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Costco Has A Great Deal On Eneloop Hybrid Rechargeables

If you’re a Costco member, or have a friend who is, I just scored a great deal on Sanyo Eneloop hybrids. You get 8 AAs, 4 AAAs, a charger, and 2 ea. C and D adapters to use an AA battery in an appliance requiring the larger sizes, all in a cool little plastic [...]

Fenix E1 LED Flashlight

Today’s my birthday (None of your business, you young whippersnapper!) and Michele, following our tradition of “useful” gifts and her experience with my well-known love of gadgets that go “blink” in the night, gave me a flashlight. She knew I’d been mourning the ARC AAA “keychain” light I’d given to my daughter a couple of [...]

Smiley Has A Birthday — Emoticons Turn 25 This Week

This week marks an iconic moment in Internet history: the “invention” of the ASCI smiley face, whose descendants have become known as emoticons, by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie-Mellon University.
On Smiley’s 20th birthday, Dr. Fahlman posted some remarks on his site at CMU, including links to the original bboard transactions that led to its birth [...]

Weekly Giveaway

Thanks to Ustream for allowing us to give away one Web cam per week! This week, the drawing was tough…

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Other problems solved, tech revealed, and questions answered from The Chris Pirillo Show:

Console Wars

Round Robin

What are .LOG files?

Word Document Compatibility

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Google Sneaks StarOffice 8 Into Google Pack

In line with its policy of introducing features to its various offerings and then letting people discover them on their own, Google has concluded an agreement with Sun Microsystems to include StarOffice 8 — Sun’s Productivity Suite — with the Google Pack offered by the search mavens as a “one stop solution” to basic computing [...]

inCampus Launches Revolutionary Gateway For Student To Student E-Commerce

inCampus, Inc., a Seattle-based company led by an established group of technology veterans looking to promote social and economic change among college students, announces the launch of a new online marketplace, offering a revolutionary gateway for Student-to-Student commerce. 3,800 universities and community colleges across the nation are represented on inCampus, connecting students who are looking [...]

New Service Might Solve Phone/Email Problem for Some

If you send a lot of text messages, you probably have a text package added to your monthly cell phone bill. Maybe you’ve thought about adding email, but didn’t want the expense of a data package or the hassle of using your phone’s browser. Maybe you’re just married to a phone that’s text-capable, but not [...]

Roadmate 2000 Vehicle Navigation System - $198.00

The 3.5″ full color display is bright and large for easy reading and menu navigation. It also features touch-screen technology for information at the tip of your finger. The large 4GB hard drive on this GPS unit comes preloaded with detailed maps of the United States (excludes Alaska and Hawaii) and data storage is unlimited [...]

David Pogue’s “It’s All Geek To Me” Debuts Friday

The Science Channel debuts “It’s All Geek to Me,” a new weekly series that brings O’Reilly author and The New York Times personal technology columnist David Pogue’s expertise on the world of technology to television. In each half-hour episode, Pogue uses his unique brand of humor to help average consumers unravel the mystery behind complex [...]

Leopard v2.1

The following post was taken from the official Leopard blog.
It’s been about six months since WeatherBug and I became partners in distributing my beginner’s programming language called Leopard as a trial version through their network. During that time, we’ve received some fantastic and encouraging feedback from the users, and over the past few months, work [...]

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