I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t really keep up on Mac product releases and cycles (or Mac rumors) — and I’m betting there are a few FGsters like me. Thus, why I think the MacRumors Buyer’s Guide is pretty bookmark-worthy. The guide maps the days since update for each model [...]

Microsoft is so excited about the release of the XBox 360, and its premiere at E3, it is giving away an Xbox 360 system and 3 games: Kameo: Elements of Power, Perfect Dark Zero, and Project Gotham Racing 3.
You have to register as a member at the Xbox.com site, and the contest is only open [...]

Well, on some of their pages at least. Flickr is no longer using Flash to show photos and notes. They have switched to using DHTML instead.
We’ll we’ve gone and done it. In answer to countless requests, photo pages no longer use a Macromedia Flash wrapper to display photos; instead we are using an old technology [...]

The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times. Their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. Folklorists say it’s probably the most widespread superstition in the United States: some people won’t go [...]

Ars is reporting that AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is going to fix the Dashboard problems in their next update. Surprised to see they even got in there in the first place, but I am glad to see Apple acting so quickly even though the “patch” should be out NOW to prevent anyone else from [...]

Matt thinks that Google has a wider search box now, but I am not quite sure since I use Firefox’s search bar. Can anyone confirm?
If they do I don’t think it’s a usability issue, but a way to add more tabs in the future without looking like they are crowding things up.

According to this article at C|NET, IBM is encouraging all of its employees to use Firefox as their default browser.
IBM is encouraging its employees to use Firefox, aiding the open-source Web browser’s quest to chip away at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Firefox is already used by about 10 percent of IBM’s staff, or about 30,000 people. Starting [...]

NetNewsWire is finally out of beta, although the beta relesases had been practically trouble free for me.
If you are using an Apple, this seems to have become the defacto RSS application for many people, including me. The differences between 1.8 and 2.0 are tabbed browser windows, standard Apple-like searching, and Bloglines syncing.
NNW 2.0 also handles [...]

In the 6 months since it was first released out of beta, Mozilla’s Firefox browser has easily become one of the most popular open source projects in existence. It has also shaken up the browser industry, claiming roughly 8% of the market share and chipping away at Internet Explorer’s dominance.
Most people are content with installing [...]

Cool kit from Discovery that lets you play with real DNA

Just from the name of this product, you probably think that it is associated with Flickr. Wrong. But what is the deal with spelling stuff like that these days? Anyway…
Talkr provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. If you can point us to an [...]

Yes they have finally decided to give us a release date!
According to Tetsuya Nomura, all the rendering is finished and the only part that’s missing is the audio and finally the synching.
‘Nuff said already, it will hit Japan’s store on the 9/14/2005 for 4800yen. So put that date on your calendar, because 1 or 2 [...]

According to an article found at nature.com, a team of scientists at Cornell University (located in Ithica New York) have produced self replicating robots.
The robots are made of 4 10-cm cubes which can rotate against each other. They are preprogrammed to replicate and do so by placing their uppermost cube on the ground. They then [...]

Two years ago when Apple announced they would start development on their own browser they decided to go with the KHTML engine inside of KDE instead of Gecko by the Mozilla Foundation. The move sent minor shockwaves throughout the Open Source community because Mozilla was, and still is, the big daddy on the web browser [...]

Automatically installing spyware in Safari? Say it ain’t so, Steve!

Yahoo has launched its own music service, undercutting other online music stores by offering unlimited monthly downloads for only $4.99 per month.
And now, an interview with the Yahoo! Music FAQ Page.
What does this subscription get me?
Yahoo! Music Unlimited is a subscription service that gives you access to over 1 million songs for as little as [...]