The iPhone 3G is released on Friday July 11th, and many Apple and AT&T stores will be opening early to allow early adopters to get their hands on the updated device, dubbed iPhone 2 by many. But 8am isn’t early enough for some, and queues are already forming outside the New York Apple Cube.

The Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii are all capable of providing hours of entertainment at home for people of all […]

Continuing with the examination of the digital converter boxes, I’ll take a look at some of the other key features that consumers should consider when shopping for them. I’ll also review some of the recommendations made by Consumer Reports and CNET.

The Digital TV (DTV) Transition coming up February 19^th, 2009 can be a bit confusing. People are unsure if their television sets will be ready for the transition or if they’ll have to upgrade their systems. Unfortunately, for some consumers, they’ll have to buy a digital converter box beforehand, so that they can continue to enjoy free over-the-air broadcast TV. In this article I’ll examine digital converter boxes, what you need to consider before buying one, and which devices people are suggesting.

If you have a Mac of any kind running Leopard, you are familiar with the program Grab. This is a handy tool for grabbing screenshots, true, but it has a few issues that I find troublesome. There are other ways to get screen shots on your Mac that many don’t even know about, and ways to make Grab more efficient for your needs.

Sometimes we’re too perfect in ourjudgement of order. Even though theworld has a wonderful orderlinessabout it, the real challenge is to view andarrange objects into basic elements to create a visually stunning image. By understanding four basic principles of composition, we can see the landscape in a totally new and exciting way.

Roku, a company stationed in Saratoga, California, recently created a set-top box capable of competing with the AppleTV at $129 less. The Netflix player gives Netflix ultimate subscribers the ability to stream Netflix movies to their TV directly from the internet with no computer middle-man. Plus, according to Tim Twerdalh, vice president of Roku, this is only the beginning.

The internet has became all things to all people. That includes a kind of ethereal Lost and Found department for actual off line, real world items. If you know where and how to look, you can find what you’ve lost, even if you lost it decades before.

In yet another example of the Internet’s increasing influence, several merchants are ticked off at Yelp for removing their listings. Yelp is accusing some members of swapping good reviews with others to inflate first impressions by site visitors.

How are record labels supposed to survive if label bosses are condemning the very idea of them? In a major win for artists and arguably art itself, music industry mogul Alan McGee recommends bands avoid signing with a label.

Wii Fit has been out for almost two months in America now, but it has been out in Europe […]

Google, Verizon, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Telefono LM Ericsson, Research in Motion, Qualcomm, Rambus, Microsoft, IBM, Intel and more; none of these companies are usually thought of as team players. Yet they have all joined forces in a kind of anti-patent infringement Justice League, banding together to preserve their intellectual property in a time where patent reform is sorely needed.

Google Street View has been a somewhat controversial tool ever since it was first introduced this time last year. But so far, only people in America have had to worry about their rights to privacy being violated. Now though, Europe is also being targeted for inclusion, and while towns in France and Italy have been added to the database with no problems, Google has hit a snag in the UK.

Google’s just released a version of Google Talk just for iPhone and iPod Touch browsers. Certainly an interesting move, especially in the light of the yet-to-be-released Android.

With the imminent release of MobileMe Apple has sent out an alert to all .Mac subscribers, they need to sync their bookmarks on all machines before Sunday, June 6, 2008. Why? Access to bookmarks will be discontinued after that date.