Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

Using a computer keyboard as your universal remote control for your entire home theater system seems implausible when you first think about it, but once you check out Logitech’s Smart Keyboard, it ...

Remote Mouse & Keyboard is the perfect solution for controlling your Mac from other devices on your home network. The app works with the iPhone, iPad, another Mac, the Apple Watch, and even the Apple ...

If you are anything like [Antoine], you would love to be able to control your PC with a simple hand-held remote control from anywhere in your house. [Antoine] wrote in to tell us about his wireless ...

Last time, I disassembled the Mohu Channels, a Kickstarter-funded and now-discontinued network streaming device with an added twist: built-in ATSC reception support. In that prior writeup, I showcased ...

Covering home audio and video, Matthew Moskovciak helps CNET readers find the best sights and sounds for their home theaters. Living room set-top boxes have become increasingly sophisticated, but they ...

The computer keyboard and the mouse may be about to be consigned to history. Intel has launched a new app that allows you to control your PC from the other side of a room, or even a different part of ...

Forget operating systems or office suites; in fact, forget software. One of the things that Microsoft has been spectacularly good at over the last five years has been hardware or, more accurately, ...

I have been Contributing Editor at one of the biggest selling UK computer magazines, PC Pro, since the first issue back in 1994. There are two things we don't like about Windows XP Media Center ...

Sony hopes to capture the hearts and minds of couch potatoes with its new Xperia Tablet S. Falling under the same brand as Sony's smartphones, this $399, quad-core Android 4.0 slate adds macro ...

If we want to stop a video or move to the next slide, which may be running on our Windows desktop, we need to go to the desktop to do so manually. Have you ever thought of doing these tasks by just ...