Hm, this all sounds very Apple. It'll be a cute fad, but a completely crippled OS does not a good idea make.This is the direction that Android should have gone, since we have a much more limited numbe ...

I have owned a set of ProMedia 4.1 speakers since the year after they were introduced, and they still sound fantastic and work wonderfully. They've survived three separate moves in that period, with a ...

Make sure you check out the cyanogenmod G1/Hero ROMs - Donut has been running on these devices for weeks now. ...

If Blizzard sets the game so that your outbound packets point to their IP, then the case is as you've described it. There's no way around that, but as I mentioned I don't think it's feasible for them ...

I'm wondering how they can restore your annotations, unless the book was never actually removed from your Kindle in the first place. Are your notes backed up to the cloud? ...

I know the guy who built his website! He had no idea the guy planned to use it for a scam. ...

Err, if you have a halfway decent router you don't need anything for "LAN mode" - the destination IP will be resolved to a local network address and the packet will take the shortest route p ...

Twitter clearly has the first established use of tweet in the microblogging sense - if it's denied now and they really want to go after it, there's no doubt they could win it back in court...I think. ...

This is interesting, especially for me as a software developer. It echos the debate ranging among photographers over microstock. ...

Sorry, but I don't buy the "LAN will be a great footnote in our history" line. I understand phasing out technologies if it would take extra effort (ie. development time) to retain them, but ...

IE6 users know how to take screenshots? ...

Just a heads up, but you don't need to leave your media center on 24/7 to record TV programs with a TV tuner card. PVRs like MythTV allow you to set up automatic wake and shutdown for your scheduled r ...

I couldn't disagree more - as someone who runs a power sucking mid-tower machine as an HTPC, something like this is just what I need. Other small form factor media computers haven't had enough power t ...

It's no more absurd than the American automaker's bailout plea - this is a huge industry in Taiwan. ...

Do you really think there are no security problems on the iPhone? Android is not unique...but at least it's open source, so these issues are discovered and patched much quicker than with proprietary s ...

For anyone reading a magagine titled MaximumPC, learning the command line is in their best interest. A powerful GUI is great, but if you truly want to get the most from your computer knowing what's go ...

This is like banning pencils because they can be used to copy a novel. ...

So, I'm really loving all of the new content (and the quantity/frequency of it), but in order to avoid information overload I'd like to understand what goes where.I'm subscribed to the "all posts ...

I haven't really seen a good answer to this - why does it make sense to add to the workload of my already pummeled 8800GT, by processing physics as well as graphics? When will these drivers support ru ...

Immediately after reading that, I called Comcast and learned that not only was my upload double as of now, they have an 8Mb down / 2Mb up plan for $3 more per month than the 6Mb down / 1Mb up, and the ...

To ease your worry, the Lightroom disc is actually dual-platform - there are installs for both Windows and Mac. ...

I use a TiddlyWiki to achieve the same thing. ccTiddlyWiki is a version that can be installed to a webserver and accessed remotely. It's very slick and easy to use. ...