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Like most other mechanical hard drive vendors, Seagate has long remained adamant that from a consumer standpoint, solid-state disks (SSDs) are just not that important. Western Digital said the same thing even at the beginning of this year, and then look what happened. Like Seagate, Western...

Those who know me well know that I try to stay away from Google products as much as possible. This includes its search engine, Web apps and so forth. The reason boils down to privacy, and the absolute lack of. If you use a Google service, including its search engine, the amount of data that it...

We took a look last week at a thumb drive that offered unparalleled data security, and this time around, we're taking a look at a similar product, but one that's designed for PC use, whether in the office or at home. The CipherChain, from Addonics, is easy-to-install and operate, and secures...

The latest major version of Mozilla's popular e-mail client, Thunderbird, was expected late last month, but that time came and went, and no cigar. Whether or not the rumors were wrong, or various reasons held it back, I'm not sure, but it's here now, and just went live about an hour before this...

Have you ever dreamt of soaring around the edge of our earth, with nothing but our entire galaxy in front of you? Well, believe it or not, that's becoming a reality, and far sooner than you'd likely imagine. Virgin, a company that partakes in pretty much every industry there is, is launching...

So, I'm curious. With memory prices rather low, for the most part, and motherboards so capable of handling copious amounts of it, if you were to build a new PC today, or are planning to in the near-future, how much memory are you going to toss in there? Personally, I've been using 8GB in my...

If there's one company that knows how to sell a product, it's Apple. Even if you aren't a fan of the brand, or its products, that simple fact cannot be denied. Take for example, its "App Store". Apple launched this mobile apps service last summer, and in just over a year, it hit a staggering 2...

One of the more common arguments against torrenting from the media industry is of course piracy. But those groups who attempt to prove these companies wrong exhaust all possible angles in order to prove that torrents don't entirely amount to "illegal", and in many cases, there are completely...

As I'm sure many of our readers are aware of by now, my preferred OS happens to be Linux, not Windows, despite using the latter for almost all of our performance-related testing. My preferred desktop choice is KDE, for various reasons I won't tackle here. As you may recall, I posted an editorial...

Back with the Windows Vista launch, Microsoft delivered a new tool that aimed to protect its customer's data with sophisticated encryption and a hardware-based switch that would either allow or deny access to said data. The hardware side of things requires a TPM chip on the motherboard, and with...

Want to purchase a Radeon HD 5870, but can't find one in stock? One alternative to consider is instead purchasing two Radeon HD 5770's to take advantage of CrossFireX. Not only does this solution save you up to $80 at current pricing, but it proved in our results to offer even better performance...

Well, I have to admit that I wasn't expecting this... at least not so soon. Just earlier this week, I linked to a story which showed off Larrabee's impressive computational performance - it beat NVIDIA's highest-end GeForce GTX 285 by at least a factor of 2. Of course, such metrics don't easily...

Have you ever played a video game and thought, "I could SO do that in real-life.", but never actually attempt it? It could be something that requires real skill, like scaling a building, jumping from one roof top to the next, or something little more realistic, like racing. Of course, even if...

A couple of weeks after Windows 7's launch, reports came out that usage was rather good considering the short amount of time it was available. In just under 10 days, Microsoft's latest OS hit a 3% market share of Internet-connected PCs, and anyway you look at it, that's impressive. I'm not sure...

Whether you like it or not, the winter season is right around the corner. Depending on where you live, it may have very-well already begun for you, and if that's the case, then I'm glad I don't live anywhere near you. I'm not afraid of the cold, but like how I feel about onions, I'd rather not...

If on the lookout for a budget processor, whether it be dual, tri or quad-core, there's no better place to look than AMD. The company recently released eight new models, and in total, nine current Athlon II's retail for under $100. We're taking a look at two such models here, the X3 435 and X2...

From our front-page news: S-ATA 3.0 (6Gbit/s) has been available to consumers for the past month or two, but the drives themselves have been scarce. On the mechanical hard drive side, Seagate is the lone contender right now with its Barracuda XT, but we can expect to see products trickle out...

From our front-page news: McAfee, the creators of some of the most popular security software available for the PC, has released its updated "Mapping the Mal Web" report that shows which Web TLDs (top-level domains) are the most dangerous in the world, in terms of the likelihood that malware is...

From our front-page news: In case it isn't obvious enough, both AMD and Intel believe that multi-core is the future of computing, and it's hard to disagree. It's easier for both companies to add cores than it is to build faster chips, and in a multi-threaded world, we'd still wind up with a...

From our front-page news:It's been exactly two weeks since I last reported on my investigations into TRIM for Linux, so now seems like a great time to update you all on my progress. Unfortunately, because I've been focusing so much on our regular content, I haven't been able to dedicate as much...