It’s no secret I am nuts about Guitar Hero. So you can imagine that I am pretty excited about the upcoming “Guitar Hero on Tour” game set to be released for the Nintendo DS handheld later this year. Today, I got even more excited after seeing the new Guitar Grip accessory Read more on this article ...

I just got back from the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, TX, this week. As with CES 2008, the big gimmick for attracting visitors to your booth was Guitar Hero III. I saw at least four booths with GHIII running and, being a nut about Rock Band and Guitar Hero (as Tigger Two Read more on this article ...

HDTVs have been one of the hottest consumer electronics categories for the past several years; however, you don’t need to invest in an HDTV to get HDTV content. Pinnacle has created the PCTV HD Pro Stick to turn your desktop or laptop into an HDTV. Considering that the resolution of most Read more on this article ...

The guitar that came in our Rock Band bundle suffered from the downward strum issue that many people have reported online. Either the strum bar on the guitar doesn’t recognize a downward strum at all or it will recognize each downward strum twice. Not the best situation to be in when Read more on this article ...

TechRepublic purchased an Apple MacBook Air so we could take it apart as part of our Cracking Open series. There is no doubt that the MacBook Air is a testament to the technical ingenuity of Apple’s engineering and design teams. They were able to squeeze substantial computer power into a Read more on this article ...

Tables are great for communicating and organizing data in a meaningful way. They’re also efficient. You can substitute several lists with a single table and your viewers will spend less time pursuing a table than several single column lists. In Microsoft PowerPoint, tables can be a bit Read more on this article ...

I received a call recently from someone wanting to know how to create an image mask using Sony Vegas. Since I am a huge proponent of Sony Vegas, I embraced this opportunity. The question was actually a very good one because the creators of Sony Vegas decided not to call it a masking tool like Read more on this article ...

For most IT professionals, there is no such thing as too much technical knowledge; to keep ahead in information technology one has to continually train, learn, and grow. The podcast can be an efficient delivery method for such technical information, especially if that information arrives in Read more on this article ...

List controls in Microsoft Access, such as the combo box and list box, offer choices to the user. From their point of view, they don’t have to enter anything — they simply select an item. From the application developer’s perspective, the database is protected from typos and Read more on this article ...

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows you to use background graphics in a wide number of tasteful and versatile ways. Not only can graphics exist as backgrounds to entire pages, but you can also employ CSS to assign a background image to any CSS rule. Here are just three of many popular ways that Read more on this article ...