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• DIY-IT Project Guide

  The DIY-IT Project Guide is the comprehensive guide to all our DIY-IT projects, from the DIY video studio to super-slick Google Voice hacks to small business tips, plus a lot more. If you’re working on a DIY project of your own, this is a good place to start.

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• Did you know you can use Palm Desktop with your Android phone?

  By David Gewirtz | May 11, 2012, 6:18am PDT

  This $49 piece of software provides a sync conduit (remember conduits?) from your copy of Palm Desktop to your Android phone.

• Taking Google Voice to the extreme with Ooma

  By David Gewirtz | May 4, 2012, 4:30am PDT

  After a year with Google Voice and about three months with the Ooma solution working smoothly, I’ve finally stopped hearing complaints about our phones.

• The HDMI cable ripoff and why retail is really dying

  By David Gewirtz | April 29, 2012, 7:21pm PDT

  Would you spend $100 for something when you can get it for $10? Of course not. What about $500, when you can get it for $2.50? No way. But chain retailers think you will.

• 8 things Microsoft needs to do to save Windows 8

  By David Gewirtz | April 26, 2012, 2:14am PDT

  The real world runs on real computers doing real work and those computers run Windows. Microsoft needs to remember that as they introduce Windows 8 to the real world.

• A quick-and-dirty way to speed up Firefox (a lot)

  By David Gewirtz | April 25, 2012, 7:25am PDT

  Browsing speed will improve from intolerable to moderately tolerable. And that’s about all you can ask from Firefox these days.

• Five ways companies use social media and look like jerks

  By David Gewirtz | April 23, 2012, 1:47am PDT

  Let’s take a look at five ways companies use social media and end up making themselves look like complete and utter fools.

• Dear Google: we need a quality reverse phone number lookup for Google Voice

  By David Gewirtz | April 18, 2012, 1:34am PDT

  Since Google is the oracle of all information, it seems strange that it can’t tell you who owns a given phone number.

• We’ve come a long way, baby: the iPhone 4 vs. the IBM PC (Infographic)

  By David Gewirtz | April 13, 2012, 3:32am PDT

  Check out this amazing infographic. You’ll be astonished and amazed. You’ll laugh and you’ll chuckle. You’ll tell all your friends. Look how far computing has come.

• The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is a little … odd

  By David Gewirtz | April 9, 2012, 12:21pm PDT

  While it’s nice to be able to “borrow” books on the Kindle, our impressions are that the service is a little early for prime time, and — frankly — a little odd.

• How to decide: should you buy a new iPad or a Kindle Fire?

  By David Gewirtz | March 28, 2012, 4:00am PDT

  With all the buzz these days about tablets, it turns out some folks are still trying to understand which device to buy. This article will help you decide.