The N64 overall was a bold attempt at best. First you have the system's texture compression — let's take a 2CD PlayStation game called Resident Evil 2 and compress it to fit on a 48MB cartridge. Hmm... Second, the N64 controller is awkward to hold by the sides, and even more so to hold by the middle+right, and that's…

Actually, as I understand it, Xbox 1 controllers used USB technology but with a proprietary connector. I've seen a guide for splicing the cable that turns it into a regular gamepad. The adapter probably just does that for you. The first Xbox was so much like a PC, much more so than any other console before or since.…

ThinApp is neat, but as you say, you (or your employer) had to pay $5,000 plus $50 for each portable app delivered. That adds $50 to the price just to make it portable.

Ask him how Linux likes the Xbox 360 wireless networking adapter — either the old G one or the new N one. I bet it works, too. Either of 'em.

Pixeltown is great, but it's not really a wallpaper. A wallpaper should fill the screen without needing to be cropped or displayed as letterboxed, so 4:3 or 5:4 for square monitors and 16:9 and 16:10 for HD/wide monitors.

Web access is a human right? Hey, I'm cool with free Internet, but rent, lights, and my car payment are all higher priorities than paying for Internet. Shouldn't electricity be a human right? I don't know about that either. I'd be happy with price caps, since our power company (Progress Energy here in NC) more than…

Meh. Why doesn't Windows have my two favorite features from Linux already in Windows 7? One is multiple desktops. The other is the app manager, e.g. Synaptic. You tell it what you want and it lists multiple apps that fit your search. And it downloads requisites you don't have, like libraries in Linux, but what would…

I must respectfully disagree on behalf of old-school users. I was a DOS 5 holdout until "Windows 97" (third edition of Windows 95, the one with Internet Explorer in the title). I hated the Ribbon at first, until I *had* to use it. Now I'm among its biggest fans. On the surface, it looks like trash, but if you give it…

I'm interested, as I use TweetDeck on my Android phone, and it's completely replaced Facebook and Twitter for me (as it integrates them). I guess this does so too, on the Web. TweetDeck does not, but they have a limited beta of such I'm trying to get into. On a "real computer" I don't mind Facebook and Twitter's…

Look for an app called OurGroceries (Android and iOS, not sure about BlackBerry, but I think they have it). Free with ads or $5 (ouch!) without, but it's a great app and if you're both using it at the same time, the one at home can watch the one shopping cross off items (short press in Android) in real-time. Also…

For a while, I was trying to write a novel using Wiki on a Stick (a ~100KB XML file that works as a self-contained wiki that is 100% portable). That's within the intended purpose of StickWiki, sure enough, but what about Firefox? Essentially I was using my web browser as a kind of word processor/text editor.

I could have sworn Tab Mix Plus offered this option as I seem to remember using it in the past, but I can't find it now. Thanks for this!

So rather than just raising the desk with cinderblocks or raising the monitor, keyboard, and mouse with some kind of stand (or milk crates, in a pinch) you put a swivel chair on wheels on your desk and put a laptop on the chair? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...

Like I said, I'm fine with sideloading. The issue is not with getting the .apk onto my system, it's downloading them from pirate sites. (Common sense.)

Any word on an official release date? Following the links and seeing I have to go through MediaFire to get them is kind of discouraging. While I'm sure there are legitimate uses for digital lockers, they're still warez drops in my book. Making you wait a full minute to download, begging for money for faster access…

Oh, I agree. And I wasn't completely serious about text-to-speech. It's just that learning any new system is going to be inefficient. I've never had pain from typing, so I'm fine with QWERTY. And I fly on it.

I'll have to check out a few of those.

Changing the keyboard really is the wrong play, at least starting out. You shouldn't be looking at your keys, and teaching yourself to do so in order to learn a new layout is the wrong way to learn. Rather, Google "Dvorak", click Images on the left, and find a layout you can print out. Then tape that to your monitor,…

That pic is definitely evil. When I lived in Santa Rosa, CA, I just assumed you could get an It's-It anywhere. When I moved to North Carolina I learned that this was not the case, and my wife and her family have never heard of them. The company will ship you a case of 24 of them for $75, which isn't too bad of a deal…

You will add wear to your hard drive, but that's just normal wear you get from write cycles. It won't wear our your optical drive (which should be a DVD burner, they're only about $20 shipped on Newegg and dead simple to install) either. Since it takes about half an hour to install Windows 7, you're only putting that…