Half dark fiction, half academic musings on angels, demons, the dead, and monsters, Dark Awakenings, by Matt Cardin, is an exploration of the common religious goals of transcendence, rebirth, and salvation. So what makes this exploration dark? Cardin’s twist of the knife comes from the enlightened …

I’ve been looking for a good portable external speaker for my laptop for quite some time. I thought I had found the answer in the Logitech USB 305 Laptop Speaker Z305 (see my review of the Logitech Z305 speaker here), but when that Logitech speaker died just after using it for two months, I decided …

Compelling applications on mobile devices, spearheaded by the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, are introducing a new generation of people to computing technology as well as giving everyone access to innovative ways of interacting with applications, primarily with touch screens, GPS, and …