Before even starting this one, no I’m not telling you to all go join the Tin Foil Hat Club. This is simply a comparison of the differences between desktops and laptops concerning security. Security features come in two flavors, hardware and software. When you pit the desktop vs. the laptop, which of two has the better security features? Kensington...

When I say "most-talked-about" I’m referring to "most-reviewed", as in the optical media most people were willing to write reviews about on popular tech-shopping web sites. The results I found were interesting, because the top 5 may not be what you thought would show up in this list. 1. Verbatim 8.5GB 2.4x DVD+R DL 95310...

Remember when a wireless computer mouse was really expensive? Well, they aren’t anymore and you have many choices when it comes to them these days. Below are 5 mice of varying styles, all wireless, and all good. Logitech Performance Mouse MX (up to 30% off through the above link!) The MX is a high-performance mouse with its biggest perk being that...

Over the last few years there’s be a large effort by a dedicated few to preserve as much software as possible; this has especially ramped up considering many of those old floppy diskettes – particularly the 5.25-inch kind – are literally disintegrating due to age. A major problem that those trying to preserve software run into is trying to get...

It’s a truth more often than not that people don’t replace monitors because the old one broke, but rather because they wanted something bigger or with the newer LED-backlighting methods that provide better light and color. What this means is that you probably have an older LCD panel monitor that’s in perfect working order and aren’t doing...

The Secure Digital card, commonly abbreviated as SD (or SDSC, SDHC, SDHC, SDIO, microSD, etc.), is an old enough technology at this point where many of you have cards that are several years old. SD cards are used by a whole bunch of different devices, but the most common applications are in digital cameras/camcorders and mobile phones. Like with all memory...

Barbara writes: I’m running Win XP Professional with Office 2007, Windows Live Mail (version 2009, seems that’s the most current one) along with IE8. I have Cablevision as my provider for Internet/TV/phone services. Is there an open source (I take it that means "free", right?) fax program that’s easily installed/used with...

This is an attempt to explain to you why your computer tells you "conflicting" (but not really) information on exactly how much usable space you have on any given storage medium. In my possession I have a really old 512MB Sandisk cruzer micro USB stick. To make absolutely sure I was going to get the maximum space out of it, I low-level formatted it...

Above is the newly-unveiled TRENDnet TEW-811DR and the TEW-800MB wireless router and bridge using the 802.11ac specification that allows for 1.3Gbps wireless connectivity. No, they’re not available for sale yet (that will happen later this year), but yes they will be backward compatible with Wireless N as long as you stay on the 5GHz band. The question...

Now that you’re all settled in at your new place (and in possession of the hard-earned knowledge that metal and microwaves don’t mix), it’s time to get your internet up and running. The process of getting the internet set up and running is fairly straightforward (just make sure you do a bit of research on all the possible providers before...