13JAN

Top 100 essential downloads (for Windows XP)
"China Discovered America" - Map Revealed well, not really discovered. i think that was a viking, ya?
The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet
Run Any App from a USB Thumb Drive The software, PowerToGo, lets most existing Windows applications run unmodified from the flash drives, Lexar said. The goal is to let users carry their PC environments, including browser settings and instant-messenger clients, in a tiny thumb drive.
Why Do We Nod For "Yes" and Shake for "No"
802.11n set to be approved next week
the web developer's handbook
CSS Star Rating System, Part 2
Best Ipod Dock Ever - Griffin TuneCenter

Live at Macworld: Finally, True iPod Car Integration

You’ve seen products like Ten Technology’s FlexibleDock, and Belkin’s TuneBase FM, or even Harman Kardon’s Drive + Play Kit, but you’ve never seen true, or at least...

Bling Bluetooth Headset, For Her

Unless there's something you want to tell us, we're going to assume this Pink Diamante Bluetooth headset will be purchased exclusively for the lady in your life. Be it wife, girlfriend or good old...
Google Mobile Personalized Home
Internet is for porn (World of Warcraft edition) I first heard this song in a car in Los Angeles from a friend of a friend who was doing a doctorate on technology and the porn industry. This version has a World of Warcraft video full of dancing moo cows and trolls. Awesome.


Logitech Cordless Desktop S 530 Laser for Mac

Colbert: AP the Biggest Threat to America (AP)
me: i don't care for steven colbert, but i do admire his reaction to this event.
Backstory: Movie manners - an endangered species
The Monitor's film critic gives his take on the evolution of the moviegoing experience.

Podcast Roundup

Plus, a "Pod Pick of the Week" for lovers of smart talk about the idiot box.

At MacWorld in San Francisco this week external disk storage solutions company G-Technology unveiled three new units to the company’s line of G-Drive mini mobile disk drives. These new units are available now with prices starting at $249.

Xtreme Notebook Raptor 766X with dual graphics cards

Here's one for the "traveling-executive-by-day/extreme-gamer-by-night" crowd. The Raptor 766X actually has two graphics engines: an Intel integrated graphics processor for number crunching and an nVIDIA 6600 G-Force Go for fragging. Why not just go with the more powerful graphics card and burn through those spreadsheets? Xtreme figures there are times when you'd like to preserve your batteries, and running a less robust graphics engine is one way to do that. We're not sure how much juice that actually saves, compared to other measures like stepping down your CPU's clock speed, lowering your display's brightness (the display, after all, accounts for as much as a third of a laptop's power consumption) and spinning down your hard drive. But if it helps you justify writing this off as a business expense, more, er, power to you.

[Via LAPTOP Magazine]

MSI S262: Core Duo, carbon fiber, 12.1-inch widescreen

Filed under: Laptops

We promise not to hit you with every single Core Duo announcement that comes down the pike, but when the specs are this sweet, we've just gotta share 'em. MSI's S262 is a slim Core Duo notebook with a 12.1 inch widescreen display, up to 2GB RAM, dual-layer burner and a carbon fiber shell, all wrapped up in a 4.3 pound package. From the pics we've seen, it looks a lot like the S260, but with a lot more going on under the hood. No word yet on when -- or where -- this will be available.

Samsung's new camcorders: SC-D165, SC-HDX15, SC-X210L and SC-X205L

Filed under: CES, Digital Cameras

Samsung has added some new offerings to the growing market for tape-free digicams with the DVD-based SC-D165 and SD-equipped SC-HDX15. The DVD model can record to dual-layer media, has a 33x optical zoom (and a whopping 1200x digital zoom, which we're pretty sure is a typo on 120x) along with a 2.7-inch LCD and the ability to capture low-res (800x600) stills. The more interesting offering, the SC-HDX15, is being billed by Samsung as the first HD flash camcorder. The $1,499 unit, due out this summer, includes 4GB of internal memory, and, according to Samsung, can record full 720p footage. No word on how much compression Samsung uses in order to squeeze more than about five minutes of 720p video onto that 4GB, or on what kind of CCD this has. Until we get more info, we'll probably stick with (or at least continue to covet) the 3CCD Everio GZ-MC500, which uses microdrives for unlimited (albeit expensive) storage. Samsung has also added two new Miniket sports camcorders with head-mountable "lipstick" lenses, the SC-X210L (pictured) and SC-X205L. Both include SD card slots, 10x optical zoom, MP3 playback and internal memory (512MB on the X205L and 1GB on the X210L).