When all of the walls of a system are transparent, where do you hide the cables? Answer: behind all the awesome insides
Were there a Mount Everest of PC builds, the see-through PC would likely be it. The difficulties are great, and the possibilities f…
Spruce up your multiple desktops
Running multiple monitors has become something of a necessity for serious PC users. You don’t have to take it to the sort of extremes we do in this month’s display challenge, but anything less than two monitors is r…
Email. We all have it. We all hate it. From Outlook to Gmail to the Great Email Beyond, here’s how to make the most of it.
They say that the kids don’t use email that much these days. Doesn’t that sound dreamy? We adults, unfortunately, have no s…
From Windows 95 right on through to Windows 7, the Start Menu has always been just a wee bit short of perfection when it comes to increasing your productivity. Requiring users to seek out content through an seemingly endless series of nested drop down …
With Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has been making some big strides in the quality of Windows’s native search. For regular, targeted searches (finding a file in your downloads folder, for instance), it does a great job of giving you near-real-time r…
There are few services on the internet today more ubiquitous than Google Maps. Originally designed to be downloaded by users as a desktop application, it quickly became a web-based service once the company that gave birth to it was acquired by Google i…
When the Kinect first launched last November, gamers were (to put it charitably) a bit skeptical. Here was a device with incredible technological potential, and the most impressive game that came out with it was a dance simulator.
Still, the Kinect ha…
We set out to build a Sandy Bridge box that takes up little space in our entertainment center and fulfills all our streaming needs
Back in the August 2010 issue of Maximum PC I built a 3D HTPC that I was pretty damned happy with, but the times have cha…
