This Week on Gears and Widgets…
Posted by Alan Henry on August 26th, 2006[ PC Mag’s Top 101 Classic Websites of 2006 ] [ Logitech Starts a Revolution ] [ Website Highlight :: SpeedTest.net ] [ Apple Announces Battery Recall Program ]
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This Week on Gears and Widgets…
Posted by Alan Henry on August 18th, 2006[ Dell Announces Battery Recall Program ] [ Ars Technica Reviews the Mac Pro ]
This Week on Gears and Widgets…
Posted by Alan Henry on August 11th, 2006[ Product Spotlight: The BeerClip! ] [ Apple Previews Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” ] [ Windows XP 15 Minute Tune-Up ] [ Rescuing Files With A Knoppix Boot CD ]
Kevin Rose on the Cover of BusinessWeek!
Posted by Alan Henry on August 9th, 2006According to BusinessWeek, Kevin Rose is worth something like $60 million US. Kevin Rose says in this week’s DiggNation [ http://diggnation.com/ ] that that couldn’t be farther from the truth and that he doesn’t even have the money for a new couch for his new place. Either way, it’s no doubt that Digg is a [...]
This Week at Gears and Widgets…
Posted by Alan Henry on July 29th, 2006[ Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts ] [ Troubleshooting your HDTV ] [ Fake OS X Leopard Screenshot Contest Winners ]
New Lab Rats Website Live!
Posted by Alan Henry on July 22nd, 2006A redesign that came out of the blue, the Lab Rats team have put the finishing touches on their new website and released it to the public. The new site is easier to navigate and definitely focuses on the show’s recent episodes and highlights the show’s sponsors in prominent ads and ad links on the [...]
This Week at Gears and Widgets….
Posted by Alan Henry on July 14th, 2006[ The Worst Products of Q2 2006 ] [ The Plot to Hijack Your Computer ] [ 10 Things to Do With Old PCs ] [ Firefox 2.0 Beta Candidate Released ]
New TWiT Website Live!
Posted by Alan Henry on July 13th, 2006After a good long wait, Leo has finally taken the drapes off of the new http://twit.tv website, powered by Drupal and designed by the fine folks at Lullabot! The new site is definitely a change from the kind of blog-gy nature of the previous site, but it definitely manages to include much much more information [...]
This Week on Gears and Widgets….
Posted by Alan Henry on July 7th, 2006[ Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 ] [ Microsoft Annonces Office 2007 Delay; Announces Test Drive ]
This Week at Gears and Widgets….
Posted by Alan Henry on June 24th, 2006[ 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google ] [ Insecure.org's 2006 Top 100 Network Security Tools ] [ AT&T Rewrites Rules: Your Data Isn't Yours ] [ Cool Download: Ejector ]
Call for Help on Google Video!
Posted by Alan Henry on June 12th, 2006Well, it’s official, Call for Help [ http://www.callforhelptv.com/ ] is going to be launched on Google Video as downloadable content for the low low price of $.99 USD per episode. The CfH Google Video site isn’t up and running yet, and apparently technical difficulties have prevented the show from getting up there today, but Rogers [...]
Cool Download :: Taskbar Shuffle
Posted by Alan Henry on May 11th, 2006Taskbar Shuffle, for Windows XP, is perhaps one of those tools that provides functionality for Windows XP that should have been in the operating system all along; it allows you to drag and drop buttons in the taskbar to reorder them to your liking. Have a specific workflow going, or do you like like having [...]
Google Calendar Launched!
Posted by Alan Henry on April 18th, 2006Last week Google finally released the Google Calendar service to as many people as want to sign up for it. The entire calendar works in Ajax, and has worlds of features to help you stay organized that other services like the Yahoo! Calendar, for example, doesn’t have. Not only can you import calendars from other [...]
Comparing Mapping Services
Posted by Alan Henry on April 18th, 2006TechCrunch posted their roundup of mapping services, from Google Maps to Windows Live Local to Yahoo! Maps to Ask Maps; and they rated the options based on things like the API (the ability for other programmers and fans to build plug-ins and applications that use the engine and data that the mapping service uses), usability [...]
New Video Show // 10
Posted by Alan Henry on March 22nd, 2006Ten [ http://onten.net/ ] is a show created by Microsoft that features ex-G4 personalities Laura Foy and Tina Wood, that you may or may not remember from G4′s “G4tv.com The Show” or whatever the name really was. I hate to admit it, but I was never really a fan; I thought the G4tv.com television show [...]
Cool Download :: SiteAdvisor for Firefox and Internet Explorer
Posted by Alan Henry on March 2nd, 2006In the tradition of getting back to more content than just podcast tracking, we’re going to kick things off by giving you an excellent plugin for both Firefox and Internet Explorer that will help keep you and your data safe on the Internet. The SiteAdvisor plugin lets users know whether they’re looking at an unseemly [...]
New Tech Blog by the TechTV Forever Folks!
Posted by Alan Henry on February 15th, 2006Not getting enough tech in your diet? Well listen up! We’re starting up a new technology blog to cover all topics tech and branch out a bit into more tech news, commentary, product reviews, cool tips and tricks, more websites and awesome applications, and ways to make technology work better for you, or if you [...]
ZDNet Interviews Kevin Rose! Part II
Posted by Alan Henry on February 3rd, 2006Looks like the interview with Kevin over at ZDNet is a multi-parter! Well, part 2 is up now, and Kevin gives the interviewers (and readers) the lowdown on spam and personalization on digg, and the glory of the Digg Spy, which allows you to see a real-time version of what’s being dugg, added, or voted [...]
ZDNet Interviews Kevin Rose!
Posted by Alan Henry on February 2nd, 2006Kevin Rose is certainly making the rounds lately! This week we have an interview with him at ZDNet, discussing the rise of Digg, [ http://digg.com/ ] it’s meteoric success, plans for the future, features and follies, and more. Kevin discusses what’s in store for Digg and the user community behind it, and how he and [...]
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Released!
Posted by Alan Henry on February 1st, 2006A public beta of the new Internet Explorer 7 has finally been released for download, but download with care; some people have reported issues with the new beta. But on the up side, it does encorporate popular features and technologies that make other browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Opera popular, including tabbed browsing, tab groups, [...]
