Pencil's down. It has been one of my roughest semester's in school, but it is over. Time enough to lick my wounds and reflect on why I am subjecting myself to this pain. Six weeks before the Spring session starts. Time enough to play games in something l… more »

  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 »

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 would have never thought in a million years that it would have been Barnes and Noble that would be first to market with a color eBook reader. Heck, I did not think that we would see an effective color eBook reader for another few years. And we don't ye… more »

Well, my experience with the Barnes and Noble eBook Reader app and the store started off pretty good. I started the app and logged in to find several free books waiting for me (peep the GearWERKZ Twitter feed). Of course, I was then unable to download an… more »

Thanks a lot Apple. With the announcement that Cupertino's holiday product line-up is set, the rest of the computing industry seems content to do the same. Sure; if I peeled the onion back from the consumer level view, I am sure there are dozens of neat… more »

It is no secret that eBooks are big these days. The Amazon kindle apparently sparked a digital revolution while everyone was distracted by things like the iPod Touch and the EeePC. Being a staunch user of TabletPCs for over 5 years, I am familiar with th… more »

The times have definitely changed. I am in the process of (hopefully) getting rid of five computers and 2 game systems. I will likely have as much to write about the things I am not buying this year as the things that I am. And so, let’s get that topic s… more »