2006

What Is The Definition Of A Blog?

2:57 pm PST • December 31, 2006

Yesterday Google posted the yearly stats for the Official Google Blog. Not bad – 294 posts, 7.6 million unique visitors and 15 million page views. Technorati ranks the Google Blog…

FedEx woke me up. Saturday delivery. I was hungover as hell. I opened the package to find a T-Mobile Motorola Dolce & Gabbana RAZR. So before I threw up and…

RawSugar In DeadPool

4:16 pm PST • December 30, 2006

RawSugar (the site is currently down), a company with offices in Israel and Silicon Valley, is closing shop (also reported by Steve Rubel and Rafael Sidi) and will enter the…

Google's Tipping Point

4:34 am PST • December 30, 2006

Taken in a vacuum, a fairly trivial thing happened a few days ago. The co-founder of Firefox, Blake Ross, wrote a post criticizing Google called “Tip: Trust is hard to…

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Daily Crunch: Scorcher Edition

3:00 am PST • December 30, 2006

Air Dry That Sh*t…Not Ha Ha Ha Ha! Lets Go! Rider Kick! LG’s Latest And Greatest (well maybe not greatest)

Which Superhero Are You?

11:01 pm PST • December 29, 2006

Geeks definitely love comic books and superheroes, and that’s why this simple site that tells you what superhero you are based on a few questions has seen over 12 million…

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Reader Response: Holiday SPECTACULAR Days 04/05

7:05 pm PST • December 29, 2006

I’ve been jamming out to Man Man and doing nothing productive today, because let’s face it, there isn’t really anything to report today. We almost nothing. We do still have…

Ergonomic Roundup at CrunchGear

4:13 pm PST • December 29, 2006

As techies, there are few components that affect our bodies as heavily as our chairs. Sitting in a chair for countless hours every day has a notable impact on our…

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Air Dry That Sh*t…Not

3:42 pm PST • December 29, 2006

For any surfers, divers, watermen/women in the CG audience Hangair has a pretty bitchin way to dry your wetty. If you’re like me then the thought of pulling on a…

Hardware

Lets Go! Rider Kick!

3:41 pm PST • December 29, 2006

Straight outta Japan, where else…seriously, in commemoration of Kamen Rider’s 35th anniversary Zippo has released a very limited edition, 100 total sets, set of lighters to celebrate how much ass…

Another new mobile from LG launched under Cyon in Korea. The LG SB190 boasts DMB and GPS services via Nate Drive along with a 1.3 megapixel camera, mp3 playback and…

Hardware

My Cool Friend The iHolic

3:36 pm PST • December 29, 2006

Korea’s Dacos has launched a new mp3 player with DMB support. I know I know, we can’t get it here so why even bother telling you about it. Because I…

When PayPerPost announced the acquisition of most of the Performancing assets earlier this week, a lot of people asked about the future of the popular Performancing blogging plugin, which wasn’t…

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Ha Ha Ha Ha!

2:12 pm PST • December 29, 2006

Nothing makes us cringe more than a gadget getting beaten up or destroyed. However, this Tickle Me Elmo doll that looks like a Private in Vietnam being torched with napalm…

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iTunes Music Store iPod Games Are Cracked

11:14 am PST • December 29, 2006

So if you’re like, one of those guys who really needed an iPod game that you bought one, you’re in luck. Through a fairly easy method, you can crack iPod…

Hardware

Love Music? Love Last.fm

10:37 am PST • December 29, 2006

If you are any way into music and use any semi-popular MP3 player (software-based), you should check out Last.fm! You install a little plugin onto your PC or Mac and…

Hardware

The AudioFile: Can't They All Just Get Along?

9:00 am PST • December 29, 2006

Face it, DRM is here to stay. Sure there are cracks (thanks DVD Jon!), file-sharing networks, and Bit Torrent, but the fact is many people are still buying digital music…

Tag Your Desktop Stuff With Tag2Find

4:20 am PST • December 29, 2006

Tagging should be a feature of operating systems. It’s usually a superior way of organizing information v. folders because a file can be placed in only a single folder, but…

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Daily Crunch: RPG Edition

3:11 am PST • December 29, 2006

History of Computerized RPGs: The Wonder Years Dazzling Toaster Amps Workspace Roundup: Ergonomic Chairs Solar Powered GPS Receiver for Hermits, Perverts The Futurist: MacWorld’s-A-Comin’ or… The Perfect Musicphone

Google's Orkut Down For 13+ Hours

2:27 am PST • December 29, 2006

Google’s Orkut social network, which has been having a bit of a renaissance this year, has been down for the last thirteen hours as of 2 am PST. It’s unlikely…

Metrics company Hitwise writes a sensational blog post showing the dramatic rise of Google Blog Search against competitors Technorati and Sphere. Their data is saying that this week, for the…

Google made a clarification today to their much criticized list of most popular queries in their search engine. The list raised eyebrows because it included some fairly unlikely terms. “Bebo”…

This slipped by me earlier in the month, but it’s a pretty cool little drive of special interest to shutterbugs. It’s an upcoming storage device developed in a partnership between…

Just a week after I wrote “Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect” a number of users started complaining that all of their Gmail emails and contacts were auto deleted. The…

That fancy GPS unit you just got for Xmas isn’t going to do you a whole lot of good in the woods if its battery dies. No, sadly, you’re to…

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Workspace Roundup: Ergonomic Chairs

1:22 pm PST • December 28, 2006

As techies, there are few components that affect us more so than our chairs. Sitting in a chair for countless hours every day has a notable impact on our bodies.…

Growing up, NERF guns were my true arsenal. I remember being the first kid on the block to get the Balzooka – a gatling-gun that shot multiple NERF balls at…

Red Herring and VentureBeat are reporting that Digg closed an $8.5 million Series B round of financing from previous investors Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network, bringing the the total…

Hardware

Check Out The 2nd Amendment In Action

12:10 pm PST • December 28, 2006

You know what. For today, guns are gear. Enjoy this crazy 90-year old bitch firing off an automatic.

Hardware

Amazon.com's Best Of 2006 List Released

10:55 am PST • December 28, 2006

Amazon.com released its year-end “Best of” lists, which tallies up not only the best-selling items for the site’s various stores, but also the most positively reviewed, most wished-for and most…