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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Released!

Jake Bechtold | November 29, 2005

It’s here. Mozila Firefox 1.5 final version has been released. Now available from the firefox website, www.mozilla.org/firefox, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 includes new features including Automatic Updates, which now enables you to download patches every time there is a fix for FF, instead of download a whole new version …

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Curiosly Strong Battery

Jake Bechtold | November 25, 2005

So your going around town listening to your iPod when suddenly the music stops, and your iPod is dead. Griffin does make a device that attaches to your iPod to give it more life, but it goes for $20. Where for around $8, you can create your own iPod battery …

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Black Friday 2005 Deals

Jake Bechtold | November 22, 2005

Happy Thanksgiving (2 days early)! Since there isn’t a turkey big engough to feed the world wide web, I have some deals for you. Thanks to digg, I found a list of some of the “Day After Thanksgiving” specails that the retailers are going to have tomorrow.
Some of tomorrow’s …

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Disposable Email Address Services

Jake Bechtold | November 19, 2005

A while back, I showed you a great trick to avoid getting spam in your main account, by using a gmail address with a + and something else after it. Today, I’m going to show you another solution to elliminate spam.
Yesterday on gHacks, I found an article about differnent …

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iPod Nano Review

Jake Bechtold | November 16, 2005

As I mentioned on Friday, I purchaced a Black 2GB iPod Nano for the price of $199 (I could have gotten 4GB for $249, but didn’t feel like spending that much money. And yes, it came out of my pocket). Overall, I’m very impressed.
The biggest reason I invested …

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Nanoo Nanoo

Jake Bechtold | November 11, 2005

And no, I’m not talking about Mork from Ork. I’m talking about the purchase of my brand new 2GB Black iPod Nano. I finally gave in. I bought it online last friday night, and it arrived today. I’m really excited about it.
This is actually my first iPod, believe …

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Duct Tape iPod Case

Jake Bechtold | November 9, 2005

While on Digg the other day, I came across this awesome mod on how to create a case for your iPod.
This article has complete step by step instructions on how to create an iPod case with duct tape. Although he used an iPod mini for his case, this can easily …

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Power Over Ethernet?

Jake Bechtold | November 5, 2005

No outlet near you computer? Power it by an ethernet cable.
From Digg:
You can use a power line instead of Ethernet to send data over your network, so why shouldn’t you be able to run power over your Ethernet cables? The answer is you can. And thanks to a simple …

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Download Google Videos

Jake Bechtold | November 3, 2005

About a month ago, Google released a serivce I’ve neglected to tell you about. Google Videos has swept the net (sort of). However, you couldn’t download them. Thanks to Digg and FelipeCN, there is a nice little hack to download Google Videos.
To learn how to do this you can …

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