01/06/2009 Seagate unveils highest-density hard drive Bigger hard drives coming your way. more info

01/06/2009 If a 13 year-old can launch a startup you have no excuse My name's Scott. I'm 13 and have launched a web startup. So began an email exchange over last weekend which culminated with me ... more info

01/06/2009 10 Free Music Based Games for the iPhone & iPod Touch Music-based games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have become wildly popular, so it only makes sense that similar games are being created for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Both devices have a plethora of gaming apps, but only a handful of those are free and based around music. more info

01/06/2009 How the Famous Tweeple Got Hacked So how did the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Facebook, and others get broken into and littered with inappropriate messages earlier today? It wasn’t residue from this weekend’s phishing problems, but rather, a breach of Twitter’s customer support tools. more info

01/06/2009 This Is Why I Love Linux. yeha true.. very true.. Linux is better.. after a few years.. it will doninate! more info

01/06/2009 Mininova's Torrent Downloads Double to 7 Billion in a Year The BitTorrent popularity surge is still underway, with more users discovering that it’s the fastest way to transfer large files online. One of the most frequently visited torrent sites, Mininova, has seen the number of torrent downloads double from 3.5 billion to 7 billion during 2008, and this download rate is still increasing. more info

01/06/2009 Rumor: New Mac Mini Stuffed With Up to 1TB Storage More evidence that the new Mac minis are at least partly geared toward the cheap server market: SeeFile dropped their press release pimping support of the "new Apple Mac Mini hardware" just a little early. They specifically mention a complete bundled system with a "Mac mini server with 1 terabyte of storage." more info

01/06/2009 Seagate First To Demo USB 3.0 Seagate has announced that it will showing off "the world's first consumer product application of USB 3.0" at this year's CES. more info

01/06/2009 Browser Add-On Makes Flickr's Galleries Faster Browser add-on Flickr Gallery Plus adds extended functionality to Flickr's set view, allowing users to click through to see full versions of each shot without having to reload the page. Once installed it will go out and pre-fetch the larger sized version of each shot, making big sets a cinch to speed through. more info

01/06/2009 First! 14-Year-Old Already in Line for Macworld '09 Keynote It wouldn't be the eve of a Macworld Expo keynote if there wasn't already some crazy person waiting in line to be first into the hall. This year, that crazy person is already there, and has been there for (as of this writing) more than 10 hours. more info

01/06/2009 Macworld 2009: The Gingerbread Mac [Gallery] Check out this gingerbread Mac, created by a festive fanboy known only as minorbug. It stands 7-8 inches tall and features chocolate icons, ports, and other lovely little iced details, as you can see in these pictures. more info

01/06/2009 A new era for Macworld Expo Without Steve Jobs delivering his trademark keynote address, Macworld Expo won't likely make the same splash. But the show goes on, for now at least. A CNET article by CNET News.com Staff, Staff Writer, CNET News. Published on January 5, 2009 9:00 AM PST. more info

01/06/2009 Update: Twitter blames celebrity hack on 'individual' CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn't the phishing scam that's been going around--it was a lone hacker, the microblogging service said later on Monday. more info

01/06/2009 China Launches Crackdown on Internet Pornography China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google. more info

01/06/2009 Campaign to Stop File-Sharers Being “Guilty Upon Accusation” Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, which means that if a file-sharer is simply accused of copyright infringement, they are immediately guilty. The punishment - summary Internet disconnection. more info

01/06/2009 Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard It couldn't be simpler! more info

01/06/2009 Google to Release Picasa Beta for Mac Google plans to release on Monday a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloging, and uploading photos. more info

01/05/2009 Comcast Able To Slow Bandwidth Hogs Across Its Network Again Comcast, which got in trouble with the FCC for its P2P-throttling approach to network management has now completed its plan that deals with bandwidth hogs by slowing all broadband traffic for heavy Internet users during times of congestion. The new system is Protocol-Agnostic which means it isn't targeting P2P protocols only, therefor ok by the FCC more info

01/05/2009 Cheap Thrills: Gadget Makers Bet on Budget Gear in 2009 Get ready for an onslaught of the cheap. With the economy more unstable than Plaxico Burress' mental state, electronics manufacturers are putting the e-brakes on their budgets, more info

01/05/2009 Security and your mother's Linux box As the professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, Ross Anderson is one of the founders of security economics as an academic discipline. Perhaps more impressively, though, he wants your ISP to send you cash every time you get spam. more info

01/05/2009 In Depth: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 - the story so far As Macworld Expo gears up, we preview Apple's next OS. With OS X 10.5 so well received, how can you go one better with 10.6? The solution is as simple as it is surprising. You don't try… more info

01/05/2009 World's top gadget show plugging into the Internet Smart gadgets, lifelike video, and pocket versions of laptop computers are expected to be Consumer Electronics Show (CES) stars as the annual extravaganza follows its gizmos onto the Web. more info

01/05/2009 MacRumors' Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Roundup With Macworld San Francisco 2009 (MWSF) beginning next week, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the event.While this rumor season started off slowly, the past few weeks have raised some interesting possibilities. more info

01/05/2009 13 Predictions of 2009 Like every year, John Battelle makes 13 Solid Prediction of 2009 surrounding Technology, Social Media & the World Economy. more info

01/05/2009 Steve Jobs says a hormone imbalance to blame for weight loss A mere day before the big shindig at the Moscone, Steve Jobs has come clean about his much-discussed weight loss in a open letter to the Apple community, saying that a hormone imbalance is to blame. more info

01/05/2009 CES: Samsung To Unveil 7mm-thick TV Samsung Electronics plans to unveil a flat-panel TV that’s as thin as just 6.5-millimeters at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it said Sunday. The TV set, few details of which were immediately available, is between 6.5mm and 7mm across its width and has an LED (light emitting diode) backlight. more info

01/05/2009 Steamiest iPhone Apps: iFog vs iSteam We could have never predicted that our coverage of the iSteam iPhone app would result in a battle between apps that let you blow air on the mic to add steam, or fog-like effects to photos and backgrounds. more info

01/05/2009 Oops: LA Times wiki experiment fails after inundated by porn It started out as an experiment in creating an editable newspaper wiki, and ended when it was overrun by people with quite different motivations... Despite the utter failure, journalist Michael Kinsley still believes technological changes are the key to saving newspapers. more info

01/05/2009 Netflix Streaming To Be Built Into TVs More options on the way for watching Netflix (NFLX) streaming movies in your living room: Beginning this spring, Korean electronics giant LG will build Netflix streaming directly into some of its plasma and LCD HDTVs, the companies will announce today. more info

01/05/2009 60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials & Resources So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, textures, actions and .PSD downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next photoshop effect. more info

01/05/2009 Macworld 2009 Rumors - Separating fact from fiction With Macworld just around the corner, people are still clamoring and fretting over the fact that Steve Jobs won't be delivering the keynote. Lost in the shuffle, however, is the fact that Apple (via Phil Schiller) will most likely deliver some interesting announcements to its product line. more info

01/05/2009 Two tools to add cool people on Twitter New Twitter services Mr. Tweet and AutoPack help you find people you should be following. more info

01/05/2009 Is Justin Long trying to become the next “Dell Dude”? In a rather odd move, Long stars in a new short film entitled “Hunger Relief” in which he talks ON HIS iPHONE while HOLDING A BONG. more info

01/05/2009 Treasure Hunter Claims Google Maps Treasure Find A treasure hunter testified in a Texas courtroom Tuesday that he used Google Maps to locate a shipwreck. 39-year-old musician and filmmaker from Los Angeles has been fighting representatives of an estate in Refugio County, Texas, for the right to excavate. more info

01/05/2009 Sources: 17-inch MacBook Pro, NVIDIA Mac mini due shortly Apple as early as Tuesday will introduce a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a fixed internal battery and a new version of the Mac mini, both of which will feature chipsets from NVIDIA, AppleInsider has been able to independently confirm. more info

01/05/2009 Twitter reveals mundane lifestyles of celebrities Stars using Twitter to post minute-to-minute updates for fans have given an inadvertent insight into their surprisingly mundane lives. more info

01/05/2009 19 Cool Products That Are Almost Impossible to Use Sometimes modern design and minimalism go a little too far and it’s hard to figure out exactly what the products are. We’ve tracked down 19 products that look quite cool but leave you wondering wtf? more info

01/05/2009 Trojan Blocks The Pirate Bay and Mininova A new trojan popped up at several torrent sites a few weeks ago, one that blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova, while informing its victims that “downloading is wrong.” The trojan edits the hosts file on Windows machines, and redirects the BitTorrent sites to localhost, making them impossible to load. more info

01/05/2009 The state of free software 25 years on from the birth of GNU, we pick the brains of three Linux luminaries. more info

01/04/2009 California Plans to Crack Down on Power-Hungry Flat Screens Starting in 2011, state regulators want retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient models of power hungry LCD and plasma sets. The industry opposes the new rules and warns of higher prices. more info