The Espresso Book Machine ("EBM") is a new variation of "print on demand" - an Internet-connected book vending machine which, by tapping into a vast online book catalog, can print - on the spot - your choice of a mind-boggling selection of two million titles, including currently in-copyright titles as well as those in the public domain, and out of print books! The Expresso Book Vending Machine is available from On Demand Books (ODB), and below we include a list of current Espresso Book Machine locations, so that you can see it in action.
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Articles on ReviewsThe Espresso Book Machine ("EBM") is a new variation of "print on demand" - an Internet-connected book vending machine which, by tapping into a vast online book catalog, can print - on the spot - your choice of a mind-boggling selection of two million titles, including currently in-copyright titles as well as those in the public domain, and out of print books! The Expresso Book Vending Machine is available from On Demand Books (ODB), and below we include a list of current Espresso Book Machine locations, so that you can see it in action. The United Nations Educational Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) has unveiled the World Digital Library - a website onto which they are scanning ancient writings, pictures, and other media. And by ancient, we are talking antiquities - even now, in the UN WDL's early stages, some of the earliest scanned images date from 8000 BC. A new website and service called "Slightly Morbid" allows you to store a list of email addresses to be notified in case of your death, serious illness, disappearance, or other situation warranting notifying all of your closests friends whom you've never met. While getting a death notice by email may seem, well, slightly morbid and impersonal, it's better than not knowing at all. The Internet can do lots of different things for you - connect you with old friends and classmates, deliver long distance correspondence courses, and pay parking tickets online. But getting you out of a parking violation ticket? Yes! Whether it's that annoying parking ticket Los Angeles issued to you, or NYC parking tickets that are piling up, or parking violation tickets from anywhere in between, this online service vows to not only help you fight parking tickets, but guarantees results! Who doesn't love to receive a Valentines gift basket? Valentines gift baskets are a wonderful way to say "thinking of you" for anybody to send to anybody! You can give or send Valentine gift baskets not only to your spouse or mate, but to children, parents, friends, bosses, clients, customers and more! There are St Valentines day gift baskets out there to suit every person, and every need! Here are a few of our favorite great Valentines gift baskets - all of which can be delivered overnight - or sometimes even the same day - making them great last minute Valentines gifts, too! You can order all of these Valentines gifts right from your computer, and even pay for them with Paypal! You may have noticed that your old free pop up stopper is no longer working as well. That's because the companies that provide and use popups have worked hard to get around the current pop-up blockers. What you need is a new free pop up ad blocker. In fact, what you need is a free pop up killer. The Obama administration has launched a new website at Recovery .gov to provide the American people with greater transparency when it comes to how the government is spending tax revenues. Created under the House American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (HARRA), the website will help to provide insight into how the funds being made available by the Federal government for economic recovery are actually being spent. Here's a great way to save printer toner ink, and you don't even have to cut back on your printing to do it! Save toner, save money, and help save the environment! This eco-friendly green* font also puts green back in your wallet! (*And we don't mean green the color, we mean environmentally friendly!) While we often tout Amazon on these pages, today we'd like to direct your attention to a fabulous - but little known - Internet-based service provided by another bookstore: Barnes & Noble. One of the great things about the Internet is that it brings to your fingertips - and to your door - things that you would never otherwise know about. Take the awesome organic skin care products that I found this week. With Christmas just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about Christmas presents for those on your list. There is a Christmas gift idea here for just about anyone on your list - these Christmas present ideas are timeless - and you can buy them all online! (One of my personal favourites is the Christmas pictures idea.) And so as to not impact your budget for Christmas inexpensive gifts are included! (Speaking of which, you can find free printable christmas labels here!) Looking for last minute Christmas ideas? Theses timeless gifts - ones that I have enjoyed myself - are sure to please! They are all available locally in book and department stores, and also available from Amazon, where they can be shipped directly to the recipient if need be, and even overnighted. These are all personal favourites of mine, by which I mean that I have personally read or used these, and can personally vouch for them, and for their being great gift items! As millions head to the polls today, people are wondering "where can I watch the presidential election results on the Internet?" Many want to sneak a peak at the election returns online from work or school. In fact, in one of the most anxiously watched elections for U.S. president in recent memory, it is predicted that a record number of people will be monitoring the election returns in realtime, and many of them will want to monitor the election results on the Internet. So we've scoured the Internet for you to determine where you can most reliably tune in online to watch the presidential election results. Read on below! As you might imagine, Harry Potter costumes - of many of the Harry Potter characters - are big this year. Well, you need look no further for your own Harry Potter costume this year, as Legendary Toys carries some of the finest Harry Potter theme clothing we've seen. They even have a mini Harry Potter sorting hat that is perfect for dressing up your favourite Harry Potter pet! (See pics below.) inSpot.org is a website which lets you anonymously notify someone by email that they have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease (STD) such as a venereal disease (VD) or even HIV / AIDS. Even if they haven't. It's so easy to create a pop-up for your website that is non-offensive, and that doesn't alienate or upset your visitors! In about 4 seconds you will see a pink post-it note pop-up right here. We created that pop-up in less than five minutes using this fantastic, easy-to-use pop-up creator, which we now endorse. In fact, we are offering it through the Internet Patrol, and we stand behind it 110% - if you don't love it, we'll refund your full purchase price! While everybody knows that Girl Scouts sell cookies, far fewer people realize that Boy Scouts fund raise by selling gourmet popcorn gift tins - popcorn tins full of both regular and flavored popcorn - all different kinds of popcorn, and we at the Internet Patrol are helping! Carmel popcorn, cheese popcorn, chocolate popcorn, even microwave kettle corn! (That's the sweet popcorn you get at farmers markets and movie theatres.) You can even get unpopped gourment popcorn, if you like! But never before has it been so easy to order these gift tins of popcorn - gourmet popcorn gifts that anybody would love - because now you can do it online! And they will ship right to your door, or the door of anyone to whom you want to send popcorn gifts! If you love LOLCats - and hey, who doesn't - you'll be thrilled to hear the LOLCat book (not the LOLCat Bible, the other LOL Cat book!) is here! Yes, those lovable LOL Cats now grace the pages of the I Can Has Cheezburger book! The "I Can Has Cheezburger" site - sometimes mangled as "I Can Haz Cheeseburger" (understandable) or "I Can Has a Cheezburger" (also somewhat understandable), or even "Can I Has Cheezburger" (aw, c'mon now!) - is one of the most popular destinations on the web, and they have literally millions of funny pictures of cats ("LOL" stands for Laugh - or Laughing - Out Loud) with even funnier captions. Interestingly, cheezburgers rarely factor in the pictures these days, although cheeseburger cats abound. I don't often use this venue to talk myself up - and in fact, I'm not going to talk myself up! BUT, three - count them, THREE - online outlets all featured me in the past 12 hours! I was featured in HARO (Help a Reporter Out), Meet the Innovators, and Inspire Me Today! If you're looking for new Sidekick reviews of the Sidekick 08 which do a Sidekick comparison between previous Sidekicks and the new Sidekick 2008, you've come to the right place! Video, stereo Bluetooth, and shells, shells, shells (you can even create your own custom shell)! The new Sidekick 08 has a lot going for it - but also a few things you need to know about that you may not appreciate so much. A new free service has the answer to avoiding talking to people you really have to call, but would rather not actually talk to. It's called Slydial, and it deposits you directly into their voicemail, without their phone ever ringing. Now this is a really cool concept - a website which features "how to play this song" tutorial videos where the how-to is done by the actual artist! Wow, this is an incredible day for us here at the Internet Patrol. Our own Anne P. Mitchell has been featured as an inspirational luminary on the fabulous new website, InspireMeToday.com. We'll bet that when you are looking for discount travel - especially discount air travel, and cheap air fares and cheap flights - that you turn to discount travel sites, such as Expedia .com, right? But while the Expedia travel site purports to offer cheap air flights - and sucks people in with the promise of cheap air plane tickets - Expedia airfare isn't always the cheapest - people just assume that Expedia flights are less expensive! Worse, Expedia flights are sometimes not authorized at all, meaning that Expedia com does not have a relationship with - let alone permission from - the airline to offer those cheap airfare tickets! Your effort to get cheap air fare could backfire, and you'll have paid more than if you'd just gone directly to the airline! Bottom line? For cheap airline flights, instead of relying solely on discount travel sites (cheap plane flights are one of the primary things for which people use sites such as Expedia travel), go directly to the airlines and ask them about their cheap flights! It's almost Mother's Day! Be sure to do something special to either honor your own mother, or a special mother in your life! Uh oh, did you forget? If so, it's not too late, and the Internet can help! Here are some great last minute Mother's Day gift ideas that you can order online, and they'll still get there on time! Starbucks recently rolled out the next phase in their ongoing plan for world coffee domination, over at My Starbucks Idea. The Starbucks My Idea is like a Starbucks blog, hopped up on both Web 2.0 and caffeine, and fuelled by customer suggestions of how to improve Starbucks, on which the community at large can comment and vote. Disaboom is a social networking website created especially for the disabled - and for those living with people with disabilities and handicaps. Created by Dr. J Glen House, himself living with the disability of quadriplegia, Disaboom offers both medical expertise, and the insight of community members, who share their personal stories and experiences, and the result is a powerful resource for the handicapped where none before existed. It's pretty cool to be able to read comics online for free - but it's very cool to be able to make online comics for free, and that's just what you get to do with the Bitstrips free online comics maker! It's especially cool when the free online comics feature you! The next time your friends read online comics, won't they be surprised! And it's really easy to make online comics with the Bitstrips interface! Read on! Hulu.com is a video-on-demand service offering 250 TV series, from old classics to contemporary favorites, and clips from a further 150 series; 100 full-length movies; sports highlights from the NBA and the NHL; and Web-based programs - all free! Firefly fans will be thrilled to find 14 episodes there, alongside Dragnet and, yes, Nanny and the Professor. One of our surprisingly (or perhaps not) more popular articles is our article about the x ray vision camera lens that lets you see through clothes (has anyone here actually tried the xray vision lens?) So we knew that you would all be interested in this announcement from ThruVision about their T5000 T-Ray Security Imaging System which, they claim, allows security personnel to see contraband (such as explosives, liquids, weapons, and such) hidden under clothing. We have a colleague by the name of Jeff Walker. Jeff is one of those amazing people - a genuinely nice guy - who also happens to know how to ethically make a lot of money on the Internet. I mean, a lot of money. What is unique about Jeff, also, is that he helps others to make a lot of money on the Internet. Again, I mean, a lot of money. Now you can watch as Jeff helps a guy go from food stamps to six figures, using the Internet! Here's why you should be using AllTop: Imagine a site where you can instantly find all of the top stories on just about any subject - collected from all of the top 50 sites that cover that subject - all collected for you in one easy-to-find and read location. That's the power of AllTop. If you are among the legion of annoyed laptop toters who felt that the price to use T-mobile wi-fi at Starbucks was outrageous - particularly when there are so many coffee shops offering free w-ifi (and better coffee) these days - well, apparently Starbucks agrees with you. Because Starbucks and AT&T have just announced that Starbucks has jumped ship from Tmobile, and is now going to be offering AT&T wifi in its 7000 locations. And just one drink a month at Starbucks turns it into free wi-fi! (Want Valentines gifts you can pay for with Paypal? Click here!) Stymied as to what to get your Valentines for Valentines day gifts? Need some affordable Valentines ideas? Here are some great Valentines day gift ideas for Valentines gifts you can order online, right now - even as last minute Valentine gifts - and be assured that they will arrive for Valentine's Day (or have them sent directly to you so that you can deliver them in person!) Whatever your budget, whomever it is for, you'll find some great Valentines day gifts and Valentines day ideas here! We've assembled a list - complete with links to just click and buy - of some of the best Valentines day gift ideas out there, including some rather unique ideas for Valentines day - Valentine gifts that we would love to receive ourselves - and made it extremely easy for you to satisfy every Valentines day gift giving need you have! If you are determined to exercise your right to vote (as you should be!), and want to vote smart, but aren't sure who to vote for among the 2008 candidates, then this online presidential candidate calculator is just the ticket! Just answer a few questions about the top issues, and this candidate calculator will tell you which of the 2008 presidential candidates - both the Republican presidential candidates and the Democratic presidential candidates - offer you enough reasons to vote for them! And yes, your votes do count! If your teen is racking up bills instant messaging on a cell phone, has taken over your computer to instant message their friends, or is pestering you because they "need" a cell phone or some other device to instant message their friends, and if you really would like to let them message their friends, but aren't ready to give them that cell phone, then the Zip-It Wireless Messenger may be just the ticket! If you are a Twitter member who is using Twitter to post Tweets to let your fellow Twitter users know what you're up to, then you're going to love this! Now you can easily post a Tweet to Twitter anytime - from anywhere - by making a telephone call! Jott is an awesome, free service which allows you to make a telephone call, and leave yourself a message, and the message will be emailed to you as text! You can also set it up to email the message to someone else! The Amazon Kindle wireless reading device is Amazon's entry in the wireless ebook reader market. Other ebook readers include the Sony ebook reader, and various software readers such as Microsoft reader. With Kindle Amazon hopes to be a contender, with its combination of the Kindle ebook reader, always-available-from-anywhere free Kindle network, and instant download of thousands of books from the Kindle Amazon ebook catalogue, along with newspapers, magazine, and blogs. If you are looking to increase web site traffic (and what site owner isn't looking for more web site traffic?), here is a way that you can increase website traffic for free! By signing up for BlogRush, you can increase on-line traffic and get legitimate free traffic hits! We have seen more online traffic - in fact have increased online traffic significantly - as a result of our own tests with BlogRush - and you don't need to have a blog, just so long as your website has an RSS feed! If you've been thinking of getting a new sidekick - waiting for the T mobile Sidekick 4 - wait no longer! The Tmobile Sidekick 4, actually known as the T-mobile Sidekick LX, was launched this week, and it was definitely worth waiting for! This Sidekick cell phone is a beauty! And with its amazing new screen - plus new features to take advantage of it such as screenshots and choice of font size - we say don't bother waiting for the Sidekick LX's little brother, the smaller Sidekick Slide. One of the toughest things in band management is getting that first recording contract. Whether you are looking at independent record producers or a big name record producer, it's just not easy. But now there is hope for the up-and-coming band who wants to produce an album: SellaBand, the website! By the way, if you're still looking for a good band name, you can check out this band name generator, or this band name generator, or even this band name generator (no typing required on the last one!) A new online free sex offender search tool allows you to search a list of "sex offenders in my area." The free sex offender search cross-references a list for registered sex offenders with an online mapping system, so that you can find any registered sex offender on the sex offenders list anywhere within a 1 to 20 mile radius of any location (such as your home, your child's school, etc.). Rumor has it that legend Guy Kawaski has launched his own rumor site, and guess what! The rumors are true! The Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner (not to be confused with the SnapScan scanner by Agfa or any model of Fuji scanner - we're talking about the Fujitsu ScanSnap USB scanner here) is a wonder to behold. With both a Mac version (Fujitsu ScanSnap S500M) and a PC version (Fujitsu ScanSnap S500), double-sided black and white or color scanning of paper sizes up to 8 1/2 wide - at up to 20 pages a minute - the Fujitsu ScanSnap makes it easy to turn all of your paper documents into searchable computer files! And it's one of the easiest ways, bar none, to get a document into a file to email or put on a website. We all knew it was heading in this direction, but we didn't think it would come from a relative unknown. Zonbu announces the first computer that has everything - except - storage. You store all of your data - all of it - online, on the Zonbu servers. The Pure Digital PSV-352 60 Minute and Pure Digital PSV-351 30-min Point & Shoot Camcorder are really catching on. But the software, while simple to use, is crippled, and worse, it emails your videos through Grouper.com, where Grouper grabs not only your video, but harvests the email addresses and creates an account for you, all without letting you know at the time! This website gives you cash for old cellphones! That's right, they will buy used cell phones, and give you cash for them! And they make it so easy, they even send you a free, postage-paid box to send your old cell phones back to them! An article this week by the Wall Street Journal blares out that "Hackers Can Now Deliver Viruses via Web Ads". It's not like the WSJ to go the sensationalist route, so we can only assume that the reporter doesn't usually cover the Internet security beat. Regardless, this type of fear mongering is irresponsible at best, unforgivable at worst. Forget plain old mobile phone tracking. FlexiSpy is a cell phone tapping and spying software that, once slipped on to your cell phone, sends all of the data from your cell phone to the person spying on you. It also allows them to turn on your cell phone's microphone so that they can remotely listen in on what you are doing, and on your calls! It currently works with all Nokia 60, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones, and, according to FlexiSpy, more phones are being added all the time. A company called WabiSabiLabi (Wabi Sabi Labi - pronounced 'wobby sobby lobby' or 'wobi sobi lobi') has announced that they have created an auction marketplace where security researchers and companies can buy and sell security vulnerabilities and hacks. Here's what that means (we mean what "buying and selling security vulnerabilities means", not what "Wabi Sabi Labi" means - although roughly speaking the Japanese 'wabi sabi' means respecting things which are authentic - from nature - by acknowledging their authentic beauty with the recognition that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect). Here is the hands-on Apple iPhone review (sometimes called the Cingular iPhone or the AT&T iPhone - there is no Verizon iPhone Verizon users, for you - so sorry!) they don't want you to see and you won't see in any of the other Apple iPhone reviews: it's the 7 bad things about the Apple iPhone that they don't want you to know. Thanks to our exclusive interview with Shawn King, of the Your Mac Life Show, who spent time up close and personal with the Apple iPhone / Cingular iPhone / AT&T iPhone a week before its release, and to some digging on our part, we bring you the 7 things about the iPhone that you'll never see in an Apple ad, because they don't want you to know about it. You know you should have a data backup solution to ensure that you have a harddrive backup - and in fact you may already have one or more backup solutions in place. But what about portable backup solutions - what about if you are on a trip, and your hard drive fails (as mine did last week?) Consider an iPod video for your portable backup data storage! This has to be the ultimate in free call forwarding services. Grand Central, as part of their beta, is offering all of their "one number to ring them all" service completely free. Need to do a computer backup? If you are looking for a remote backup program to provide secure offsite backup services - and if it offered free online backup services that would be even better - look no further! Here is the perfect offsite data backup solution - a free online data backup service that lets you do an automated offsite backup for free! That's right, you can do a full computer backup online, using this automatic offsite backup service, and it's absolutely free! How many times have you wished that you had remote access to your computer, say remote access to your PC or Mac desktop, over the Internet, while you were away? Well, with this free remote access software and remote access service, now you can wish no more! Instead you can access your PC or Mac - in fact you can access as many computers as you want - across the Internet, all for free! The trio that brought us Blue Security and their Blue Frog, the DOSing service that planned to DOS spammers, and that went belly up after a spammer instead DOSed them (well, duh), has apparently decided that spamming is more lucrative (again, well, duh), and founded a new company called Collative to do just that. Looking for ancestors who may have been military personnel or want to do a military family history search? Now you can perform a free ancestor search through the largest online collection of US military records, courtesy of Ancestry.com! Did you know that Google,com offers more than 600 cool Google gadgets and Google widgets for your use, for free? And you don't even need to put them on a Google desktop or your Google home page! You can put them on your own website (or put them on a Google homepage and your own website! And it doesn't take a Google scholar to go to Google and get these cool Google gadgets from Google. com! It's easy! (By the way, gmodules.com is the Google gadgets domain.) Google Adsense Referrals is a new program with the potential for top paying Google Adsense payouts. The Google Referrals program allows Adsense publishers to hand-pick the Adsense ads that they want to appear on their site, and get paid per action (i.e. sale or sign-up) rather than per click. Setting up your Adsense Referral ads is not hard, but the site is not as straightforward as it could be, so we're here to help you figure it out. We are often asked to recommend some really good Father's day presents - unique Father's day gifts or unusual Father's Day presents - and here are our top picks! Dog gadgets abound, including dog GPS, and an automatic feeder with a built-in webcam. You can also get dog sunglasses, a special doorbell door chime for your dog, an electronic dog day planner, and, I kid you not, a dog treadmill. Oh, and let's not forget the dog pedometer to go with that treadmill. What's better than absolutely free cell phones? How about this? Amazon will pay you to get the very same fabulous cell phone that we ourselves use! Now that is truly one of the best cell phone deals ever! Hot off the presses: Sticker Giant has just created 9-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 bumper stickers! And you can even get it as a car magnet! The cell phone stun gun is a stun gun that is made to look like a cell phone, only deliver a powerful, stunning charge instead of a telephone call. But just how safe is it to carry these things? Stupid drivers got you down? Bad drivers cutting you off, failing to indicate before nearly pulling into you and then braking in front of you make you see red? Now ease your road rage and tell them how you feel with the push of a button! The Drivemocion car sign makes it easy - and fun! The Drivemotion is a sign that you hang in the window of your car, and you can change the message with a remote control! For my birthday this year I received the Garmin Nuvi GPS, and I have to tell you that this portable GPS is the ultimate in mobile GPS systems! This small handheld GPS navigation unit can fit in your pocket or attach to a beanbag based stand (which molds to fit any place in your car or wherever else you want to put it), has the clearest screen of any I've seen, fantastic maps (3d or flat view), will instantly show you a list of all of the restaurants, gas stations, and such in the area wherever you are. But the best part about the Garmin Nuvi GPS is that it's spoken directions make sense! Now I understand why all the GPS reviews give this Garmin portable GPS system such high praise! April Fool's jokes abound on the Internet. Here is a collection of Internet themed or related April Fools jokes. Got any good ones? The Site for the Cure is a site which allows anyone participating in any charity event such as a walk, race, run or ride for charity to talk about what they are doing and why they are doing it, to talk about the event, and to link to their own sponsor page in order to raise sponsorship funds. Want to control your car over the Internet? It's possible now, thanks to the Internet-controlled car control system called the "Keplar Security System" just introduced by Inilex! Lock and unlock your car doors, start your car up (great for those cold winter mornings!), disable the engine, and even track your car, all over the Internet! The Penguin Club, properly known as "Club Penguin" is like a Second Life or MySpace for kids, and has opened its online doors for business. Or, rather, it's hatch. Because as you might expect at the penguin club, Club Penguin is populated by penguins, and they live in igloos. The Penguin Club is actually more like Second Life for kids than MySpace. For a true MySpace for kids experience, check out Imbee.com. A third kiddyworld, Tweenland, seems to have gone under as suddenly as it sprang up (its cached Awstats statistics reveal that something dire happened to Tweenland.com between February 23rd and February 24th of this year). Right now, using the free Skype download of either their Skype for PCs or Skype for Mac, you can use your computer to make unlimited calls to any phone in the U.S. or Canada, using the Skype phone service (the Skype Internet phone system), for only $29.95 a year. Unlimited! So if you have been wondering "what is Skype", this is the perfect time to find out, because this is the most fantastic of Skype deals! Consumer Reports has released their recommendations for the best anti spam software, the best anti spyware remover, and the best anti virus software. Want to trade gift cards? This website lets you do a gift card exchange! Exchange your Home Depot gift card for a Best Buy gift card. Swap gift cards such as Target gift cards for Toys R Us gift cards! You can even sell your gift cards back, including that prepaid Visa gift card, American Express gift card, or Mastercard gift card! FunDraw is a great new website that lets you create cool drawings and graphics online no matter what your skill level! Whether you are a three year old, thirty year old, or ninety-three year old, you'll enjoy and appreciate the easy interface and powerful capabilities over at FunDraw! A company called Accenture has developed a system for a "virtual family dinner". The concept is simple enough. With people scattered across the United States, and around the globe, it's increasingly rare that a family sits down to dinner together around a table. So, goes Accenture's corpthink, let's have their loved ones sit down with them - wherever they may be. The virtual family meal system is aimed primarily at the elderly, whom are often shut in, or may have special dietary needs which could be monitored by family members on the grid of the system. It is with both pride and gratitude that we present to you our Christmas gift to you - a free weekly podcast, with no strings attached, and by which we hope that you will be entertained and informed. The new podcast is called "Three Things You Should Know", and each week it will be broadcast, free, brimming with information about three things that you'll find useful and informative, entertaining and interesting. Ho hum. It looks like yet another company has decided to try to make the "sender pays to get into your inbox" model work. Last time it was Affini, this time it's Boxbe, and there have probably been countless others in between. But it all boils down to one thing: It ain't gonna work. Our new email newsletter publishing service is the perfect way to send out Christmas newsletters for the holidays, and email newsletters all year round! Whether you are an individual, a small or non-profit organization, or a big corporation, our pre-accredited email newsletter service provides you with premium services at a budget price! Perfect whether you want to send family newsletters or corporate email newsletters, or try your hand at ezine publishing! And with our unique automatic "blog-to-newsletter" service you can publish an article on your blog and have it automatically sent as a newsletter at the same time! The new Nintendo Wii may have a funny and hard to remember name (is it the Nintendo Wii? Nintendo Wie? Nintendo Wee? Whee? Oui?), but it has managed to do what no other gamebox has done before - revolutionize game box gaming by incorporating genuine real-gesture remote control. It's also got built in Internet wi-fi access, and Bluetooth. Here is our list of great holiday websites for the holiday season! There are fun websites, kids websites, and just plain cool websites! Find the perfect gift, print free gift tags, recipes cards and coloring pages, and have some fun building an online snowman, playing holiday arcade games, and reading about Christmas lore. Or spend some time with Bad Santa and watching videos about other peoples' hellish holidays, and give thanks that your own holidays probably aren't so bad! Our newest site on the web shows you "how to" with a collection of how-to videos! LearnHowTo.TV offers visitors a wde range of how-to videos, on a broad range of topics, all for free! The Zeon portable DVD player with integrated iPod video dock from iLuv is one hot new device, and they make fantastic Christmas gifts! This portable DVD player with integrated video iPod dock (also misleadingly called the "jWin iLuv Portable Tablet Video System for Apple iPod Video") is the easiest way on the planet to watch all those video podcasts and television shows you've downloaded from the Internet to your video iPod (while traveling, or even at home or work), without developing a permasquint! And with a 7" video screen, built-in speakers, viewing stand, and remote, it's also a full on portable DVD player, all in one compact 10" x 6" package! Yes, you really can take it with you! Not sure what to give that person on your gift list for Christmas? Consider these unique Christmas gift ideas! USB microscopes that magnify things as much as 600x and throw the image on your computer screen! Take a screenshot and post your best magnifications to the Internet! The new Sony Reader is an eBook reader introduced by Sony that is about the size of a paperback, but weighing just 9 ounces. The Sony Reader works with the Connect service, which is like iTunes for books. With 64mb of memory on board, and an expandable memory card slot, the Sony Reader is capable of carrying dozens of ebooks at once. A new line of Bluetooth enabled watches from both Fossil and Sony Ericsson are hitting the stores within the next few weeks. Both the Sony Ericsson Vanguard MBW-100 and the Fossil Caller ID FX6001 are able to detect and display data from your cell phone, alerting you to an incoming call via vibration, displaying the caller i.d. of the call, and allowing you to reject or accept the call. Shades of Dick Tracy! VaporStream is a new product that offers recordless email that disappears after being read. And, it can't be forwarded, can't be printed, and can't be stored. But here's what I want to know: if you have to go through the trouble of logging in to someone else's server - and paying to do it - in order to not send a regular email, why wouldn't you just pick up the phone? eFax today announced that they are raising their already gouging rates from $12.95 a month to $16.95 a month. But there are alternatives, and there is a way to cancel your eFax service, even though they hide it very well. A new free service on the web allows you to easily create ebooks to take along on your iPod! You can take pretty much any text, upload it or provide a link to it, press a button, and voila! You get an ebook which can be read on your iPod! Now this is a fabulous theft and loss insurance for your phone, PDA or laptop! It's called StuffBak (because it helps you get your stuff back, get it?) and it's kind of like those microchipping i.d. services for pets, only it's for your portable electronic devices, such as your laptop, your PDA, and your cell phone! It's basically loss and theft insurance for your portables! And through a partnership with The Internet Patrol and StuffBak, you can get a 10% discount off their already incredibly reasonable pricing! We think that you can't go wrong with the Sidekick hand held Internet email device. For our money, it's the best handheld Internet email device on the market today. Hollaback (Holla Back - holler back - get it?) is a blogspot website where women who feel victimized by men complimenting them on the street (and, to be fair, also doing more than complimenting) can post pictures of the men who are complimenting or harrassing them. Here's the thing: one woman's harrassment is another woman's compliment. And the same goes for the harrassment or compliment givers. The UX-B800SE BroadBandFax machine by Sharp is the first truly Internet-ready fax machine. It's a true, full-fledged fax machine, but the BroadBand Fax Machine also has an ethernet (network) port. Meaning you can connect it to the Internet. Voila! An Internet fax machine! A Sidekick 3 by any other name (Danger Sidekick, Sidekick Phone, T-Mobile Sidekick - just not Sidekick III, please!) is the hottest new device to hit the streets. Complete with its own Sidekick 3 backgrounds (wallpaper) and its own Sidekick 3 bluetooth, here is a side by side comparison and review of the T Mobile Sidekick 3 (not the "T-Mobile Sidekick III" because they did away with the Roman numerals). RssToolbar from Electronic Technologies, Inc. checks all of your favourite blogs, news, and other websites for any newly published articles, and then displays any new headlines in an unobtrusive bar along the top of your browser. BugMeNot is a service which provides free passwords to sites which require registration to view their free content. If you feel that "it's a pain in the neck to have to register just to read a story, and who are they, anyways, to demand your email address and demographic information?", then you are going to love BugMeNot. Free online fax services are still around, you just have to know where to look for it! You can send faxes over the Internet, to regular fax machines, for free, using the Free FaxZero site! A new Black Frog anti-spam model, based more than loosely on the defunct Blue Frog service, is being set up over at Okopipi. Will this one succeed? And will it be more ethical? We think that the answer to both is "no". Frustration with FreeCycle and FreeCycle moderators has lead to lots of complaints and a discussion of particular moderators who seem to have control issues. Here is a list of books that we here at the Internet Patrol recommend. If you think that Hummers are something, wait until you see the Badonkadonk Land Cruiser Tank, available from - I kid you not - Amazon. With all of the buzz continuing about MySpace, good and bad (lots of MySpace danger stories), we finally figured that we should test out our own MySpace profile. PayPal Mobile has not yet been officially rolled out, but it is available, right now! Here are the details! As millions ponder a life without the RIM Blackberry device, they wonder "is there an alternative to the Blackberry? Is there a replacement for the Blackberry?" The answer is a resounding "yes!" A website calling itself "My Free Implants" allows women to register, create a profile (no pun intended), upload pictures, and allow men - complete strangers - to donate to help them get free breast implants. Comedy Central has just started making shows, including the first two seasons of South Park, available through iTunes. It turns out that the Sony Walkman w600i isn't just another pretty MP3 playing cell phone. It's a great cell phone, even if you choose never to use its MP3 playing capability. And it has a built in FM radio that rocks! Who was the stupid marketing wonk who came up with Coke's new slogan, "Welcome to the Coke side of life"? How could they not know...? Here they are! Just in time for the holidays! The Top Ten USB Devices that you never knew existed! Ok, maybe they are the Top 10 USB devices, some of which you knew about, but surely not all ten! Twentieth Century Fox and MovieLink have announced that MovieLink will be adding 20th Century Fox movies to their inventory, effective immediately. Chitika eMiniMall is a new way to display product information, in the form of tailored ads, on your website. Chitika eMiniMall offers photos, reviews, search capabilities, and even links for the best deal to whatever products you choose to display on your site! The Toy is a Bluetooth vibrator which is worn internally and activated by SMS messages sent to it by someone's cell phone. Wifi digital cameras are here, with offerings from Canon, as well as Nikon and Kodak. The Yahoo online travel guide has expanded to include not only online travel planning, but shareable online travel planning with Trip Planner Beta, which allows you to tag, share, and print your travel itinerary. The Motherload Network (not the "Motherload Network"!) is a new Internet television offering from Comedy Central. See through clothes, ink, fabric and more with this genuine x-ray vision lens. The Infrared See-Through Filter PF xray vision lens developed by Kaya appears to be the real deal. (Looking for our article about the new T ray xray vision security system? Click here) Geek cruises are the ultimate in cruise excursions, and with geek celebrity cruises they are certainly the most educational of cruise lines! "Richard Bangs Adventures" by Yahoo is an adventure travel website, profiling a different adventure and adventurer each month. Truly this is Halloween made easy - forget free pumpkin carving patterns - this site gives you virtual pumpkin carving! Carve away to your heart's content until you get it right, then take knife to real pumpkin! Computer history is fascinating even if you aren't a geek; just think about how far we've come in so little time. The Computer History Museum does a great job of bringing it all home. Lazy tea lovers, these tea kettles are just for you! The SMS tea kettle can be turned on remotely by sending it a text message! A form spam blocker has been developed by a service offering secure, hijack-proof web forms. It's guaranteed, it's cheap, and it's secure! What more could you ask for? Google Reader is a new RSS reader which aims to bring RSS feeds to everyone. RSS feeds are a way for a content-based website to tell you when new content has been published without your having to go to the site itself and check. "Star Wreck: The Pirkinning" is an indie Star Trek parody which is spreading like wildfire through free movie downloads, with the producers' blessings. Turpakäräjiin! [This article updated on September 22, 2008] SanDisk has today announced SlotMusic - their DRM-free MicroSD card pre-loaded with music. The SlotMusic announcement comes almost three years to the day that SanDisk announced the Gruvi MicroSD, which apparently went nowhere. Why they expect SlotMusic to go where Gruvi was apparently unable to is beyond us. Maybe you readers have some idea? Snoozester is an online wake-up call and date reminder service which offers wake-up calls, reminder calls, and reminder email. Tufone and MobileLime allow you to make international VoIP calls from your cell phone, and to use your cellular phone in place of your credit card or debit card. LEGO Digital Designer software, free from LEGO, lets you design and build your very own LEGO creations, just like the professionals! Vidstone's Serenity Panel is a video headstone which allows graveside visitors to celebrate the life of the dearly departed. Sergio Aguirre invented the video headstone after a personal experience, which lead to his developing the Serenity Panel, which is solar-powered, and well-protected from the elements. The city of Seattle is testing out wireless Internet access on public transportation, namely buses. The wifi-enabled buses are currently servicing two routes, with plans to expand the test to others. NerdTV is the new online television show bringing the pioneers and captains of industry into your home and, if NerdTV has their way, making them household names even in non-nerdy households. On the heels of the new iPod Nano, Sony has introduced an MP3 Walkman which seems a worthy competitor. Tricked out with all sorts of features, and available in brilliant violet, blue, and pink, the new MP3 Walkman is available in a 20gig version, to store all the music you could possibly want to take with you. Pet Phone, like PetsCell, is a new device intended to allow you to communicate with and, to some extent, tend your pet remotely. However unlike PetCell, which is a cell phone for pets, Pet Phone allows you to remotely feed your pet, using just your cell phone. The Apple rocker phone, as some are calling the new iPhone, and the iPod Nano, were announced this week by Apple. Where the ROKR based iPhone (some are calling it ROCKR or even ROCKER, but it's actually "ROKR") is indeed a rocker phone, the new iPod Nano is more like an executive iPod. TeenArriveAlive and CarChip are technologies designed to keep your teen safe behind the wheel by allowing you to remotely monitor their every driving move. Using GPS location in one case, and inviting strangers to report on the child's driving in another, TeenArriveAlive and CarChip are sure to be controversial. The Wherify Wherifone offers a simple pre-programmed cell phone with a built-in GPS locator, so that you can keep track of your child, grandmother, or employee. Nikon has introduced a new wifi camera, with built-in wireless LAN support. The new CoolPix P1 and CoolPix P2 wifi cameras sport full wifi capabilities, and are on sale now. A talking Napoleon Dynamite doll. Yeesss!! You can see a pic, and hear what it has to say, here. Bird watching and identification doesn't have to be hard. And with this free online bird database and search engine, now it's downright easy. Online games in general, and online poker in particular, lack the feel and sound of the real experience. PokerPadz has built a new mousepad to change all that. Ring-back advertising is sure to annoy your friends and colleagues when they call you and instead of hearing your cell phone ring, they get Perceptive Impression's ring-back spam, brought to you by Promotel, Inc.. The Wakamaru Robot is a human child shaped robot which will house sit for you when you are away. The first latchkey robot! Cellular phones get a power boost from a hamster and his wheel, as a British teenager invents the first recorded hamster-powered cellular phone charger. Playboy, the grandaddy of skin magazines, is offering Playboy magazine online. Forget about airbrushing; this version offers zoom! Internet Laundry, by LaundryView, wires up washers and dryers on campuses so that students don't have to babysit their washers and dryers. Instead they just check over the web to determine when their laundry is done, or when a machine is free. Robots that house-sit while you are away! And they even will call you and send you a video of what's going on in your house! Ah, a screw camera. Everyone should have a screw camera. Of course I'm not referring to that which caught Fred Durst in a compromising position, or Paris Hilton clinching with another girl. No, I'm talking about a real, honest to goodness wireless ... Well, thanks to Grant Robinson, I have a new time waster: Guess the Google. Guess the Google should be more properly named "Guess the keyword which resulted in these images being returned in a Google image search", but I guess that ... For those of you who haven't already heard, Amazon is offering a new short story download service, Amazon Shorts. It's really cool, in that it offers new short stories, not available anywhere else, by authors including some very well known, and well-loved, ... Amazon has just rolled out a new service, "Amazon Shorts". Amazon Shorts are, according to the Amazon Shorts page itself, "never-before-seen short works from a wide variety of well-known authors, available only on Amazon.com. Try a new genre or a new author--there's ... Lifelock identity theft insurance promises that that "If an identity is ever stolen while a LIFELOCK program membership is in effect, LIFELOCK will fix all issues arising from the theft and will reimburse any out of pocket expenses lost up to $1 million dollars." They offer this program direct to individuals, and they also hope that employers will offer it as part of a benefits package. Not only an interesting idea, but a sign of our times, unfortunately. Tivo has announced that it has added the ability to download television shows via the Internet, directly to your Tivo hard drive. And sometimes before the shows even air on cable! Announcing the deal struck with the Independent Film Channel (IFC), Tivo ... Anyone who has a Mac knows and loves Small Dog Electronics for their great products and prices. But did you know that a Mac's best friend is now a best friend to man's best friend? Small Dog Electronics now has an area of their website ... In case you haven't heard, Sony Ericsson has recently announced their line of Walkman Phones (cellphones) including both the 'candy bar' (non-flip, buttons on the front) style w800, and the swivel version (the top swivels up to reveal the keypad) w600. They ... I've received a lot of questions asking what Baidu is, and why all the hoopla over Baidu? Well, Baidu (Nasdaq symbol "BIDU" - more on that in a moment) is the Chinese search engine which is being tauted as the next Google, and ... Ok, now convergence isn't anything new. Heck, it was going on way before every man, woman and child was carrying a portable device (see here for my rant about cell phones for children). Witness, for example, the fact that I ... It seems that "Firefly" is a popular name for small, portable devices this month. First we had the Firefly cell phone for children, and now we have the Firefly "145 g unguided projectile" ballistic camera. Yep, you load this little baby into a ... Cellular phones for children? What won't they think of next? When you buy one of these cellular phones for your child, and you know that you will, think about yourself at that age, and whether you would have needed one, and how it would have changed your childhood if you'd had one. What do you get for the person who has everything? Well, if you, or they, or hopefully both, have a good sense of humour (or..something..), perhaps you might want to get them the ear wax which is currently up for bid on eBay. ... Ok, now admit it. How many of you set ringtones not for people you like, and whose call you want to be sure to answer, but for people whom you don't like, and whose call you want to be sure to avoid? For ... Aunty Spam's Big Book of Spam Filters Spam. It floods your inbox with viruses, phishing attacks, and trojans. It lets hackers and attackers onto your computer. And try as you might, you can't seem to get rid of it. Until now. Spam Proof Your Inbox That's right. Aunty Spam ... Yahoo will be announcing on Monday that it has purchased Arlo Rose's Konfabulator for an undisclosed amount of money. Yahoo will also be announcing that it will drop the price for Konfabulator from the current $19.99 to zero. That's right. Zippo. ... The newest craze? BlogPins. BlogPins are 3-inch mini CDs. Of course, 3-inch mini CDs have been around for ages, but what is new is that these come with a special holder which is a 3-inch plastic holder with a pin ... Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has announced the publishing of FBI files and President Richard Nixon audio recordings, related to Mark Felt, "Deep Throat", and the FBI's relationship with President Nixon. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) July 21, 2005 -- Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has announced the publishing ... Will people never learn? Apparently not, as California's Blue Security brings us Blue Frog, YADDASP (Yet Another DDOSing Anti-Spam Program). The underpinning of start-up Blue Security's Blue Frog is the "Do Not Intrude" registry. Users register up to three email addresses ... Every once in a while Aunty comes across a nice, novel, and altruistic use of the Internet. Such is this site which just came to Aunty's attention. Classical music. As you may be aware, for various legal reasons having to do with copyright ... Tivo first came to prominence as the company which allowed its customers to record whatever they wanted from television whenever they wanted - anything, any time - with the touch of a button. And it allowed its customers to skip commercials. Woohoo! It turns ... There's something almost laterally recursive about a television show which is about online dating. That in itself seems kind of lame. But there it is, and apparently ABC decided it was a worthy topic, as they aired their "Hooking Up" ABC ... This is an interesting concept, although Aunty's not sure how this differs from just getting online and searching for your information yourself, other than that you have to pay for one, and the other is free. MyPublicInfo has created identity theft protection software after ... With the summer travel season upon us, here's how to find out whether an airport offers free wireless Internet access ("wifi"), so that you can use your laptop to find a place to sleep if you're stuck at the airport. But first, let Aunty ... The Mozilla Foundation has just released their Firefox 1.0.5 security update for Firefox, coincidentally at the same time as Microsoft released their own monthly security patches for Windows. Firefox 1.0.5 also upgrades and improves the browser's stability itself, but the most important aspect ... A new service is being offered by security company Sophos, which purports to alert businesses if a computer on their network has been compromised by being zombied. While what it actually does is tell you whether a computer on your network ... Here's an interesting new service! Imagine that you are driving along, listening to the radio (you guys do remember that classic antique, the car radio, right?) And a song comes on that you really like. Or that really annoys your ... There's a funny phenomena Aunty has noticed since getting a ReplayTV, and which she's since confirmed with all of her friends and colleagues who own Tivo or ReplayTV recorders - contrary to what one might expect, you actually end up watching less television ... Microsoft has announced the release of their updated Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), version 2.0. For those of you not familiar with this nifty piece of free software, it essentially scans your computer for security risks, including poor or sloppy configuration, security ... California Senator Debra Bowen, known for her tough stance against spam, is now taking a shot (no pun intended) at what she sees as another Internet scourge: real-time remote Internet hunting of live game. While some consider the Senator's stand on the remote ... Well, Aunty thought that she had heard of everything, but once again she was wrong. Move over, Internet urinal, and make room for the MP3 Toilet. Really. Now, the manufacturer, Toto Toilets, is actually known for making a very high quality, and almost unblockable ... Here's an interesting item which came across Aunty's desk this morning - somehow this feels like the line between churc..er...eBay and state is being crossed: WASHINGTON, June 20 -- Quick, easy, convenient -- and effective. That's all customers need to know ... Google sure does a lot of nifty things with their search and archive capabilities! And one of those things is that it now archives your search history. Meaning that if you are logged in to Google, and perform a Google search, ... In the world of really dumb ideas, this one is, well...really dumb. Actually the underlying concept is not dumb, but the execution surely is. Spam Mimic is a new site which allows you to encrypt your email into an unreadable code so that ... A new service is offering celebrity mugshots to download as wallpaper for your cellphone. Who wouldn't want to take a call to Carmen Electra, Yasmine Bleeth, or Anna Nicole Smith's smiling face? Well, ok, maybe they aren't exactly smiling as, ... As some of her gentle readers know, Aunty is an Amazon affiliate. That means that from time to time Aunty gets a heads up on some great deals at Amazon which may be of interest to Aunty's readers. Examples include the ... McDonald's is introducing, I kid you not, downloadable music and ringtones under the golden arches. The offerings, available via Blaze Net kiosks, are McDonald's latest bid to stay current with the times. Other offerings include store-wide wifi, and McLattes. Said ... VoIP is the new VoIP! Spontania is Video4Skype! "What's that Aunty?" you ask. "Have you had too many add-shots in your Starbucks today?" Nope! Video over IP is the new "VoIP"! Where VoIP has always stood for Voice over IP (Internet ... You can now pet a chicken across the Internet! Yes, that's right - sit in your apartment in New York City, and experience the rural life by petting a chicken in Iowa. Oliver and Lisa Douglas ain't got nothing on you! ... It's bad enough to get the oft joked about blue screen of death on your computer, or even your ATM, but your car's computer system is not the place you want to see a software bug - particularly when it has the potential ... Microsoft is rolling out a new program, called "Windows OneCare". The idea is that one service will do it all - provide security, protection, take care of maintenance, and optimize performance. Of course, you need to be able to trust the ... How many people a day do you suppose go into a mega-electronics store like Circuit City and purchase a new computer? And how many of those people do you suppose have the store like Circuit City transfer their personal data from their ... If you own any McAfee or Norton Security product for your Windows machine, you can now either upgrade or switch to McAfee Internet Security Suite 2005 (7.0) for free! "How's that work, Aunty?" you may ask. Well, it works like this! Right ... With the introduction of its new AIM Mail service, Internet giant America Online (AOL) has jumped on the "free webmail with 2 gigabytes of storage" bandwagon, but with an added twist: the new service is tied in to your AOL Instant Messenger ... Even before security became one of the top issues on the Internet, remembering passwords was a hassle, admit it. Far too many of us recycle the same password or few passwords, over and over, knowing that we shouldn't, and hoping that nobody ... Yep, they've finally done it. Yahoo has matched Gmail's watershed 1GB (gigabyte) of email storage. According to the splash screen at http://whatsnew.mail.yahoo.com, "By early May, all free Yahoo! Mail users will receive an email storage increase to a whopping 1GB. That's enough ... The early reviews of Mac's new Tiger have been mixed, to be sure. And in addition to the usual bugs, it seems that folks are really up in arms about the UI (User Interface). Indeed, enough people of sufficient clue ... Pity poor Brian Cartmell, CEO of SpamArrest. He has a tough job: going hat in hand from site to site saying "please take down the bad things you said about us." Spam Arrest is the purveyor of an anti-spam challenge/response system. ... Internet savvy teenagers are increasingly turning to the Internet to buy their cigarettes. It makes sense - there are few if any laws regulating the sale of tobacco to minors across the Internet, and due to the interstate nature of such transactions, ... Download.com, a division of CNet Networks, has announced that it has purged its extensive library of downloadable software of all programs which contained adware, and that it will strictly enforce its new policy of zero tolerance for such adware-infested programs. The move follows Download.com's ... GlassLock SpyGuard. It sounds like your special spy name from one of those Internet name generators, doesn't it? But it's actually a real product. Remember when Aunty told you about the DefendAir paint you could use to paint your house, ... Never miss a show again! You can take it with you! Internet tv, and even cellphone television, are now a reality! Introducing OMN (Open Media Network) for the Internet, MobiTV for your cellphone! Wow! Cellevision! Aunty has ... Have you heard about "domain shame"? Do you, perhaps, even suffer from domain shame? Or maybe you are one of the legion of users who identify those who should suffer from domain shame? The term "domain shame", recently coined by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Don Fernandez, refers to how you feel about and how others perceive that bit to the right of the "@" symbol in your email address. Ok, now that you know to avoid the virus which deletes MP3s, here is some happy news. Did you know that Amazon offers free downloads of songs in MP3 format? Yep, it's true! At any given times there are 200 ... Yes, you read that right! Get a T-Mobile Sidekick II (a/k/a the Danger Hiptop) for free! Actually it's better than free! Believe it or not, right now, after rebates, you will make $50.00 when you buy a T-Mobile Sidekick II ... Many of our gentle readers know that I adore my T-Mobile Sidekick (also known, hardware-wise, as the Danger Hiptop). Despite the Sidekick being in the news lately primarily due to Paris Hilton's Sidekick being hacked, it is a wonderful little device, ... From the fine people who first brought you Geocities comes Goowy mail. Goowy mail is, so far as Aunty knows, the first commercial scale web-based email application built on Flash. This allows Goowy to offer a free webmail ... Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg obviously hasn't read How to Win Friends and Influence People, and clearly has a thing or two to learn about customer service and public relations. In a recently published interview he actually derided Verizon Wireless customers who want ... Don't you just hate stupid Adsense ads? And stupid Adsense ads are everywhere, aren't they? Well, turn that stupid Adsense-induced frown upside down, dear reader, because now you can be part of a glorious chance to laugh at those stupid Adsense ... iPod Mini fans do lots of interesting things with their tiny machines, but George Masters has taken it to a new art, literally. Masters has created the ultimate advertisement for his tiny machine, basing his homemade iPod Mini commercial on, appropriately enough, ... A new kid on the Internet block is the Podcast. It has gotten a lot of attention lately, but the majority of people have no idea what a Podcast, or podcasting, is. Many assume that it must have something to do ... With all the Internet nasties now available for all Internet-connected devices, Aunty thought that she'd also tell you about an Internet goody. MSPot is offering MSpot Radio, which is a service which delivers radio broadcast to your Internet-connected cellular phone! ... The city of Dayton, Ohio, has gone online with city-wide and city-sponsored free wifi. And Dayton is not the first city to do so. In Dayton, anyone within a mile square of the Dayton downtown area can connect to the Internet, ... ThinkGeek is offering a free t-shirt with any $10.00 purchase, this weekend only. Now, Aunty knows that your favourite source of information about the Internet and all its nasties is Aunty herself, but there are other worthy reads out there. In fact, ... Forget RFIDs (although Amal Graafstra won't be able to any time soon). Barcoding, Inc., has announced a system that uses regular old wifi to track physical assets. Being called a "Wi-fi asset location system", Barcoding explains that it works by placing a special ... Ok, now this is a really cute use of the Internet. It's kind of like WheresGeorge meets Linked In. You register on the site, and then you write your name (just a first name is fine) and the website address on the ... In a novel use of email campaigns, TiVo has emailed a group of journalists, offering them a special $200 off their new TiVo Humax DVR. Yet TiVo denies that it is trying to drum up journalistic support or - gasp - coverage ... Did you hear? IBM is spamming spammers! It's all over the Internet, and tongues are a'wagging! Except, it ain't so. IBM is not spamming spammers. Whether you think that spamming spammers is right or wrong, IBM ain't doing ... GreenBorder is a new kind of protection for Internet Explorer (IE) and Outlook, and the folks over at GreenBorder claim that they "make IE safe to use. Really." But what is GreenBorder? And what makes it different from all of ... Identity theft insurance? It's obviously an idea whose time has come. In fact some would say that identity theft insurance is an idea whose time is long overdue. Just ask anyone whose personal data has recently been compromised by either ... If you blinked you might have missed it. Google's labs had put up "Google X", a Google search home page which emulated Apple's Mac OS X look and feel, particularly with respect to the dock function. When you used the Google ... The vast majority of Operation Amber alerts are not about "stolen" children at all, but about custody disputes. This reduces the effectiveness of both the Operation Amber Alerts and the resources used to find these "stolen" children. If anybody can have an Amber Alert issued over a custody or visitation dispute, what happens to the alerts and resources need for children who are truly victim to a non-family abduction? What a coincidence! Just yesterday Aunty was talking about DVRs and her ReplayTV, and how much she adores her ReplayTV, and now she comes across this fantastic deal on..you guessed it, a ReplayTV! And when Aunty says a fantastic deal, she means a ... MSN for Mac OS X will soon be a thing of the past. Microsoft has announced that they will no longer be offering or supporting their MSN service for Mac OS X, effective May 31st of this year. Said a Microsoft ... A lot of people seem to be looking for information about AOL Coach lately. Usually, although not always, they are looking for the helper application called AOL Coach, although there is also "AOL Coaches", which is AOL's online self-help and life-improvement program. AOL ... DVR maker TiVo and cable giant Comcast have closed a deal which will have TiVo's services, although not their DVR boxes, offered through Comcast, with the TiVo brand. This replay of the familiar DVR+broadcast offering, first made popular by TiVo and DirecTV, ... A recent survey of more than 30,000 blog readers, completed and sponsored by BlogAds, has found that nearly 25% of all blog readers are between the ages of 31 and 40, earning somewhere between $45,000 and $120,000 per year, with 21% earning $60,000 ... The Bluetooth robot camera, controlled by your Bluetooth phone, is here! Forget about upskirting or videoing yourself with your camera phone while having sex, now you can send your new Bluetooth robot phone camera to do the job! Dubbed ROB-1 by its maker, ... T-Mobile Sidekick users across the country are suffering a Danger network outage which is leaving their Sidekicks unable to communicate across the Danger data network, rendering the T-Mobile Sidekicks just glorified T-Mobile telephones. The Danger network outage, which started yesterday, shows no ... Voipullar? What is that? Well, take VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and combine it with a handheld Internet-able device such as a PDA or a smart phone, and what do you get? What some people are now referring to ... Ok, now Aunty really has heard of everything. And just in case you haven't, here it is... The Internet Urinal Yes, you read that right. The Internet Urinal. Those whacky guys over at ThinkGeek.com have taken the ordinary portable urinal (with female adaptor!), and ... Rogue Amoeba, the software company who has brought us such innovative software as Audio Hijack and Nicecast, have done it again with Airfoil. Airfoil, Rogue Ameoba's newest offering, allows you to stream audio from just about any program, wirelessly, to your Airport Express ... From Across the Pond, written by Andrew Robinson over at Spamfo: We've seen the offering from Lycos, makelovenotspam which is no longer available, and the more recent software aimed at 419ers entitled the mugu marauder. So what next, Spampires want you to pay to ... Can't reach Hotmail? Hotmail experienced a service outage this week, as countless Hotmail.com customers were unable to access their email due to a server going down. SpamAssassin has handily won as the best anti-spam product in Datamation's Product of the Year 2005 Awards, receiving nearly twice as many votes as the next closest contender. Not surprising. Aunty Spam uses, and heartily endorses, SpamAssassin. And of course, so do ... April 12th is the very last day. That's when the clock runs, and the deadline looms. And here you thought it was April 15th. Nope, it's the twelfth. Because we're not talking about the day your taxes are due. On ... You know that spam which everyone gets for penis enlargement supplements? (Uh, you do all get that, don't you? Or maybe that's just Aunty...) Well, believe it or not, some people actually buy that stuff! (Remember Aunty's rant about people who ... Benjamin Park was caught red-handed when a homeowner's webcam caught real-time pictures of him burgling the house - even though Park also stole the computer to which the webcam was attached! Duncan Grisby, a British software engineer, had thought the webcam-based security system up ... Here's an interesting scenario: Someone somehow manages to get your credit card number (of course you would never fall for a phisher's bait... your virus, spyware and firewall software are all up-to-date... you don't leave your card lying around... and who uses ... Yesterday Aunty wrote to tell you about the Mugu Marauder, a new "art project" by an organization calling themselves "Artists Against 419". The project has participants link to images from 419 scammer's websites and display them on the participant's own website, causing ... A group calling themselves "Artists Against 419" are asking Windows users to take part in their Mugu Marauder "art" project and take down the scam sites hosted by so-called "419 scammers". The "Mugu" in "Mugu Marauder" apparently is the term which the ... It's that time of year - nearly spring, when a young man's fancy turns to love, couples think about Valentine's Day, and wage-earners think about..filing taxes. And as their special Valentines to you, Intuit, the makers of Quicken, would like to give you ... Australian Internet device and software maker Exinda, Inc. has developed a system which allows employers to snoop on the online browsing habits of their employees. Said Con Nikolouzakis, Director of Exinda, "If you use your office computer for Internet banking and booking theater tickets, ... The next time you are tempted to borrow someone's copy of their favourite software, take note: software developers, sick of having their software pirated, are starting to boobytrap it. That's right. In an interesting twist, it is being reported that Anton Tomov, ... Those of you who have been playing along at home may be aware that Microsoft was called on the carpet in Europe on unfair competition charges. The claim was that by bundling Windows Media Player with Windows XP, Microsoft was gaining an ... Consider it Netscape's valentine to the world. Netscape, now a division of Time Warner, which in turn is a subsidiary of America Online, will be releasing a beta version of its new Netscape 8 on Thursday, February 17th (so mark your calendars!) Netscape 8 is ... Dear Gentle Readers, Have you been helped, amused, or entertained by something which Aunty has written for you? If so, you can show your appreciation by sending Aunty some flowers! Yes, your old Aunty just loves flowers, and her good friends over at Flowers Fast have ... The Windows Genuine Advantage Program (WGA) is a way for the Microsoft bouncer to check your Windows' I.D. at the door. You heard it here first (Aunty sure appreciates her little birdies!) U.S.-based ISP giant Earthlink and Korean-based SK Telecom have just this morning announced that they have joined forces to form a national wireless provider here in the United States. What does this mean ... Microsoft announced today that it is about to start offering a stand-alone version of Outlook, separate from Office, which includes both a copy of Outlook and a subscription to either a Hotmail or MSN email account. In September Microsoft discontinued its service ... Are you worried about your neighbors tapping in to and using your home wireless computer network? Or, worse, about wardrivers hijacking your wifi and using it to send a run of spam? Well, a Sunnyvale, California company has a suggestion for you: paint your ... Consider it an act of contrition, largesse, or just good business sense, but Microsoft is making available its new anti-spyware software free to Windows users. Having acquired anti-spyware maker Giant Company last month, it was anticipated that Microsoft would enfold a spyware fighting product ... Wondering about the perfect gift for the iPodite in your life? Well, look no further. How about their own personal iPod ad - you know, those trendy dark silhouettes on a vibrant background, with a standout white iPod and headset prominently ... The United States Air Force has announced that it has gotten with the times. No longer prohibiting its members from using an instant messenger client to chat with people outside the company, such as loved ones back home, the Air Force has ... Internet giant America Online (AOL) has said that they are in beta testing with a new free webmail service, along the lines of Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail. Dubbed "AOL Mail on the Web" (AMW? AOLMW?), it is already available to existing AOL ... SpamItBack is a software which you can download, and which claims to allow you to create a message which you'd like to get across to those who spam you, and to "target the spammers websites, online ordering forms, or any personal spam e-mail ... Information Security Magazine, following extensive review, has published its list of the top security products for 2004. Evaluating products in a baker's dozen of categories, and with a first, second, and third place in each (gold, silver, and bronze, respectively), this is ... Network World Fusion has just released the results of its test of forty-one spam filters! Apparently when they put out the word that they would be reviewing spam filters, they had anticipated that maybe ten or so would show up to the ... Anyone who is even remotely interested in the spam issue, how spammers work, why spammers spam, and, perhaps most importantly, how the rest of us are contributing to the problem, and what we can do about it, should run, not walk, to their closest bookstore or online bookseller to pick up a copy of Danny Goodman's outstanding Spam Wars. Lycos Europe is offering a controversial new screen saver to Windows users (and Mac, as well). Marketing it under the "Make Love, Not Spam" banner, the screensaver is designed to send requests to view a known spam source's website. The idea is that when a ... Now here's a cool little gadget for the privacy freak who has everything. Lexar has announced that beginning next week they will be selling a USB drive which reads your fingerprint, and converts the reading off the ridges into a password. For subsequent use, if ... Lx_CATS is a Lexmark printer file, installed by Lexmark, which spies on your printer usage and reports back to the Lexmark mother ship. Wow, talk about reinventing the square wheel! Startup Affini, Inc., of Saratoga, California, has launched a new email system with an integrated "pay to send to our users" feature. Guy Kawasaki's newest book, "The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything" was just released today, and it's hot - even hotter than the flame which burns bright on its cover. While it's a wonderful book for ... Dear Gentle Readers, Remember before everybody had email, and people logged in to private bulletin board systems ("BBS")? If you long for the days when internal correspondence at the office was hand-delivered in those yellow 8x11 envelopes with 172 names scratched out and yours ... Users of the "Did They Read It" ("DTRI") service run their email to you through the DTRI server, where a web bug is embedded in the email. When you open the email to read it, the web bug reports back to DTRI that you have opened the email, and where, geographically, the IP address you are using is located. Somehow, I lucked into having a Gmail beta account (who knew I had friends in those high places?) Here are my first impressions: First, Gmail doesn't work with Safari; very annoying. It does, however, work with Firefox. I also found it frustrating ... Kudos to the Daily Show's Rob Cordrey for his deft segment in which he interviews notorious U.S. spammer Scott Richter. Although we of course don't condone the offering online of proprietary content, we have it on good authority that .mov and .wmv files of ... 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