7 days with the Chevy Volt: Gas-free and fully charged
Dan Tynan likes paying $4 a gallon for gas as much as the next person. Which is to say, not one damned bit. So when the kind folks at GM offered to loan him a 2011 Chevy Volt, he leapt at the chance....
View Article7 days using only keyboard shortcuts: No mouse, no trackpad, no problem?
A week of navigating only by keyboard shortcuts. Can it be done? Well, no. Not quite. But we do uncover some sites and apps with unexpectedly handy shortcuts.read more
View Article7 days in email hell
The author vows to read and reply to all email for one week. Can he tame the wicked beast?read more
View Article7 days without social media
For one week, Phil Johnson swore off social media: no updating or checking of Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, YouTube or LinkedIn, for work or personal use. He survived. But it wasn't pretty.read more
View Article7 days in the cloud: My week with the Samsung Chromebook
Steven Vaughan-Nichols recently spent a week working with nothing but a Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. Here is a day-by-day accounting of what he found. It's a tale of both triumph and tragedy. Well, OK,...
View Article7 days with Mac OS X Lion
Overall, in less than a week I went from hesitant about some of Lion's UI changes to being happy with most of them. Largely that's constant use, but as with any new piece of software it also involved...
View Article7 days with an iPad (and only an iPad)
Can Apple's tablet replace all other computing devices for a solid week? Our brave guinea pig found out.read more
View ArticleCan you do real work with the 30-year-old IBM 5150?
When IBM released its first personal computer, the 5150, 30 years ago, it was deliberately drab--black, gray, and low-key. That’s because IBM intended the 5150 to be a serious machine for people doing...
View ArticleHow I divorced Google
In building the best search engine, maps, and Web-based email around, Google spent 10 years making itself an integral part of our daily online lives -- and spent the last few years exploiting that...
View ArticleFarewell, Apple. Hello Linux Mint!
After being seduced by the MacBook Pro, product reviewer Tom Henderson replaces it (initially) with the Lenovo X120e running Linux Mint. Here's how.read more
View Article7 days with a Windows 8 tablet: Not quite the best of both worlds
Can a Windows 8 tablet really be the one machine that does it all? We spent 7 days putting the Samsung Series 7 through its paces.read more
View Article7 days with the Amazon Kindle Fire HD: Revealing its inner power-tablet
Setting up Amazon's consumption device as a productive Android tablet isn't for the faint of heart.read more
View Article7 days without email: Taming the tyrant
Can one work productively without email? Kevin Purdy tried it so you don't have to.read more
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