Here’s your chance to place yourself in Robert Langdon’s shoes and get to win cool prizes to boot! Google has announced the Da Vinci Code Quest, where players embark on a “thrilling murder investigation” that involves solving daily puzzles. Prizes at stake include trips to select US and European destinations (NY, Paris, London), LCD TVs, […]

Apple has refurbished MacBookPros in their online store, costing anywhere between $1,699 and $2,399.

BitTorrent is probably the most reasonable method out there for delivering podcasts. With as popular as some are, it would really help lighten the server load. I don’t think there are any immediate plans by Apple to add support to iTunes, so say hello to iTorrent.
iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It […]

I think the forthcoming release of Apple’s MacBook line of notebooks (the revamped iBook) have generated more buzz and empty rumors that the Video iPod. First they were going to be released at the special media event back in February, then it was on or around April 1st, the company’s 30th Anniversary.
There have also been […]

An electrical engineer working for Cisco endures a 7-hour daily commute from his residence to Cisco’s headquarters and back.
With his family still sleeping, [Dave] Givens heads out the door at around 4:30 a.m. from a horse ranch at the edge of the astonishing Yosemite National Park. On a good day, he can make the 186-mile […]

Research and Analysis firm Gartner claims that MacIntel Windows XP users should be safe from virus attacks.
“All users should ignore any hype about the possibility of exposing the Mac OS to more viruses or worms. The Mac software will be located on another partition within a different file system; thus, running Windows on a Mac […]

An apparently delusional man in his 30’s dragged police into a 55-minute real-life car chase, believing he could successfully outrun them, as he had done several times playing Grand Theft Auto. What’s really bad is during the police’s pursuit, parole evader Tyrone McMillan had his girlfriend’s 11-year old daughter and 10-year old niece in the […]

Mozilla have just updated their very popular browser, mostly for Mac Intel users which will now enjoy native support by the fiery fox. Here is the change list:

Universal Binary support for Mac OS X which provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors. Firefox supports the enhancements to performance introduced by the new […]

Some people just think of everything! Just when you thought you’ve seen pretty much everything there is to see with USB flash drives, here comes the Flashbag! Remember how pissed off you get when you try to copy files into your USB drive, but suddenly get a “disk full” error message? Well, the Flashbag aims […]

Here’s something for WordPress afficionadoes (I’m one): WordPress Widgets. It’s one of those plugins that will hopefully make life easier, in terms of designing and tweaking your blog (or website that uses WP as content management system).
WP Widgets basically allows users to rearrange sidebar elements and content without having to manually change any code on […]

I have 370 GB of storage in my computer between two hard drives. It took me a long time to get to this point, and up to a year ago, the biggest hard drive I owned was 80 gigs.
Well, now TDK is working on a Blu-ray disc that will back up my hard drive […]

Not surprisingly organic LED’s are slowly starting to take off and they are saving some pretty decent power. I really can’t wait until some of the technology I have been reading about for over two years really gets into the home. It is a step closer for the replacement of the lightbulb though with Organic […]

If you download a pirate copy of Windows Vista you might not be able to use Aero graphics. But wait, there is more. If you don’t have enough video memory or RAM, you also won’t be able to run Aero, oh, and if you decided to purchase Windows Vista Home Basic, you won’t even have […]

Google launched a beta of its long-rumored Calendar tonight.
With Google Calendar, you can see your friends’ and family’s schedules right next to your own; quickly add events mentioned in Gmail conversations or saved in other calendar applications; and add other interesting events that you find online.

Samsung has once again surprised everyone by announcing the first cellphone in which you can view television and play 3D games.
The 3D acelerator supports games with up to 3 million polygons (of course, this number becomes greatly reduced once you start adding textures, light/shadow effects and other things to it). If you want an idea […]

Google is sitting on a pile of cash while Yahoo! buys anything with Web 2.0 after its name. What are they doing and what will they be doing? CNN takes a guess.
As such, Bill Tancer, general manager of global research with Hitwise, an Internet research firm, thinks Google needs to make more deals in social […]