Automate Your Home With Four Easy Projects
Teach your PC and smartphone to turn on your lights during midnight bathroom breaks, lock your doors, wake you up (with coffee!), and more.
How to Customize Your Android Phone
With a booming Android Marketplace, there's no reason to stick with the limited and sometimes frustrating default apps and settings on your Android smartphone. Here are some tips.
After Google Incident, Wi-Fi Data Collection Goes on
Four months ago, amidst a backlash from government regulators and privacy advocates, Google stopped collecting Wi-Fi data with its Street View cars. But that doesn't mean Google has stopped collecting wireless data.
To iPad or Not to iPad: That is the Tech Question
As more and more consumers consider tablets, they face a difficult decision: Should they go with the known factor in the iPad or wait for one of the unknown devices?
Dock Your Encased IPhone, IPod With DockStubz
iPhone and iPod cases come in various shapes, sizes, and levels of protection, but rare is the case that lets you connect your iPhone to a dock while you’re...
Remains of the Day: Gimme Fallout Shelter
Every time there’s an Apple event, there’s fallout. Big, nasty, mutate-ants-into-monstrous-rampaging-creatures fallout. With Apple’s media shindig on Wednesday...
A Look at the New Apple TV, iPod Touch and Nano
Apple has just announced their annual changes to the company's media devices: this year, the iPod Touch, Nano and Apple TV have all been revamped. Nate Ralph takes a look.
ThinkPad W701ds
Aimed at content creators and engineers, this portable Goliath could replace desktop workstations, letting pros stay productive anywhere.
IPod Shuffle (fourth Generation, Late 2010)
I’m on the record somewhere as saying that my favorite iPod of all time is the second-generation (2G) iPod shuffle. There was just something about that little...
IPod Nano (sixth Generation, Late 2010)
No iPod model has received as many makeovers—both minor and dramatic—as the iPod nano. (Perhaps not coincidentally, no other iPod model has sold as well.) The...
IPod Touch (fourth Generation, Late 2010)
You know the story by now. For many, the iPod touch is the iPhone without the phone and GPS features--no cellular voice calls, no texting, and no EDGE or 3G...
Which Android Smartphone is Right for You?
There's a huge number of Android phones on the market, but how can you know which one is right for you? Smartphone expert Ginny Mies takes a look at five of the most popular models.
Free Casual Games to Play in Your Browser
A casual game can relax your nerves or stimulate your mind. These great games were winners and notables in Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8: Sandbox. Whether your tastes run to production sims, romantic journeys, or empire-building llamas, these games have an enjoyable way to while away minutes or hours. Sweeping the awards from both audience and judges, the latest Submachine puzzle adventure leads you through a network of eerie, stone-walled tunnels. Each of these casual games is free, and can be enjoyed in the comfort of your Flash- and Javascript-enabled browser.
Popular Windows 7 Themes
If your Windows 7 desktop looks a little too much like it did when you got it, maybe it's time for a change. PCWorld's readers and editors have enjoyed these free Windows 7 themes. Whether you'd prefer sports or flags, candy or flowers, or animals of land and sea, there's something here for you.
PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: July 2010
July is a busy month for travel and vacations, and our reviewers proved this even while working hard. They gave the thumbs-up to a laptop battery optimizer and a portable encryption utility, for starters. Better system benchmarking and tune-up tools made favorable impressions, as always. A sound enhancement program makes movies and music sound better--perhaps even on a tinny laptop playing by the pool (although we won't say that was one of our tests).