Reverse Hacker Shawn Carpenter was recently awarded 4.3 million for wrongful termination. He worked at Sandia National Laboratories as an intrusion detection analyst and ended up fired for a probe that he did over a network security breach.

Vending machines can accept payments from cell phones, so why not McDonald's? Back in September, Coca-Cola announced that it was going to equip all of their vending machines in Japan with the technology that would allow the machines to accept payment via mobile phones. They hope to have this done by the end of 2008.

Clipmarks is an extension for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and even Flock that will allow you to clip your favorite parts of the web. They just released their latest version, Clipmarks 2.0 that has a few new features that you might like.

Last week we talked about how some of the user-submitted ideas on Dell’s IdeaStorm site were becoming quite popular. The things that were becoming the most popular were all related to open-source software and the need for a Linux laptop/desktop offering.

I am all about freeware that gets the job done, and the free application that I am about to talk about definitely gets the job done! It’s a brilliant program that offers a wide range of features you wouldn’t normally find on your Windows computer.

For the last few weeks I’ve made Firefox 3 nightly releases my primary browser because my extensions all work well with it.

Photagious is a web-based photo service that ads fun to sharing your photos. For a small monthly fee, you’re able to upload all of your favorite photos to put in a slideshow with music, graphics, and other tools to make sharing a little more exciting.

We have done several posts when it comes to testing websites in other browsers, and this post pretty much sums up our findings. One of my favorite services mentioned in that article is the one called Total Validator.

There’s social networking, social web browsing, and now a social dictionary. Before actually visiting Word Source, I couldn’t imagine how you could possibly make a dictionary social, but they did and I actually like it. I said good-bye to my paper dictionary a while ago.

This morning when I woke up I noticed that I had more than 20 tabs open in Firefox that I still needed to sort through and read. Most of them were articles that I found the previous day, but never got around to reading. Despite having a 24” monitor I still find that having 20 tabs open takes up a lot of room, and what I really needed was a folder-like structure for my tabs.