If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Fiction is replete with predictions of how technology will eventually bring about the downfall of mankind, but until that happens, it sure has made our lives a whole lot easier. Yes, everything from word processors to touch screen tablets are designed to help us simplify our schedules and make the daily grind just a little bit more pleasant. Here is a look at...

You may not be headed to school this month, but now is a good time for you to get some new gear to hold your favorite piece of technology. There are plenty of “regular” laptop covers to choose from, but wouldn’t it be more fun to carry around one of these laptop covers that reflect who you are or showcases a bit of your personality? photo courtesy of Geek...

You’ve probably noticed strange hieroglyphs, like the one below, popping up on billboards, magazine ads and even t-shirts. It may look like a weird attempt at modern art, but it’s actually a two-dimensional bar code, known as a “quick response code,” or QR code. These blocky-looking images carry information much like bar codes do; the black and white pattern encodes up to several thousand characters. When you use...

The most important geek debate in recent history has moved to a new battleground, and now it’s time for a smartphone showdown. Just who are iPhone users? What kind of a person uses an Android anyway? Findings from a nonscientific survey from Hunch.com suggests that iPhone-ers are more likely to be women over 35 with an annual household income of more than $200,000 and the bad habit of texting while driving. Android users, on the other...

This year’s college freshmen have never known a world without the Internet. As someone who has been around long enough to watch the advent and the exponential growth of online technology, this, first of all, makes me feel excessively old, but it also makes me look at how things are still changing today and how we are still finding new ways to spread information. Consider, as all those kids are getting ready to go back to school, how their...