Big Giant Robots

Up until late last year I think I am ashamed to say I had only ever heard the name Carl Sagan, I knew of him and had seen a little of him but knew nothing of what he had done. I actually feel quiet sad that I could get so far through my life and [...]

Today the iPad has gone on sale for pre-orders. I know a BGR’er who is definitely tempted, and I hope I can dissuade him a little.. at least long enough to wait for the second gen version to come out. Tablet computing is an interesting area that has not yet had its day. Its been [...]

So finally Google is making its push onto the desktop. But not just the desktop, as has been speculated for a long time now they want to make their own operating system. It is time for them to push Microsoft and Mac out of the way and take their place as the gate keepers of [...]

I have been living away from Windows in the wild country that is Linux for a couple of years now. Windows still infests my day job (in a good way) but Windows has been banished from home PCs for a long while. This week saw the release of Ubuntu 9.10 and I am already running [...]

This week Google finally entered the operating system market. It has been much talked about for a long time. In many ways it is a logical step for them, they run everything from Linux based machines, and with that amount of know-how and the availability of excellent distributions like Ubuntu, why not release their own? [...]

This week the tinterweb has been alight with news of the new Shuffle from Apple. You have to hand it to Apple, they certainly think outside of the box. The new shuffle is tiny, but its much more notable for its lack of controls. They have been moved onto the headphone cable, so they are [...]

The Internet is bound by unspoken rules you have to learn and follow so you can play nice with all the other web kiddies out there. These rules make you “polite” and “sociable” in this free space, where in actual fact you could to anything you want. But of course you run the risk of [...]

I have finally managed to lay my grubby mitts on a netbook. I have been after one for some time, and now one is mine. The Acer Aspire One is my machine of choice. A great combination of look, performance, and price. There are now a number of machines you could go for, all offering [...]

With my new PC built it was time for the troublesome task of picking which OS, I have a prehistoric version of XP (SP1) I could use officially but that wouldn’t use all 4gb of RAM and still leaves problems like the hassle of securing it and spending 4hours doing every update, or I could [...]

With my anicent old Pentium refusing to play HD mkv files I finally had to splash some cash on some new parts to build a new PC. Sure I could have gone to Dell but they never have the balance of quality and price I demand. Antec NSK2480 case with 380w PSU Asus P5E-VM-HDMI motherboard [...]