In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off. Do you mean to tell me you never play Microsoft Flight ...

Apologies for the continued self-indulgent excavation of my own work, but after indexing my TIME.com columns and preserving my tweets, I’m back with links to the 952 posts I wrote for my PC World blog ...

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned my Arctic 81 website here on Technologizer. It’s home to Arctic Adventure, a text adventure game I wrote in Level II BASIC for the Radio Shack TRS-80 when I was in ...

Last month, I had fun paying tribute to Polaroid’s SX-70, an old-technology gadget that’s all the more extraordinary because there was nothing digital about it. The SX-70 came to mind again when I ...

On March 7, 2007, I tweeted—though it wasn’t yet called that—for the first time. I remember feeling like I was late to the platform: If I understand how member ID codes work, I was the 817,268th ...

Finally, some good news out of Sony. The company announced that it’s going to remaster PSP games for the Playstation 3, with high-definition graphics, new content and possibly 3D support. Best of all, ...

No doubt, Gizmodo has turned the tech news cycle on its head this week with its exclusive on the iPhone 4G. Everybody from MSNBC to Good Morning America, and even the ladies on The View are talking ...

With Windows 7 set to make its public debut Wednesday at CES (it already has, if you count the BitTorrent leak), in honor of the seventh major version of Microsoft’s operating system, I’ve come up ...

The news that Steve Jobs will take another medical leave inspired scads of Apple-history timelines. This one by Marketplace’s Matt Berger, which plots major Apple product rollouts alongside the ...

Agreeing with me is not a prerequisite for Technologizer contributors. (Actually, I always learn more when our other writers–and commenters–have a take that’s in conflict with mine.) I was happy to ...

I’ll talk about video games to anyone who can stand to listen, but I’m always surprised when someone asks me which of the three current home consoles is the best. Choosing a video game system isn’t ...

I used to swear by ThinkPad-style tiny pointing sticks as my mobile input device of choice. I’ve since grown accustomed to touchpads–and come to think of it, before I swore by pointing sticks I swore ...