Tuesday, May 7, 2024
By David Ponce This is an amazing piece of software for your pocket PC or Palm that promises to improve your typing speed severalfold. It uses a clever combination of predictive text input, and six large buttons, each containing...
By David Ponce We've written about desktop applications that redefine the user interface dynamic before. But I have to say we're a little smitten with this one: the BumpTop prototype. It seeks to approximate the way we handle documents in...

By David Ponce I've never considered brewing my own beer. The thought of it alone invokes images of bursting beakers and malted mayhem. Of course, it's not that complicated, I'm just that much of a klutz. The process...

By David Ponce When was the last time you actually read an entire "End User Agreement"? Hell, do you realize just how much that exposes you to get screwed by The Man? How much abusive language, like "You...
By David Ponce A few days ago, we brought you news of TopDesk 1.4, a great piece of software that reproduced on Win XP the nifty "Expose" functionality found on OSX. For those of you who only rarely come...
By David Ponce So, it's nothing new. Internet Explorer is the next best thing to fermented cabbage rolls. Strangely, a huge amount of people still use it. I know by saying this, I've probably offended a few....
You would be surprised at how countless people have shared their horrible smart lock experiences. Smart locks, apparently, can be a little dumb when it comes to security. Take for example the case of a 31-year-old smart enthusiast living in...
By Shane McGlaun We talked earlier about pricing for Windows 7 now that its launch is getting closer. The OS will debut in October, which is only months away. Many are expecting great things out of Windows 7 and it...

By David Ponce So let's say you have a dedicated PC running Microsoft's Media Center. It's all nice and dandy, it's got all your media and such, except well, you've got no remote. Do you have a bluetooth...