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Macally gives power to the iPhone and iPod

Macally gives power to the iPhone and iPod: “Today Macally announce three new gadgets for iPods and iPhones which extend the device’s battery life and maybe add a few cool features as well: the PowerLink, PowerPal and JboxMini

The PowerLink has a standard 30-pin dock connector and serves as an emergency external battery pack for an [...]


xVideoServiceThief Downloads Video from Over 50 Sites

All platforms: Download your favorite online video clips from YouTube, 5min, Metacafe, and more than 50 other online video sharing sites with free open source application xVideoServiceThief. Enter a URL of nearly any online video and xVideoServiceThief will automatically download the video (unless you specify otherwise). Videos can be downloaded to either FLV or [...]


Rumor Roundup: Apple Brick [Rumors]

What is the Apple Brick? It’s a rumor that started over at 9 to 5 Mac. A trusted source told the site that the (also rumored) October 14th Apple Event would be ‘all about the Brick.’ The fun sort of spiraled from there, with plenty of guesses of just what the Brick could be…
TGDaily (Netbook) [...]


WiFi robot

Jon Bennett created a nifty wireless telepresence bot out of a thrift store RC car, a Linksys WRT54GL router running the Open-WRT Linux firmware, a network camera, and a microcontroller. He’s built two variations: one controlled by a PIC microprocessor, and the other controlled by an Arduino. You can use whichever processor you [...]


FLVPlay 1.11 - Search, view, download videos from YouTube.

FLVPlay is a free application providing functionality to search and view YouTube’s video collection, as well as download video assets to the desktop and mobile devices instantly. In order to install the application, your Mac needs to have Adobe AIR runtime installed. FLVPlay is a clean software, does not contain adware, spyware or any other [...]


How to Start a Local Support System Using Social Media

The Real World Change 2.0 series with Leslie Poston is an ongoing look at how people are using social media tools and their personal and professional social media networks to bridge the chasm from the Internet and social media bubble to the real world and do a variety of things to effect true change.

The biggest [...]