The other night I was in the middle of doing some work on my Flickr account when all of a sudden it went down for maintenance. I knew it was going to happen because they notified users in advance, but I had just forgotten. To help the two hour maintenance period go by a little faster they decided to post some fun stats that

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Fedora 7 is another Linux distribution which is managed by the Red Hat team. Unlike Red Hat, Fedora doesn’t cost a dime to use, and is really making some nice strides in the graphics area. As you can see in the images above they are now going to a "flying high" theme, and it is among the

If your spam box feels a little lighter today, now you’ll know why.  One of the top spammers in the world was recently arrested. He was listed as one of the top 10 spammers in the entire world! I wonder what it takes to make it to that list, or what it feels like to know that you’re on the list! In the Tech World, it’s probably equivalent to being

The mobility that laptops offer these days continues to decrease as users want a more powerful computer to take with them. It is almost becoming second nature to lug around a notebook computer that weighs 8, 9, or even 12 pounds! Would you be willing to compromise some flexibility for an extremely ultra-mobile computer?

Palm believes that users are willing to give up some of their power to

There are some big things going on at the D Conference, with the highlight being the meeting of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for a chat conducted by Walt Mosberg and Kara Swisher. Before I get to talking about the main event, lets take a look at some of the other things that had been going on there.

Steve Jobs had some

One of the largest complaints among Apple TV fans and critics alike is that there has been no way to access other video content on the web.  Only media from a users iTunes library is available.

That’s about to change around mid-June when users will be able to have access to YouTube.  From my observations around the web this morning, people seem to be excited about this move.  However, the first thought that

Google is taking applications offline with a new project called Gears. It’s an open source browser extension that’s available for Internet Explorer or Firefox that enables online applications to come offline. The first example of this is Google Reader. For Opera and Safari users, they’re workin’ on it, but it’s not quite ready yet.

Once you install the Gears plug-in, you can try out Google Reader in an offline mode. The