It is always fun to see how (and in some cases why) people use their gadgets. And well, it looks like one user has discovered that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus can be used as a ‘desktop’ computer. Of course, we use the term desktop rather lightly given we realize that many would not be able more »

The reviews are in and frankly, I am a bit confused. The Samsung Tab is the first real tablet that has a legitimate shot to compete with the iPad since Apple launched the device back in April. Since then, tablets have become the darling of the tech press and we even saw Mr. Mossberg recommending more »

Samsung’s new Android tablet has been reconfirmed to the public thanks to a report from Reuters. The new tablet, dubbed the “Galaxy Tab”, is expected to have a 7″ screen and hit the market sometime in Q3 of this year. Although there is a lack of information concerning the device other than what I have more »

The United States government paid hacker Albert Gonzalez $75,000 a year to gather information on bank card thieves and report those findings to federal agents. But a $75,000 annual income wasn’t enough to satisfy Gonzalez, who was committing the very crime he was hired to help prevent. Beginning in 2004, Gonzalez received money from the more »

Just about everyone has probably seen that dreaded Blue Screen of Death (“BSoD”) at some time or another. Or, at very least you’ve heard someone screaming about it coming up on their system. When it happens, you can feel a sick feeling in your stomach. Find out the origin of the term, what exactly happens during a BSoD, and plenty more.

Back in March of 2008, we reported that Myka created a BitTorrent box that was capable of directly receiving your Torrent downloads and replaying them on a TV. It’s a competitor to Apple TV, and people who torrent a lot would definitely like the Myka box. When the product was announced back in March, it was set to start shipping in the summer, but nearly half a year later, it looks like that time has come.

Supercomputers are great, in fact even the name is great: conjuring images of CPUs in red capes flying to the help of damsels in distress. However, in the real world they are hundreds of cabinets stuffed full of computer stuff and do in fact loo incredibly dull. The opposite can be said of what they actually do as they push the boundaries of what is capable using solely 0s and 1s to solve complex calculations, help define new theorem, and play Crysis on full graphics.

Yet, as with everything in this world, it has become a competition to have the fastest computer and this has been going on since computers began; in fact, even Romans competed over abacus skills. In June, the Roadrunner which was built by IBM, became the fastest computer ever achieving a sustained speed of 1.026 petaflops.

However there could be a new leader on the Top 500 list which is compiled by computer experts and is to be updated this week in a supercomputing conference in Austin. This is Cray’s Jaguar XT, which claims to have reached 1.64 petaflops, a massive increase on its probable predecessor and is set to gain this prestigious honor. It runs Linux and has a massive 362TB of memory which is spread out over its 284 cabinets, each of which holding 192 quad-core AMD Opteron chips.

There are some products you can’t help but think are just pointless and you cannot see why anyone would possibly want to buy it. This is one of those.

The Pure*Gold PC is a fairly mid range PC with decent specifications, supposedly low noise levels and a nice design, but as its name suggests there is something different about this: it’s made from gold. But no, it is not gold trimmed, and no, it is not gold stylishly designed into and practical and aesthetically pleasing design. Oh no. This is a big, gold box. . . .

Since it is Halloween, Gadgetell is taking a look at some the tech horror stories our writers have experienced. Here is one tale.

In my house, we usually built our own computers; we had, at most, two computers that were purchased pre-built. The second computer we built did everything it was supposed to. It connected to the Internet and could be used to write school reports on. Not to mention it handled “Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion” almost perfectly (if you were willing to take away some of the draw distance).

The computer had many hours logged into it, the hard drive was maybe three quarters filled. Oblivion and Civilization IV took care of most of that for me. My brother used it to go online, and my grandmother used it every hour we weren’t there to play her casino games. It had served us well.

That was until the one morning when we awoke to something we were quite used to. . . .