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Re(al)view: Gogo Inflight's Friendly Skies WiFi

This post comes to you from 35,000 feet. Yup, we're surfing the web from seat 38H on American Airlines flight from San Francisco to New York. After a week away visiting the family we boarded our jumb...

Dial My Calls: Properly Used or Abused at Holidays?

We can see the need for a service like Dial My Calls. It's a free online application that lets you record a message and automatically dial out and play the message to up to 25 people. A great tool for...

Can Social Networks Predict Elections?

We know we're supposed to cover the technology in your home, but this one's more about a different type of "home" in technology: Social Networking sites. We're not citing any research paper or anythin...

New Software Lets You Calculate Carbon Footprint Via Phone

There's been a lot of talk about carbon footprints, but who the heck has time to calculate their own? Sure we all know we contribute, but we're not about to plug in how many miles we drove this week ...

What Features are Must-Haves on Your Phone?

We've got a friend who, after two or three cell phone changes in the past month, still isn't happy with his cell phone. His old phone (which he had for several years, you should know) was working for ...

Survey: How Do You Plan to Tune into Tonight's Debate

Well, even though John McCain tried to delay the inevitable, tonight's first presidential debate is really happening. While many of you may be heading to your local bar for a debate party or hosting ...

Blogging Esquire: Actually, the Magazine Cover Itself

75 years of Esquire and how do they celebrate? With technology of course. We noted this special edition cover before, but the worlds first e-ink magazine cover is now out in the wild. Well, not the e...

Final Frame: Andy Rementer's Techno Tuesday

A weekly comic about technology from Andy Rementer....

Roundup: Ten Coolest and Weirdest Corded Phones

Sure, if you're really tech savvy you no longer have a landline. Instead you use either your mobile or Skype to chat voice-to-voice. But some of us still talk old school style, and even further, some...

Vi-Fi is Gaining Ground, How Many Wrecks Will Result?

We can't see any practical and legal uses for having a Wi-Fi signal in your car on the highway. There's no reason to be looking at a screen (GPS, over a satellite signal, would be the exception here)....

Open Peak: Not Just a Home Phone

While the two phones on the right hand side are nothing new, we were intrigued by the big screen on the left. Is it a tablet PC? A digital picture frame? A remote control? Turns out the Open Peak is a...

Survey: Webmail or POPmail?

Since Tuesday we've been dealing with internet issues -- meaning we have none. By sitting just so in a corner of our apartment we've been hijacking someone else's WiFi, but that's no way to live. Spe...

Wood + Mobility = Maple Phone

Add this to the wooden electonics list. Not only is this cell phone made of wood, it is a sliding cell phone made of wood. ...

Belkin GoStudio: For Podcasters On The Run

With 3 mic inputs, two internal omnidirectional stereo microphones, and tons of volume level controls, the Belkin GoStudio should serve quite well for garage bands or podcasters constantly on the move...

The Evolution of the Mobile Signature

Do you use an email signature? Your know, that automatically attached list of info at the bottom of your sent emails. Name, phone number, job title, etc, etc. These are usually very formal no? While t...

Go Green: New D-Link Routers Are Safe From Hazardous Materials

While their new LCD menuses are one of the things that we enjoy most about D-Link's new line of eco-friendly routers, the fact that they're made from recycled materials that can be disposed of properl...

Spam Subject Lines Move from Genitalia to Celebrities -- Analyzing Today's Spam

Spam drives us nuts. Yes, we know Gmail's spam filter is amazing, but we really like getting POPmail in our Mail program. It helps us organize the million and one communicados we get daily into a mil...

WokFi: DIY Wireless Extender Antenna

If you depend on the kindness/obliviousness of strangers with open WiFi networks, this little DIY project is for you. Follow these directions to fashion a WiFi signal booster by combining a cheap USB...

iPhone App Store

Here's one from our man Taylor. We've all known the joy of test-driving new system software, but Apple's iPhone 2.0 software update takes it to a new level. Although we love the variety of applica...

Nagsourcing: Chorebuster.net

Here's Taylor again with a tip on how to get your lazy roommates to chip in. Passive-aggressive neat freaks, pack up your Post-it notes. Chore Buster is attempting to deliver home-task distribution ...

Samsung Releases Phone Made of Bioplastic

Man, why does Asia always get all the rad phones? Maybe we can get Range to buy us Samsung's new line of "Eco-Phones"? The W510, only available in Korea, is the first phone made using corn-based biop...

Momofuku Ko: Table for 2? Get Online

That's right, get online not in line. While the restaurant in question, Momofuku in NYC, doesn't try to stand out as a high tech restaurant in the sense of being filled with touch screen tables or rob...

Kage Roi: Hi Tech Table that Googles for You

When I have been involved in brainstorming sessions at the office....or a heated discussion anywhere near a computer for that matter, Googling something is inevitable. Whether is to prove someone wron...

Netgear: We're Open Source and We Want You To Know

Although Linksys Linux-based Tomato and DD-WRT firmwares (used to give routers speaker powers for speed monitoring, traffic controls, and tons of other options) have been around for a while now, Netge...