INTERNUTS

 Superuse.org has pictures of weird houses and structures made with recycled materials. For example: a safety tunnel made out of a shipping… Read more

BOOKS

 ”Switching to the Mac, Leopard Edition,” by David Pogue ($30 from missingmanuals.com ). Mac users get very few viruses, no spyware and very little… Read more

OH NO, MORE IPOD STUFF!

We have been pitched on so many speaker accessories for iPods that we could start a catalog. But the iTempo 800 from Genius takes a different… Read more

BONANZA

We have some really good stuff this week: a super thin graphics tablet and a teeny-tiny computer. Let’s kick off with the tiny computer: We… Read more

LEARN TO DRAW, AND WRITE

 We got our eager hands on a CyberTablet Z12 from Adesso (adesso.com). It works with any PC or Mac and sells for $122, which is around the midpoint… Read more

THE ENDLESS DRIVE

We’ve had external cases for hard drives for several years, and they work fine. But they are nowhere near as convenient as this docking… Read more

A CLOUD OF NEWS

 Newsflashr.com has an interesting new way to look at topics in the news. It’s called a “tag cloud.” A box at one side of the page contains dozens… Read more

INTERNUTS

IdeaTango.com is a resource site for inventors. It has downloads of audio and video interviews with inventors, photo galleries, virtual trade shows,… Read more

FREE ANTI-VIRUS SCANS

A free service at VirusTotal.com will take any PC file that is ten megabytes or less and put it through a rigorous scan by 32 of the best… Read more

REFURBISHED DOESN’T MEAN RUBBISH

    New computers are fairly inexpensive now, but refurbished computers are the cheapest of all.  Refurbishing carries… Read more