Are You Putting Off Productivity?

I recently took a good look at what was keeping me from accomplishing what I needed to do. After all, I had my goals. I had them written down. I read my affirmations daily. And still, I was not achieving what I wanted to do. Leaving town was a major... Read More

Protect Your PC from Viruses, Worms & Trojans

Each of the items in the checklist below is part of a broad and easy to implement security policy. Install all windows critical updates for your operating system from the Microsoft Update site - it's free! All that's required to keep your Microsoft operating system up to date is an... Read More

Windows Task Manager in English

You use Ctrl+Alt+Del to see what's running on your PC, to close crashed programs and processes, and to check performance. You probably avoid a few processes whose names mean nothing to you, but they're essential to Windows. svchost.exe sure likes to appear all the time and multiple times at that.... Read More

How To Search Your PC With Google Desktop

In this era of Internet, most people are frequent users of computers. Many of us use computers through out the day, accumulating morasses of information in various formats, which include email, digital photo, word document, spreadsheet, presentation file, ebook, article, other downloaded files, music, visited web pages, and many others.... Read More

A Peek Into the Near Future of Electronics Technology

How long do you think DVDs have around? 20 years? 10 years? Actually, they have only been around for about seven years, but it seems like they have been around much longer. Many of us can hardly remember life before DVDs. That can be attributed to how rapidly we can... Read More

Toshiba Wins Hollywood Support for the HD DVD format

What led them to this choice, as all four studios stated separately, is better performance for the price and copyright protection.The other standard in competition, the Blu-ray disc, unconditionally backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, is also counting on support from Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Twentieth Century Fox (the latter has... Read More

The Many Benefits of Owning a DVR

Has This Ever Happened To You? OK.. it's Friday night, the kids are asleep, and a movie you've been waiting for is on Pay-Per-View for the first time. You buy the movie, grab a bag of popcorn, get all comfy on the couch, and ten minutes into the movie "RINGGGG"... Read More

Buying a Home Theater Receiver

Buying a receiver is one of the most important decisions you're going to have to make when building your home theater. The receiver has a number of functions including; connecting and switching audio sources; connecting and switching video sources; decoding surround sound formats; amplifying an audio signal and sending it... Read More

Passwords and the Human Factor

Passwords have a strange dual nature. The stronger and safer the password the more likely it will be undermined by human weakness.It is widely known that passwords are the most common means of access control. It is also common knowledge that passwords are the easiest way to compromise a system.... Read More

Looking For an MP3 Player?

If you don't have an mp3 player, and even if you do, you should check out all the new stuff that's going on. I'm hoping this article will give you some idea of what kind of mp3 player you want and some tips on what to look for in an... Read More

Sirf Tech's wild ride and the GPS market
MarketWatch - 10 hours ago
The company, which makes GPS chipsets for personal navigation devices, had just reported a third-quarter loss of $16.1 million, or 28 cents a share, ...

Personal Tech BlackBerry Goes Bold with New 3G Smartphone
CIO Today, CA - May 12, 2008
By Barry Levine The Blackberry Bold is aimed at both the enterprise and consumer markets and is the first Blackberry to support tri-band HSDPA. ...
BlackBerry Strikes Back at IPhone Wall Street Journal Blogs
The BlackBerry Bold. Wall Street Journal Blogs
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Tech.view From literacy to digiracy
Economist, UK - 3 hours ago
Back in the early 1970s, Xerox pioneered most of the wimp features with its legendary Alto personal computer for researchers, and later its Star computer ...

Top Tech Tips for a Fun-Drenched Summer HP’s desktop PCs give you ...
Al-Bawaba, Jordan - May 15, 2008
The HP Pavilion Elite M9000 also features HP Easy Back-up, allowing you to duplicate all your personal files, including photos, music, videos, contacts, ...

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Personal Tech GTA IV May Be Driving Sales of Gaming Consoles
CIO Today, CA - May 10, 2008
By Jennifer LeClaire Microsoft's Xbox 360 appears to be benefiting more than Sony's PlayStation 3 as game-console sales soar along with Grand Theft Auto IV. ...
Video: Grand Theft Auto IV" Rakes in Over $500 Million AssociatedPress
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Hi-Tech Fitness
LocalNews8.com, ID - 6 hours ago
... home on your couch and doing things like that, but to actually replace the gym, absolutely not," said Jamie Burrip, Personal Trainer at World Gym. ...

Hokies start competition at Georgia Tech Invite
VT hokiesports.com, VA - 1 hour ago
... while Brittany Pryor recorded a personal best with a mark of 203'5" (62.00m) for second place in the event. Kristen Callan completed the Tech effort in ...

Media 3.0
Shenzhen, China: Tech-Life Without the Burden of Copyright Law
Media 3.0, NY - 15 hours ago
It’sa $250 toy that is the Swiss Army Knife of personal electronics. It will teach you Chinese (which is more important here than you think), ...

Conde Nast rolls up tech blog Ars Technica
The Industry Standard, CA - 7 hours ago
In full disclosure, I had a brush up with Ars Technica on my personal blog earlier this week. I feel the site has been using some questionable practices ...

IndustryWeek
A Robot that Can Smile or Frown
IndustryWeek - May 15, 2008
Robotic maids will be common domestic assistants in less than 20 years, say the robot experts at Georgia Tech. "The personal robot market is already growing ...

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