Tag: PC

Microsoft's Kinect, the fastest-selling gadget ever, has now been hacked to work with the PlayStation 3. The Kinect isn't directly plugged into a PS3, though (that would be too awesome). Instead, it's plugged into a conventional PC laptop, where PrimeSense's first-party drivers are used to interface with Kinect. The data from Kinect is then converted into a format that the PS3 can ...

It's finally here! OnLive, the mythical service that almost everyone still believes is impossible -- at least in a cost-effective sense -- goes live tomorrow. For now, you'll only be able to sign up in America -- and if you sign up now, you might be picked for a 'limited-availability' first-year-free offer. After that, it's $4.95/month -- about the price of a single top-tier AAA mega-shooter ...

Never, in the entirety of history, has there been so much gaming to be done. You can hardly finish a game without the Next Great Game appearing in your mailbox or on your hard disk -- because you pre-ordered it on Amazon or Steam, of course. Believe it or not, we actually have too many good games at the moment. Until recently, gamers could dedicate themselves to a single stand-out game -- ...

After a nerdgasmic 'leak' to the Mac news sites last week, in the way only Valve knows how, Steam and Portal's sequel have now been confirmed for Mac OS X. Steam is exciting enough, if only because it finally opens up cheap-and-quick indie development for the Mac, but throw in the inclusion of Portal and... well... this is big news and it poses some serious, market-altering questions. First: ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/03/07/microsoft-set-to-destroy-apple-every-games-market/'; Did you know that the Xbox 360 is just a PC in a box? Sure, the inputs are different and you generally attach it to a TV -- but still, internally, it's PC hardware. You can even use the controllers with your PC if you like! The Xbox doesn't run Windows though; and despite its name, ...

When I was getting ready to head to high school in 1983 I begged my father to get me a computer. I really wanted an IBM PC, but on the middle class living we made do with IBM's newest model: the IBM PCjr It was a cute little computer with a "chiclet" keyboard, 128K of RAM and two cartridge slots. Nope, it didn't have a hard drive and the floppy drive was 180k. It took a couple of minutes to ...

Here you have it! A first look at Blio, an eBook reader app that is destined to be used on tablets such as Apple's rumored iSlate. Blio is the creation of inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil. You might be familiar with his name if you've used speech recognition software, or if you've read one of his many books on the topic of transhumanism (a meaty subject, but well worth looking into if ...

We've all been there; we've got a problem with our server, laptop, PC, website, or blog, and have tried to solve it for hours with no success. At some point, we reach that point where we're absolutely certain that it's just some dumb thing that we're overlooking or forgetting to check. If you've ever found yourself in that situation, you'll probably want to bookmark a list of dumb things to ...

Microsoft has rolled out phase two of its new advertising campaign. As expected, it's Jerry Seinfeld-free and Bill Gates-light. And it's surprisingly charming. While Apple's Mac vs. PC ad campaign tries to paint Mac as hip and cool and PCs as stodgy and difficult, Microsoft's new campaign shows that many different kinds of people use PCs in many different ways. The ads don't mention Windows ...

PCIncubator aims to help you find the right parts at the right prices to build your dream PC. We've all built a PC at some point. It's fun, isn't it? Pick our your case, the mother board, memory, GI Joe Stickers. What? The pain in the neck part of the process is finding the right parts that you need and not paying too much for them...or buying really crappy parts as a default because you don't ...

It has come to our attention that there's an Adobe Flash player vulnerability in the wild that may affect your PC. Simply by visiting a naughty website, the unsuspecting web visitor will be attacked with a piece of code that redirects you to an evil .SWF file that can then execute nasty code on their PC. Adobe has blogged about the issue, but hasn't issued any releases, or patches to take care of ...

Are you lucky enough to have more than one monitor on your computer? Sure it looks cool, and it's fun to show off to friends..but it's very helpful with productivity too. What's the first thing you do when you set up a new machine or monitor? Throw up fresh new wallpaper of course! Your mom, your cat, or your wife or girlfriend (hopefully not both, awkward!). AutoWallpaper comes from a company ...

The wait is over, DocSyncer is out of beta and open for all to use. This downloadable application allows PC based users of Microsoft Office and Google Docs to seamlessly sync documents. DocSyncer is a downloadable application that sits on your computer and automatically finds and syncs all of your document files to your Google Docs account. When it's running, it checks all of your documents and ...

Bowing into pressure from customers, Microsoft has decided to continue selling the Windows XP operating system in stores for another five months. Previous versions of operating systems released by Microsoft have generally been available for up to two years after the shipment of a new OS. Microsoft had planned on cutting XP in stores just one year after the release of Vista, however, due to its ...

Lost data, the words should make any user cringe at the thought. Hours of time spent creating documents, all gone in a matter of seconds. It's something that we never want to happen to us. Of course there are ways to ensure that data can be recovered. Microsoft has been so kind as to build in a back up program on Windows XP and Vista operating systems. Wired has an outline of all the goodies users ...