Install Windows 8 From a USB Drive, Dual-boot with XP, Vista and 7

Back when the  Windows 8 Consumer Preview  hit the Web, we offered a basic guide on  configuring a virtual machine . With  Windows 8'...

Run Chrome OS From a USB Stick or as a Virtual Machine

Chrome OS notebooks from Acer and Samsung are expected to launch  next month  at $349 and $429, respectively. The fact that you can get a ...

From the Future: Wireless Devices that Don’t Require Batteries

Using ambient backscatter, these devices can interact with users and communicate with each other without using batteries. They exchange ...

Windows 8 Tricks, Tips and Shortcuts

Windows 8 Consumer Preview  cracked 1 million downloads shortly after launching last Wednesday and I'm sure many of you have tried it...

Speed Up Firefox by Loading Tabs On-demand

Firefox users who are used to having fifteen or more tabs open while surfing the web, or perhaps tend to load up their browser with a bunc...

Windows 8.1 will reportedly launch mid-October

According to the latest reports,  Windows 8.1  will be available to all users in mid-October, roughly one year after Microsoft launched W...

Google Maps to Feature Advertisements

It was bound to happen sooner or later: Google announced that it will soon be adding in-app advertisements to its  popular and powerful G...

How To Capture a Screen Shot with Mac OS X

The Macintosh operating system has always made it easy to capture a screen shot (an image of your computer desktop or an active window)....

Best Bloggers, 2013 edition

Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess She’s been called dark, disturbing and laugh-out-loud funny — all of which is true. But beyond that, The Bl...

50 Must-Have iPad Apps (part 5)

continued from part 4... 41. TuneIn Radio Think of the free TuneIn app as being able to turn your iPad into a radio capable of pulling...