1955: Microsoft co-founder and longtime CEO Bill Gates is born. Happy 55th Birthday, Bill!

Gates is no stranger to these pages, so we honor his birthday with a summary of our more-or-less recent

Netflix and Hulu make great alternatives to cable TV. The downside: You’ve got to tether a computer to your TV with some kind of cable.

Fortunately, if you’re getting tired of the cord snaking from your laptop to your entertainment center, there’s an alphabet soup of technologies angling to help you out.

Not so fortunately,