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Uncle Ben famously told Peter Parker that “with great power comes great responsibility,” but even Spider-Man never had to deal with constant phone calls, text messages, emails, and instant messages asking for a “quick second” of his time to solve a PC …
With all the recent hubbub about Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s PlayStation Move, you’d be excused for thinking that motion control is some new phenomenon. In reality, it’s a technology that’s been around on the PC for years. Head tracking all…
Even if you hold your laptop up to your face like a flip phone, talking into your computer is lame. You want to use Google Voice like a real phone—with buttons and stuff. We’ll tell you how.
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Whether you’re an Italian renaissance cosplayer or a Starcraft II addict, you’ll love our $1,400 gaming rig. Parts, prices, and procedures inside!
How do you know when it’s time to replace your gaming rig? When you’ve turned down all of the game se…
We expend bunches of keystrokes detailing how to recover from disaster, everything from sweeping spyware from your system to how to get your data back from the digital graveyard, but equally important is how to avoid potentially catastrophic sc…
In this video (originally presented as part of the inaugural Maximum Tech CD insert) George and Gordon guide you step-by-step in building the ultimate home theater PC, with support for TrueHD sound, Blu-ray 3D, four-channel simultaneous HD cable record…
When building, optimizing, or troubleshooting a computer, an adept hardware monitor is an extremely useful tool. HWMonitor allows you to keep track of all of your system’s important vital stats, and because it’s created by CPUID, creators of CPU-Z…
We believe that everyone who considers themselves a computer enthusiast should have at least some experience with a Linux environment, but it can be daunting to just jump into the deep end of a completely unfamiliar operating system. One way to get you…