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As a car enthusiast, it's near-impossible to put two amazing cars side-by-side and then choose which one you'd prefer to own. It would almost be like choosing between your kids, or somehow winding up at a party at the Playboy mansion and remembering that your girlfriend is right beside you...

In mid-December, I took a look at our site statistics for the first half of the month to see the trend of Windows 7 adoption, and the results were rather impressive. At that time, 28.23% of our Windows visitors were using Windows 7. For an OS that was released a mere two months earlier, that...

One of the best things about working for a site like Techgage is that I not only get to dabble in bleeding-edge pieces of technology for a living, but I get to meet some of the most interesting people on the planet during all of my travels. One example of this is CES, where last month, I had...

Take a guess at the best possible way to discover information from any company today. Subscribe to its press release list? Nope. Contact the company? Nope. In the age of social media, it seems like the best way is to subscribe to that company's Facebook page, Twitter page, Flickr page, et...

With Intel's recent Clarkdale processor launch, the itch to build that new HTPC is no doubt greater than ever. Not only does Intel offer a wide-range of processors, but motherboard vendors are currently offering an incredible amount of H55 models. We're taking a look at two here, Intel's own...

Earlier today, we exposed the fact that it's unwise to be absolutely carefree while online, because if you upload anything that at all can put you in a poor light, you can bet that someone will find it. In the case of that news post, it could be an employer, and that can have obvious...

For many of us, social networking is increasingly becoming an integral part of our lives. Are you on Facebook, or any other service like it? How often do you check it? Chances are that if you do use a social networking site, you check it daily, and in the cases of some socialite...

As I have mentioned many times in our news section in the past, I'm a big fan of open-sourced software and use it where able. Because I use Linux as my primary operating system, most of the software I use is free and open-sourced, but even for Windows, a lot of what I use there is as well...

After months of intense hype, Apple finally announced its "tablet" computer yesterday. I use tablet in quotes, because after making our news post about the iPad yesterday, I quickly realized that Apple itself was not using the word "tablet". Rather, it simply calls it a "device". Go ahead...

Our friends at GOG.com have sent along word that they've just secured a mega-deal to deliver classic games from a publisher that's about as classic as they come: Activision. Available on the site immediately are two titles I feel like I need to make the time for, Arcanum: Of Steamworks &...

SATA 3.0 may have been available to consumers for the past couple of months, but the number of hard drive options out there are ultra-slim... just one. That drive is Seagate's Barracuda XT. The question we're looking to answer here is whether or not the $100 premium for SATA 3.0 is worth it, at...

Life is full of surprises, but the fact that Apple announced a tablet computer at a special event in San Francisco today isn't one of them. Officially named the "iPad" (Wow... iTab would have been better), this tablet computer is designed to comfortably fit in between a smartphone and a...

I'm sure it will come as no surprise to anyone that real newspapers (as in, made of paper) are dying off in huge numbers. Over the years, there's been many popular and well-known newspapers that have shut down, and that happening was inevitable once the Internet became popular. I still...

Earlier this week, I made a little rant about the fact that DRM will be seen in the upcoming BioShock 2. Like it or not, DRM doesn't seem to be going away, and as much as the game industry would like to ignore it, I truly believe that DRM plays a huge roll in persuading consumers to go...

As a full-time Linux user, I guess you could say that I love using free and open-sourced software, and for the most part, that's true. I don't just use Linux because of those two things, though. I simply like how the OS works, and the sheer amount of control I have over it with Gentoo in...

People who know me tend to realize fast that I'm "anti-online comic", but it's for no real reason. I just tend to never find the comics as funny as other people, so I don't actively seek them out. If there's an exception to this rule, it would be The Oatmeal. This site publishes what I'd...

For Linux users, especially those using the KDE desktop environment, February 9 is going to be a fun day. That's the day that KDE 4.4 will be released, and like all major version increments before it, there's a lot that it's going to bring to the table. I'm most excited because 4.3 brought...

This coming Wednesday, Apple is holding an event in San Francisco where it's expected to make a couple of big announcements. Even Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, has been clear that there's something big on the horizon by saying, "We're starting this week with a major new product". Even if you don't...

It's been quite a while since I last ranted about digital rights management (DRM) in our news section, so with the recent news that BioShock 2 will pack in SecuROM, what better time could there be to rant some more? I don't like ranting for the sake of ranting, but I admit, DRM is something...

Late last week, Mozilla released a major update to its Firefox browser, bringing us up to version 3.6. This version brings a couple of new things to the table, such as improved Personas support (custom browser themes that apply instantly), protection from out-of-date plugins, improved full...