Over the weekend we decided to do something to keep us busy, and what we came up with was an iGoogle Gadget and iPhone Web App for checking your local gas prices (U.S. only). A full introduction to iGas is available, but here's a quick overview for those that want to dive right in:

• A standalone website is available which has been optimized for the iPhone, but really works in any browser. Just
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We thought that today would be a good time to express our thanks to the machine that delivers CyberNet to readers around the world. Our Xeon-powered server runs Fedora Core 5, and it's had an incredible uptime of over 6 months.  I'm sure it would be even higher than that right now, but I used to restart it once a week to

Not that I need any excuse to waste time, but I always keep an eye out for the "Time Wasters" that Download Squad writes about. They're usually pretty fun, and one in particular I recently got hooked on.  It's called Tower Bloxx, and the flash-based game is about how well you can stack swinging building blocks. It sounds easy, but it can get tricky pretty fast. There are two different ways you can

It's here! Less than two weeks ago we gave you a preview of what was to come in the open source Spicebird application, and I'm happy to say that a public Beta is now available.

Spicebird, simply put, is Thunderbird with Lightning installed, plus a few other things. The most unique features would be the customizable homepage and the integrated instant messaging.

Google has good reason to cater to the iPhone and that reason is as simple as this -- iPhone users use the Internet on their phone, and they go to Google! So for Google, it makes sense that they'd want to provide an excellent experience to those who use them most.  The New York Times recently reported how around Christmas, traffic to

Microsoft gave a pleasant surprise over the weekend for all of the Vista SP1 testers out there. Earlier last week they provided a "refreshed" version of Vista SP1 to a group of 15,000 Beta testers who've been part of the SP1 program for quite awhile. A few days later Microsoft decided that they wanted more feedback, and therefore made the Vista Service Pack 1 RC

It's been just about a year to the date since Netflix dove into online movies.  They did it hoping to appeal to the under 30 crowd, the ones who are familiar and comfortable with getting their entertainment content online. And while things have been going fairly well lately, it appears as though they too heard the rumor that we did. You know,