Somehow I was under the impression that virus scanners for Windows aren’t really the issue they used to be. It’s been years since I personally was infected, and generally the same is true for those I’m acquainted with. But recently I was reminded that a significant portion of PC users still don’t know how to surf the web safely, and for such people it’s just as easy to fall prey to scams and viruses today as it was five or ten years ago. Normally I address a relatively computer savvy demographic ...

Top 3 Antivirus Applications for Windows

When most people think of E3, they think of high-budget stage presentations put on by only a select few high-profile videogame and videogame hardware developers. While these are certainly very exciting and exhilarating events, there’s a lot more to E3 than just what happens on stage. In fact, some years the best games at the show also have the least amount of presence. So here’s a few of the best things at E3 2014 you didn’t see in a press conference. Virtual Reality Though not a game in itself, ...

Show Floor @ E3 2014 – Favorite 3 Games Not on Stage

I’ve said before that in recent generations each new Ubisoft game is broken somehow. The same could be said for their E3 press conferences. Granted, Ubisoft has their fans. I am admittedly not one of them. So take my word about Ubisoft for what it is–an outsider looking in once a year, hoping that Ubisoft will succeed to draw me in, pretty much universally being disappointed every time. Last year left me with an overall better impression than usual; this year was a slight step down, but not a complete ...

Ubisoft @ E3 2014 – Stage Show Impressions

Earlier today Microsoft took the stage to open E3 2014 with a bang. As promised, their focus was “games, games, games.” Some were not exclusively Xbox properties, but the dominant theme of the show was definitely (re)building the Xbox brand. Just take a look at the list of titles Microsoft put on display, and you’ll see what I mean: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Forza Horizon 2 Evolve Assassin’s Creed: Unity Dragon Age: Inquisition Sunset Overdrive Super Ultra Dead Rising 3 Arcade Remix Hyper ...

Microsoft @ E3 2014 – Stage Show Impressions

This is not the post I wanted to bring you this week. It’s late. It’s short. It probably won’t help anyone out there have a better experience with technology. For that I apologize. But this is all I can write. A little over a year ago, I went out on a limb and dubbed tablets and smartphones consuming devices only, not productive ones. That, I felt at the time, was exclusively the domain of the PC. Since then Android has grown to become singularly the most advanced platform to hit our pockets (or ...

The Hazards of Mobile Productivity

Game streaming. It’s still an anomaly in the gaming world, certainly more novelty than habit for gamers (and we know where that leads). Tech companies desperately want us to do it, simply because it’s an easy out for them—they can produce low-performance hardware capable of playing the latest PC titles, and there’s no porting effort spent on the part of game developers. OnLive was the first exposure many gamers had to the idea of playing games remotely, but as enticing as the idea of every game out ...

NVIDIA GameStream to any Android Device with Limelight