Wallpaper Roundup: Ocean Views and Abstract Blues [Wallpaper]

The temperature is rising across the country, and while you may not be able to get yourself to a cool and breezy locale, you can at least plaster your monitor with soothing reminders of one.
Our roundup today is a selection of backgrounds themed in cool blue: oceans, waves, and abstract creations. Each image can be [...]

Best GPS Device: Garmin Nüvi [Hive Five Followup]

The votes have been tallied and we’re back to showcase the top GPS device from last week’s best GPS devices roundup. Sporting a widescreen, easy-to-read at-a-glance visual indicators, and a host of other perks (like the gas-saving EcoRoute mapping tool), Garmin’s Nüvi line of in-car GPS devices takes home the prize for best GPS device.
The [...]

Beat the Heat Roundup: The Best of Icy Cool Tricks [Beat The Heat]

Today we draw our Beat the Heat theme week to a close, and what better day to end on than National Ice Cream day? Photo by lepiaf.geo.
Over the course of the week we shared all sorts of tips and tricks to help you stay cool this summer. Let’s recap the icy cool goodness:
One of most [...]

Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]

How can I make all white backgrounds change to gray while using Firefox?
Is it possible to hook up a PS3 controller for use on a PC?
What can I use to set up a simple online system that students can use to check the availability of items they need to check out from the lab supply [...]

App Roundup: with a special sneak preview!

You read that right, folks. We’ve stepped up our game on this week’s App Roundup and are going to go ahead and review an app that’s not even out yet. Pre-released apps are becoming increasingly common in our inbox, as the Apple Review process seems to take forever (no surprise, given that it’s run by [...]

Vintage Desk Coughs Up Vintage General Electric Abacus [Retromodo]

Those young whipper snappers back in 1979 couldn’t hold a candle to this archaic computational device, the abacus. Gizmodo 600 BC, anyone?
Reader Robin says this little guy was hiding out in the drawer of a recent vintage purchase:
My wife, Deborah, recently bought a secretary style vintage desk from an estate seller. In one of the [...]

Roundup: Ad models, ad deals and Twittergate

Mobile broadband fails miserably to live up to consumer expectations — UK broadband review site Broadband Genie reports that only one in ten mobile broadband users are satisfied with the speed of their mobile broadband. And that’s when it’s reachable.
Google Voice may get ringback ads — UnwiredView has the patent drawing for Google Voice’s advertising [...]

Olympus E-P1 review roundup

Olympus did its darnedest to drum up hype for the recently unveiled E-P1 Micro Four Thirds shooter, and while we already shared our two pennies on the thing, we figured it prudent to round up the best of the best from elsewhere on the web to give you a fuller picture. The long and short [...]

Mobile roundup: AT&T’s unbright future, LG’s widescreen, GetJar’s legible logo

AT&T’s future not so good once it loses iPhone exclusivity — The LA Times talks to Pali head resarcher Walter Piecyk who says it’s as simple as everyone thinks: Customers will head to faster, more reliable networks, by which Walter means Verizon.
Speaking of which, O2 will no longer have exlusive iPhone dibs in the UK [...]

Mobile Roundup: Netbooks flood the zone, Verizon plans app store, mobile Ugandans

Is streaming really replacing downloading? An article in the Guardian UK says illegal file sharing has collapsed and been replaced by YouTube, Spotify and the like. 
No, it’s not — Techdirt pores over the Guardian’s article with the Comb of Skepticism. Most important, key numbers in the report were estimated by geeks rather than measured by [...]

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