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Internet More Dangerous than School Violence, Sexually Transmitted Diseases for Children: survey

If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!A new survey from the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, The National Poll on Children’s Health, has found that US parents rate Internet Safety as being a more serious health threat to children than school violence, sexually [...]

Carrie Underwood sets iTunes record

Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: iTS
The question of Sanjaya’s hair-styles aside, American Idol is a music phenomenon. Carrie Underwood’s American Idol Gives Back recording of “I’ll Stand by You” just became the first iTunes-exclusive track to debut in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 10 according to Country Standard Time.
“I’ll Stand By You” is set [...]

Google Testing New Search Results Layout?

A tip in today pointing to Beyond Teck, a site that claims to have a screen shot of a new layout for Google’s search results page.
I can’t confirm the veracity of the screen shot, if it’s photoshopped then it’s a very good effort.
The screen shot purports to show Google testing a new layout for their [...]

AC to USB Power Adapter

With the predominance of USB goodies these days it’s almost becoming critical to be within arms reach of a USB port at all times. This handy AC to USB power adapter provides a valuable service by spreading USB ports to other areas of your home or office. Simply plug this handy adapter into any standard [...]

TwitBin: Inline Firefox Twittering

Twitter Users are currently given two primary interfaces through which they can interact with the growingly popular service: by the Twitter website itself or through TXT messaging via mobile phone.
A number of companies have launched third party tools to enhance computer based Twitter interaction. Twitterrific has a strong fan base amongst Mac Users, Twitteroo a [...]

Will Powerset Have PowerGrowth?

Any serious Internet startup tries to guess early growth rates so that they have enough hardware to scale (hopefully the software hangs in there, too). Stealth search engine Powerset (see our earlier coverage) is being very transparent about their modelling, and have posted some of their thinking on their company blog.
Steve Newcomb, co-founder and COO, [...]

Orange Launches Netvibes/Pageflakes Competitor

Everyone else has one, so why not one more? Orange, a massive European mobile phone carrier that is now a subsidiary of France Télécom, is beta testing a customizable Ajax homepage product called Bubbletop.
The team building this is actually based near San Francisco, and also created the Pikeo photo sharing product. For some reason, [...]

SimpleMovieX: QuickTime Pro replacement

Filed under: Software, Video

As should be clear from our many posts about it, QuickTime Pro offers some pretty nice basic editing features for $30. Nonetheless, you might think there is room for another low-end video editing application for the Mac, precisely because QuickTime Pro is so centered around the MOV container and Apple favored codecs [...]

Reinventing the graphic novel–for iPod

Filed under: iPod Family
Playlist magazine tells us that the graphic novel is being reinvented for the iPod. The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore combines live action video with computer animation and other media. Due to be released this summer, it brings the “graphic novel” to a new place.
“Jonas Moore” still has the traditional comic [...]

Bluetooth Handsfree with OLED Display

We have to admit that one of our major annoyances while driving is that person who always ends up in front of our car, doing half the speed limit with neck slightly tilted gabbing on a cell phone. This can be an incredibly frustrating thing to encounter and, lest we forget, very dangerous.

We feel confident [...]