We appreciate all the wonderful (and sometimes not) comments we’ve been receiving from our weekly “Photo Awesome” series, but in the interest of narrowing the gap between us and, well you, our loyal readers, we thought we’d have a little competition and let you decide the outcome.  Read More →

Just how popular are add-ons to Mozilla Firefox’s Web browser? A usage survey taken by Mozilla as of one year ago revealed that one-third of all Firefox users—at least—use add-ons in some capacity. That’s a pretty big deal, but not quite as eye-opening a number as the raw statistics from Mozilla’s official add-ons page. According to the company, more than two billion add-ons have been downloaded since Firefox’s started tracking statistics... 

Time for another Old School Monday – this week, Online Reviews Editor Michael Brown takes us back to boot May 1998’s cover story, 3D Cards of Champions:  Read More →

Google has become a part of everyday life, both for its now-ubiquitous search engine, as well as for its huge lineup of services. Whether it’s Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Picasa or the almighty Google Search, the company holds a large majority of users in the palm of its hand. And there are good reasons why Google’s services and products are so popular, but that doesn’t mean that the competition isn’t pitting their own ideas... 

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Imagine yourself competing in the geekiest of all game shows, facing off against the geekiest of geeks—those characters of pop culture whose intellectual excellence you aspired to as a child and still seek to emulate in present day. Could you hang? Could you hold your own in such rarefied company, matching wits with the best of ‘em? Sadly, we can never know that, but Maximum PC’s annual Geek Quiz is a pretty good indicator of brain power... 

Spearheading the 3D charge in the camera world is FujiFilm, who, in a couple of days, will be debuting their Real 3D W3 digital camera.  Read More →

Dream Machine 2010 was an exercise in PC building, overclocking, cooling—and patience So, the desktop PC will become nothing more than a truck? Well, here’s your Mack truck, Mr. Jobs, filling your rear-view mirror on Interstate 80 as you try to get that tablet-sized, Flash-less-powered toy out of the fast lane. Oops, sorry about running you over.  Read More →

I’m amazed you’re even reading this. Not because the quality of the prose is lacking in this week’s roundup of open-source and freeware applications, mind you. Rather, if you haven’t noticed by the coverage (and advertising) permeating just about every known tech site in the universe right now, Starcraft 2 just came out. It’s a miracle I’ve been able to tear myself away from defending humanity to write this but, well, my heart for... 

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Intel’s new Extreme Tuning Utility streamlines the user interface for tweaking your motherboard and CPU, and is pushing for widespread adoption among motherboard makers. High end motherboards from Intel have long shipped with their own tweaking tool, the Desktop Control Center. However, that tool always had limited capability, especially when stacked up against similar tools from other motherboard makers, like Asus, Gigabyte and MSI. While on... 

Google Voice.  Situation: It’s a pretty awesome competitor to good ol’ Skype, especially when you use its crazy powers to forward calls from your magical number to physical locations all over the world.  I, for one, use Google voice to get into my own apartment.  Ringing me up on the ol’ call box in front of my condo complex calls my Google Voice number…  Read More →