I read this article on pcworld.com by Matt Peckham on “15 Reasons PC Gaming Beats All” and felt I needed to respond to it. Some of the items were downright wrong especially items 7 and 11 on his list. If you haven’t already check out Matt’s arguments then come back and compare my responses.

Now I was a long time Hardcore PC gamer and in the past couple of years I started to sour on it when I realized how badly components, constant upgrades and time spent tweaking, troubleshooting and repairing was hitting my pocketbook and gaming time.

I’ve since dumped my gaming PC switched to a MacBook Pro for my primary computer and all my gaming is restricted to the 3 current generation consoles (Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii)

Read on for the full list

I’ve been doing a lot of toying around with Apple’s Time Machine lately and recently stumbled onto this tool that allows you to change the schedule that Time Machine uses to back up your Mac (Normally this is done every hour). Every our is a little excessive for most users in my opinion (Well at least for me it is). 

I have an old (relatively) iPod touch lying around and since I got my iPhone I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with it. For a while I just used it to store extra stuff that wasn’t important enough to occupy space on my iPhone and then I started thinking. Wouldn’t it be great if I could make some more use of the portability and WiFi capabilities like say sniff wireless traffic or do some other man in the middle type attacks from it. I mean it definitely has all the components to make it work.