- How to Encrypt and Erase a Hard Drive
- Digital Trends Guides - July 31, 2009
- We discussed the importance of backing up the data stored on your computer’s hard drive in a previous story. But what happens if your computer is lost or stolen? Notebooks are particularly vulnerable. A thoroughly executed back-up plan will all...
- Apple's iPad Tablet Could Slay Smartphones, eBooks and Netbooks
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - July 28, 2009
- On smartphones, Apple was late to the market, but if there is another vendor doing a better job of currently defining what a smartphone is, I don’t know who they are. With smartbooks, a new class of product based on smartphone technology that l...
- Boost your PC's performance For Free!
- Digital Trends Guides - July 27, 2009
- There are two ways of making your PC run faster: You can spend money upgrading to new components (buying a faster videocard, more memory, or maybe even a more advanced CPU), or you can follow our guidance and invest a little of your time instead of y...
- How to Rip a DVD or Blu-ray Movie
- Digital Trends Guides - July 24, 2009
- Are you ready to turn outlaw?Hollywood wants you to buy its movies on DVD and Blu-ray disc, but then it wants to control what you do with them once you get home. We’re going to show you how to do something that Hollywood most definitely does no...
- MP3 Players That Rock
- Digital Trends Guides - July 22, 2009
- Face it – with well over 120 million units sold, no company even comes close to touching the extraordinary success that Apple has enjoyed with its iPod-branded portable media players. Between classic, nano, shuffle and touch models (not to ment...
- Plastic Logic, Barnes & Noble Gang Up on Amazon
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - July 22, 2009
- I’m kind of surprised it took so long for a major retailer to chase after Amazon and its unique Kindle. Up until now, the only real competition so far has come from Sony’s incredibly lame Readers, which have neither the ease of use, nor t...
- Imagining an Apple Tablet
- Digital Trends Features - July 21, 2009
- Apple fans finally have something new to imagine, lust over, and stock their bank accounts for. After mockups of a revolutionary new iPhone said to debut at WWDC turned out to be false when Apple unveiled the relatively tame iPhone 3G S, it didn&rsqu...
- Backup Strategies to Prepare for Computer Catastrophes
- Digital Trends Guides - July 20, 2009
- Here’s an unpleasant fact of life: Your computer’s hard drive will eventually fail, taking all your precious digital photos, meticulously ripped music and movies, crucial banking records, email archive, and every other bit of your digital...
- Five Must-Have Features for the Modern Digital Camera
- Digital Trends Guides - July 20, 2009
- You're flipping through the weekly flyers from your local electronics store and marvel at the new digital cameras on the market. Not only are prices dropping all the time – for both the compact point-and-shoot cameras as well as the bulkier yet...
- Can Dell Dethrone the iPhone?
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - July 16, 2009
- When the subject of a rumored Dell cell phone came up at the company’s financial analyst meeting this week, Dell indicated there was one coming, but gave few details on it. So far, all we know for sure is that it will be based on LTE, or 4G ne...
- Best Free Alternatives to Commercial Software
- Digital Trends Guides - July 14, 2009
- Sometimes, you just have to cheap out. Whether it’s picking up six-pack of Shasta at the grocery store rather than Coke, a packet of generic acetaminophen at the drug store rather than Tylenol, or a Kia Amanti instead of a Mercedes E-Class, the...
- Key Features to Look for When Buying an HDTV
- Digital Trends Guides - July 13, 2009
- With technology evolving at such a rapid pace, buying a new TV can be an intimidating proposition. After all, no one wants to invest in a high-definition television that'll be outdated by the time you take it home and plug it into the wall. Complicat...
- Battle of the Browsers
- Digital Trends Features - July 10, 2009
- Serving as a window to your online world, the web browser has become one of -- if not -- the most important pieces of computer software used on a daily basis.Not only are browsers used to access websites for information and e-commerce, but for many, ...
- 10 Essential Summer Vacation Gadgets
- Digital Trends Guides - July 7, 2009
- The average business traveler already has a solid roundup of tools and technology for the road, but there’s a whole different bag of gear for leaving the office behind, donning a pair of flips flops or a luau skirt, and traveling for pleasure.S...
- Best Office Furniture & Accessories
- Digital Trends Guides - July 7, 2009
- Your new home office has fresh drywall from floor to ceiling, a fragrant new patch of short-nap carpet, and a window that looks out on the backyard garden. Now you just a need a spot to put that computer. And the printer. And all those papers. And th...