13 hours ago in Business & Marketing - BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak reports on a new piece of malware with a strange bent: If it infects your computer, this trojan will prevent you from accessing popular BitTorrent sites The Pirate Bay and Mininova. It does so by modifying the hosts ...

tags: bittorrent, antivirus, in brief, malware, privacy, security, trojans

18 hours ago in Business & Marketing - Wondering if your cell carrier can support your jailbroken iPhone 3G after unlocking it? PC World rounds up a great collection of unlocking tips, and points to a extensive list of carrier results. ...

tags: iphone, cellphone, cellphones, in brief, iphone 2 0, jailbreak

3 days ago in Business & Marketing - All-things-Apple weblog TUAW points out a simple Terminal trick to enable half-star ratings in iTunes for finer grained control over your iTunes rating system. The same functionality is available with the simple tick of a checkbox in previously ...

tags: itunes, digital music, in brief, mac os x, music

3 days ago in Business & Marketing - All-things-Apple weblog TUAW points out a simple Terminal trick to enable half-star ratings in iTunes for finer grained control over your iTunes rating system. The same functionality is available with the simple tick of a checkbox in previously ...

tags: itunes, digital music, in brief, mac os x, music

4 days ago in Business & Marketing - The New York Times details a dirty little secret the phone companies really don't want you to know—the text messages they charge you for each month cost basically nothing to send. The article, and its revelation, also explains why text ...

tags: text messaging, in brief, money, news, sms

4 days ago in Business & Marketing - The BBC Magazine suggests that board game players, young and old, benefit from the social, mental, and patience-building aspects of sitting down to play them. If you've still got relatives hanging around from the holidays, why not turn off the ...

tags: mind hacks, games, in brief, social

4 days ago in Business & Marketing - Wired's How-To Wiki gets advice from a neuroscientist on how to hear your cellphone better in a loud crowd, whether indoors or outside. By covering the mouthpiece, you'll eliminate hearing the noise around you pitched back at you through the ...

tags: cellphones, audio, cell phone, cell phones, in brief, noise

4 days ago in Business & Marketing - Citing a supposed inside source, the Googling Google blog says it's plausible that a free Mac OS X version of Picasa, one of our favorite photo organizers, could drop next week. The post notes that two other statements by Google—about Picasa ...

tags: picasa, digital photos, image editing, in brief, mac, mac os x, photos

4 days ago in Business & Marketing - Got a typical night of champagne-and-cheering lined up? Impress your hung-over friends tomorrow (or weary co-workers Friday) with a chair made from champagne corks and wire. Goofy and too clever by half? Yep. Productive? Heck no. But it does make ...

tags: new year s, diy, fun, holidays, in brief

4 days ago in Business & Marketing - Two big updates coming to the Android/G1 phone—the previously mentioned "Cupcake" update will arrive for G1 phones "in the future," and paid apps will hit the Android marketplace in the first quarter of 2009. [via] ...

tags: android, cellphones, in brief, mobile apps, mobile phone

4 days ago in Business & Marketing - The free, cross-platform application Dropbox—which readers voted the best file syncing tool available—has updated its web interface, adding new and improved navigation and drag-and-drop support for all the files and folders in your ...

tags: file synchronization, dropbox, file syncing, in brief, synchronization, utilities

5 days ago in Business & Marketing - The free, cross-platform application Dropbox—which readers voted the best file syncing tool available—has updated its web interface, adding new and improved navigation and drag-and-drop support for all the files and folders in your ...

tags: file synchronization, dropbox, file syncing, in brief, synchronization, utilities

5 days ago in Business & Marketing - Two big updates coming to the Android/G1 phone—the previously mentioned "Cupcake" update will arrive for G1 phones "in the future," and paid apps will hit the Android marketplace in the first quarter of 2009. [via] ...

tags: android, cellphones, in brief, mobile apps, mobile phone

5 days ago in Business & Marketing - Got a typical night of champagne-and-cheering lined up? Impress your hung-over friends tomorrow (or weary co-workers Friday) with a chair made from champagne corks and wire. Goofy and too clever by half? Yep. Productive? Heck no. But it does make ...

tags: new year s, diy, fun, holidays, in brief

6 days ago in Business & Marketing - The BBC Magazine suggests that board game players, young and old, benefit from the social, mental, and patience-building aspects of sitting down to play them. If you've still got relatives hanging around from the holidays, why not turn off the ...

tags: mind hacks, games, in brief, social

6 days ago in Business & Marketing - The New York Times details a dirty little secret the phone companies really don't want you to know—the text messages they charge you for each month cost basically nothing to send. The article, and its revelation, also explains why text ...

tags: text messaging, in brief, money, news, sms

6 days ago in Business & Marketing - Citing a supposed inside source, the Googling Google blog says it's plausible that a free Mac OS X version of Picasa, one of our favorite photo organizers, could drop next week. The post notes that two other statements by Google—about Picasa ...

tags: picasa, digital photos, image editing, in brief, mac, mac os x, photos

6 days ago in Business & Marketing - Wired's How-To Wiki gets advice from a neuroscientist on how to hear your cellphone better in a loud crowd, whether indoors or outside. By covering the mouthpiece, you'll eliminate hearing the noise around you pitched back at you through the ...

tags: cellphones, audio, cell phone, cell phones, in brief, noise

6 days ago in Business & Marketing - Citing a supposed inside source, the Googling Google blog says it's plausible that a free Mac OS X version of Picasa, one of our favorite photo organizers, could drop next week. The post notes that two other statements by Google—about Picasa ...

tags: picasa, digital photos, image editing, in brief, mac, mac os x, photos

6 days ago in Business & Marketing - Wired's How-To Wiki gets advice from a neuroscientist on how to hear your cellphone better in a loud crowd, whether indoors or outside. By covering the mouthpiece, you'll eliminate hearing the noise around you pitched back at you through the ...

tags: cellphones, audio, cell phone, cell phones, in brief, noise