Google’s latest offering, Google Gears, is making quite the buzz, and deservedly so. Much of the talk is centered around the technology itself. Google Gears is an open sourced framework for creating off-line web applications. Basically, it is a plug-in to web browsers which will allow the sharing and storing of local and remote data. […]

Mozilla is funding Democracy Player to the tune of $100,000. This is a nice boost for the open source streaming media player.
Democracy Player, soon to be “Miro”, is a media player with many uses. It plays many file types, allows you to subscribe to an play video blog and podcasts, supports downloading and storing videos […]

It didn’t take long for the new Street View feature of Google Maps to cause a stir. A user at Boing-Boing has posted that she managed to find her apartment. In fact, if provides a rather clear look into her window, and shows her cat minding its own business. She mentions that she is concerned […]

Information on the Palm Foleo, dubbed a “Smartphone companion” is coming out. The Palm Foleo is a product that appears to be aimed at people interested in a device that falls somewhere between a Palmtop and a Laptop. It offers a “full sized keyboard” and a large screen while keeping the size and weight down. […]

Google Maps has released the new “Street View” feature to the wild. With this, you can access a street level view of certain areas within the US. Apparently the Silicon Valley, Las Vegas, Miami, Denver and New York are available with this new feature. It appears to be a series of still images that are […]

FireUploader is a Firefox add-on that can make managing uploads to certain accounts much easier. It works similar to many FTP applications, but does so within Firefox. It is compatible with many popular file hosting services such as Flickr, Picasa, Box.net, and YouTube. Since you can browse your own computer and queue up a bunch […]

There are plenty of sites on the Internet that will provide their services to help you find the right product to fit your needs. Let us see how the PMC Telecom web site can do at helping me find a Cordless Phone.
The Cordless Phone section of their site greets you with a list of choices, […]

As mentioned in the Firefox security related post, there is an expected update for Firefox this Wednesday May 30, 2007. The update fixes numerous bugs, as well as addressing security issues including an issue where a non-secure connection could fool Firefox into displaying it like a secured SSL connection complete with gold address bar and […]

Microsoft has managed to sell 1 million Zune media players. Microsoft had announced at the end of last year that they expected to ship more than 1 million of the Zune players by the end of June of 2007. This recent announcement puts them ahead of their projections by a month. Apparently, the Zune now […]

More details about the $99 PC from Zonbu are emerging. This budget computer from Zonbu is quite small, as the picture illustrates. The base unit comes with a 1.2GHz Via C7 CPU(They are still around?), integrated graphics chip, and 512MB RAM. The storage is a frugal 4GB on a compact flash card, as there is […]