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WE AT HALFBRICK ARE VERY happy to announce Age of Zombies -- Rated T for TEEN -- for the PSP and PS3 minis. We know what you are thinking --... (More)

YESTERDAY, I WROTE ABOUT THE government of Denmark deciding that being locked into proprietary (i.e. Microsoft) formats was not going to do. The problem was not Microsoft per se, but... (More)

IN THIS RUNAS RADIO PODCAST, Richard and I talk to Rodney Buike about the upcoming Office 2010. While he couldn't commit to a launch date (go search online; there's lots... (More)

SPICEBIRD IS A COLLABORATION CLIENT that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring, and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various Web services while retaining... (More)

WE'VE ALL HAD GRIPES ABOUT Flash with Linux at one time or another. And the same kind of feelings have also plagued those who use OS X as well. Today,... (More)

ONCE UPON A TIME, YOU could buy a pack of cigarettes for under $2 a pack. Cigarettes appeared in numerous TV and film productions. You could smoke indoors while at... (More)

ONE OF THE EXTRA CURRICULAR activities during the Super Bowl is to view the commercials and grade each on how good or bad they are. This past Sunday's Super Bowl... (More)

ONLINE PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE INFORMATION and tips about fruits and vegetables may be the key to getting more Americans to eat healthier, say researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. Researchers found... (More)

ACT QUICK, TO AN INCREDIBLE deal on the Data Robotics Drobo 4-Bay USB 2.0/FireWire 800 SATA Storage Array DR04DD10! For a limited time and while supplies last, order the Data... (More)

THIS GARMIN IS ONE HECK of a deal at only $99.99. The unit includes a GPs with Bluetooth and also voice directions. The unit will announce the street names so... (More)

DO YOU HAVE A SCHOOL/TECH related question? Leave it in the “SchoolTech Mailbag!”  I can’t guarantee an answer, but I’ll make the effort. Contact me here. (New Mailbag entries will... (More)

PHILTHYDELPHIA MAYOR MICHAEL NUTTER STATED that the city will start handing out fifty dollar tickets to enforce the law about clearing snow from sidewalks. I believe the proper term is... (More)

THIS CHRISTMAS I GOT A few new things to make my Mac Pro actually be a Mac Pro. Up until this point, I only had 2 GB of RAM. As... (More)

GOOGLE BOUGHT AN ADVERTISING SPACE during the Super Bowl. The ad was called "Parisian Love" and it was the first time that the tech giant has been part of the... (More)

IF YOU ARE THE KIND that runs to cracks and keygens after installing any new shareware software, wait. It is more harmful, because those sites not only serve you trial... (More)

I'M SURE MANY OF YOU readers have seen and read reviews or "hands-on previews" of the latest gizmo from Apple, the iPad. There have been topics discussed -- whether it's... (More)

FOR THOSE OF YOU LIVING on the East Coast, you may find that your weekend is going to be filled with some fairly significant severe weather. Now you could simply... (More)

LET'S FACE IT: EBAY HAS made a lot of changes to their pricing models and it seems that overall improvements to the site have been slow. So I asked a... (More)

EVER WANTED TO LISTEN TO a song but you can't find it anyway? Well not anymore. There is a free music service on the Web called grooveshark.com. Once you're in... (More)

2010 IS SHAPING UP TO be the year that the electric car takes off. Although a lot of folks have been swept up by the promise that electrified transportation holds,... (More)

APPLE HAS FINALLY FIXED A problem it had in initial promotional videos for the iPad. According to MacRumors.com, the first releases of these videos showed Flash applications properly loading within the Safari... (More)

MULTITASKING IS ONE "FEATURE" I have surely been taking for granted. Multitasking has been one of the greatest personal computing innovations since the graphic user interface. Sitting at your Mac... (More)

THIS FREE GUIDE SUPPLIES YOU with numerous tips, tricks, and free applications. Get the hang of the interface and discover what your Mac is really capable of. Gone are the... (More)

THE OTHER DAY I WAS sitting with my nephew watching a children's computer generated show called The Future Is Wild and it got me intrigued.  The show tells the story... (More)

AS A PET OWNER MYSELF, I can relate to the likely heartbreak of trying to track down a lost pet should it escape into the wild blue yonder. And up... (More)

GOOGLE HAS SAID THAT FROM March 1 some of its applications will fail to operate "properly" for those who are browsing the site using Internet Explorer 6. The company has... (More)

I AM SURE YOU ALL have not heard enough about Apple’s new iPad, right? Well I want to tell you what I think will be an excellent use, and possible... (More)

AFTER MONTHS OF SPECULATION AND rumors, the Apple iPad is finally here! Now I have to say, this is one pretty impressive product. For one thing the weight, 1.5 pounds... (More)

JANUARY IS ABOUT TO WRAP up, and here are some of my favorite wallpapers from the past few weeks.  Just click the link to be taken to the download page.... (More)

SO THE WAIT IS OVER! After what seems like years of speculation, the "Apple tablet" is finally here. Much has been written over the last few hours about Apple's new... (More)

EXCERPT FROM A CHAT I had with a friend: lol Now does that mean you're actually laughing out loud, or you just don't know what to say? I came close.... (More)

HELLO AND WELCOME BACK TO my blog!  Today one of the junior DBAs came to me and asked when he views the locks in SQL Server by executing sp_lock or... (More)

SO I'VE SOME FRIENDS WHO have just started up their own tech blogging website, RightClickReload.com.  These are the guys I usually go to when I have an immediate tech question... (More)

WHAT'S WORSE THAN A WINDOWS fanboy? An Apple one. Sure, the typical Windows fanboy will say that the Macintosh cannot play games, and that you cannot build your own "rig,"... (More)