Have you noticed your hard drive has been slowly filling up? If you’ve had your machine for a while, a lot of extra “stuff” can build up over time. Whether it’s temporary files from your browser, old music files in your iTunes library, or something else, it can be tricky to hunt down and delete [...]

Twitter is a great way to keep up with friends, family, online contacts, and even internet celebrities. It’s also a wonderful way to share news about yourself and your online exploits with people interested in YOUR story. A relatively new webapp called TwitterCounter can help you build a following and track your popularity over time. [...]

With the hustle and bustle of the new iPhone 2.0 firmware, the App Store, and the 3G iPhone, it can be easy to forget the foundation that got the whole ball rolling: iTunes. Yes, Apple’s jukebox from the first days of Mac OS X has undergone many changes over the years, but the tight integration [...]

If you’ve spent any amount of time playing Flash games instead of whatever you SHOULD have been doing, you’ve probably played Bejeweled. It’s a gem-matching game where lining up three or more of the same color cancels out the set. Now a very similar game has come out for the iPhone and it blends the [...]

Aside from being a technology blogger and a microbiology student, I also have another passion: Magic. Amateur magic is a fun hobby and a great skill to have in almost any social situation. When I was younger, I used to buy all kinds of tricks from magic shops and then try them out on my [...]

I have been looking for something like Revo Uninstaller for years. If you’ve ever used “Add or Remove Programs” on Windows, you know that it’s slow, uninformative, and sometimes not very good at its sole function: uninstalling things. Revo Uninstaller aims to correct those design flaws by being conversely fast, helpful and very effective at [...]

While you’re busy editing your images with Photoshop, Gimp, or a photo-manager like Picasa, what kind of image viewer are you using? Most of the time when you are viewing an image you aren’t using an editor, especially bulky ones like those listed above. You’re using a lightweight program that primarily lets you view, zoom, [...]

If you’re always checking your RSS feeds for news, stories and other kinds of updates, here’s a really neat tool that may be your new best friend. IM Feeds is a service that takes your pre-existing list of RSS feeds and runs them through an instant messenger (IM) robot which will notify you as soon [...]

The internet, like anything else, goes through fads. Just like the rest of the world, those fads start at the top with celebrities and trickle down until no one really knows how they got started. Several weeks ago, some of the top names on the internet like Kevin Rose and Veronica Belmont began asking their [...]

Whenever any major motion picture has a “hacker” character, they always show the actor violently typing on their custom interface and causing all kinds of programs to pop up just from their keystrokes. Now, I’m no hacker to be sure, but I do like the ability to access any program or file at the touch [...]