HalfByte Index
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- Apple (42)
- Computers and Internet (91)
- Entertainment (38)
- Gadgets (44)
- Games (16)
- Macintosh (11)
- Microsoft (59)
- Mobile (58)
- Music (7)
- News (25)
- Other (18)
- Sports (1)
- Technology (84)
- Travel (7)
- TV and Movies (16)
- Windows (47)
Entries by Title
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- Windows 8 Family Safety: parental controls are your friend
- A Qool OneNote competitor or a Qool OneNote companion
- Looking for a tablet for your child? Check out the Nabi 2
- My PiTop is complete: Raspberry Pi and Motorola Atrix Lapdock together, at last
- Microsoft does listen: licensing for Office 2013 is to change
- Making a Raspberry Pi Laptop or just how damned hard is it to find female connectors, anyway?
- So many tablets…iPad, Android, Surface or ?
- Westinghouse–Activate your tuner so we can count you
- Conquering the world with a Windows 8 Tablet
- Office 2013: a fine product, just don’t buy it
- Stock car racing, Windows 8 and Surface Pro…together…this is not your dad’s Windows
- More Raspberry Pi goodness
- Above the Surface: Asus VivoTab Smart Windows 8 Tablet
- A slice of Pi, Raspberry Pi
- Windows 8 split personality confusion: what to do and what Microsoft should do
- RIP: G4/TechTV, nerd tv is dead.
- iPhone 5: Are you Siri-us?
- Another OneNote alternative: Work Notes Pro
- Our digital heritage, but, for how long?
- Atari: the company with nine lives (five are used, four to go…)
- Going satellite for television: ditching Comcast for DirecTV
- A OneNote look alike for the Mac
- iCade Jr: arcade fun for your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
- Windows 8/RT on your iPad? Sort of, with Smartglass for XBOX
- Using Windows 8: Be one with the mouse and don’t worry about touch
- Choosing a tablet is as bad as buying a car
- Need help using Windows 8? Confused? Don’t be
- Big tech week: Microsoft steals Apple’s thunder with Windows 8, Surface RT
- iPhone: My mini-micro review
- Goodbye, Android and good riddence…hello, iPhone!
- iPhone 4: they finally arrived and they aren’t bad
- The free Sprint iPhone 4: just try to actually get one
- Kindles, iPods and crappy ear buds…high tech is not always best
- Endeavour’s last flight
- Nintendo Wii U gets pricing, launch date
- The New Kindle LIneup for 2012
- Snoopy gets a new phone! Or is that Apple announces new iphones?
- Restore the missing Windows features in windows 8 with start8 and aero8tuner
- How to make that cell phone picture look better
- Apple takes a byte out of the smartphone market
- the brains behind curiosity
- Windows 8 is complete and ready to rock and roll…are you ready?
- My Vintage Tech: Windows ME, Selectavision CED and Magnavox Odyssey
- Windows 8 on non-touch devices, easier than it might seem
- Amazon’s Fire: does anyone really use it?
- Office 15: word
- Windows 8: Microsoft’s best yet?
- Comcast: new consumer focus?
- Microsoft’s big week…phones and lawsuits
- Microsoft’s new tablet finally surfaces
- E3 2012: The year of ho hum
- Windows 8 release candidate now available
- Wifi issues? try an extender (and don’t forget the gas!)
- Windows 8: gripes and missing features…are they really that bad?
- WTF? A few oddities I spotted…
- Comcast, you win…the cord is no longer cut
- Planning a trip to Great Wolf Lodge? Here’s a few things you should know
- Apple’s bad week: lawsuit loss, investigations and terrible flashbacks
- A fine line…
- Should you get the new iPad?
- Windows 8 Consumer Preview…for ‘normal’ people?
- I had to activate my Westinghouse television just to watch it…bad move, Westinghouse
- Mini-review: Kindle Fire
- Thinking about cutting the cord? Do it with a Roku
- Call of Duty Elite: rip off or massive deal? Depends
- CES 2012: the replicator and Roku
- Retro-Gaming: Emerson Arcadia
- Retro-computing: old school programming
- Retro-Computing: the TRS-80 Model 100 and old school coding
- Hot Wheels, Nintendo 3DS and InnoTab…ahh, to be a kid again
- Pioneers: Ralph Baer and Odyssey
- Repairing the power switch on your V.Tech V-Reader
- A double rant: V.Tech and used video games (like Battlefield 3…EA, I’m looking at you!)
- Facebook’s Timeline has arrived…how is it?
- Facebook’s Timeline has arrived…how is it?
- Why ban the cell phone from driver’s use is just silly
- XBOX 360 Fall Dashboard Update
- Tablet, tablet, who’s got the tablet…what not to buy for a gift
- UI design: one person’s masterpiece is another’s trash heap
- I need a new laptop…what the hell do I buy?
- A bittersweet week…
- Steve Jobs, the man behind our cool toys
- More on Windows 8
- Windows 8: Initial impressions
- What ever happened to the first commercial 747?
- Enterprise: the forgotten Shuttle
- MobileNoter for Android and a way to get your EverNote notes into OneNote with one click
- Bye, bye webOS, hello Android
- Steve Jobs steps down. Now what?
- Technology hates me, still…my long trail of dead technology
- HP’s big moves to dump the personal computer and how to waste 1.2 billion dollars
- Motorola Mobility: RIP or the Next Apple?
- They did what? Thank Hedy, Bing, Lucy and Arthur for our techie life
- What you do and don’t need to do if you run Windows: keeping your computer healthy
- Physical media dead? I don’t think so
- Should Facebook worry? My thoughts on Google+
- Beware the bandwidth usage cap…you could lose your internet service for a year
- New Zune apps, Live Essentials news and iPad rumors
- Shuttle Program: RIP
- Whither Microsoft
- Microsoft’s best kept secret
- What’s old is new? Is that always a good thing?
- Left lane ends, merge right
- A year later, does the iPad still live up to the hype?
- Are Chromebooks worth the money?
- New Wii, Windows 8, Vita and a Lion from Apple
- What ever happened to…Channel One?
- Malware: no longer a Windows only problem–Mac OS X now a real target
- Sony’s Playstation Network woes
- Are you ready for Windows 8?
- Kings Dominion, what the hell do you think I am?
- Peek 9: End of the line for me
- Windows Phone 7 survives PWN2OWN, unhacked
- Zune Hardware: RIP
- 2011: the year of the tablet?
- Microsoft copying google search results? So what?
- OneNote Mobile for iOS
- Time for iTunes to go
- Google’s other operating system was showed off this week
- Pandigital Novel: worth it?
- iPad accessory of the week: the Brookstone Bluetooth Keyboard Case
- The day I found out I was going to be a dad
- iPad iOS update: worth it?
- A video store, a pretty woman and rosy cheeks
- Your online privacy: Facebook
- Your online privacy: the browser
- Television via a disc: how a metal disc, light and wires led to television
- Tablet computing: is it finally here?
- Thanks, Dad
- No Peeking in my future
- My losing battle with technology
- Is your Peek or Peek Pronto no longer receiving mail?
- Crap-Gadget Part Two: Peek9, the accessories and other Peek news
- Microsoft Patch Tuesday-this is a big one
- Mini Review: Apple TV
- Windows Phone 7: yet another phone platform
- The Honey Bee Problem’s Cause Has Been Found
- The Battle for your Television is beginning…grab that flak jacket (or Apple TV) and get ready
- Best Buy upsell services that are not worth the money
- Take your OneNote Notebooks to the iPhone and iPad with MobileNoter
- iGrabber: a cheap way to move your tapes to DVD
- A Blast from the Past: Magnavox Odyssey 2
- How rollercoasters and short trips helped to deal with the loss of my wife
- Microsoft to shutter Live Spaces
- Crap-Gadget Part Two: Peek9
- Crap-Gadget of the Week: Brookstone Boogie Board
- Blockbuster problems, Facebook outage and Twitter bug
- Did a left turn sink the Titanic? New info on the sinking of the unsinkable ship
- From the Ministry of Truth: No Agenda Podcast
- Smart spending: buy those gift cards carefully
- Converting and Editing Your Video on Your Computer
- No love for XP from Microsoft and its about time
- This ain’t your dad’s browser: Internet Explorer 9 beta
- Lust and desire: picking a new cellphone
- iPad, Palm Pre Mini Game Review: Angry Birds
- New Adobe PDF Exploit, it's BAD; iOS developers can use what they want
- iPad App Mini Review: PhotoAristaHD Oil Paintings from your photos
- Google Instant, Wave and Buzz: the week in Google
- Playing Sim City 2000 and other DOS games in Vista and Windows 7
- Windows 7 tips
- Twitter app not working? You may have to upgrade it
- Engineers love to change things-Windows 7 taskbar changes
- Parental Controls in Windows 7
- Windows 7 Family 3 pack upgrades and general observations
- More about Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 beta
- The case for a case: Apple’s iPad sleeve
- Another stroll down memory lane: Studio II
- Whiny broadcasters, take two
- iPad: worth the hype? My review of the iPad
- Apple announces new iPods, iTunes and Apple TV
Entries by Week
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- April 7, 2013 - April 13, 2013 (1)
- March 24, 2013 - March 30, 2013 (2)
- March 17, 2013 - March 23, 2013 (5)
- February 24, 2013 - March 2, 2013 (3)
- February 10, 2013 - February 16, 2013 (4)
- January 27, 2013 - February 2, 2013 (3)
- January 20, 2013 - January 26, 2013 (3)
- January 6, 2013 - January 12, 2013 (1)
- December 30, 2012 - January 5, 2013 (1)
- December 9, 2012 - December 15, 2012 (3)
- October 28, 2012 - November 3, 2012 (1)
- October 21, 2012 - October 27, 2012 (1)
- October 7, 2012 - October 13, 2012 (2)
- September 30, 2012 - October 6, 2012 (2)
- September 23, 2012 - September 29, 2012 (1)
- September 16, 2012 - September 22, 2012 (4)
- September 2, 2012 - September 8, 2012 (1)
- August 26, 2012 - September 1, 2012 (2)
- August 5, 2012 - August 11, 2012 (1)
- July 29, 2012 - August 4, 2012 (2)
- July 22, 2012 - July 28, 2012 (1)
- July 15, 2012 - July 21, 2012 (2)
- July 8, 2012 - July 14, 2012 (2)
- June 17, 2012 - June 23, 2012 (2)
- June 3, 2012 - June 9, 2012 (1)
- May 27, 2012 - June 2, 2012 (3)
- April 29, 2012 - May 5, 2012 (2)
- April 22, 2012 - April 28, 2012 (1)
- April 15, 2012 - April 21, 2012 (1)
- March 25, 2012 - March 31, 2012 (2)
- March 4, 2012 - March 10, 2012 (1)
- February 26, 2012 - March 3, 2012 (1)
- February 12, 2012 - February 18, 2012 (2)
- January 22, 2012 - January 28, 2012 (1)
- January 8, 2012 - January 14, 2012 (2)
- December 25, 2011 - December 31, 2011 (3)
- December 18, 2011 - December 24, 2011 (3)
- December 11, 2011 - December 17, 2011 (3)
- December 4, 2011 - December 10, 2011 (1)
- November 27, 2011 - December 3, 2011 (1)
- October 30, 2011 - November 5, 2011 (2)
- October 9, 2011 - October 15, 2011 (2)
- September 18, 2011 - September 24, 2011 (2)
- September 4, 2011 - September 10, 2011 (2)
- August 28, 2011 - September 3, 2011 (2)
- August 21, 2011 - August 27, 2011 (2)
- August 14, 2011 - August 20, 2011 (2)
- August 7, 2011 - August 13, 2011 (1)
- July 31, 2011 - August 6, 2011 (1)
- July 17, 2011 - July 23, 2011 (1)
- July 10, 2011 - July 16, 2011 (2)
- July 3, 2011 - July 9, 2011 (5)
- June 26, 2011 - July 2, 2011 (2)
- June 12, 2011 - June 18, 2011 (3)
- May 22, 2011 - May 28, 2011 (1)
- May 1, 2011 - May 7, 2011 (1)
- April 3, 2011 - April 9, 2011 (2)
- March 13, 2011 - March 19, 2011 (3)
- March 6, 2011 - March 12, 2011 (1)
- February 6, 2011 - February 12, 2011 (1)
- January 23, 2011 - January 29, 2011 (1)
- December 12, 2010 - December 18, 2010 (1)
- December 5, 2010 - December 11, 2010 (2)
- November 28, 2010 - December 4, 2010 (2)
- November 21, 2010 - November 27, 2010 (1)
- November 14, 2010 - November 20, 2010 (1)
- November 7, 2010 - November 13, 2010 (4)
- October 31, 2010 - November 6, 2010 (3)
- October 10, 2010 - October 16, 2010 (6)
- October 3, 2010 - October 9, 2010 (2)
- September 26, 2010 - October 2, 2010 (6)
- September 19, 2010 - September 25, 2010 (6)
- September 12, 2010 - September 18, 2010 (3)
- September 5, 2010 - September 11, 2010 (11)
- August 29, 2010 - September 4, 2010 (5)
Entries by Month
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- April 2013 (1)
- March 2013 (10)
- February 2013 (5)
- January 2013 (7)
- December 2012 (3)
- October 2012 (6)
- September 2012 (8)
- August 2012 (3)
- July 2012 (5)
- June 2012 (4)
- May 2012 (2)
- April 2012 (4)
- March 2012 (3)
- February 2012 (3)
- January 2012 (3)
- December 2011 (11)
- November 2011 (2)
- October 2011 (2)
- September 2011 (5)
- August 2011 (6)
- July 2011 (9)
- June 2011 (5)
- May 2011 (2)
- April 2011 (2)
- March 2011 (4)
- February 2011 (1)
- January 2011 (1)
- December 2010 (4)
- November 2010 (10)
- October 2010 (8)
- September 2010 (31)