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Google Gmail Prevents Drunk Emailing

By Fennster • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

For those of you who use Gmail as your email provider are in luck for those nights you come home drunk, high or whatever else you maybe.  Google Labs has released an attachment to their service that actually will try and prevent those drunk emailing going out.
I myself have done my fair share of drunk [...]



Microsoft Presents a New Zune!

By Fennster • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

Zune, Microsoft Corp.’s end-to-end music and entertainment service, again revolutionizes how customers discover and connect to the music they love, where and how they want it. Starting next week, every Zune portable media player will let consumers wirelessly download or stream millions of songs on the go from thousands of wireless hot spots around the [...]



Comcast is Regulating User Usage!

By Fennster • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

Comcast is at it again, just months after their F.C.C. ruling against peer to peer ruling, they have made another stupid announcement before this Labor Day weekend.<p>
They have now said they will be regulating internet usage monthy for all subscibers.  Comcast will now only allow 250 gigabytes a month for residential users.  A Comcast spokeswoman, [...]



THE NEW BLACKBERRY BOLD. COMING SOON!

By Redz • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

The new BlackBerry model should be coming to North America within a month now that Research In Motion Ltd. has started selling it in Germany and Chile.
The BlackBerry Bold is a high-end BlackBerry that has twice the screen resolution of current models made by RIM. The Bold, or 9000, matches the resolution, but not the [...]



Maine stops use of electric vehicles

By Redz • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

Tom Joyal of Kennebunk couldn’t be happier with his new ride, an electric, three-wheeled vehicle that saves him plenty on fuel and draws an uncommon amount of attention from passers-by.
But the state has told him to park it. Joyal got a letter from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles informing him that the vehicle isn’t a [...]



The New Google?

By Fennster • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

A new search engine start up has challenged the giant Google on saying it index’s more webpages than the giant. Cuil (pronounced “Cool”) had launched on Monday.
Funded by $30 million from investors, the site also boasts a more “magazine-style” index — instead of one-line listings, there are descriptive chunks of text with photos with [...]



Knol by Google Opens to Public

By Fennster • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

photo courtesy of ABC News
Google is now going to be taking from the Wikipedia market. Google announced they will be opening thier Knol project to the public. Knol is nothing new it has been around since 2007 but it’s publishers were by invite only to edit and add content to the site.
Unlike the [...]



Esquire to use Electronic Ink

By Fennster • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

Come October I will be picking up a copy of the Esquire!!! Why?
Electronic Ink! It will be something out of Demolition Man, or Judge Dredd, or anyother sci-fi action film you can think of. The cover of their 75 year anniversary edition will look like a huge sports ticker with images and [...]



Wii Beer Pong Game has only 1 Cup left!!!

By Fennster • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

JV Games the creator of Wii Beer Pong game have recently removed the references from booze and renamed the game “Pong Toss”.

Once again games are under fire, because this particular game got a “T” rating. They are worried that this game could influence young teens to binge drink, party, and turn into alcoholics.

What about [...]



Firefox joins Guinness Book of World Records

By Fennster • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Gadgets

June 17th was officially known as download day for millions of internet users looking for the new version of Mozilla’s Firefox. This day 8,002,530 users in 24 hours downloaded the Firefox 3 web browser that officially set a new record in the Guinness Book of World Records for most downloads in one day! [...]