While you might love boasting about the benefits of your dedicated battlestation over a laptop or mobile device, there are almost certainly times when you want to be able to access your PC from your ...

Now that we listen to MP3s, and watch XVIDs or x264s, a computer is the entertainment center in at least one room of most homes. Unless you have a special HTPC, though, you’re probably stuck using the ...

Laziness sometimes spawns the greatest inventions. Making things to reduce effort on your part is quite possibly one of the greatest motivators out there. So when [Kyle] had to get out of bed in order ...

This is completely beyond my abilities as a whatever, but perhaps you’re handy with The DIY? It’s a step-by-step on how to create a USB-based remote control receiver. Or, in English: you plug this ...

April 30, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Walking to your computer to change a song or to skip to the next PowerPoint slide isn't ideal. Instead, use LIRC ...

For today's how-to we spent some time rummaging around in our parts box to build a serial IR remote interface for our PC. We took a few pieces from various designs to come up our own, built ...

So you've got yourself a kickass, play-everything home theater PC, but you're not so keen on controlling it from your couch with a mouse and keyboard. I get that. I'm somewhat of a media center ...

It’s the ultimate toy for the couch potato. It looks like just another remote-control clicker, but it runs your PC instead of your TV. Using a USB-connected receiver, the Streamzap PC Remote lets you ...

Remote-desktop software may still seem like science fiction to the family member or customer trying to overcome a computer issue, but real heads know it’s been a useful reality for a while now. Using ...