EDGE Tech is currently running a special for Mother’s Day. You can get a 7-inch digital photo frame with MP3 capability for $59.95 after rebate, AND get your choice of a free 1GB SD card or a 1GB USB Flash drive. Click the link below for the offer, and be sure to enter the following [...]

A 24k Gold & Sapphire MacBook Air. Tasteless, I say! Actually, I did taste something when I saw these photos, and that was a bit of vomit in my throat. If you like this sort of thing, head over to Computer Choppers.

This is the first I have heard of these “self-destructing” discs. They actually don’t “destruct”, but instead become unreadable. They are known as DVD-D, and come in three different variations. The first is a single play disc, that once played to the end cannot be played again. The second is the 8-hour disc that expires [...]

The other day when Ralph Bakshi was scheduled to be interviewed on WNYC, it prompted me to try to find a way to record the MP3 stream while I was away. The basis of my Applescript was the following curl command: curl -A "Mozilla/4.0" http://wnycfm.streamguys.com/ -o ~/Desktop/wnyc.mp3 I have yet to figure out how to get the Applescript [...]

I just noticed this today when one of my scripts was broken. Apparently from Camino 1.5 to 1.6 the open URL and the get URL commands were dropped and replaced by open location. If you have any uncompiled Applescripts using the open URL or the get URL commands, you should make the change to open [...]

We enjoyed an afternoon of good music at the 1st Annual Sounds of Sumatanga. All the performers were great, but the highlight of the afternoon was the band, Three on a String. This trio consists of Bobby Horton, Jerry Ryan, and Brad Ryan. The three of them put on a very entertaining comedy, bluegrass routine. Here [...]

Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones. This is gonna be great! Buy: Amazon | Amazon UK Rent: Netflix

Here is another Google gadget: This is an auto-updating, auto-shuffling list of Newegg Daily Deals. The major complaint of other Newegg Gadgets is that they show only a few of the Daily Deals, and the ones that they show remain the same all day. This new gadget tries to remedy that by showing you new and [...]

I created a Google Gadget that you can put on your Google homepage to show the latest posts. Add the “Geek stuff” Google Gadget to your homepage

Riyad Emeran gives a nice review of the new Asus Eee PC 900. The Asus Eee PC 900 is the successor to the wildly popular Eee PC 701. In addition to the larger 8.9-inch screen on the Eee PC 900, other improvements include 1GB of RAM, up to 20GB of solid state storage, larger multi-touch [...]