Tech Blog

Yeah, it's that time again. I've made my list—something I haven't been fond of doing since I was a kid—but for those of you who are still making your list (double checking is always recommended) or the recipient of said list (in which case I suggest triple checking) MacWorld is running a series of buying guides for the Mac faithful. Read more...

Toronto's Hand Eye Society is doing well with exclusives--after all, what other town can claim to have their own dedicated arcade machine , full of locally developed indie games?--and the collective's next social gathering (number five, to be exact) is to feature the world premiere of a new, previously unannounced project from the development team of Pekko Koskinen and Shaun McGrath. Read more...

There are many iPhone and iPod touch games out there and working out which are worth the money is a challenge, so here I am again with another round-up of reviews, weighing in on Minigore, Peggle, Pinball Fantasies and Resident Evil: Degeneration . Read more...

I will admit, I'm a fan of Bing. The site from Microsoft has got me binging more and googling less - especially for specific things. Read more...

Listen up social media lovers, Playstation 3's Firmware 3.10 update is now live. This update brings the rumoured and recently confirmed integration with the social media craze that is Facebook. The firmware update also improves photo browsing and enhances the look of your PSN Friends List Read more...

Assassin's Creed II hit yesterday and it's everything we hoped for and more. I had the chance to talk to the producer of ACII, Sebastien Puel, about the development process and the AC universe. Read more...

Window 7 has been available at retail for a couple of weeks now, so I thought I'd use this post to explore some of the cooler features and functions, cooler to me, at least And, of course, when you select features to profile, a nice round number is always a bonus... Read more...

There is still four months to wait before we'll have a chance to get our hands on God of War III, but what better to tide us over than high-definition versions of the two greatest PS2 action-adventure games of all time? Read more...

Ever wish you could undo a particular driver or application installation? I have, recently in fact when I installed Adobe CS3 on my wife's Windows 7 /XP dual-boot computer. Something happened in that install that pooched the Flash plugin for Internet Explorer. It could have been a bad scene, except for a cool little feature of Windows 7, one that has been a part of the Windows OS since ME (so there was one good thing about ME). Read more...

18+ games aren't for kids... even if it's the Zombie Apocalypse. Read more...

I'm sure we all remember the days of dialup Internet. I'm not going to say "fondly", because no way could I ever go back to those days. I remember getting high speed DSL access at home in 1998-99, and how awesome that was for surfing and email. When I moved to Salt Spring Island, BC in 2000, I was forced back to dial up. Oh the pain. It was another three, long years before we got high speed Internet on Salt Spring. This most isn't about reliving the nightmare of trying to get a dial up connection on Salt Spring, it's how to test the connection you have. Read more...