Articles
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The Deterioration of Google Maps
Not long ago I wrote a column detailing how I lost a race to an Apple Maps user while I was using Google Maps. A fluke, maybe, but recently I’ve noticed...
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Forget Passwords, Use Passphrases for Extra Security
The humble password serves to protect your financial transactions, your social networking sites, and a host of other nominally secure websites online. If you use a simple, easy-to-remember password, a malefactor...
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Computer Monitor Refresh Rates & Response Time Explained
One of the most important things to consider when buying a computer is what monitor you’re going to use with it. How high is the resolution? What’s the response time? How...
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Customize the Look and Feel of Start Menu Reviver
Welcome to a series of fast articles on using individual features in our new, free application, Start Menu Reviver. Start Menu Reviver has a lot of options to tailor it exactly...
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Interview: Mailbox CEO Gentry Underwood on Productivity
Mailbox co-founder Gentry Underwood didn’t have a whole lot to say about the product release that we were meant to discuss when he came by the PCMag office earlier this week....
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Kindle Worlds Gives a Home to Fan Fiction
Who knows what fan fiction lurks in the hearts of men? The Internet does. Forums were made for fanning the flames of fandom, and from that passion a new genre was...
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How to Buy a Projector
Projectors have come a long way from the days when the most useful way to categorize them was by their weight class. Today there are any number of more meaningful kinds...
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Great Laptops for Canadians
Shopping for a laptop can be pretty intimidating. The sheer number of laptop systems available online or in a store’s electronics section is enough to make your mind spin. Most people...
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9 Tech Tips for Job-Hunting Grads
Recently graduated and looking for a job? A few simple tips about writing better cover letters and resumes or choosing the right words when networking, can enormously affect your life for...
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Using iCloud in Mountain Lion
You may have heard a lot of talk recently about something called Cloud Computing. What this means is different depending on which company you listen to, but basically it means using...
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YouTube Comedy Week: Beer of Thrones
We’re three days into YouTube’s inaugural Comedy Week spotlighting the best unknown and professional comedians and the trend is: throw everything you can on that page and see what sticks. It...
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Best Free Software: Task Lists and To-Do Managers
There are those who argue the best way to keep track of all the things on your ever-growing list of tasks and to-dos is to just use a plain text file....
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The Best Free Software 2013
For five years, PCMag has brought you an ever-bigger, ever-better list of desktop software that will cost you absolutely nothing. But this year, we’re shaking things up a bit. Instead of...
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There’s a Tablet in Your Future!
You’d have to either be hiding under a rock or be the just-awakened Rip Van Winkle not to know that the tablet is taking over computing, and possibly more. Apple hit...
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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...