The cure to the Internet’s shameless advertising bombardments is here: AdBlock Plus! Even in a tank built on pop-up blockers, anti-virus software (for you Windows folks out there) and spam-a-lot eaters, surfing the Net can still be a volatile journey similar…
That's it, time is up, the malls are closed and you just realized you forgot to grab that sort-of-special someone a gift (I say sort-of-special because, if they were really special you wouldn’t have forgotten them to begin with). No need to worry, all you need is…
Yeah -- it's hard to believe that someone would want another monthly fee, paying 10 bucks for streaming music that they can't even keep. However, people have actually been shelling out $15 for the privilege of Rhapsody. At least those thousands of fans should be happy…
Ready to take your Entourage on the road? Of course, I'm not taking about a group of adoring hangers-on. HBO has just launched HBO Go, a new service allowing HBO shows, movies, miniseries and other content to be viewed from almost any web browser. Sadly,…
VUDU has been around for years. However, it was always one of those companies that we were expecting to go out of business. We have nothing against VUDU. In fact, they are quite awesome. In case you aren't familiar, they stream up a storm of media, all without…
Forget about everything you have ever known about home audio entertainment, the Squeezebox Duet Network Music System is here. If you are a true fan of music you are probably sick of downloading mp3's at a buck a pop and regular old commercial filled FM radio...…
Unless you've been living under or rock (or are desperately hooked on the theory that the world is flat and circled by ship-devouring monsters), you're probably awed again and again by the new views of Earth that technology has afforded us in recent years. From NASA's…
The worst thing about wearing glasses? No, it's not being called "four eyes" -- we're not twelve anymore. It's when your specs get screwed up and you're forced to shell out $150+ for new frames and another $100 for the lenses. Nuts to that. It's these inflated prices…
Converse may be responsible for bringing on this wave -- a couple of years ago they launched a feature on their website that allowed chuck-lovers to pick and choose colors and patterns to create their own unique shoe. Vans followed not long after, and now Nike's come…
We've all got a few friends and family members that haven't quite yet hopped onto the technology train, right? The kind that prefer VHS tapes to those newfangled discs and still transfer the bulk of their communications through the postal service. I've got one uncle…
We ooh'd and ahh'd when Google Maps announced the satellite view on its mapping system back in 2005, and wasted hours flying the world over with Google Earth. Mapping technology has given us a lot in recent years, offering the opportunity to virtually discover the…
Skype is planning a nice gesture for users on May the 13th, Mothers Day. They will be sponsoring a day of free “global calling”, meaning calls within the United States and Canada will be free for the duration of the day. On another note, a stat report…