Don’t Blame Technology

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Don’t Blame Technology

May 15, 2014 /
There has been a continual struggle over the last century, one that has caused an ever-increasing divide between proponents on each side. With the information age and the industrial age before it, a disparity was introduced where before there was none. Children are some of the most apt learners on the planet: they pick up the basics—and even some not-so-basics—of a language and culture from exposure alone. Technology is a part of that learning process, and it’s a given that each new generation will ...

Don’t Blame Technology

Why Windows 8.1’s Start Menu is a Bad Thing

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Why Windows 8.1’s Start Menu is a Bad Thing

April 25, 2014 /
What you’re looking at is not a mockup or some third-party application, it’s the real deal built right into Windows 8.1, suggested to hit the public come August 2014. It was first announced at Microsoft’s BUILD conference earlier this year to much applause, as you can see in the video below. Based on that first paragraph, the upcoming Windows 8.1 start menu might sound like a very good thing. People want it, Microsoft is giving it to them, everyone’s happy, right? Well, not everyone, but those few ...

Why Windows 8.1’s Start Menu is a Bad Thing

3 Addons to Improve Your YouTube Experience

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3 Addons to Improve Your YouTube Experience

February 26, 2014 /
If you are a PC user armed with Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, then you already know that you’ve got the web at your fingertips. What you may or may not realize, however, is just how deep your prying little hands can go. These days it seems we are less content with just browsing the web than ever. We want it customized to suit our tastes and needs. And when it comes to major social services, well, the devs can’t get by with changing anything without enduring the wrath of the world (until everyone ...

3 Addons to Improve Your YouTube Experience

The Final Days of Final Fantasy?

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The Final Days of Final Fantasy?

February 13, 2014 /
Well, it took 30 years, but it finally happened: Final Fantasy got a trilogy. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is out now in the states and on its way to Europe over the next few days. Should you care? Probably not. While Square Enix made a lot of changes mid-development to try and make the game more appealing, in the end we’re still left with a bizarre-o storyline and a glorified dressup figure. Not everything Lightning Returns does is bad, but its legacy will not be the few things it does right. ...

The Final Days of Final Fantasy?

Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB Windforce Unboxing

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Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB Windforce Unboxing

January 15, 2014 /
It is an interesting time of year for anyone on Team Green to consider upgrading their GPU. While NVIDIA had nothing to say about their next lineup of desktop graphics cards at CES last week they are inevitably on their way, most likely for Q2 of this year. Making it an even bigger deal is that both the 600 and 700-series cards were based on the same Kepler architecture, whereas next time NVIDIA’s finally leaving it behind for the new Maxwell architecture instead. But while such names and numbers make ...

Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB Windforce Unboxing

AndrOpen Office – Finally the Real Deal Comes to Android

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AndrOpen Office – Finally the Real Deal Comes to Android

November 13, 2013 /
As Android is based on a Linux kernel, it has long been the dream of fans of Google’s mobile OS to see desktop Linux applications running on portable devices. In the early years of Android, hardware limitations prevented this dream from becoming a practical reality, but these days things are not so difficult. Many of us regularly use tablets and smartphones with quad-core CPUs running in the 1.5GHz range, a gig or two of RAM, and a capable GPU, whether that be based on NVIDIA’s famous Tegra platform or ...

AndrOpen Office – Finally the Real Deal Comes to Android