Yahoo's GeoCities, a free web-hosting service and once the Internet's third most visited domain, will be shutting down on Monday, Oct. 26, taking with it thousands of user homepages and decades of data. Fortunately, some historians are making sure GeoCities' content is not lost to the annals of time.

Smart keywords have been around since Firefox 1.0 and are a powerful but overlooked feature of the browser. They practically turn the address bar into a command line, allowing you to quickly access bookmarks and search favorite Web sites.

This early Macintosh Plus, given by Apple to the Star Trek creator, has boldly gone where no Mac had gone before. Now it can be yours -- if the price is right.

We know about the classic hardware and software that Snow Leopard leaves in the dust. But did you know you won't even be able to write to your old disks, either?

In this economy and job market, it pays to be proactive in keeping your professional profile up-to-date. On LinkedIn, this is often taken to mean seeking out recommendations from your supervisors, direct reports, and co-workers. But what good are recommendations if only people you already know can see them?

Star Trek has inspired generations of scientists and engineers. But the nature of science fiction leads us to ask, do sci-fi films get advanced technology right?

Computerworld's video gallery reveals a bounty of modern Easter eggs -- all inspired by a hidden message in a 30-year-old Atari 2600 game.

The cover story on today's Computerworld is "The PC of 2019". It looks at what life will be like a decade hence -- though the technology featured is already in consumers' homes.

The past century was filled with optimistic predictions of how quickly technology would progress. What few glimpses into the future that have proven remarkably accurate came not from IT visionaries, but from advertising firms.

Steve Jobs has backed out of Macworld, much to the dismay of fanboys and analysts. But you don't need Steve Jobs to have a Stevenote. Just look at Macworld '99.

Mac OS X was updated today to 10.5.6. This news means little to those of us who haven't upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. I invite readers to explain why I should fix what isn't broken.

Your iPhone's kill switch doesn't remove undesirable software -- it kills you. Stephen Colbert reports.

It's inevitable that technology progresses faster than IT's budget to keep up with it. But some people don't want to give up their tried-and-true methods. They'd rather stick with what they know than learn the new toy that's swayed everyone else with its bells-and-whistles.

One night only (Thursday, July 24th), the classic film of hacking and global thermonuclear war returns to theaters to ask us once again: Shall we play a game?

Google's driving directions are now complemented with walking ones. If you're accustomed to a variety of perplexing and congested one-way streets and restricted turns that are easier to navigate on foot than on wheels, you can now ignore those motorist restrictions to achieve the quickest, shortest routes.