As the IRS winds up on a barrage of $600 stimulus checks, Icrontic weighs in with the Stimulus Check PC: the perfect way to drop $600 for something sweet.

A step-by-step guide for making a triple boot MacBook Pro with Vista 64, Ubuntu, and OS X Leopard.

Want some geek street cred? Try installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on a sub-notebook such as the OLPC XO or the Asus EEE PC, using Icrontic's handy-dandy guide.

What do you do to stir up the competition in a market saturated in dual-cores? How about offer three cores for the price of two. This is exactly what AMD hopes to accomplish with their aggressively priced, tri-core Phenom X3.

Icrontic's Rob Hallock shows us how to make a bootable USB flash drive.

Everyone with a laptop knows how difficult it is to keep the LCD screen dust-, smudge-, and scratch-free.

Its performance was above and beyond my expectations. This puppy is sleek, well-designed, backed by a great warranty, and priced under its competition.

I kept in mind not only the work I was doing, but what things I would want to do or add over the next year. Then, I picked the best graphics, processor, memory, and storage specs for my needs.

Sometimes you just gotta do whatever it takes to get the job done. And when all you have to work with is an old case fan, a food container lid, and some dryer duct.... these are the things that happen. Short-Media.com presents a crude-yet-effective mod for quieting and cooling your laptop.

So we here at Short-Media set out to build a bigger, better, badder workstation on a home PC budget.