Most smartphones don’t ship with an in-call voice recorder. This is because recording a private conversation over the phone without the consent of those involved is often illegal. It still sucks that most phones don’t come with a ...
Alexander Graham Bell is famous for inventing the telephone. There has long been a debate about who actually created the first telephone, but that’s not what we’re here to discuss today. On April 15, 1885 in the American inventor’...
One of the worst things about working from a laptop, especially one that’s much older, is that you don’t have much juice to stay portable. In fact, at the rate you’re always plugging a laptop into an outlet and recharging the batt...
I’ve mentioned before that my main desktop is connected to my living room TV for streaming media. Clearly, I’m a huge geek but that still doesn’t change the fact that I’ve done something rather unconventional. Not many people use ...
F.lux is a remarkable app that adjusts screen brightness according to the current time in your area. In fact, there are a few apps out there that do the same, and for good reason too. When you stop to think about it, there are oth...
I’ll be perfectly honest with you. I’m an extraordinarily creative person, so I love making things, and that includes writing and drawing. I write all the time, but I don’t draw consistently enough to hone my skills, so I’m not as...
A new rumor is floating around that Amazon is working on its own branded set-top box. Unlike the Google TV platform, which is available through various manufacturers like the Android OS, Amazon’s box will probably be proprietary. ...
What do you do when you have lots of money to waste? Why, you spend it on a $6,650 toilet to be exact! That’s the price tag for the Kohler Numi Comfort toilet seat, which includes quite an extensive list of advanced features and o...
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Tablets are the future. While they may not be the perfect tool to replace a desktop, at least not yet, there are some pretty remarkable things they can do. For example, one of the cooles...
Sticky notes are absolutely phenomenal. Why? Well, because you can write short little messages and memos on them to serve as a reminder for later. Then you can stick them to a surface, or appliance –like the refrigerator- to make ...
One of the worst things that can occur while browsing the internet is that you realize your favorite site is down, or worse that your own domain is down. Well, no maybe that’s not right there are worse things that can happen, but ...
Just as a precautionary warning, this report includes some pretty sensitive material. Weird sexual fetishes exist, and there’s unquestionably no way around that fact. I’m not going to talk about a lot of them because some are pret...
Even though the whole ordeal is over, and Boston is slowly picking up the pieces after the Boston Marathon bombing, lots of people want to know why this happened. Another relevant question is how the two suspects evaded law enforc...
The internet is an extremely dangerous place, even for adults. At any given moment, we can have our sensitive information stolen, run into a phishing scam, catch a virus and come across the occasional site that advocates pornogra...
Every once in a while it’s fun to cover an application that’s not entirely useful in the general scheme of things, but that just adds a bit of entertainment. That being said, I love unlocking achievements. Some would call the addi...
