Being a college student can be awful at times … between homework and rising tuition costs, it seems like you never get a break.  But guess what?  There are still some great advantages to being a student, and one of the biggest is the discounts you can get on software.  Microsoft gives very generous discounts to students on their most popular products, and even gives away their developer tools with the Dreamspark program.  College...

Cloud computing has taken the world by storm.  From the newly released Microsoft Office Web Apps and the popular Google Apps to collaboration tools such as Dropbox and Backpack from 37signals, more and more of us are using online applications and storing more data in the “cloud” every day.  But with our data scattered around between various services, we still keep large amounts of data on our computers.  Favorite mp3s, irreplaceable...

I’ve been writing up a storm, but unfortunately it hasn’t brought any rain to my town Tak, Thailand.  We’ve had average daily temperatures of 110F, so consider all of these articles well-roasted! Experience your music in a whole new way with Zune for PC Tired of the standard Media Player look and feel, and want something new and innovative?  Zune for Windows offers a fresh, new way to enjoy your music, videos, pictures, and...

Multitasking is, odd as it seems, one of the largest debates in the tech industry in 2010.  Apple’s new iPad, along with the iPhone and iPod Touch, do not support multitasking except for some select bundled apps.  On a phone, this is much less of a limitation, but with the iPad being considered as a computer/laptop/netbook replacement, multitasking is much more of a concern. Multitasking has been dismissed as a power-user feature that...

Time flies when you’re having fun, but it has this bad habit of flying no matter what’s happening.  2010 is already fleeting by, and although I haven’t been writing much here I definitely haven’t stopped writing .  I’ve been writing almost every day at How-to Geek, and here are my latest articles there for Techinch readers (oldest articles first … if you want the absolute latest articles, read on ): The Windows...