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WALL•E is available: can cause cancer or birth defects, FTW?

Disney has put a fully featured remote controlled WALL•E up for pre-orders today. This is definitely something I would LOVE to get, since it does contain some cool AI functions. You can tell it to follow you, or to go explore - and he will do just that ...

Posting from an iPhone via WordPress App

Hey, this app may make blogging fun again ;) If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, get yourself a free WordPress app and start blogging from your cell with style ;)

GateKeeper Card Pro - Security Mini-Computer!

Couple of hours ago, after a two and a half month wait, I finally received the GateKeeper Card Pro from Yoggie. Some of you may have heard about it when Engadget mentioned it on April 23rd. That's actually the first time I found out about it - and the good guys ...

ClickaPost.com goes public beta! Check it out!

A couple of months ago I invited a bunch of people for an internal beta test of a new project I created for my clients called ClickaPost. Today I am proud to invite many more of you to our first Public Beta. Don't let the "beta" in the name ...

Forget jumper cables, get Porta-Jump now for $20 bucks!

Ladies, this one is for you. Leave the messy and usually greasy jumper cables to the guys and be always safe knowing your car will start even if your car battery is not up to it's fullest. After all, who really changes the car battery at recommended intervals, right? ...

Tired of the same old wallpaper? Get Desktoptopia - FREE!

Before I sold my MacBook Pro I had one app over there which was off the hook. It's called Desktoptopia and it does what it's name says, it creates a Desktop Utopia for you by providing you with the best, high quality wallpapers you have ever seen. What's ...

The World’s Fastest SATA Hard Disk: Meet WD’s VelociRaptor

This is not really "latest news" right now, since the drive came out about a month ago, but it's definitely something you Need to Know if you are going to be buying any hard drives soon. Western Digital has finally "retired" their Raptor hard drive by introducing the new ...

StarTrek Enterprise NCC-1701 Bottle Opener

I do not know why did I think the new StarTrek movie is coming out this year? Did they move the release date? Grrr.... I was really convinced it was this July, but as it turns out its release date is May 2009! I guess I will just have ...

Pretty Hard Drives, look like a real book

Western Digital's MyBook hard drives were always nice. They look simple and pretty, and I suppose they do resemble a plain old black book if you turn on your imagination. Sarotech on the other hand went even further with their new 3.5" HDD Enclosures: I must admit, they ...

Access and browse the iPhone’s File System from Windows

iTunes sync sure works well, but sometimes you might wish to simply get the files out of your phone, or maybe to play around and see what's really there. Meet the iPhoneBrowser: It even has a built in Backup feature. If you're on a Mac and wish to ...

Wish you had an SSD Hard Drive but don’t have the dough?

Yeah, me too! Now, though, we have another option than spending $1000 bucks for this; meet the Sans Digital's CS1T and CR2T devices which turn CF (Compact Flash) cards, into 2.5" HDD enclosures perfect for your laptop. CS1T is single-card enclosure, while it's brother CR2T is a dual card ...

Dell entering the low-cost small-pc arena… Looking good!

Couple of weeks ago I wrote about the best low-cost small PC's of 2008, and now we have a new boy in town. Dell's Mini Inspiron: Unlike some of the mini PC's out there, which look cheap, Dell decided to compete with likes of HP2133 and ...

Samsung goes Symbian with their latest cellphone! Finally!

I have always loved Samsung cellphones but one thing that I missed was expandability. All of them come with simple operating system (like most of the phones out there), and you can do on it pretty much same thing over and over again. Personally, I like phones on which ...

Sandisk Extreme III Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo @ 30MB/s

Yes, that's 30MBytes / second - perfect for all of your HD video recording. While slower cards can still offer adequate recording speeds for your HD camcorder, having memory that can go this fast can't hurt either. I personally cannot wait to get it. It will ...

Long time no see

Hi all, I know I haven't been around for some time but worry not, starting tomorrow I will be posting on the blog more often. There's so much stuff we all Need to Know, but there's just been so little time ;) I also got a bunch ...

2008 - The Year of Mini PC - Which one of these will you get?

Starting with announcements last year, and first version of EEE PC's and OLPC's hitting the market, the world of under-powered Sub-Notebook mobile PC's is getting quite a stir. A lot of people are in the market for getting one, but the choice has now become really hard. Here's the current line up ...

Mark your calendars: Feb 20, 2008 - Lunar Eclipse

On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse—the last one until Dec. 2010. The Sun goes down. The Moon comes up. You go out and look at the sky. Observing ...

Happy Valentines Day Everyone :)

Love you, mean it :) Click for a nice image of the Heart Nebula :) Via: Discover the Cosmos...

New YouTube: Ads are now in videos!

As I reported earlier on 21 minute downtime YouTube experienced, one of the first things I noticed was the new Heart logo. This is of course subject to change after tomorrow but after looking further more, here's a new add-on - ADS IN VIDEOS! This was bound to ...

Server is recovering …

For some odd reason our server experienced a major heart-attack an hour ago. It's slowly recovering so please forgive the snail-speed experience! ;) Thanks for your understanding. Doctor says it'll live so no worries, OK? :) Peconi...