Articles
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Using File History in Windows 8
The Windows 8 File History utility provides an easy backup system for most of your personal files. Once set up, the program automatically follows a periodic schedule and copies to an...
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YouTube Comedy Week, Day 1: What’s Funny?
We’re well into the first 36 hours of YouTube’s first official Comedy Week. It kicked off Sunday with the Big Live Comedy Show which, as the name suggests, ran live. As...
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The 10 Best Free iPad Apps
A tablet is only as good as its apps, and, fortunately, the iPad has plenty of them. It doesn’t matter if you have a full-size iPad or its cute baby brother...
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Use Dictation to Control your Mac with Mountain Lion
Wouldn’t it be good if, instead of having to type out anything and everything that you need to write, you could simply talk to your Mac and have it do the...
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The 5 Best Touch-Screen Monitors
We’ve entered the age of touch, and it looks like it will be more than just a fad. With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets pushing touch screens to the fore,...
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Get Organized: 5 Tips for Evernote
I’ve just returned after being on the road for work for nearly two weeks, collecting mobile phone data for our annual Fastest Mobile Networks project, and covering the Google I/O developer...
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How Paid YouTube Channels Could Kill Cable TV
When I travel around the world, the local TV channels are often limited. This used to be especially true in the United Kingdom, where I could only watch four or five...
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SSD vs HDD: What’s the Difference?
Until recently, PC buyers had very little choice for what kind of file storage they got with their laptop or desktop. If you bought a netbook or ultraportable, you likely had...
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YouTube Comedy Week: Get Ready to LOL
If you think the best place to watch celebrities crack jokes online is Funny or Die, well, yes, you’re probably right. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s site gets some hilarious exclusives...
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The Best GPS Devices
The death of the dedicated GPS device has been greatly exaggerated. Sure, today’s mobile devices integrate talented—and a lot of times, free—navigation apps, but not everyone wants to use a phone...
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Kickstarter Tech Project of the Week: Melon
Project Name: Melon: A Headband and Mobile App to Measure Your Focus Category: Product Design Goal: $100,000 Currently Funded: $109,397 Deadline for pledging: June 13, 2013 Are you more productive at...
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How to Buy a GPS
It’s a great time to buy a GPS device. The category has fully matured, and competition from nav-equipped smartphones has helped drive prices way, way down. As a result, you can...
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How to Create a Restore Point in Windows
I’ve run into it more times than I care to remember: A friend calls upon my aid because he’s bollixed his PC by unknowingly installing programs that, while they may not...
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A Guide to the “Kernel Data Inpage Error” Blue Screen of Death Error
Error Name: KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR STOP Code: 0x0000007a The KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR Blue Screen of Death occurs whenever Windows has trouble reading something kept in the memory properly. This can apply to both kinds of...
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The Dashboard & Multitouch in OS X Mountain Lion
Often, you may find yourself needing a quick snippet of information. Perhaps you need to do a simple calculation, check the weather for tomorrow, look up a word in the dictionary,...
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Customizing a Tile in Start Menu Reviver
Welcome to a series of fast articles on using individual features in our new, free application, Start Menu Reviver. It’s pretty apparent that you can move any application or other file...
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7 Tips to Save iPhone Battery Life
As we rely on our smartphones more and more, battery life becomes an increasing concern. While the iPhone isn’t a horrible power hog, particularly in terms of standby time, there still...
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The Best Personal Finance Software
With the world in what seems to be a perpetual financial crisis these past few years, it’s tough to know where you, as an individual, actually stand with your money, unless...
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The Best Wireless Headphones
Thirty-four years. While stereo headphones were around before the first Sony Walkman, that’s roughly how long we’ve put up with tangled wires while listening to music on the go. That’s long...
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TV Broadcasters Embrace Mobility
As consumers go mobile and hunt for ways to take their favorite shows “on the go,” different players in the TV industry are approaching the problem (or opportunity) of mobility in...