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Imagine a light bulb that lasts 10 years and consumes only 2-3 watts of power… LED technology has made it possible! These LED replacement bulbs are smaller than standard bulbs and screw into standard light sockets. Perfect for hard-to-reach installations where bulbs are difficult to change. If left on for 12 hours a day for […]
If you’re building a MythTV box and you don’t have enough tuners, here’s a really good deal on PVR-250’s for $80/each… which is a crazy great price for them. Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 TV Tuner Card $80 at AscendTech.us
Plug Forward Express is showing up on Palmgear, it’s new and looks interesting. Save your minutes! Now you can have your calls automatically forwarded to a land line while your Treo™ smartphone is plugged in. Plug Forward Express
Good GOD! My damn Treo just rebooted upon trying to answer a call… what a piece of CRAP!
The new podcasting support in iTunes 4.9 is sweet… just remember to update your ipod as well, otherwise you won’t see a “podcast” catagory on it – it wasn’t clear to me that you had to upgrade both iTunes and the iPod (they’re separate downloads, in separate sections of the website). Now I can finally […]
Ever since Yahoo acquired San Francisco e-mail provider Oddpost last summer, we’ve been anxious to see how it intended to take the Oddpost technology and apply it to Yahoo Mail. The wait is finally over. We got a peek at the new Yahoo Mail today. And the company is announcing tonight the upcoming start of […]
Inconsistencies and a culture of non-standardization pervades TSA screenings — and Audi keys aren’t allowed either Put Down Your Key And No One Will Be Hurt
South Korea’s love for cabbage — the key ingredient in its national dish, kimchi — apparently doesn’t extend to the baseball field. Koreans Nix Cabbage Inside Baseball Caps
This was driving me nuts just today on the freeway: The reason talking on a cell phone makes drivers less safe may be that the brain can’t simultaneously give full attention to both the visual task of driving and the auditory task of listening, a study by a Johns Hopkins University psychologist suggests. Lab findings […]
I’m sitting in my doctor’s waiting room, and there’s free wifi here…. thats very cool. Now, waiting for the doctor is no big deal… sweet! 🙂
This is VERY funny… An actual note written by a Continental Airlines passenger sitting in seat 29E. Complaint from Seat 29E
Married men earn more than bachelors so long as their wives stay at home doing the housework, according to a report Wednesday from Britain’s Institute for Social and Economic Research Married men earn more if wives do the chores?
Man, I never had these many problems with my PPC… Evidentally, you cannot open PDF’s on a Palm device without converting them to a Palm-PDF first – how retarded is that? Support Knowledge Library Solution ID: 32960 ‘Adobe Reader: Failed to receive beamed document,’ then ‘Transfer: Error: Database: corrupt database (0x0209)’ (when receiving a PDF […]
These are pretty funny… REAL INCOMING CALLS AT A PIZZA JOINT
A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem younger to men — about six years younger Grapefruit May Make Women Seem Younger
Looks like the new upgrade has made my Treo650 pretty stable… It hasn’t crashed since the upgrade, and even the bluetooth DUN is flawless now. Its very cool, but now I’m thinking it would be silly to replace it with a PPC PDA phone since it (finally) works as advertised now. I guess I’ll just […]
The new 1.13 firmware for the Unlocked GSM Treo 650 is finally here… yay! Perhaps it will fix the constant rebooting and sound problems. Treo 650 Updater 1.13
Is your agent really working for the enemy? A user’s guide to home economics (and how to beat the expert industry). Cracking the Real Estate Code
Useless Facts
Among Texas cities, Austin made a clean sweep in a new ranking of the country’s cleanest metropolitan areas. Study: Austin one of country’s cleanest cities
Whaaat?! “Li’l Jon in high school. He wasen’t skeeting on anybody.”
Dude! Where’s my Lighsaber?!
What a way to lose a race… oh boy Premature Celebration
Why everyone needs to go to racing school, BEFORE they buy a ferrari: Worst driver ever
The REAL iPod guy is here: iPod Guy
Great video montage of bloopers… Barbie 0wnage
I can’t explain what this is, but its pretty funny… in a very juvenile way. 🙂 Video – Japanese Yelling Man
Two words – Oh YA! A new extension to TiVo’s portable video service will let mobile subscribers watch pre-recorded TV shows on Windows handheld devices. TiVo service now for Windows handhelds
I didn’t know what I thought of this at first, but by the last video I had a smirk on my face: Pirate’s Life
Editor-in-Chief Jørgen Sundgot reviews the hw6515, HP’s first shot in its new vein of iPAQ hw6500 communicator series, featuring an integrated thumbboard, EDGE, Bluetooth and GPS. HP iPAQ hw6515 Review
Austin is the country’s third most “unwired” city, according to a new survey by Intel Corp Austin ranked third most ‘unwired’ city in U.S.
Elsewhere in Texas, San Antonio tied with Houston with drivers experiencing an accident every 7.8 years. Austin drivers have accidents every 7.5 years and Dallas drivers have accidents every 7.2 years. San Antonio among worst cities for car accidents
Here’s a video that shows you how to drive your car when you think its going to flip… 🙂 http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=rally_miracle
Saw the new starwars movie… all I have to say is YAWN At the end, I said “Thats it?!”
Customers whose older iPods had poor battery life will get $50 coupons and extended service warranties under a tentative settlement in a class-action lawsuit. Apple Offers $50 Credit for IPod Batteries
In Make 02 we covered getting Linux on your iPod to do things like play new games, image viewing, recording high quality audio- and now it looks like we’re getting video playback using a modd’ed Podzilla build. I just tried it out the new kernel, but I can’t seem to get the sample video to […]
Most American consumers don’t realize Internet merchants and even traditional retailers sometimes charge different prices to different customers for the same products, according to a new survey. Study: Shoppers Naive About Retail Prices Online
Smoking cessation programmes that use text messaging can double the quit rate in young smokers, according to a clinical trial in New Zealand. Text messages double young smokers’ quit rates
As you may know, you can order an iPod from the Apple Store with a custom, laser-engraved message. Apple has been rejecting some messages for editorial reasons. Think all these messages would make it past Apple’s screening process? Rejected iPod Engravings