It seems the bigwigs at RIAA are ready to try out just about anything to stem the piracy biz. First they began by suing people who downloaded music. That meant suing just about every person on planet earth right? They managed to sue 30,000 accused file sharers in the last five years. Clearly it wasn’t working, so the music industry said “hey wait a minute, since so many people are downloading, viewing and listening to [...]

A Childhood friend of mine recently upgraded to a GeForce GTX 260 graphics card after much persuasion. When we opened his cabinet to install it, I was horrified at the signs of rust. Then we discovered his system would not boot after adding this card. I immediately suspected the power supply, especially when I noticed it was a non-branded 400 watt unit and his older GeForce 7300GS would work fine. Thus began the hunt for [...]

You’ve bought yourself a shiny new mobile phone or you might have just assembled a new PC and we’re sure you are happy with it. But there is always a feeling deep down inside that something is missing, there is something that makes you feel that this new gadget or device is not completely yours. We believe you, this feeling is present in almost all of us – the need to personalize or customize everything [...]

Several questions pop up now and then: Why is the Start button on the bottom-left? Who decides where the close button goes, and why must we use these little boxes called “windows”, when we maximize them to fit our desktops anyway? But it was 4 am; we were sleep-deprived, and had deadlines. But the questions still remain. How do interfaces work for us, and why in heaven’s name do we actually enjoy some of them? [...]

The months preceding the year-end are shopping time. What could be hotter than HDTVs? No doubt, being attentive readers, you will have absorbed all the gyan imparted by me on the topic. So I will refrain from restating everything. But all the same, please keep the following points in mind when shopping for an HDTV: 1. Size matters, but not in the obvious way. Buy something that is suitable for your room size and viewing [...]