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MacBook + Truck = Bad

March 26th, 2009

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Flickr user, Jase n tonic, has a friend who recently had a run-in with a truck. The guy’s O.K., thankfully, but his MacBook Pro didn’t fare so well: His bike was also a victim of the carnage, but who cares about that? Ever have one of your laptops get destroyed? Tell us about it in […]

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Backing Up Your Data; The Where, Why, and How

March 20th, 2009

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iPhone OS 3.0: New Apps

March 17th, 2009

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During Apple’s presentation of the new iPhone OS, they had several developers come up and demonstrate some apps they made using the new APIs and features (which you can read about here). Meebo: They’ve avoided making an iPhone app because they felt it needed push notification. Meebo will connect to various social networks and do […]

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Boxee Remote for iPhone/iPod Touch

March 16th, 2009

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The good people behind Boxee, the free, cross-platform media center, have developed an app for controlling their popular application. However, it had previously only been available to jailbroken devices because Apple was taking forever to approve it. Well, the wait is over. Apple released it to the masses yesterday. I downloaded the Mac version of […]

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Defunct Websites & Dot-Com Disasters

March 14th, 2009

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In the world of mega websites with stupid names like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, it’s easy to forget that there was once a time when these ultra popular staples of an Internet generation didn’t exist. Before torrents, before MySpace, and long before an iPhone, you could still get your free music, catch some free flicks […]

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