The Maker Faire combines creativity with the DIY community and serves it up in a two-day event. Now in its sixth year, Maker Faire Bay Area runs May 21-22 at the San Mateo County Event Center. This year’s theme is “From Maker Space to Outer Space”.

The HTC 7 Pro has launched as the HTC Arrive in the US. It runs WinPhone7 and includes a QWERTY keyboard that pulls out at the side. The downside, Microsoft apparently didn’t envision this style of keyboard. This review includes a 10-minute video showing how the phone works.

Opera 11.10 beta is now available for download. This version offers several improvements, including a new browser core to speed performance, and support for CSS3’s multi-column layouts and gradients.

The RUstock botnet has been taken off-line. Why it isn’t working is something of a mystery but, for right now it’s quiet, and the flood of spam is slightly less.

D-Link announced availability of the new Wireless N 150 Pico Adapter (DWA-121) and Wireless N Nano USB Adapter (DWA-131). Both adapters feature Wireless N technology in a compact design to connect your laptop or desktop computer to a Wi-Fi network.

Now that e-readers are fairly common, the next step would seem to be a dedicated e-writing device on which to scribble all your notes. The inexpensive Boogie Board aims to fill that niche.

The U.S. military has blocked access to 13 sites, including YouTube, ESPN, Amazon, eBay, and MTV, from military computers in order to free bandwidth for use in Japan recovery efforts. These sites were chosen because of their popularity, not because of content.

Users of American Greetings free online photo storage site, PhotoWorks, will be given the option of moving their collections to Shutterfly. PhotoWorks will shut down on April 4 though users will have until May 2, 2011 to transfer photos to Shutterfly.

Resco has released Resco MobileForms Toolkit 2011 Volume 3 for application development for Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, iOS, and Android. Volume 3 includes new components and functionality for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7.

Sometimes instant communication isn’t such a good thing. Fake text messages, claiming to be from the BBC, have caused concern in Manila.