People have seen the 9V battery chargers that will charge your USB devices, but now there is one that takes 2 AA batteries! Using 2 AA batteries appears to give a longer battery life than traditional 9V homemade USB chargers. It will power the iPod Video for 3 hours which is equivalent to one full recharge.

The nice thing is that you don't have to

Dell is breaking into new ground by releasing three new XPS computers: a laptop, a mobile computer, and a desktop. The one that will really catch your eye is the "mobile computer" because it is a mix between a laptop and a desktop. Okay, we'll dig a little deeper into these now.

Dell's new XPS M1210 is an ultraportable laptop that starts at $1300. While

Sorry to get you all excited, it isn't green like money it is green like trees! Google has picked the top 5 vacation spots and is showing you around the town while keeping you environmentally conscious. The cities that they spotlighted are Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, and San Francisco.

They are also offering tips like "Search for environmentally friendly hotel instead of just

GMail has added two languages, Arabic and Hebrew, to its long list of languages they support. They also allow users to change the text direction, Left to Right or Right to Left, while composing messages which will makes Google truly compatible with those languages. It looks like GMail may get a whole new fan base.

News Source: Google Blog

Adobe has released 7.08 and it is available for download. They do not currently have this version on their Updates Page but I am sure it will appear soon. I haven't heard what is new in this release but I am sure it is nothing to pounce on. If you have it installed on your computer I would just wait for Adobe Reader to automatically update itself.

The PirateBay.org was one of the leading torrent sites on the Web, but their site disappeared this morning when their servers were confiscated by police. I always loved visiting their site because each time that they received a cease-and-desist letter they would post it to their site and make funny remarks about it.

The PirateBay is located in Sweden which is why they have not been prosecuted before in the

Mozilla has finally come up with an estimated date for Firefox 2 Beta 1: July 6! The code freeze is supposed to occur on June 29 and by that point we should see the visual refresh implemented.

The latest meeting notes did not say anything about the visual refresh but the Firefox 2 Requirements page said that the visual refresh is slated for Beta