This is definitely the story that simply wouldn’t die. Lenovo just announced their own battery recall and exchange program, recalling some 526,000 batteries used in Lenovo ThinkPad notebook computers, 168,500 of them sold in the United States and the rest…
Hard Drive Recovery Guide
Over at the Tech Hints blog [ http://tech-hints.org/ ] is probably the definitive guide to recovering data from a dead hard drive that you forgot to back up, from beginning to end, start to finish. I think everyone’s been in…
Lifehacker’s 100th “Geek To Live!”
(image above snipped from LifeHacker!) I’m a huge Lifehacker fan and make no secret of it-I think Lifehacker has to be one of the best possible sites on the web, both for improving your life, improving your work, and wasting…
Symantec’s OS X Spyware Prediction in Flames
Over at ZDNet Australia, blogger Munir Kotadia points out that Symantec made the prediction 18 months ago in their last Internet Threat Report that by this time Mac OS X would be riddled with spyware, viruses, and security threats. Symantec…
Nintendo Could Beat Sony in Game Console Race, Experts Say
At the same time as Sony was getting good reviews of the PlayStation 3 console at the Tokyo Game Show, the furor of excitement over the Nintendo Wii hasn’t faltered at all, and Nintendo’s success with the Nintendo DS handheld…
Gamers Applaud PlayStation 3
At the Tokyo Game Show last week, gamers lined up to see the PlayStation 3 and play some of the launch titles that will be released alongside the platform when it makes its retail debut later this year-granted the game…
iTunes Sales Break $1 Million in First Week
According to PC World, movie downloads have been pretty brisk since the announcement that movies would be available on the iTunes Store, amassing over a million dollars US in less than a week since a slew of Disney movies were…
Toshiba Announces Battery Recall Program
Toshiba appears to be getting in on the game now as well; they announced today that they’ll be recalling something like 340,000 notebook computer batteries because of worries that those batteries might be faulty. The batteries, again made by Sony,…
Zune’s “Viral” DRM Wraps Your Personal Content in Microsoft DRM!
So details have arisen in the blogosphere, merely a day after the Zune was revealed in a private press gathering yesterday that the only real innovation in the Zune is “viral DRM,” meaning that using the Zune’s new “social networking”…
PC World’s 25 Worst Websites Ever
From an inmate matching service to renting Chris Pirillo’s chest, from poor Pets.com to Whitehouse.com, PC World has a rundown of their top 25 worst websites ever, and yes, some of them are heraldes from the dot.com era like Pets.com,…