Parlor Trick 21st Century style. Add one part video datebase programming. Add one part VOIP. Add a dash of showmanship. You have Criss Angel MINDFREAK. Enter a name and phone number because HE will find you and call … From the A&E Show “Criss Angel Mind Freak.”

One of my cell phones decided that its battery had had enough of recharging itself and thus it became clear that I needed to get a new phone or get a replacement battery. After suffering through a meatspace in-person visit at the local Verizon store where the local employees idea of salesmanship was making me […]

There are at least two announced hacks announced that have “unlocked” most aspects of the iPhone to use on another network. The simpler one is the Turbo SIM – which slips over your old SIM card (with some scissoring required) and you are able to use the phone overseas (presumably not the visual voicemail since […]

Ever wanted to type the copyright icon, or do an accent over an A without having to resort to some character palette? Who hasn’t struggled looking inside a dingbat font folder for one of these like an umlaut? Well the good folks over at GoSquared via their blog Liquidicity have developed three handy PDF docs […]

One of the three apps included with Apple’s iWork ’08 is NUMBERS. Numbers appears to be a spreadsheet app and it is that but like PAGES, it’s really a page layout & presentation app disguised as a spreadsheet app. Of course, most people will compare it to MSFT Excel. Excel is all powerful and the […]

I felt that my post from yesterday about this game deserved more than an update (although this information resides there as well) because it turns out that after gaining access to the 20% discount code on products ordered from logitech.com will only be shipped to addresses within certain countries which DOES NOT include the U.S. […]

I found this online utility which allows you to convert an Online Video from ‘YouTube videos’ for example into more popular formats like wmv, mov, mp4, mp3, 3gp etc.  The site is called vConvert.net.  It allows you to convert FLV files to the selected format faster and less lossy than with other typical transcoders. When […]

PAGES as part of iWork ’08 is aptly and smartly named. Because it’s not just another word processor – it’s really a collected series of classy looking templates that you can just use as is – or customize by keeping the formatting and page layout but dropping in your own photo or illustration and have […]

A German digital artist by the name of Till Nowak via his site framebox.de has created an incredible homage to HR Giger and Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The work, titled “Salad”, was created using 3ds Max and uses everyday vegetables to model an Alien from the movie of the same name. Very cool. Here is one of […]

ESPN has updated their podcasts for easy access via your iPhone. When you go to ESPN.com, click on the PODCENTER link and if you’re visiting from your iPhone, you should be offered the link on the right hand (above). Tap and instead of having to wade through tiny icons and links, the iPhone page looks […]