Shmoop.com offers 600 learning guides, some free, some not, for high school students, preparing them for advanced placement tests. They are hip,… Read more
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The new Bento database for the Mac, iPod and iPhone has some great new features: It’s a cut-down but still powerful version of Apple’s larger… Read more
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Northwestern University scientists are uncovering ways to make the Internet lightning-fast. It has to do with photons moving through a… Read more
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Computers that roll up into a wristband and unroll like a newspaper. Sounds sci-fi but it’s getting closer to reality. Scientists at Rice… Read more
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The Ojo video phone looks like a traditional landline phone, except it has a screen so you can see the person you’re talking to. To make a… Read more
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When a top Chinese communist official said to Gary Shapiro, “China up, America down,” Shapiro got angry enough to write “The Comeback: How Innovation… Read more
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AllMyApps.com offers free apps for the Windows desktop. We saw tons that we already have installed, such as the Chrome web browser, CCleaner,… Read more
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The new Google TV has been getting a lot of criticism from reviewers but we loved it. What can we say: we’ve always been a little… Read more
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A cute comic book from the folks at Google Chrome is an online book about the web. The opening page introduces these topics: “What’s a… Read more
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Yelp.com is hugely popular for opinions, whether good or bad, about U.S. businesses. But they’ve gotten some bad press recently because a couple… Read more
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