Come on down, but you don't get to keep the showcase.  read more »

My kids love to draw and paint, but they also love their computers, and Wacom, known for their drawing tablets, offers tablets in a variety of sizes and feature sets. While the more expensive ones appeal more to professional graphic artists and serious hobbyists, the Bamboo series make the digital art pad available to families on a budget ($79 and $99, the cheapest Wacom tablets ever).  read more »

Remember having to choose between 24 and 36 images to a roll of film? With compact flash, SD/MMC, and other media cards used in modern digital cameras pushing upwards of 4GB, anything less than a few hundred or even thousands of images seems absolutely crippling. But with any magnetic storage device, it's not a question of if the media will fail, but when, and these cards are no exception.  read more »

When I got my first CD burner for my Macintosh Computer back in 2001, I also picked up a copy of Roxio’s Toast Titanium 5 because Mac CD recording abilities were almost nonexistent at the time. It wasn’t long after that CD burners, and then DVD super drives, became standard issue in Macs along with the software necessary to run and take full advantage of such devices.  read more »

Looks like this update will be an "under the hood" update that will mainly interest power users and businesses, but we'll have to wait and see the final feature set.

Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers  read more »

Since everyone knows it's coming, people are already releasing software for it.

Glide OS 3.0 Transforms the 3G iPhone into a Mobile Business Computer with New Synchronization and Collaboration Applications

3G iPhone Users Can Work Harmoniously With Windows, Solaris, Linux and Apple Computers and Android, Blackberry, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile Phones Circumventing Technical Barriers  read more »

So here's the question: is this software worthwhile, or should Nikon stick to being a camera company and leave the software to Apple, Corel, and Adobe? Grab the demo and decide.

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR IMAGES: NIKON INTRODUCES UPGRADED CAPTURE NX 2 PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE

Powerful New Tools Make Photo Editing Quick and Easy  read more »

PopCap, perhaps the best known of the casual gaming companies, has sponsored research
into the benefits of the daily e-break. According to a recent study conducted
by Dr Chamorro-Premuzic of Goldsmiths University, British firms may lose as much
as four billion pounds a year as a result of banning employees from the internet
and from casual gaming. To combat this problem, PopCap has created a website which
allows employees to anonymously petition their bosses for a scheduled e-break  read more »

Just one more puzzle, then I’ll write the review. Well…maybe two. Three, tops!

This test of my willpower comes to you courtesy of The Amazing Brain Train, by Grubby Games. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

The Story  read more »

One of my favorite features of the Safari web browser has always been the ability to type a word into my address bar and be taken to the appropriate .com. So typing "techtalkforfamilies" would take me to techtalkforfamilies.com without having to type the .com each time. If there was no .com, it would take me to .net or .org instead. When sitting down at a PC that only had Internet Explorer installed, I hated always being taken to a Live.com search page when typing a word into the address bar.  read more »