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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…
We remember a time when “back up” meant hitting the “clone drive” button—and that was about as hard as it got. Unfortunately, things have changed. Now that we measure our digital lives in terabytes instead of megabytes, it’s just impractica…
Say what you will about Twitter, but it’s ubiquity is startling. Consider the following statistics:
• An average of a billion tweets are sent each week. That amounts to approximately 140 million tweets per day. Per day!
• &…
It’s hard to think of a program that’s as quintessentially Windows as good ol’ Notepad.exe. It’s been there for us since the very beginning, and it hasn’t changed a bit. And that’s the problem.
If you do much work with plaintext, you know that the…
Using Asterisk in conjunction with Google Voice will help you dramatically reduce your landline phone bill
Google Voice. Skype. VoIP-to-PSTN providers. SIP-to-SIP calls. All of these technologies and products allow you to make calls that are either fre…
For anyone who deals with images on a regular basis—whether they’re photographers, bloggers, or digital artists—Adobe Photoshop is an indispensable tool. And while the program can be used to make extensive alterations to a single photo, there are…
In the world of photography, Photoshop is the industry standard in post production work–capapble of doing nearly anything to any given photo. Though the rabbit hole is extremely deep, there are a few simple steps you can take to spruce up your images …
10 Great Readers, 10 Great Tips
In our March issue’s cover story, we threw out a challenge: Send us your favorite application tips, and we’d grant the five best submissions Maximum PC coins. We got so many tips it’s taken us some time to go throu…
Can we build an AMD machine—any AMD machine—that can compete with an Intel-powered rig?
In the forever war between CPU vendors, AMD and Intel have traded places many times—one leads, then the other. Since the advent of Intel’s Core i7, though, …
