It always surprises me how few people know this. When filling out a Web form, you can use the tab key to skip from one field to the next. Type...tab. Type...tab. Repeat as needed.

This is so much quicker and easier than reaching for the mouse, finding your cursor, clicking the next field, and putting your hands back on the keyboard--for each and every field. Need to skip back a field? Just press Shift-Tab.

Poor PC gaming, it's the Mark Twain of video game systems, a rumor caught in an exaggeration wrapped in a George Romero flick. Flip through the dailies and you'll invariably come across some blogger in Timbuktu cobbling tea leaves and magic eight ball wisdom into a diatribe about the waning of the PC gaming age. It's as if elves with hair extensions and flowing robes on glowing horses will soon appear to carry your desktops away to boats departing for Valinor.

Wal-Mart will begin selling the iPhone 3G this December, a report published online Wednesday claims.

The story, published at tech blog The Boy Genius Report and attributed to a leaked internal memo, says select Wal-Mart stores will start carrying the iPhone 3G right after the holiday rush, on December 28. About 2,500 Wal-Mart locations will offer the device, according to the site, as will 69 Sam's Club locations.

Mac clone-maker Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple was knocked down in the courts, lessening the company's chances of competing.

Earlier this year, Psystar was sued by Apple, which claimed a copyright infringement because of Pystar's clone that runs Apple's MacOS. Then Pystar countersued Apple on an antitrust ticket.

Microsoft has announced it'll discontinue the retail version of its Windows Live OneCare security suite, effective June 30, 2009, and offer "Morro," a free, stripped-down anti-malware app instead.

Bill Gates says tablet PCs are the future and HP took another step in that direction today with release of the TouchSmart tx2 notebook. The most innovative part of this computer is its touchscreen, and it follows the release of HP's TouchSmart PC earlier this year. Using what is called "capacitive multi-touch technology" HP's tx2 allows you to pinch, rotate, flick, drag, and tap your way through your files and digital media on the notebook screen.

The tx2 weighs around 5 lbs. and comes loaded with Windows Vista, a rechargeable digital ink pen, 12.1-inch diagonal Brightview LED, and a handy remote control that has a cradle in the body of the computer. The computer is available today and sells for $1149.

Publishing continues to evolve in the Internet age: Ziff Davis will stop publication of the print edition of PC Magazine in an effort to focus online, according to a report by PaidContent.org which interviewed Jason Young, the CEO of Ziff Davis. The last print edition of PC Magazine will be dated Jan. 2009, according to the report.

Young told PaidContent.org reporter Rafat Ali that Ziff Davis will now focus its attention on its PCMag Digital Network which include sites such as PCmag.com, ExtremeTech, Appscout, and more. The move would end 28 years of PC Magazine print publications, which began in 1982.

If you popped the No-Doze and stuck it out until 5AM ET last night, you probably managed to get your mitts on Microsoft's New Xbox Experience. If not, it's available as I type this. I've had it for a couple weeks now (see my review, parts one and two) and can't complain. It's not the second coming, but it's free, it looks great, and if it were a car, I'm sure it'd have that new car smell.

Bob Carne wants to use Trend Micro Internet Security as added spyware protection, along with Norton 360. They don't play well together.

It's generally not a good idea to have two full-bore security suites such as Trend Micro and Norton running together. It's like two people trying to use the kitchen sink at the same time. Besdies, one of these programs on it's own is enough of a drag on your system.

What won't you find in Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online MMO? Lines like "No one tosses a dwarf!" But while Turbine trades cheap laughs for careful adherence to canon, their online rendition of Middle-earth is also radically different from the books because of all the world-building author J.R.R. Tolkien didn't do.

The more programs you have installed on your PC, the harder it becomes to find the one you want. That's why I can't live without Launchy, a simple but incredibly useful application launcher that saves me having to sift through the dozens of programs in my Start menu.

Launchy is keyboard-driven. You invoke it by pressing Alt-Space (or a hotkey combination of your choice), then type the first few letters of the program you want. For example, to launch Google Picasa, I merely type "pic" and then press Enter. For iTunes, I type "itu." Excel is "ex." You get the idea. Usually you can find what you're after with just two or three letters, though occasionally you may have to type a few more.

You see an interesting girl at the bar. Before you approach her, you take a quick snapshot of her with your phone, and -- within seconds -- get automatically connected to her Facebook page to find out her favorite song, or to see if she's even single.

It may sound like something out of a movie, but this sort of online-offline integration is now a reality. A company from the Netherlands has come up with a way to let you wear functioning social Web links on your clothes, and you can take their idea and do it for free. Sound crazy? Keep reading.