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First off, this is the article that almost didn't happen. If you don't want to hear this, just skip down to the "All That Aside" heading below, but I encourage you to first read through my little "aside" here first so you can understand what's happening in this article since it doesn't follow stan
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We've talked and complained about Google on many other occasions within this blog, but with many discussions of Google also comes discussions of privacy, and the fact that Google aims to distribute an operating system should be no different - that is to say, not only is Google open to almost everyth
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The school year returns and its time to buy your kids a computer. A friendly warning from me to you is "Your knowledge of buying cereal does not qualify you to intelligently purchase a computer." But we will try to help you get the most for your money instead of being swindled out of your cash by
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(No, I'm not going to write/complain about Google as the last couple of our articles have) Instead, I'm going to complain about Apple. What the iPhone architecture calls "firmware" continues to confuse those looking for a solid definition of the loose term, which has been used to traditionally de
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For those who may have been stranded on a deserted island for the past day or so, Google announced on its official blog the plans for Chrome OS, an operating system dedicated wholly to web browsing and (from the announcement) ONLY web browsing. Here are just a few thoughts on the plans for the new O
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The European Union is funding a new middleware platform designed to allow higher-level software to take full advantage of the readily-available sensors in modern cars. The platform acts as an abstraction layer, providing an easy to use, higher-level API for programs to use while interpreting the res
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Beginning programmers ask this all of the time, and in my circles I'm usually the one to answer this although I'm met with blank faces in response. It became more apparent that we need a good, solid article explaining exactly what a linker does when I saw a whole section on Wikipedia about the "deba
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="585" caption="Intel Nehalem Overview"][/caption] That's right - Intel continues to break barriers down with new processor technology every day, although the only software company able to take advantage of the new design currently is IBM. The new "Nehalem-EX
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The modern computer is like a poorly built house: its bad enough that its design was terrible in the first place, but instead of taking the time to fix it we simply place a bucket under every ceiling leak, and when that proves ineffective we just place a larger bucket in its place. Computers in
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Everyone has at one point or another offered little tips and tricks of varying quality for speeding up a Windows installation. I can't even watch TV for more than 10 minutes without seeing one of those obnoxious (and inaccurate) FinallyFast.com commercials, and I hear people all of the time offering
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