- Digital Photo Tips: Make Pictures Pop
- Digital Trends Guides - December 2, 2008
- What makes a photo stand out? Surprise – it's not always the subject itself. After all, there are plenty of moments when the most ordinary thing, provided it’s photographed in a creative way, can make you sit up and say “wow!&rd...
- Top Ten Best Black Friday Deals
- Digital Trends Guides - November 20, 2008
- It takes some pretty spectacular deals to pry Americans out of their recliners late every Turkey Day and send them out into blistering cold parking lots to camp for hours, but retailers have it figured it out with Black Friday. And if you’re lo...
- LCD or Plasma HDTVs: Which to Choose?
- Digital Trends Guides - October 30, 2008
- The war between plasma and LCD flat-panel TVs rages on, and no doubt you’ve heard the propaganda from both camps. While LCD has traditionally been more expensive than plasma at the larger sizes, that gap is diminishing—making other factor...
- Windows 7: Kicking Mac OS Butt?
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - October 28, 2008
- There is a lot of bad blood this year between Microsoft and Apple. Apple has aggressively launched a negative political-style marketing campaign against the PC giant. While this advertising blitz – you know, the “I&r...
- Top 10 Most Overhyped Tech Products
- Digital Trends Guides - October 20, 2008
- Blogs gush about them. PR campaigns blow millions on them. News anchors announce their arrival like they’re members of state. And the rest of us suffer when they utterly fail to deliver. They’re overhyped tech products, and unfortunately,...
- Digital TV Transition Survival Guide
- Digital Trends Guides - October 17, 2008
- For most of today’s primetime audience, the questions are simple. For example: Which HDTV to buy? Whether to catch tonight’s episodes of The Office and Grey’s Anatomy or record them to DVR instead? And, of course, our personal favor...
- Use Gmail to Fight Spam
- PC World Articles - October 10, 2008
- Gmail already offers champion spam-filtering for Gmail accounts. Here's how to leverage it with non-Gmail accounts.
- Get a Portable Audio Boost with Boostaroo
- TechLore - August 29, 2008
- I travel some and have a hard time hearing my music and videos on the airplanes. What I have found is that with a simple Portable Audio Amplifier I can amplify and enhance the sound quality to a much better level. There are a couple of different opti...
- Power Amplifiers: Ten Things You Always Wanted to Know
- eCoustics Articles - August 22, 2008
Call of the Wild- Home Entertainment Magazine - August 18, 2008
- "Build a theater around this," the wife said to First Impressions Theme Theaters' founder and theater designer Jeff Smith, as she handed him a sample of animal-print carpeting.
- What Is Amplifier Gain?
- eCoustics Articles - July 24, 2008
- Software Subscriptions Start to Take Shape
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - July 8, 2008
- I’ve been looking at Microsoft’s new Equipt offering which bundles Microsoft Office Home & Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workdspace, and Windows Live Services (Mail, Messenger, and Photo Gallery) into a $70 annual subscri...
- Clean your TV Vents!
- TechLore - July 1, 2008
- Have you ever been watching your DLP TV and see this message come accros the screen? “TV will shut down in a few seconds. Please check if the air flow is blocked ” Not only is this a scary thing to see your TV say, but it can be confusing...
- Circuits of the Basic TV and What They Do - Part 3
- TechLore - June 9, 2008
- In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we discussed many things: the standby power supply, main power supply, horizontal and vertical deflection circuits, degaussing, and tuners. In Part 3 of this series, we will discuss the IF (Intermediate Frequency), AG...
- AMD & Nvidia Target Laptops, iPhone Platform
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - June 6, 2008
- There are a number of interesting things coming out of Computex in Taiwan this week. The two that initially stood out were from AMD’s ATI unit and NVIDIA. Both promise a dramatic change in how some of us do things and with only few days to go t...