Miscellaneous

BrainWave Generator software review: Boost your energy the old-fashioned way

My usual morning routine is to lurch out of bed, barely-awake, staring around confused as I try to figure out where and who I am. Though this method works well, I’ve had an enlightening experience: One day, immediately upon waking, I drank a can of pop. Ah, my sweet friend caffeine. I’m used to drinking […]

ScanGauge review: Save gas by adjusting nut behind the wheel

Where is personal responsibility? It’s tossed out the car window at 70 MPH. Gas prices are brain-numbingly, irritatingly high. Yet we putter through traffic in our 250-horsepower cars, drinking gasoline like I drink Tang. I know my limits. I can’t convince America to stop driving big gas-hungry cars and put more automotive research towards fuel […]

Used and free textbooks online save money

Look to your wallet, young graduate! These days you need to incorporate the cost of textbooks when planning college finances. No longer can you buy your books with help from the “Ramen noodle diet”. Today’s textbook prices call for more extreme solutions, like the “sell blood plasma savings plan”. Granted, textbooks can’t be cheap because […]

Clearing up Microsoft Office licensing confusion

Orion asks: I would like to install the Office Small Business suite on my laptop and my desktop. Is this legal? I recently purchased this software. No problem. Straight from Microsoft: “You can install one copy of Office Small Business Edition 2003 on your main computer and another on your laptop computer for your exclusive, […]

Collectorz book collection software review

From Adams to Zelazny, I have a lot of books. If all my books were recycled, I wouldn’t be saving trees, but entire ecosystems. That’s my lifestyle: I’m a pack rat who loves to read. I have a pretty good idea of perhaps fifty percent of my book collection’s contents. The rest are either literature […]

AlphaSmart Neo review

As I type this, I’m sitting at my friendly neighborhood Panera Bread. I’m one of the lucky ones who managed to grab a squishy chair right next to the fireplace (for those who aren’t Paneraheads, this is quite the primo seat). So you’ve got an image in your head of some geeky weirdo hunched over […]

Computer crashes without warning

Robert asks: I have an HP Pavilion notebook and its been shutting itself off for several months. No warning, just click. I have Computer Associate’s EZ-Trust antivirus and each time I do a virus scan, when it gets to C\i386, my PC shuts down. It lets me start up again, then quickly shuts down. I […]

SBC Yahoo Brings the Digital Lifestyle to Michigan

“In the year 5555, Your arms hangin’ limp at your sides, Your legs got nothin’ to do, Some machine’s doing that for you.” – Zager and Evans, “In the year 2525” The songwriters obviously didn’t have broadband Internet. Anyone who thinks the future is that mechanized and boring will probably change their tune after seeing […]

Do you like science fiction or fantasy books? Don’t miss out.

Looking way back into the early 1980s, I remember the wonderful “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series by Douglas Adams as one of my first exposures to the world of science fiction. The books were hilarious and easy to read, and just happened to take place in a science-fictiony universe. From there, I moved on […]

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