New Year’s resolutions can be hard to keep, but lowering your personal computing’s carbon footprint is super easy. Not only will you save on energy costs, but you’ll save money and you’ll be more nimble and flexible in how technology is incorporated into your life. And if one of your resolutions this year was to […]
Digital Gift Guide 2011
This holiday, why not try giving more with less by dematerializing your gifts? Essentially, dematerialization is the digitization of items, mostly media like books, music and video games (that’s a hint of what to expect on this list). These works, now freed from physical media — at least on the consumer end since they still […]
Green gift guide 2010: Five last-minute green gadget ideas
In case you haven’t noticed, the clock is ticking on getting your 2010 holiday shopping done. Here are some great last-minute gift ideas that are still in stock (at least of this writing) and are sure to delight the green geek in your life. Curl up with a good e-book this Christmas: Amazon Kindle Smaller, […]
Virtualization Optimization Guide from AnandTech
Liz van Dijk over at AnandTech has written the first part of a fantastically informative primer on virtualization and the hardware required to run VMs smoothly based on their own first-hand research. A must-read if your shop is eyeing VMware…
Shortcut to Windows 7 Power Settings Switching
Hate wading through your control panel to quickly adjust Windows 7’s power settings? How To Geek has a quick and easy guide on switching power profiles on the fly with desktop shortcuts or a hotkey. It takes the tiniest effort…
