Earlier this summer, I finally bade farewell to my Barnes and Noble Nook after about 15 months of service. The faults were not solely with the Nook, which, all-in-all, is actually a fairly decent device. However, in combination with the Barnes &… more »

I am preparing for the Casual Adult Gamers Post-E3 podcast. Since most of the GearWERKZ.net readership does not listen to that podcast, and since most CAGers are not the bulk of the readership, I thought it would not be a bad idea to share my hot-notes f… more »

It took a long time for me to buy into the premise of mobile gaming. Sure, I have been gaming on laptops for eleven years. But it is a slightly different paradigm to game on a device not much bigger than your smartphone. I had a GameBoy in undergrad, but… more »

The battle within me wages on...grad school, work, home-life are all in a pitched war with my desire to game and spend time with my gadgets. Maybe it is a sign of my advancing age, but the gaming and gadgeting are on the losing end of this battle right n… more »

I have not been getting much time to game. Not much time at all. Between 60 to 80 hour weeks at work on the night-shift, training, feeding, and taking out our new dog, and grad school classes getting started, there is hardly free time for geeking at all.… more »

I am sure that some readers have tuned in and read the title and think that I am about to question my decision to buy an iPad. That is far from the case. Of all the devices that I have owned (and that's a lot), the iPad is by far my most favorite. But ev… more »

I have been on travel since last Thursday. While I was initially concerned about my ability to geek while on the go this holiday, it has actually turned out to not be that bad. My PUK this trip has consisted of the following: * Primary Laptop: Asu… more »

Frequently around the web, I see questions (more frequently it is simply anti-Apple fanbois trolling) about whether or not the iPad is too heavy and makes your arm tire quickly when you are trying to use it. I am not a small guy, so my own perspective on… more »

So I have been engaged in a total password overhaul due to the Gawker compromise. It has been something I have planned for a while, and had been putting it off. Several nightmares, realizations, and epiphanies have surfaced throughout the ordeal, not the… more »

I have been computer geeking for about ten years now. My ramp up went very quickly from one PC to ten at the height of my hobbying. Since the beginning of 2009, I have been on a steady strain to reduce the number of workstations I run, with the objective… more »