When reader Andreas wrote in to share his desktop configuration, we were stunned at the level of nerdy information we had just encountered—this is perhaps the geekiest desktop we've ever seen. Andreas ...

The theme for this month's issue is the desktop, and when I sat down to write this article, I was going to focus on bringing the cloud to your desktop. A number of services exist, and I figured one of ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have a laptop HP Envy x360. It’s about 4 years old, I think. It’s been updated to Windows 11. For some ...

Gibbs celebrates you, the computer geek! You, my computer geek friend, are fantastic! You are amazing! You can coax electrons to do things that don’t just matter to people, they have transformed our ...

In one fell swoop, John Whaley might end IT client hardware maintenance. And he might kill off the Geek Squad, too. Whaley, the chief technical officer of desktop virtualization company MokaFive, says ...

Is your computer outdated? Do you care about the environment? Are you community conscious? Do you live on the West Coast? If you answered “yes” to any of the above, check out www.freegeek.org. Free ...