Ma.gnolia Data is Gone For Good

On January 30, Ma.gnolia’s servers crashed, knocking the social website offline. According to founder Larry Halff they have not been able to recover the data.

Posted on: February 20, 2009 9:00 am

How-To: Adding RAM to Unibody MacBooks

Popping open a unibody MacBook may not be your idea of fun, as there are warnings about voiding the warranty, but if you’d like to add some memory to your new toy, here are some instructions.

Posted on: February 20, 2009 9:00 am

Show Us Your Best iPhone Art

People are using apps, like Brushes and Colors, to create mini-artworks on their iPhone. Now Wired is running a contest to showcase these works.

Posted on: February 20, 2009 9:00 am

Gadget Lab: Pulse Smart Pen

It looks like a large, thick pen and it writes, much like a regular ball-point. But, using special paper, it will record everything you write or draw so it can be synced with your computer. Oh yeah, it records sound too.

Posted on: February 19, 2009 9:00 am

Netbooks for Business: Do They Make Sense?

With the low price, even from “name-brands”, netbooks are tempting enterprise IT departments. What’s not to love when the even small size can be seen as a benefit?

Posted on: February 19, 2009 9:00 am

New hacking method stealthily attacks Macs with malware

Fewer Macs on the market used to mean fewer attacks were launched against them. Now hackers are beginning to target Mac’s OS X.

Posted on: February 19, 2009 9:00 am

Ignite Launches Weekly Video Series Highlighting the Best of Geek Culture

Kicking off with Jason Grigsby’s five minute presentation on “Cup Noodle: Innovation, Inspiration, and Manga”, The Ignite Show, the best Ignite sessions from around the world, will now available online.

Posted on: February 19, 2009 9:00 am

Flying and Crashing and Exploding Servers

Proving that some people just want to see things go boom, several geeks offered up old servers for experimentation. Some flew off buildings or were run over by a tractor, others got too close to TNT and C4. Data was probably not recoverable.

Posted on: February 19, 2009 9:00 am

How two nuke subs could collide

How exactly do two super-secret stealthy submarines, hiding out in 77.6 million cubic miles of Atlantic Ocean, somehow manage to occupy the exact same space at the exact same time, and have a nuclear-powered fender-bender?

In our own David Gewirtz’ latest CNN article, he explains in Big boomers go boom: how two nuclear subs could collide.

Posted on: February 18, 2009 9:00 am

O’Reilly Webcast – Developing Applications for webOS: A Preview

In this live, online event February 25 at 10am PT, Mitch Allen, Palm’s Software CTO will recap the material from “Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo Framework”.

Posted on: February 18, 2009 9:00 am