Tech

Christmas is right around the corner, and if you’re still running around trying to figure out what gifts to get the geek in your life, fear not, for here are the top 10 gifts for the loved one who has everything:
“What do you buy for that loved one who has everything? If your spouse or [...]

Everytime I run into Ajay Juneja, he’s talking about his voice controlled car computer. This is partly because the brains behind the voice recognition happens to be technology created by Ajay’s start-up company, Speak With Me. There’s not much you can throw at the computer that it can’t do. It’s got enough logic to prompt [...]

Alienware - the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook, media center, server, and professional systems - has introduced the new Intel Pentium processor Extreme Edition 955, the latest dual-core processor from Intel with HyperThreading Technology, to the Area-51 7500 and ALX lines. Armed with the Pentium processor Extreme Edition, high-end gamers, creative professionals and [...]

It may not look like a computer, but Compucar LLC has created the world’s first and only mass produced mini-PC that resembles an actual car. Choose from over a dozen different models which include the Dodge Viper, Hummer H2, Escalade EXT, Corvette C6, and more. You can pimp these cars out by adding new wheels, [...]

Last week I spent a day on Microsoft’s campus, getting a great deal of information about Windows Vista, the next version of Windows (formerly known as Longhorn). While much of the event was under NDA, and most of what I learned about Vista I can’t talk about, the last session of the day happened to [...]

Having a GPS receiver can be useful for all kinds of reasons. In car navigation systems using GPS make it harder to get lost in route to a destination. Linking a GPS to your laptop makes you a one-man (or woman) geo-locating machine. Taking a GPS receiver on hiking and camping trips may help avoid [...]

Remember high school genetics? Brown eyes were dominant and blue were recessive, and if you had two brown eyed parents and they had four kids, all of them would come out with brown eyes unless mom messed around with the milkman. Or something like that.
If making one of those eye color grids is too bothersome, [...]

Bluetooth is one of the many mini technologies supposed to set the world on fire, but never really achieving the kind of traction hoped for by so many. At best, it’s become a wireless solution for eliminating the wire between your cellphone and headset. I recently discovered a two other uses that don’t make Bluetooth [...]

Control multiple computers from a single keyboard and mouse.
Software developer Stardock Corporation announced a brand new product called Multiplicity, a program that allows users to control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse. For users, it’s much like using a multiple-monitor setup - when the user moves his mouse to a monitor connected [...]

While Microsoft has been heavily moving Windows Media Center through manufacturers such as HP and Sony, the Mac community has been wondering out loud where the worlds easiest-to-use computer version of this is. Didn’t Steve Jobs once comment at Macworld that Apple wanted to be the digital media center? Sure, they have iEverything [...]

Beyond TV 3.5 gives television viewers more control of their television viewing experience with new features like multi-tuner, Beyond TV Link, and Portable Media Center support.
SnapStream Media, Inc., a leader in digital home entertainment products, announced today the release of Beyond TV 3.5. Beyond TV 3.5 offers a series of new features, [...]

I was clearing old magazines stacked over the months, then I came across a
mint-condition technology publication dated March 2002. As I flipped through the pages, I thought in amazement how fast technology has progressed in two years. The
funny thing is how such magazines let us travel back in time mentally and
remind us that the stuff [...]

With the October 8th release of Are You All That?, an innovative, stand-alone DVD-Video trivia game, over 62 million households can multitask their DVD players and use them as interactive video game consoles to enjoy nearly 300 hours of party fun and family entertainment. Developed by California-based DVD Interactive (DVDi®) and published by Digital Leisure [...]

Downloading files to iPods and other storage devices is very easy to do in Windows. Too easy, say some IT Managers.

Saw the Kanguru drives a while ago. They’re portable CD-R drives that don’t need a computer. What’s the point to having a CD-R drove without a computer? Well, they’ll both act a standalone audio CD player, and one will act as a DVD player (of course you need a TV too). But here’s the thing [...]

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has approved the first full version of its read-only disc specification, the organization said this week.

Are you tired of gathering your friends or family around your PC to show off your new digital photos or listen to your PC based audio? Well then take a look at the Linksys Wireless B Media Adapter, model number WMA11B. The WMA11B is designed to allow you to display your Digital Pictures [...]