Pardon Our Dust

Please excuse us as we change templates once again. We are rearranging, adding and cleaning up for the new year. Oh - When I say "we", I mean myself and a good friend of mine, SilentCry.
She's helping out with the posting of never ending articles. Enjoy your holidays.

The Battle of the Browsers – The History and the Future of Internet Browsers

by: Nicholas C Smith

With Internet Explorer 8 now available, can Microsoft hope to retain market dominance over fierce open source rivals such as Mozilla's Firefox or the feature packed Opera web browser. Can history give us a clue to what the future of web browsers/browsing might hold? How did Netscape Navigator go from having a dominant 89.36% market share of all web browsers in 1996 and yet only 3.76% by mid 1999?

Let us take a journey that will begin long before even the intellectual conception of Internet Explorer, that will glance at its long defeated rivals, examine the current browsers available and will end with a prediction of what the future of browsing will offer us – and which browser(s) will still be around to offer it.

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iPod Facts You Should Know

Image via WikipediaBy: Roberto Sedycias

iPod is one of the most successful consumer electronic products in history. It is the best selling mp3 / mp4 player in the market today. The combination of sound quality, sleek design and unique user interface, made the iPod a hit, causing an entire industry of accessories to emerge almost overnight. Read More>>

Rumor: New Mac Mini Coming to Macworld 2009

Apple will launch an upgrade to its low-end desktop, the Mac Mini, at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, according to an Apple corporate employee who contacted Wired.com.

The source, who wished to remain anonymous (to keep his job), could not disclose details about the Mac Mini other than its upcoming announcement at Macworld Expo, which begins Jan. 5. That's where CEO Steve Jobs traditionally launches major products during his famous keynotes (assuming he does indeed show up).

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Best Bluetooth Headsets of 2008

In many ways, 2008 was the year of the Bluetooth headset. Thanks to new hands-free calling laws in the country, Bluetooth headsets have become the new must-have gadget accessory. Plenty of headsets have debuted as a result, and we had a busy time reviewing them this year. There was no way we could fit all our favorites in this list, but these are a select few we thought stood out from the rest.

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Blu-ray Bargains

The big knock on Blu-ray has always been cost. For too long, it was impossible to find a standalone Blu-ray player that cost less than the $400 Sony PlayStation 3, and those players were almost always inferior to Sony's game console.

Those days are over. All five of these Blu-ray players can be found online for less than $250 and some of them are nearly as good as the PS3. The pick of the litter is the Editors' Choice-winning Panasonic DMP-BD35, which is Blu-ray Profile 2.0 compatible, has onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, and has excellent video quality on both Blu-ray Discs and DVDs. Read More >>