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Major League Baseball 2K10 (PlayStation 3)

Major League Baseball 2K10 (PlayStation 3)

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Somebody must have scribbled that cheesy old catchphrase on the wall at Visual Concepts sometime in the past year, because the developer has made Major League Baseball 2K10 look and feel a lot like recent entries in the Sony-only MLB: The Show series. Ripping off the competition seems [...]

iPhone Addictive, Survey Reveals

iPhone Addictive, Survey Reveals

A new Stanford University survey confirms what many iPhone users may have long suspected: Apple’s smartphone can be addicting.

The survey was administered to 200 students with iPhones, 70 percent of whom had owned their iPhones for less than a year.
The most interesting trend was how quickly the iPhone became an indispensable part of the students’ [...]

How to Block Chatroulette on your PC

How to Block Chatroulette on your PC

If you’re a PC user and are worried that your child might be exposed to inappropriate images and behaviors on the video chat site Chatroulette, here’s how you can prevent them from accessing the site.
The answer lies in your computer’s Windows Control Panel. These directions are for Microsoft Vista, but both XP and Windows [...]

Tech Tips for Travelers: Go Light, Stay Connected

Tech Tips for Travelers: Go Light, Stay Connected

Preparing for a long trip can be a pain, but technology can help. With preparation and the right equipment, tech can keep you entertained, connected and on the right track from start to finish.
If you want one all-purpose device for carrying on your trip, make it a smartphone. Today’s phones allow you to communicate by [...]

5 Easy PC Maintenance Tips

5 Easy PC Maintenance Tips

The No. 1 reason consumers replace their computers – short of a complete system failure – is that their current computer is too slow or suffers from poor performance, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll.
If you’ve noticed a decline in your PC’s performance, and you are using your computer for about the same amount of [...]

Sony Bravia KDL-46NX800

Sony Bravia KDL-46NX800

As the first official 2010 HDTV reviewed by CNET, and the first mainstream edge-lit LED-based LCD produced by Sony we’ve tested, the KDL-NX800 series arrives with plenty of anticipation. However, before you equate “LED” with “awesome picture quality,” it’s worth reiterating that the backlight technology comes in a bunch of varieties–and not all are created [...]

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t 0651 - Atom N450 1.66 GHz - 10.1" TFT

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t 0651 – Atom N450 1.66 GHz – 10.1″ TFT

Back at CES 2010, we marveled at Lenovo’s seemingly unending lineup of inventive, eye-catching laptop designs. Though the U1 Hybrid took the spotlight, the less revolutionary but still eye-catching IdeaPad S10-3t also caught our attention. As part of Lenovo’s updating of the S10 Netbook series, the 3t changes the entire design, adding a swivel-screen touch [...]

2010 Mini Cooper S

2010 Mini Cooper S

Quirky, cute, zippy. There’s much to like about the diminutive Mini Cooper S. It’s a blast in the corners, yet still sips fuel. Its style is classic, yet also modern. And there’s nary a parking spot that the Mini can’t squeeze into.
But the thing about the Mini is that on the other side of every [...]

Acer Liquid - black (unlocked)

Acer Liquid – black (unlocked)

With no disrespect to HTC, Samsung, or Motorola, it’s nice to see an Android phone from someone new. Not that the former three don’t make great devices; it’s just nice to see a fresh face in the crowd every once in a while, and in this instance, that face is Acer. Once again, our friends [...]

2010 Volkswagen GTI

2010 Volkswagen GTI

Britney sings “Oops!… I did it again”. Well, that was the anthem of the Wolfsburg engineers when they created the sixth generation of the mythical GTI.

The arrival of the 2010 version takes what we loved about the old models and pushes it even further.
Volkswagen has, once again, managed the tour de force of developing one [...]