Lego Speakers (and More) for Your iPod

If you want to dress up your iPod, you might want to consider one of the hottest technology gifts out there this season. It is an itty-bitty desktop speaker that works with your iPod Classic, Nano and Mini. The speakers resemble Lego blocks and come in all sorts of bright colors, such as yellow, pink, green, white, blue and black, There is even a new speaker that is a bit large and resembles a stack of blocks in red, white and blue. The super compact little stereo is said to have great sound for its size; the speaker was even … Continue reading →

Kodak Digital Picture Frame

Digital picture frames are one of the hot gifts this season. They seem to be on everyone’s wish list and in every store, from Sears to high-end electronic stores. Target even featured one in its Black Friday sale. With a digital picture frame, you can upload your digital photos to display one at a time or in a slide show. There are many different options out there. You can find digital photo frames that do the above mentioned photo slide shows, as well as ones that feature movie clips and/or have multiple screens. Prices can range from $50 to more … Continue reading →

Onion-Powered iPod

Out in the world without a power outlet but you still have a burning desire to listen to some tunes? Not to worry, you can charge your iPod up with onion power! YouTube recently had a video posting that shows a user who charged his iPod with an onion. He used a screwdriver to poke a hole in a white onion. Then he submerged the onion in 2 cups of a gatorade power drink (I assume that almost any energy drink might work as well). After 30 minutes have gone by, half of the gatorade is absorbed by the onion. … Continue reading →

Netflix Offers $1 Million Prize

What happens when the number one DVD rental company isn’t happy with being twice as popular? The company decides to sponsor a contest for improvment. The movie rental virtual store Netflk uses a complicated system of algorithms and other software coding to offer recommendations of new movies to its customers, based on preferences and what those customers have rented in the past. But Netfliks wants to gain even more market share by improving upon that system, and the DVD giant is offering a $1 million prize to anyone who could improve upon that system by at least 10 percent. Thousands … Continue reading →

Holiday Music on the Web

What if you could have an endless supply of great holiday music all day long without once ever having to change a CD or cue up a playlist? Thanks to the Internet, you can! There are several websites that stream in music to fill your home with the festivities of the season. I have to confess that I have been playing Christmas music here in our home since this past weekend. But it really isn’t all of my fault. I blame it all on my friend, Laura, who told me about this favorite website called AccuRadio. And right now, AccuRadio … Continue reading →

The Phantom Phone Phenomena

Have you ever been somewhere when you cell phone vibrated for an important call. You reach down to you hip to answer the call, or at least to check who is calling, only to find out that you aren’t actually wearing your phone? That you left your phone back at home, or on the dresser, or in the car. And the phone was never even ringing. If something like this has happened to you, well you are in the majority of cell phone users. It seems that our brains have adapted quite nicely to that blackberry, to the point where … Continue reading →

Apple and Starbucks

In a promotion to celebrate the deal made between Apple and Starbucks, the coffee chain will be giving away 50 million tunes to its customers in its more than 10,000 stores across the country. Beginning on October 2nd, Starbucks will hand out “song of the day” cards that can be redeemed at Apple’s iTunes online store. Featured artists for these songs include Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney, Dave Matthews, Band of Horses and Annie Lennox and Bob Dylan. Starbucks will also begin selling cards that feature entire albums with bonus material, and again, these cards are redeemable at the iTunes store. … Continue reading →

E-Mail Crisis! What to Do When…

We have all been there. The time that you inadvertently sent an e-mail that you shouldn’t have sent. Misdirected e-mail is even a common subject matter for sitcoms and movies. But sometimes the consequences aren’t so funny. For instance, what if you sent out an e-mail to your boss that was full of typos or incorrect information? Or instead of forwarding a message asking advice about a demanding friend, you hit the reply button and sent your thoughts or discouraging remarks right back to the person you were complaining about? Maybe you sent someone an attachment that had personal information, … Continue reading →

Buying a Digital Camera: Resolution Explained

If you are shopping for a new digital camera, no doubt that you are looking at resolution and megapixels. But what does it all mean? Here is a thorough guide to this important digital camera feature. What are megapixels? The megapixel count of a digital camera has to do with the resolution capability of the camera, or in other words, how sharp and clear your photos will be. Each image is made up of megapixels. Think of a modern artist who makes up his masterpieces using only colored dots. The more (and smaller) dots he uses, the sharper and more … Continue reading →

The New iPods

Rumor has it that the iPod is in for the next revolution on the Apple agenda. Reports are coming in about a possible special media event to be held by Apple sometime in September. During that event, industry analysts predict that four new Apple iPods will be introduced, each based on the successful Mac OS X operating systems. Four new iPods models are predicted, each with NAND Flash. The iPods should be available in two distinct types: one type featuring the traditional click wheel, and another featuring a touch screen, much like the new Apple iPhone, but dubbed the iPod … Continue reading →