When Heroes of Might and Magic V came out, Heroes fans had one question in their minds: will the game suck?

Recently, I had to spend a great deal of time configuring a number of PDAs, and soon came to loathe them wholeheartedly. A PDA’s screen combines all the fun of tiny print with the thrill of a harshly-glowing screen. A stylus is great for menu navigation, but pecking a long URL into the pop-up keyboard [...]

Windows Vista Beta 2 has come out, leading to much fevered speculation about its prospects, but predicting the future is still a fool’s game.

Your hard drive is out to get you.

So last week we discussed the iPod nano, and why I didn’t like it.
(We also learned that some folks are VERY attached to their iPods, to the point of flying into hysterics at any criticism. This is either loyalty to a quality product, or the result of incredibly effective brainwash-style marketing. But we’ll set aside [...]

So I bought a black iPod nano, and regretted it right away.

Modern computer games are a narrative wasteland.
Oh, there are exceptions, I know. But nowadays most games emphasize better graphics, faster, more frenetic, gameplay, and a healthy dose of the “old ultraviolence”, to quote Anthony Burgess. An actual storyline more complex than “kill the badguy” has gone the way of the dodo and OS/2.
But a brilliant [...]

The Second Browser War
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6.0 reigned supreme at the beginning of the 21st century, its rival Netscape crushed, the Browser Wars of the 1990s over. The “Evil Empire” had won, to the dismay of Microsoft’s rivals. With Netscape gone, and most Macintosh users running IE for the Mac, IE had no serious competition [...]