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While perusing the ComputerWorld site, I found that ex-PCWorld editor-in-chief Harry McCracken has penned a series of six articles to ease the Windows user into the use of a modern Mac.
In the articles covered are making the jump, getting around at first on OS X, getting your files moved to the new machine, running Windows [...]

It’s official, but I said it long ago. (Perhaps I am somewhat like Nostradamus.) It will take on more weight now that the industry big shots are speaking out – cloud computing is a bad name. It always was.
The Information Week article speaks out on the bad name, and other things-
Sure, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd [...]

As anyone who builds computers knows, each year during the golden quarter (the last three months of the year, where many businesses actually get into the black for the entire year) prices on computer memory go up, as everyone anticipates the need for memory for Christmas holiday (could be Hanukkah, could be Kwanzaa) gifts of [...]

Rumors abound concerning the possible entry of nVidia into the CPU market. Though now is more of a tough time to break new things than any in recent memory, I am sure it would be a great idea.
In any market, a third entry makes the other two perk up and get a lot less comfortable [...]

If you are one of the people who have made the plunge to Windows 7, you might have found that for at least one brand, printer divers are still a problem.  I had used a Vista driver for my HP, but have not done much printing, so, other than a really fine test page and [...]

Once upon a time, when performance in disk drives meant you had to have a SCSI (Small Computer System Interface, developed from the SASI interface, developed by Seagate) add-in card and connected drive, many manufacturers made them. Western Digital never had many offerings, but those it had worked very well.
Then the IDE (integrated drive electronics) [...]

New results indicate that Google Chrome gets faster, always nice, but is also starting to gain features. One of those features is currently an Opera exclusive, which will synchronize bookmarks across all of the user’s machines.
The sync feature is done using the same protocol as Google Talk, which may or may not be better than [...]

Low power lovers for lots of years looked to VIA for solutions for small spaces, or for single use PCs, such as those that might be used for a SmoothWall router, or a small home server.
When Intel released the Atom processor, the world forgot about VIA for awhile, seeming  to be helped by the almost [...]

During the time I have been involved with computers, there have been several would-be competitors to Apple, but none has held on as long as Florida company Psystar.
In the early days, the cloning revolved around building a similar motherboard, and then actually physically copying the ROMs  of the Apple machine. Though I never was interested [...]

First, bear in mind that this is a first look, and I have not spent lots of time with this new version. I have stopped downloading most Linux betas because they don’t last long, and I can sit back and wait for the end product, where once I was not patient and thought it was [...]

Microsoft may be working at cross purposes, as it tries to tell everyone that staying with Windows XP is a bad move. Stating that Windows XP is less secure, or simply old, makes many who can’t afford to switch to a Mac, or don’t want to make a move to Windows 7, think about the [...]

Version 10.01 of the Opera browser has been released. It is a security and stability update to revision 10, and not a full update with Unite. The version leaves Unite to be downloaded by choosing version 10.10.
Some of the changes are:

Opera 10.01 for Windows Changelog
Release Notes
Opera 10.01 is a recommended security and stability upgrade. Opera [...]

Many times I have said that I am not Nostradamus, but certain things make it possible to get a good idea about what will happen.
When ICANN became more of a true international body, it was bound to happen that non-English characters would find their way into web addresses. Though there will be some sort of [...]

AMD seems to believe that simply because it has released a new set of good quality video cards that it suddenly owns the world. This doesn’t jibe with the story going around about more layoffs in a few weeks at the company.
To top that off, the company has been suffering from a lack of product, [...]

Of all the features that Opera 10 offers, the Turbo mode is not one of the things I use. I have a 7 Mb/s connection, so i am usually satisfied with my connection speed.
Others are using dial-up however, or possibly worse, a slow cable or DSL connection that a greedy provider classifies as broadband, but [...]