iPods are everywhere these days, and one of the easiest ways to determine that someone has an iPod is by looking for the signature white cords. For a thief looking for an iPod, it takes no effort to seek out a potential target. And these targets could be anywhere, a mall, on the bus, or walking down the street.

This was just too funny not to share with you. Matt Cutts who works for Google, offers this tip on his blog today: Avoid Keyword Stuffing.

Can you figure out which disc above is a counterfeit copy of Windows Vista? Most people probably wouldn’t be able to tell which is why software piracy is an increasing problem for both the people looking to purchase applications as well as the companies developing the software.

One of the things that I like most about using Google as my primary search engine is that their page loads quick, and it’s simple. There’s no “extras” to slow down the loading time which means I’m able to perform my search faster.

A Web browser is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous due to the number of online services that we use each day. We type in passwords probably dozens of times day in and day out with little thought about the security of those passwords.

If you’ve ever been on the hunt for icons you probably know just how difficult it can be to find what you’re looking for. A site called Iconfinder looks to remove the hassle of finding the right icon by giving you a central place to perform searches.

The next Windows milestone, currently dubbed Windows 7, could very well be sporting a huge user interface overhaul.

Apple stocks are suffering today with the announcement that “only” 146,000 iPhones were activated in the first two days of sales which happened to be the last two days of Apple’s 2nd quarter.

A popular site called Net Applications is often referenced when it comes to the market share of browsers. They also keep note of operating systems to see which ones are the most popular, and looking at some of the stats over the last several months shows that Vista is on a steady upward trend while Mac OS X appears to have leveled off.

There’s been a lot of Harry Potter craziness going on, particularly when Harry Potter made it to BitTorrent a few days before its grand release. Then of course there was the hoopla over at The Pirate Bay with their “Torrent on Fire” logo after they were accused that they facilitated in the distribution of pre-released copies of the book.

It’s been almost a year since AOL released a list of 20 million search queries that came from 500,000 different users. Within that content was some extremely personal and questionable information which brought attention to search engine privacy and all that it entails. Finally, Search Engines are taking some necessary steps to ensure that personal information is kept safe.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has begun the mass production process of the low-cost XO notebook computer. This puts the project on track to ship these in bulk as soon as October 2007.

Have you ever installed a program and decided later on that you didn’t want it anymore? The natural thing is to uninstall it, but it never seems like Windows removes every trace of the application. I’ve been in this situation quite a few times, but thanks to Tinhed over in the forum, I won’t be having so many troubles anymore.

How would you like to fly through traffic, literally? No sitting in your car during rush-hour, no long drives home from work, simply fly! One company called Moller International is working on a series of Skycars which would allow you to do just that.

We’ve shown you how easy it can be to retrieve passwords stored in your browser, provided that someone has access to your computer. Well, that’s not the only way for a hacker to gain access to some of the information stored in the Firefox Password Manager.

Technology is something that has greatly evolved over time, but in order to find the good stuff we had to go through the bad stuff first. Computer World put together a great article today that details what they believe are the 10 biggest technology flops of the past 40 years.

Rumor is coming from the WhizByte blog that a 2nd generation Zune will be coming this year before the holiday season. This, they say comes from a Microsoft representative when asked if they could confirm details regarding Scorpio, the 80GB model, or Draco, the Flash based Zune.

As I was skimming through my feeds today, “Apple Store to Begin Charging Entrance Fee” caught my attention. I immediately clicked to read the article because I couldn’t imagine that Apple would be that absurd to start charging a fee to enter their stores. This is what I read:

The IE-based Maxthon browser released a much anticipated version 2 today. This comes just 3-months after Google invested an astounding $1 million into the browser, and that raised a lot of eyebrows because of the close relationship Google has with Firefox.

While Apple spent a lot of time and money making sure that the iPhone was safe and secure, there was really no way for them to come out with a product that was 100% hacker-proof.