Nick Mediati - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 9/06/2009 5 things you should know about Snow Leopard

For years, Apple has churned out versions of Mac OS X pumped full of new features geared toward the average user. And it seems like with every iterati...

Article | 4/06/2009 Microsoft proposes wordy new name for netbooks

The marketing geniuses in Redmond are at it again. From the folks who brought us "Zune," "Bing," and "MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search" ...

Article | 12/05/2009 Speed test: Windows 7 may not be much faster than Vista

Tests of the Windows 7 Release Candidate in our PC World Test Center found that while Windows 7 was slightly faster on our WorldBench 6 suite, the dif...

Article | 1/05/2009 Two weeks without Twitter: an experiment

I joined Twitter in September 2008 to see what all the fuss was about. This, of course, was right in the middle of the economic meltdown, and the US p...

Article | 20/04/2009 Optoma Pico PK-101 pocket projector

Optoma's diminutive projector makes a great traveling companion, despite somewhat fuzzy image projection. The prospect of projecting an image anywhere...

Article | 4/03/2009 6 things you need to know about Apple's new desktops

As you may have already seen, Apple refreshed its entire desktop lineup earlier Tuesday. And while there's nothing really groundbreaking in today's up...

Article | 3/02/2009 iPhone App Cracker Released -- Then Pirated

Gizmodo reports that Crackulous, an iPhone application that allows pirated apps to run on jailbroken iPhones, was released. As its name might suggest,...

Article | 29/01/2009 Internet Explorer 8.0 (Release Candidate 1)

Some of the features of Internet Explorer 8.0 Release Candidate 1, Microsoft's next-generation web browser now available to the public, are similar to...

Article | 9/01/2009 Samsung's New Laptop-Friendly Monitors

Among Samsung's new wares unveiled at this year's Consumer Electronics Show is the LD series of monitors. These monitors are designed specifically wit...

Article | 10/01/2009 Sony Vaio P: A First Look

Sony's new Vaio P netbook made its debut in Las Vegas at CES. It's a diminutive 1.4-pound miniturized laptop with an 8-inch 1600-by-768 resolution scr...

Article | 10/01/2009 Asus Shows Laptop Sharing Concept

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Asus took the wraps off a number of new products, such as a touchscreen netbook with a swivel h...

Article | 10/01/2009 Toshiba's Cell TV Ups the HD Ante

Today, 1080p is the top of the line for HDTVs, but it certainly isn't as high as high-definition can go. Toshiba's new super-resolution Cell TV featur...

Article | 8/01/2009 LG boosts HDTV refresh rate to 240 Hz

LG Wednesday unveiled its newest lineup of HDTVs at CES, many of which include features designed to improve the clarity of fast-moving scenes and and ...

Article | 6/12/2008 Installing Vista SP2 Beta

Friday morning I installed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta onto an HP notebook I am using for my testing. We'll post some more hands-on coverage of ...

Article | 12/09/2008 Apple iPod Nano (fourth generation)

The latest iPod Nano combines the larger screen of the third-generation Nano with the slender design and vibrant colours of the second-generation mode...