You've just read about a massive earthquake killing 2,000 people in country XYZ. Don't fret! You've just gone gold and here's a nice little colorful icon to reward your interest in human tragedy.

American Idiot by Green Day -- a brilliant modern day rock opera -- sounded magnificent. After listening to the album so many times using in-ear headphones, and also with my trusty Sony MDR-V6 phones, I was surprised at how much more nuance I could pick up in the mix.

Discretionary spend is an important thought here as well. Does anyone really - I mean, really - need a tablet? Of course not. Ultimately, It's a luxury good.

The H2n will be available September 2011 for $199.

With this one you may also have to get used to people saying to you, "I've never heard of the AViiQ tablet before! Oh, and it runs Apple apps too!"

Remember the World Wide Web era when Internet Explorer was the only game in town? It was a grey web. Bleak, boring, bland. Then along came Mozilla, Firefox, Chrome, Safari...

It's an interesting move. Here we have Amazon reportedly building a tablet that will run Android. Meanwhile Google is making a big move into the e-Reader space, which will potentially cut into Amazon's sales. Can you say co-opetition?

At this point I was fully expecting to be plunking down a few thousand for an i7 iMac. Instead I'll be speccing out a DIY Intel i7 build that will run Adobe CS5.5 on Windows 7.

I'll leave it up to you if you're an aluminum showboat or a scratch avoider.

Us Android users will feel right at home with the new capability.