July 2007

Why You Shouldn’t Have a Cell Phone? Nevermind, it’s Link Bait.

In a really good example of link baiting and just pure filler material, one of the bloggers at Wired wrote an article entitled “Ten Reasons To Throw Away Your Cellphone.” Well, people certainly bit, to the tune of about 100 comments so far, and it’s only day 1 of this article. Well, I’ll bite a [...]

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Help Yourself … Using the Web: The Top Websites

In the spirit of self-help movement, and with the (great) help of the Web, you no longer have to depend on somone else to figure something out, solve a problem, or learn something new. In this article, we cover some of the various sites that exist now to assist you. These sites vary in their [...]

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The FootFlush – Handfree Toilet Flusher

So I’m not sure how much this is really going to significantly reduce the germs that you pick up from the flush handle on a toilet, particularly a reasonably clean home bathroom, but here it is: the FootFlush. A relatively inexpensive gadget that is easy to hook up to your toilet, the FootFlush, comes in [...]

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Why I Picked the Sansa e280 As My Latest MP3 Player

This story starts off with bad news: I left my 2GB iPod Nano on a plane recently. Don’t worry, I’m not too torn up about it since I got it as an office Christmas gift. Now I need to find me a new portable audio player of some sort, because I’m not about to go [...]

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Archos 704 80 GB WiFi Portable Digital Media Player

Archos has just gone one up in the PMP game, with the 704 Wifi. The 704 is a wide-screened high-res 800×480 7″ TFT LCD touch screen with WiFi so you can surf the Net wherever you go. Applications include the usual slew of multimedia apps, but also include a Web browser and e-mail apps. The [...]

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Vulnerability Found in iPhone

(At last), some security researchers have found a vulnerability in the iPhone. Why do I say “at last”? Because it was inevitable, for a number of factors: 1. this is a computer and 2. there is so much hype around this product that there was sure to be lots of hackers (good and bad) looking [...]

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Heroes Video Game in the Works

Video game maker, Ubisoft, has landed the rights to make a video game based on the popular TV show, Heroes. It will be a 3rd-person superhero game. But don’t hold your breath: you probably won’t see this game until Christmas 2008. The good news is that apparently the show’s creators have been thinking about how [...]

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Xbox Down, Wii Up

In an attempt to bolster poor sales on the Xbox 360 DVD player add-on, Microsoft has cut the price from $199 to $179 and will include 5 free movies if you’re a buyer in Aug or Sept. On the flip side is the Nintendo Wii which has helped to quadruple, yes 4 times, Nintendo’s profits [...]

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Mountable Biometric Safe

I’ve always wanted a Biometric Safe mounted in my home for my bearer bonds, loads of diamonds and secret paperwork I don’t want anyone else to read… you know, like in the James Bond flicks. Now, for only $139.99 from Smarthome I can feel just like James Bond or actually more of like one of [...]

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Slingbox and PCTV To Go in China

Having already reviewed the PCTV To Go and Slingbox a while back, I decided to revisit the technology during my stay in China. I’m staying at a decently nice hotel with plug-in high speed Internet access so I thought watching TV from Atlanta in China would be a piece of cake. After all, in our [...]

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