THROWBACK THURSDAY: Tech Fails of 2013
Could it have been four years ago? I remember it as if it were only three. Back at the end of 2013, I found a great article detailing the biggest tech fails of the year. Back then, everyone…
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OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY: Punch Card
Seriously. In some states, voting data is still stored on paper cards. The technology goes back over 300 years and it’s still going strong today. The paper punched card is a slow, fragile, confusing form of…
FUN FRIDAY: Buggy devices
Sometimes hardware gets a bit… buggy. I was reminded of this when reading a recent article on io9 about how the PS4 is apparently perfectly designed to attract and retain cockroaches. These roaches set up a nice home inside…
End of the road for flash drives?
I may be the last person to buy a flash drive, and I may have bought my last one. Flash drives were the must-have accessory of the early 2000s as we began to need more storage…
Early look: Windows 10 S is just Windows RT again, right?
Microsoft’s first Surface laptop was a colossal failure, in large part because it ran something called “Windows RT.” Windows RT was a version of the hugely unpopular Windows 8 operating system that couldn’t even run most…
AT&T building out its fiber network
Can’t accuse them of standing still. AT&T has announced plans to offer a full fiber network to eight more metropolitan areas. They are listed below, and you can click to see a more detailed press…
It’s finally warming up… time to go out and do some inspections
It seems like every winter gets a little weirder. For folks up north, it looked like an exceedingly dry winter until the most recent snowpocalypse covered us all in the white stuff and caused major havoc….
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Microsoft .NET
One of the biggest mistakes Microsoft made in the 2000s was called “.NET.” It was supposed to be an easy way to build apps that worked on your computer and on the web, and it was…
The surprising rebound of Windows PCs
One of the surprising winners of 2016 was a company who had been nearly written off for dead: Microsoft. Back in 2012 I called their latest operating system a “day 1 fail” and called Microsoft’s hardware “doomed.” Well, you can…
EXCLUSIVE UNBOXING: EyeTV U6 Antenna Adapter for Mac
Watching live TV on your Mac has never been easier! Watch live, pause, and even set recordings on your Mac using this EyeTV U6 Antenna Adapter. It works with virtually any antenna, indoors or outdoors,…
OPINION: Is the computer mouse obsolete?
If so, it’s had a good run. The mouse was invented back in 1965, in the days when interacting with computers meant flipping long banks of switches and getting paper tape printouts in return. It took off…
Why get a new router? Just add an access point!
If you’re like most people, you get your home internet from a company that used to sell mostly phone or internet service. If you’re in AT&T territory, hopefully you’re thinking of bundling AT&T internet with DIRECTV….
What is “mesh networking?”
You know how you can walk through an airport and not lose Wi-Fi? That’s got to be some trick when you realize that a Wi-Fi signal can reach 100 or 150 feet, sometimes less. Did you…
Cellular internet instead of wired internet? Sign me up!
Internet at home has always meant a wire. When I was a kid and my dad worked from home, and this was 40 years ago, there was a wire. There’s always been a wire. First it…
2016: The Year in Computers
This was the year the PC came roaring back. After years of downward spirals brought on by smartphones and tablets, the traditional PC sprung back to life this year, driven by the successful release of…