Michael W. Muchmore

Tired of all the ads on AIM? Want access to more services than just Yahoo? There are lots of IM client choices besides the big three—AIM, Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger). The software we examine here lets you hook into any of these three services, and usually more besides, like Jabber. […]

Some people would be surprised that you can edit photos online without locally installed software, but surely video editing is too resource-intensive to be done over the web, right? Wrong! We review five online services that let you do things like scene transitions, cuts, splices, loops, audio overlays—and theyre all free. We tested the following: […]

Of course, prevention (in this case read “backup”) is the best medicine when it comes to lost files, whether as a result of disk malfunctions or your mistakenly deleting them. But for those of us with less foresight, theres utility software that can save our skins when it comes disappeared files. Today, we investigate three […]

For a long time, there was nothing to talk about in Web browsers. You used Internet Explorer, and that was it. Oh, to be sure, some Mozilla/Netscape holdouts clung to their ways, as did a smattering of users of Opera, Konqueror and other obscurities. Internet Explorer itself hasnt had a major version change since the […]

The Internet is supposed to be interactive, right? Its not just about being a passive watcher of Web sites, but about sharing your input, as well. The Flock browser is an attempt to bring some of the Web 2.0-style concepts right to the application that gives you a view of the interweb. Built on top […]

If youve walked past the idle computers of techies during the past few years, youve undoubtedly seen the colorful bars of the SETI@home screensaver. These geeks are doing their part in the quest for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Taking advantage of PCs idle time, grid projects like SETI@home are able to do computations that would take […]

Part of a new display lineup that also includes 20- and 23-inch models, Apples new 30-inch LCD offers an unprecedented 2560-by-1600 pixel resolution for a total of over four million pixels. It requires a Power Mac G5 professional desktop equipped with an nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card. The thin-bezel aluminum case features two […]