See that gaming beauty up there? That faceplate is powered by a motor, and can lift up and down on command. Now as flashy as that is, there’s some serious gaming horsepower under that automatic hood, so the package comes…
Site Highlight :: Splurge!
The economy’s not doing terribly well, and that’s not really news. Even so, if you still have champagne tastes and you’re only interested in the finest – or maybe more likely you have champagne tastes and you’re interested in looking…
Obamafy Your Photos
Looking for a way to get the same effect as this iconic image of Barack Obama (originally by artist Shepard Fairey)? Well, some enterprising developers have created a PhotoBooth plugin that will allow you to take photos with your Mac’s…
Top 5 Windows 7 Features
We’ve all heard about the uber-hyped Windows 7 by now, with Microsoft recently offering a public beta download of the forthcoming replacement for Vista. Initial impressions are very good, even as a beta version, and with good reason. Today we’re…
CES 2009: The Next Generation of Logitech’s G-Series
CES is a huge show, and a number of announcements and product releases went under the radar regardless of how many shows you watched or articles you read or roundups you flipped through. Thankfully I stumbled on a blog entry…
5 Ways to Clone and Copy Your Hard Drive
If you follow my personal blog or know me outside of Gears and Widgets, you’ll know that I just finished building a new rig! It’s a beautiful Core i7-based computer with top of the line components, so I like to…
Six Tech Questions You’re Afraid to Ask
One of my favorite tech review and benchmarking sites, ExtremeTech, has an excellent article up by one of (if not their most senior) editors: Loyd Case. Watching segments with Loyd is one of my favorite things about the weekly Web…
Scoring a Solid Laptop That Won’t Bust the Budget
It’s no secret that extra money is hard to come by these days. Even the richest of the rich are pulling their flow from the markets and tucking it away into safer investments. American industries are looking for help from…
Spinning Gears :: 10 Things that Won’t (or Will) Survive the Recession
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to take in IT World’s 10 Things that Won’t Survive the Recession, and it made my head hurt so badly I can’t really explain. The bulk of the suggestions have a grain…
ExtremeTech’s Best Keyboards and Mice for Every Occassion
I’m a huge fan of the Logitech G5 – I even passed over the arguably better Logitech G9 gaming mouse to get another G5 – it’s one of the best mice I’ve ever used. I even chose a G5 over…