Hasta La Gadget!

The term “Ultrabook” may be just an Intel marketing buzzword, but it’s actually a pretty useful way to describe a specific kind of laptop: portable, with great battery life, and preferably no moving parts. The problem is that Ultrabook is being used to describe all manner of laptops, like (relatively) boxy, cheap machines with spinning hard disks. I’m all for Ultrabooks being affordable, but since when does a cheap laptop have to feel cheap? More »

Although there are plenty of free online sites to host your blog, when you’re serious about owning your data there’s only one way to go: you’ve got to host your own website. There are several advantages to hosting your own website: you get significantly more design flexibility, the ability to run advertisements, and the ownership needed to turn your website into a traffic monster. Although there are usually several different factors to consider when looking for hosting—uptime, support, and bandwidth, for instance—the general rule is that you get what you pay for. Except for today. More »