- How to Cancel Cable and Get TV on Your PC
- Digital Trends Features - October 1, 2009
- At the beginning of September, I walked outside the house with a hatchet in hand and chopped the single line of coax that kept my household wired into the universe. I severed the cable TV.Not literally, of course. That would have been pretty stupid &...
- Smartphone App Stores Compared
- Digital Trends Features - September 29, 2009
- If a building is only as good as its foundation, then a smartphone is only as good as its app store. Even as manufacturers continue to stack their handsets with YouTube support, instant messaging, and other essentials right out of the box, the featur...
- Best Voice Recorders Reviewed
- Digital Trends Features - September 28, 2009
- With all the portable audio-video devices floating around today, it seems surprising – nay, downright annoying – that so few of them offer support for voice recording. Sure, they'll load and play a kazillion songs in any format you want, ...
- Save Money by Booking Trips Cheaper Online
- Digital Trends Guides - September 24, 2009
- Travel expenses add up. Between airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, and three square meals out on the town a day, it’s tempting to give it up entirely when money gets tight.But you don’t have to scratch that surf trip to Maui in fa...
- The Archos 9: What Apple's iPad Should Be
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - September 24, 2009
- Archos makes the best multi-media players that no one knows about. I know a number of folks who own one of the predecessors to the Archos 9, and everyone loves them. But, unlike the iPod, few people outside of loyal users ever seem to hear about Arch...
- Best New Smartphones Compared
- Digital Trends Features - September 23, 2009
- With a new crop of ever-faster, ever-smaller, ever-better smartphones launching seemingly every month, there has never been a more enticing time to buy a smartphone. Or a more confusing time for the prospective buyer. The same plethora of options tha...
- Will the iPhone Kill Standalone GPS Navigators?
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - September 23, 2009
- The iPhone comes as close as you can get to a universal, do-everything device. It's as much a personal media player, translator, Internet tablet, notepad, alarm clock and a dozen other things as it is a cell phone. But with the introduction of the ve...
- In the Year 2020, Part I: Cloud Computing
- Digital Trends Features - September 22, 2009
- It's Friday afternoon. Andy's had a long, tiring week, and he's thinking this would be a great time to shed the shackles of his job and kick back with a good friend over a couple of beers and a juicy steak. One problem: Andy's best buddy is off in Eu...
- Fall Video Game Preview 2009
- Digital Trends Features - September 18, 2009
- The holidays are almost here, and you know what that means – we can feel our thumbs tingling already. Thank an impending deluge of high-profile fall PC and video game releases, which signal the end of the industry’s annual summer drought....
- Top 10 Geek Travel Destinations
- Digital Trends Features - September 16, 2009
- Wine lovers have Napa Valley. Fashionistas have Paris. And Elvis diehards have Graceland.Devotees visit them sample the finest, see the latest in the industry, and soak in the history of the greats. But where should geeks book their tickets to when i...
- Best of CEDIA 2009
- Digital Trends Features - September 15, 2009
- Attendance at the just-concluded CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design & Installation Association) Expo, held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, was down for the second straight year to around 20,000, and the number of exhibitors shrunk ...
- Microsoft ZuneHD vs. Apple iPod Touch
- Digital Trends Guides - September 15, 2009
- Microsoft has made no attempt to hide which trendy little MP3 player lay in the sights of the recently released Zune HD: Apple's iPod Touch. Apple turned the market upside down when it released the Touch back in 2007, and while Microsoft let its own ...
- Microsoft Zune HD: Close but No Cigar
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - September 15, 2009
- When Microsoft and Apple first started competing, Apple was differentiated by having a few products that did a comparatively few things very well. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple (which had clearly drifted from those roots in the 90s) he took the ...
- LED Behind the LCD: Understanding LED-Backlit HDTVs
- Digital Trends Guides - September 10, 2009
- You've heard about LCDs. You've heard about plasmas. Maybe even you even understand all the pros and cons between them. But what are all these "LED televisions" we keep hearing about?With the crop of LED-backlit HDTVs announced at this year...
- Dell's 9.99 MacBook Air Killer Design Concept
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - September 10, 2009
- Apple’s flagship laptop, the MacBook Air, is a beauty. Very thin, very light, it is a piece of art. There have been three attempts so far to build a product that would outdo the Air: the HP Voodoo Envy, the Lenovo ThinkPad X300, and most recent...