable just about anywhere in the house for computing tasks as well as entertainment. With a 23″ widescreen, the DX 735 can be used as a movie or streaming video screen in a home entertainment setting, and the [...]
Change is in the Air, and it is Not Just the Coming of Fall
Let’s face it, the iPad is eating everyone else’s lunch and that not only goes for other tablets but for traditional computers as well. MG Siegler has a rather interesting and excellent post over on TechCrunch the other day that makes this point rather well. In it he argues that the iPad represents a Clear [...]
Livescribe Issues Mac OS X ‘Lion’ Compatibility Warning – Don’t Upgrade Yet!
If you depend on Livescribe Desktop on your Mac from day to day, they have some advice: don’t upgrade to Lion … yet! Here is what they are saying: Livescribe Software Notice Regarding Mac OS X Lion The current version of Livescribe Desktop 2.7.2 is not completely compatible with Apple’s new Mac OS upgrade (Lion) [...]
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