Posts Tagged as ‘PC’

October 6, 2009

Synergy – My New Holy Grail

So I’ve got this sick set up in my office right?  24” iMac, Dell laptop going into dual screens through a docking station, and a nice new desk to sit it all on (no more card table for me!).  One problem though (make that two), I’m sitting here with two sets of peripherals (keyboards and [...]

June 18, 2009

These Are a Few of My Favorite Bings

If you love technology as much as I do then I will assume you are no stranger to the most excellent site Life Hacker, (sorry: this isn’t a post about MS’s new search engine Bing; “bings” just fit the Sound of Music omage better than “hacks”).  My favorite thing that they issue each year is [...]

April 14, 2009

Ex-Videogame Junky Says: “OnLive Cloud Gaming’s gonna make me relapse…”

My name is Mike and I am an ex-videogame junky.  I have been “game-free” since February 2008.  The main reason I quit video games cold turkey was for my kids – I couldn’t justify the time suck with an 8-month old at the time and another on the way.   My game console of choice was [...]

April 2, 2009

Fear the Conficker Worm

“I saw it on 60-minutes,” Mom said.  “They said don’t go online b/c of this virus.” “Worm,” I said.  “What?” she asked. “It’s a worm, not a virus,” I said.  N00B Alert: worm v. virus (from the Big W)  A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of [...]