There is no doubt that the typical icons laying around your desktop could probably be a little more useful than they already are. Some operating systems are trying to dive into that by making the icon a representation of what the file’s contents hold, but I’ve wondered for a long time why so many services have neglected to provide a revolutionary new icon.

AT&T is gearing up for the big iPhone launch by hiring extra employees – 2,000 of them in fact. Those 2,000 employees have been hired for temporary employment to help handle the new iPhone.

To-do lists are something that help me get through my daily life. Having tried many different to-do list solutions, I began wondering what everyone else is using. For a little while I tinkered with Todoist, which is a really nice online service. The best part about it is that you can deeply nest tasks, and create an easy-to-follow hierarchy.

Stardock just released a free public Beta of the TweakVista software that will be launching in August of this year. This program is really focused on those people who want to control many different aspects of the Vista operating system that wouldn’t ordinarily be easy to change.

Any time I’ve gone out to purchase a laptop, I’ve consider my options carefully and looked around to find out what promotions were going on. I don’t know about you, but I always want the best bang for my buck.

Ever since the Internet took off, there’s a whole new set of words that we’ve had to add to our vocabularies so that we understand what’s being said. For example, you go to a web page and receive the following error message:

The Pirate Bay took an unexpected leap today when they launched the new BayIMG site. The goal of the site is to host uncensored images...it doesn’t matter if it’s porn, comics, copyrighted images, or leaked screenshots...it all has a home at BayIMG. Despite their "upload everything" nature, they do appear to have some fine print on what’s allowed:

When hooking my laptop up to an external monitor, the first thing that I like to do is extend my desktop over to that monitor.