Apple’s iPad device is the big tech news for at least the rest of this week. Reviews from the pundits who have been watching things unfold have been rather mixed, but the word coming from the press and technologists who were in attendance and had a chance to use one of the devices yesterday is [...]

As you could probably guess, my house lives and breathes technology. My wife and I both spend far too much time on our computers for recreation. Our kids are also rather used to this and have always been using our computers for various games and other activities. The main problem I’ve always had with this [...]

Only a small number of people using the Internet ever really think about it or even know what it is. In simple terms computers use numbers (IP addresses) to identify each other. DNS overlays this system with domain names and maps them to the relevant IP address. So, you don’t have to know the IP [...]

It being the week of Thanksgiving we all know that everyone is more excited about Black Friday than about visiting with relatives and eating badly cooked turkey with cold mashed potatoes.

My preferred hardware vendor, Newegg is getting in on the action early this week. So, if you’re looking for some hardware upgrades, a new computer [...]

Marco Armet takes a sobering look at the current DMCA takedown problem:

Anyone can force any content on nearly any site hosted in the U.S. to be taken down or removed from Google’s index, at least for a while, with no ramifications, liability, or traceability by filling out a simple web form or sending an email.

An [...]

Brian Krebs from the Washington Post dives into the problem in this story:

The simplest, most cost-effective answer I know of? Don’t use Microsoft Windows when accessing your bank account online.

I do not offer this recommendation lightly (and at the end of this column you’ll find a link to another column wherein I explain an easy-to-use [...]

From Ars:

NVIDIA dropped a bombshell today with an announcement that it is freezing development work on future PC chipsets. The GPU maker is blaming this dramatic move on an ongoing legal spat with Intel, but the market realities are there for all to see.

In the short-term this is not good for people who are looking [...]

Using BumpTop, it reminds me a lot of what the Microsoft Surface demos showed they were doing, only this is for your standard computer. Definitely worth checking out the free version. I know I’ll be playing around with it on my Windows machine for awhile.

It’s been awhile since I’ve read these, but they popped back up and thought I’d share them here. I can’t say I would agree 100%, but I’d have a hard time arguing against any of his rules.

al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness