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Gray. Dingy darkness as far as the eye can see. The sky is gray. The mountains are gray. Even the snow looks as though Mick Jagger tried painting it black and got bored half-way through. A gruff voice struggles to be heard through a radio, practic…
The first time I saw a floppy disk, the person holding it was wearing bell-bottom jeans and a tie-dyed T-shirt. (Yes, I am that old.)
The 8-inch floppy was designed by Alan Shugart and David Noble at IBM. It was introduced to the ma…
Hugo Gernsback wrote a novel in 1911 called Ralph 124C41+. In it, he predicted things like night baseball and motorized roller skates and all kinds of other things that we take for granted today. He established science fiction as a literat…
After boldly proclaiming its intention to “lead the way” in PC gaming, Microsoft’s cast its latest shiny thing into our waters in yet another attempt to lure us back. Unfortunately, the bait – a redesigned Games For Windows Marketplace – only…
The story of Xmarks is like a David and Goliath kind of a tale—only, instead of slinging rocks, users of the (seemingly) popular service all pledged to donate untold amounts of money to keep the cross-browser bookmark synchronization tool alive.
Well…
I was planning to wait for the Zune phone to ship, but the Samsung Vibrant was already here. It’s a state-of-the-art Android phone with a four-inch AMOLED screen so bright it’s startling. It has a five-megapixel camera and shoots excellent 720p vi…
To write about the death of Digg would be to step into a time machine, back to the late August launch of the fabled “Digg version 4” which singlehandedly managed to unwind nearly six years of continued growth and excitement in one, crappy swoop.
He…
If you’ve ever played a Diablo game before, you pretty much know what to expect from Diablo III. There will be hacking. There will be slashing. Enemies will drop piles of gold upon death because apparently hell doesn’t have a bank. Been there, don…