D-Link has announced a new line of mini adapters. The PowerLine AV Mini Adapter (DHP-310AV) and PowerLine AV Mini Adapter Starter Kit (DHP-311AV), as well as the PowerLine AV 4-Port Switch Mini Adapter Starter Kit (DHP-348AV) use existing electrical wiring to create a high-speed home network delivering speeds of up to 200Mbps.

Halloween is coming. What better way to celebrate than with a zombie-themed, interactive e-book for your color tablet? There’s even a special price for a limited time.

If you’re a programmer, and know C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, C#, or PHP, Facebook offers a challenge. They’ve posted a test, to screen potential employees, that anyone can take. All you need is an internet connection and about an hour.

You can go to a URL (uniform resource locator) service and get a shortened address. But these sites frown on spammers using their services so spammers have created their own URL shortening sites.

It seems that “Smart Cover unlocking” on your iPad 2 works regardless of whose cover is placed on your iPad. Setting a password doesn’t prevent this feature from unlocking your iPad to just anyone. This page includes a workaround.

The 7-inch Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is available for order now. The 16GB Wi-Fi-only version is priced at $400 leaving some to wonder if it’s over-priced. The Amazon Kindle Fire and Kobo Vox will sell for about half the price.

Kindle Format 8, or KF8, is the new, HTML5-based format for Kindle readers. KF8 will include some new features and replace the Mobi 7 format. An update will be available soon.

Opera Reader, a test version is available for Opera 12, will turn longer web pages into more book-like pages you can turn, much like you do with an e-reader.

If you like to download files through BitTorrent sites, and you use Skype, researchers have figured out a way to identify you. They managed to sift through the peer-to-peer connections to get IP addresses, names, and addresses.

BBX is a hybrid of BlackBerry, HTML5, and QNX platforms. It’s a big gamble for the company to change their operating system and, if it doesn’t work, RIM may follow Palm.