I will admit that the average life-cycle of a gadget in the 'WERKZ is somewhere between 6 and 9 months [although I am trying to get better]. Still, there are some devices that meet some incredibly practical need and are able to keep their lease on servic… more »

Yesterday, a crop of new HBO content hit the Apple store, and much of it is now being offered in HD. Do not get your hopes up of completing your digital collection of certain series, however, as much of the content has gaps, and not all of it is availabl… more »

Last week was my first week back from the wedding. As one might expect, it did not look good for getting back to gaming until the start of the weekend. Even then, I have not gotten in a huge drove of gaming. Still, my time allowed me a handful of decent… more »

I've been getting a few requests to cover my video setups at the new house and some of my media consumption patterns. It is nothing whiz-bang, so for non-regular readers of the 'WERkz, you're probably not going to see anything here of much value. But for… more »

I am still learning my way around the new configuration of the 'WERKz, and I think I will still be doing so a month from now. I am currently working on my HP EliteBook 2730P TabletPC. I am now asking it to perform duties that have not been in its bailiwi… more »

My next laptop might very well be another 15" MacBook Pro. If i were buying it today, it would be the mid-grade model again. Right now that is a $1999 machine running a 2.53GHz processor, 4GB of memory, and a 500GB hard drive. While I am starting to accu… more »

I am not sure if it will help anyone out at all, but I jotted down some notes on how I initially configured my iPad. In truth, this is actually a list that I formulated before I ever took my iPad out of the box. Much as I do when setting up a new PC, I t… more »

Truth is, I was a much better mobile tech journalist when I was always travelling. You just do not really get the unique persective of truly utilizing your mobile weapons of choice unless you really get mobile with them. Granted, I create those opportuni… more »

Well, it has been a long time but I am actually drafting this blog post in a local file (for tonight). After the last several months of finally giving myself over to the cloud, a set of circumstances has led me to going back to writing to a local file.… more »

It appears that I am going to go through this about once every two or three weeks. That is the flitting back and forth across the line of whether I think the Google ChromeOS makes sense or not. And if it does make sense, where am I going to use it? I rec… more »