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Ain’t this a kick in the head… My guess is some poor programmer intern will be working this New Year’s eve. 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once. This from Microsoft on the Zune.net site: Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware.  We’re aware of the problem and are [...]

The ClockingIT webapp is a hosted, open-source solution to managing team-oriented projects. The robust features in ClockingIT might be overkill for a single worker, but when applied to a team yield a gold mine of management tools and report generation.

FastAero is a Windows XP utility that adds a transparency effect to some program windows. The effect is similar to one of the components of the Aero Glass interface on Windows Vista: You can see through borders of some programs and more easily see what’s going on behind the program window.

ZScreen is an extremely flexible alternative. The usual capture options are supported – full screen, active window, or selection and hotkeys can be mapped to a single key or to two or three key combinations.

Smart Plug Could Save You $150 in Electricity. The mCube90G smart-plug hub plays the role of a strict bartender at a bar full of heavy drinkers; only in this case, the drinkers are power-thirsty gadgets running up your tab.

Storage junkies, your dreams have just been made into reality. Addonics has just introduced a marvelous new piece of kit, the simple-yet-useful Network Attached Storage Adapter.

While a power-on password and encrypted drive in your laptop could protect your data in the event of theft, it doesn’t come close to the satisfaction you’d feel at being able to locate and prosecute the bastage who stole it.

If you want to stream music and movies from your PC to your TV screen, you have a ton of options. You can use devices like the AppleTV or your XBox 360, or you can take an old computer and turn it into a media extender by installing MythTV, Windows Media Center, or TVersity Media [...]

One of the great things about Android Market is that you can see what everyone has to say about the applications they’ve downloaded. Very useful in figuring out if you should really download that app called “Alien Blood Bath” or just avoid it all together.

Earlier today we learned that Apple had decided to allow a new genre of apps into the app store with the release of Pull My Finger, a humorous but simple application that emits predictably nasty sounds whenever users pull on a virtual finger. The application was intitally rejected by Apple, sparking debate over the seemingly [...]