I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

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Send Money to Friends on Facebook

Is there any­thing you can’t do or share on Face­book? Appar­ently not! It seems that the ever so pop­u­lar and pow­er­ful social net­work does more than just allow you to con­nect with ‘friends’ and share pho­tos, videos, mes­sages, sta­tuses, web links…Now, you can also trans­fer small amounts of money of up to €50 or about […]

iPad to Hit Stores on April 3rd

We finally know when the “giant ver­sion of the iPhone with­out the phone” [as it’s been pop­u­larly called] will be out! Ear­lier today, Apple announced that the Wi-Fi model of the iPad will be avail­able to buy in the United States as of Sat­ur­day, April 3rd. The Wi-Fi + 3G mod­els will be released sometime […]

A Tour of the International Space Station

The Inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion (ISS) is an inter­na­tion­ally devel­oped satel­lite which is cur­rently being assem­bled in low orbit earth. Con­struc­tion of the sta­tion began in 1998 and is expected to be com­plete by 2011. The ISS is a joint project and is oper­ated by 5 par­tic­i­pat­ing agen­cies: the Amer­i­can National Aero­nau­tics and Space Admin­is­tra­tion (NASA), the Russ­ian Fed­eral Space […]

Nintendo Classic Sells for $13,105 on eBay

today, the best, most high-tech gam­ing con­soles will run you any­where between $250 to $500 — depend­ing on what region of the world you live in. in amer­ica, i think the nin­tendo wii starter bun­dle goes for about $220 and the playsta­tion 3 for around $300. and those, as well as oth­ers, include sur­real high […]

Google Enters Social Networking World With ‘Google Buzz’

we live in the social media age. with more and more com­mu­ni­ca­tion tak­ing place online, the social web has become the best and pre­ferred way to share inter­est­ing things, chat in real time and stay con­nected to a larger num­ber of peo­ple.
if you’re a gmail user, you may have recently noticed a new col­or­ful tab […]

The Long Awaited Apple iPad is Finally Here!

it’s real and it’s here! if you’ve opened a paper, a mag­a­zine, the inter­net or sim­ply been  breath­ing the last few months — then you’ve heard about the 2nd com­ing in the tech­nol­ogy  world. what we thought at one point could be called the ‘islate’ is in fact the ‘ipad’ — apple’s newest gad­get. the […]

Sony’s Dash — A Personal Pocket-sized Internet Viewer

ear­lier this month, at the con­sumer elec­tron­ics show (ces) in las vegas, sony revealed their new touch­screen pocket device for surf­ing the web — oth­er­wise known as dash. it looks like just about every­one is try­ing to com­pete with apple’s upcom­ing tablet — rumored to be launched tomor­row at a press event under the name ‘islate’. although […]

Smartphone Faceoff — Nexus One vs. IPhone

google’s new htc-made, android-based, nexus one, has cre­ated quite a stir in the mobile world. but most of all it’s given the almighty iphone a run for its’ money! in the ongo­ing debate of which smart­phone is bet­ter, cooler, faster… here’ are 6 fea­tures that the google phone has which the iphone doesn’t.

it’s unlocked — […]

Samsung’s Transparent Laptop Unveiled

elec­tronic giant, sam­sung, revealed the pro­to­type for its’ 14 inch trans­par­ent oled lap­top at the 2010 con­sumer elec­tron­ics show (ces). the screen cas­ing is made out of plas­tic and when the device is off, the panel is up to 40% trans­par­ent — as opposed to the indus­try aver­age of below 25%. details are pretty scarce […]

Wooden Combination Lock

here’s one for all you lock pick­ers! mechan­i­cal and wood­work­ing expert, matthias wan­del, demon­strates the inner work­ings of a com­bi­na­tion lock that he clev­erly made out of wood. look on the bright side — if you can’t fig­ure it out, you can always torch it!

Google Phone — ‘Nexus One’ — Unveiled!

the much spo­ken of and awaited google phone — nexus one — will be revealed on jan­u­ary 5th at a google press con­fer­ence at their moun­tain view hq. the mys­tery to this htc made, android* pow­ered device, is finally draw­ing to an end, as pretty much every tech site and blog has man­aged to leak […]

New IPhone 4G Coming in 2010?

in the ever-growing and demand­ing world of tech­nol­ogy, one must attempt to remain up-to-date with all the new phone gen­er­a­tions. with all the hype about the google phone — nexus one — com­ing out this jan­u­ary, it’s no won­der that iphone would have some­thing in store as a come back. there’s just no end to […]

IPhone You Free

peo­ple are always look­ing for ways to save money; even if it means crack­ing a few codes and fool­ing the sys­tem. and if you live in lebanon, you know that no one does this bet­ter than the lebanese. this teeny tiny coun­try off the mediter­ranean coast excels in every­thing that has to do with swiping […]

Deck the House With Lights of Folly

christ­mas is right around the cor­ner. only 6 more days till the big day.
your stock­ings are hung by the chim­ney with care, your snow flecked tree is adorned with orna­ments and flair, your presents are all wrapped for your kids to tear — all in hopes that st. nick soon will be there! wow, this really […]

How To Make A Metal Detector

so you’re strolling along the beach and you stum­ble across a rusty old coin which looks like it dates back to the early 16th cen­tury. although it prob­a­bly doesn’t you sim­ply decide that  its from that time period because a wave of intel­li­gence has sud­denly struck you and your long lost pas­sion of becom­ing a […]

Google Wave: Real Time Communication & Collaboration on the Way

i’m not gonna’ pre­tend to be the most tech-savvy per­son on the planet, or in the neigh­bor­hood for that mat­ter, but i do like to think that i’m rel­a­tively up-to-date with the things that i actu­ally use. there­fore, i will attempt to keep you informed about the lat­est, more inter­est­ing tech­no­log­i­cal break­throughs and news.
i real­ize that […]

 
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