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PC World has the skinny on a couple of startling high-end LCD displays available to home users. If you’re looking to add a little elegance to your desktop or perhaps looking for a quality LCD to make the switch to from an old reliable CRT, or even if you’re just looking for a nice upgrade [...]

Budget LCD Roundup!

Posted by Alan Henry on April 11th, 2005

The tech reviewers at FiringSquad [http://www.firingsquad.com/ ] have put together quite the comprehensive list of LCD displays that won’t crack your budget or cramp your computing style. It’s pretty thorough, including quite a bit of interesting preface information about LCDs in general, the way they work, improvements that have been made over the years, and [...]

ExtremeTech’s PSP Media Guide

Posted by Alan Henry on March 31st, 2005

Got a shiny new PSP? Maybe not, judging by the price tag, but if you do, you’ll probably want to use it to it’s full capabilities, right? And of course that includes getting your music and movies onto the thing to use it as a portable media player as well as a portable gaming device. [...]

First Look: Sony’s Impressive PlayStation Portable (PSP)

Posted by Alan Henry on March 29th, 2005

Finally it’s arrived. The monster of last year’s E3, stealing all of the attention and making gamers worldwide drool with anticipation, Sony’s PlayStation Portable has been unleashed in full force in the United States. It’s Japanese release only a few months earlier prompted a storm of popularity and demand that Sony is still struggling to [...]

New Choices in Digital Music Players

Posted by Alan Henry on March 17th, 2005

Now I’m a huge fan of the iPod, no doubt, but who doesn’t like choice? Besides, having multiple excellent digital music players on the market only leads to more competition and more features, which will hopefully bring the price point down for all of us and save us all some dough when we’re looking for [...]

Coming Soon: Multi-Button Mice From Apple?

Posted by Alan Henry on March 16th, 2005

My my the times they are a changin’. Looks like Apply might be developing and releasing their first ever multi-button mouse; a step that’s long long long overdue by Apple. Don’t get me wrong, Apple all but invented the mouse, and they’ve long championed an operating system that didn’t require contextual menus and second mouse [...]

Logitech’s New Gaming Mouse: The MX518

Posted by Alan Henry on March 16th, 2005

Personally I have a Logitech MX510 that I absolutely love and think it’s the best gaming mouse money could buy-I’m exceptionally pleased with it, and you can imagine my anticipati0on when I found out that Logitech was upping the ante in the gaming mouse arena with the MX518. The mouse sports 1600dpi, which offers exceptional [...]

Shuttle XP 17″ LCD Display Review

Posted by Alan Henry on March 9th, 2005

ExtremeTech today has a review of Shuttle’s new 17-inch handled LCD, designed to accompany their Shuttle PCs and emphasize portability and mobile gaming. Shuttle is known well in geek circles for their impressive home theatre machines crammed into exceptionally small form-factor PC cases (of their own design) and of course, similarly impressive gaming hardware crammed [...]

iPod Shuffle RAID

Posted by Alan Henry on February 9th, 2005

I’m not entirely sure why anyone would really need an exceptionally slow 4GB RAID array, but this guy did it: [ http://www.wrightthisway.com/Articles/000154.html ] It took something like 11 minutes to copy about 1.8GB from his G5 to the 4GB RAID array, but it’s just proof that it can be done! So if you need to [...]

iPod Mod!

Posted by Alan Henry on February 4th, 2005

Another in the line of iPod goodness today, here’s something for all you guys with a regular iPod (since the last tip applied to the Shuffle and the Mini): Constantly worried about scratching up the mirrored finish on the back of your iPod? If you’re like me, you’ve probably already scratched it a few times-but [...]

Trick out your iPod Shuffle

Posted by Alan Henry on February 4th, 2005

Got an iPod Shuffle yet? Ready to trick it out, make it really yours? Here’s a little something that’ll make your iPod Shuffle stand out from the crowd when you hang it around your neck, and it’ll make sure the thing will never get lost. Ipod Shuffle skins! Check it out: [ http://www.evolutionvinylworks.com/?function=&cat_id=140 ] These [...]

First Look: Apple’s Mac Mini

Posted by Alan Henry on February 3rd, 2005

Okay. Again in lieu of having a real review and still waiting to get my hands on one of these babies to try out and play with a bit, I’ll let everyone see PC World’s first look review of the Mac Mini.So far their impressions include words like “solid” and “stable,” which are good considering [...]

Powerbook Updates from Apple

Posted by Alan Henry on February 2nd, 2005

If you’ve been jonesin for some Powerbook goodness, now might be the time to run out and snag one. All of them come standard with 512MB of RAM, the processor speeds have been modestly bumped (the high end going from 1.5Ghz to 1.67Ghz) , faster everything, and trackpad scrolling, a method to scroll up and [...]

Sony Takes on the Portable Gaming Arena

Posted by Alan Henry on February 1st, 2005

It’s no real secret that Sony’s prepping it’s PSP (PlayStation Portable) for release in the United States in the coming months. It’s also no secret that they recently released the device in Japan, and essentially sold out of the vast majority of it’s existing stock on the first day. The little gizmos are literally impossible [...]

First Look: Do the (IPod) Shuffle

Posted by Alan Henry on February 1st, 2005

In lieu of a real review at TechTalk or anywhere like that until I get myself back on my feet, I think PC World’s first hands-on experience with the iPod Shuffle will have to suffice. They don’t really get in depth or anything, but they do give you a decent first impression that should help [...]

Kevin Rose’s CES Faves

Posted by Alan Henry on January 11th, 2005

Kevin thanks everyone for being patient while waiting for his CES coverage, but sheesh, in my opinion he’s pretty quick out of the gate with some picks and faves and reviews from his experience there-especially since he’s up there at the Macworld Expo as we speak. Maybe I’m just impressed because he beat me to [...]

G4TechTV’s Best of CES Awards

Posted by Alan Henry on January 10th, 2005

I don’t know who they got that was qualified to judge for the Best of CES Awards, and I highly doubt that the distinction carried by the awards is quite as admirable as it used to be in the TechTV days, but regardless, G4TechTV has chosen winners in various different categories, and I have to [...]

Cat Schwartz and Engadget at CES

Posted by Alan Henry on January 10th, 2005

Engadget [ http://www.engadget.com/ ], one of the two popular gadget blogs (the other being Gizmodo [ http://www.gizmodo.com ]) looks like it teamed up with good old Cat Schwartz to bring you some video footage-and coverage-from CES 2005! the video’s freely available over at Engadget, and it’s split into two parts, both of which are available [...]

CES 2005: Show Stopping Photos

Posted by Alan Henry on January 10th, 2005

Well, it’s the Monday after CES, and while we’re all shaking the fog from our heads and wondering when all of the neat toys we saw last week are going to wind up on the store shelves for us to take home, it looks like PCWorld has come up with a set of photos they [...]

CES Photos from the First 48 Hours

Posted by Alan Henry on January 6th, 2005

Oh what I wouldn’t give to be at CES right now! Covering all of that gorgeous technology, walking through the aisles watching vendors describe their hottest and newest products and how all of them will somehow change our lives forever, from holographic hard drives to computerized toasters. While you can expect tons of coverage from [...]