Sure, Microsoft Office is pretty ubiquitous on a lot of machines, but can you seriously call it portable? Portable OpenOffice is "the complete office suite you can run from a USB drive for complete access to both your files and your office apps -- anywhere you go." Quite cool!

In the game Second Life, apparently there is a place developed as a sort of "time out" area for bad players (bad being obnoxious). That place is a cornfield with a tractor and a television playing a 1940s movie "Boy in Court" about a troubled teen trying to avoid a …

I think I've figured out why geeks love The Matrix so much. Sure, it has lots of cool special effects, and sure, it takes place in a computer (ala Tron) but I think there's a little more to the geek love that this movie garnered. I think a lot of …

Well, I've finally given up on Skype. I deleted Skype off of my machine for good, and will likely never return. Did Skype do something to completely piss me off? No, they still remain one of my recommended ways for VOIP on the cheap. Unfortunately there were several issues that …

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