Somehow I missed that Google’s browser, Chrome, which I have been using since Firefox stopped working on my Vista machine about a month ago, got updated earlier this week. Updates aren’t always that exciting, but this one for Chrome added two great capabilities: extensions and bookmark syncing.
First, extensions allow me to add all of the [...]

One of the problems with using the Internet as much as I do is that it takes a lot of other things working to get there. Specifically, I have to have a good, reliable connection, an adequate computer, and a web browser that is capable of doing the things I asked it to.
A few years [...]

Via PC World, a company called Cherrypal introduced a $99 netbook based on smartphone hardware. This isn’t a power netbook for the latte set, but it may prove to be a godsend for people looking to get internet access and processing capacity in the developing world.
My very first thought was that this would be a [...]

Over the weekend, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) conducted an interesting crowd-sourcing exercise wherein it challenged people to locate ten red balloons scattered across the United States and report their locations back to DARPA. A team led by researchers from MIT (.pdf) won the competition through a mixed method of profit motive and [...]

So, I decided on Wednesday night to install Adobe Creative Suite 3 on my newer laptop (why I have a newer laptop is another story in itself).

It has been a long since I have had to work so hard to make a computer work. [...]