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The idea of sharing your wireless connection with other users certainly has some people a bit hesitant, especially when it comes to the security of the whole deal. I wouldn’t want anyone snooping around on my hard drives. But if the people at FON have their way you’ll be able [...]

Here we go again. We’ve had another swimmer jump into the waters of the network attached storage (NAS) pool and this time it looks like something straight out of an episode of Buck Rogers. You know, the one where Buck argues with Twiki and Dr. Theopolis about how dangerous and [...]

Many people argue that electronics and the digital age will never spell the end for books. They claim that the very tactile nature of the book-reading experience is more than enough to keep them around for years to come. This has yet to be proven, but it certainly isn’t for [...]

OK, normally there really isn’t that much excitement that can be drummed up for a lowly flashlight. They’ve been around for what seems like hundreds of years (1902, actually) and they all pretty much do the same thing. We’ve seen them all; there are rechargeable one, small ones, large ones, [...]

Well, it certainly seems like the day for new releases in the computer gaming market. Having just reported on the latest release from Dell’s Alienware, the Mx15, it appears that it’s time for the spotlight to shine on Toshiba UK. The Brits are getting yet another high-end gaming laptop from [...]

When it comes to PC gaming systems that are, to put it bluntly, balls-to-the-wall fast, there’s no doubting the warp-speed proclivity of one Dell-owned subsidiary, Alienware. Alienware is known for otherworldly high-tech creations crammed with the latest and greatest peripherals on the market. Without remorse, these drool-worthy machines are wafted [...]

When we were first introduced to the idea of being able to watch videos and, gasp, movies on our iPods there was much rejoicing. We could finally download and take along with us all of our favorite television shows and movies. What could be better? Well, it didn’t take long [...]

USB is everywhere. It’s hard to remember a time when the ubiquitous technology wasn’t at the business end of just about ever piece of computer peripheral equipment on the market. While the current standard, USB 2.0, has been around for nearly a decade (it was standardized back in 2001) it [...]

There is something to be said for videoconferencing. It’s cheap compared to the alternative of sending groups of people from all over the world to one place for a meeting, it’s relatively easy to do, and anything that can save me from having to go through the agonizing peril that [...]

After spending hours and hours writing about seemingly random and utterly useless USB-powered devices (you know what they are, so I won’t waste more space writing about them) it’s nice to see that a company has actually taken the time to come up with a USB gadget that might, just [...]