As the iPhone establishes itself as a player in the portable gaming wars, it makes sense that some of the world’s most loved games make its way in the form of releases for the device. Electronic Arts have taken it upon themselves to port the decades-old game “Monopoly” to the young system, a job that [...]

Passage is one game you can’t really say a lot about because of one problem: if you do say a lot about it, the game ceases to have a point.
This makes it quite hard to review.
What I can tell you about Passage is that it’s one of the more unusual games I’ve ever played.
While it [...]

If you’re a geek, chances are you’ve read your fair share of comics. Somewhere between the art, the stories, and the way that we can translate the voices & acting of characters in our heads definitely makes comics a prerequisite for being a geek.
I’ve personally got what I consider to be a decent collection of [...]

I’d heard that, as a default feature, the public beta release of Windows 7 supported the loading and editing of files saved in the docx format, so I thought I would give that a go.
In order to perform this evaluation, I took a couple of existing Word documents that I had, and I let Microsoft [...]

We had a need to replace a DSL modem at a friend’s home just recently. During the last year, they had upgraded their connection from ordinary ADSL to what’s called “Fast ADSL”, which gives them an improvement in speed - in their case, from 256 to 8192kbps.
Their old modem didn’t support this faster speed and [...]

With Australia Day just now hitting and the Chinese New Year beginning, we saw it fit to serve up some ox-tail soup, Vegemite, and anything else that allowed us to celebrate the way we knew how!
For this episode, we took a look at something all Australians can be proud of and that’s inventions that Australians [...]

 

 January 25, 2009 - Australian Inventions, Wall-E joins us in the studio, and an ox-tail more! [32:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Over a decade ago, companies were scrambling to get a good office suite out into the marketplace. Microsoft had set their eyes on an idea titled “Microsoft Works,” Claris had one, Apple had another, as well as the ridiculous amount of independent programs including the etched-into-my-mind Wordperfect.
Eventually, everyone settled on the dominant force: Microsoft. Their [...]

Sick of paying for Microsoft Office? Well, this week on The Gadget Grill, we tackled The Office Revolution and showed you a couple of ways where you could save some money with some free alternatives to Microsoft’s hugely successful office suite that are just as good and in some cases better. If you don’t believe [...]

 

 January 18, 2009 - The Office Revolution, electronic cigarettes tested live on-air, and a whole heap more! [31:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

One of the newer but lesser known features in Windows Vista was the Snipping Tool. This tool is continued in Windows 7, and it provides you with a simple means of capturing an image of a portion of your system’s screen, which might be needed for you to include in a document you’re preparing, for [...]

If you’re a guy and you plan on shaving your head, you don’t have a lot of choices.
You can head to a hairdresser or barber and pay anywhere between eight and twenty dollars for someone to come along with a buzzer and take as much of your hair off in one go as humanly possible.
You [...]