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 margin of a dollar bill (yes, it’s legal…

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 for its newest TiVo DVR. Not that there’s…

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 it, and shame on CNN for getting it so wrong, and making…

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 the other anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-everything software which may not actually…

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 the hacking of ChoicePoint’s data or the Scamming of Lexis…

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 X interface, above the search box were cute little…

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 fantastic deal, so she felt that she…

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 representative, “Beginning May 31, Microsoft will make changes and…

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 Coach (singular) is the program which runs…

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, is a badly needed boost for TiVo, who…

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 to $90,000 per year, and that the…

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, Sony Ericsson, the new robot camera can…

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 signs of letting up as one day has…

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 as Voipullar calling. In fact many believe that Voipullar (or VOIPullar,…