Citrus Alarm Clock. Desktop alarm clock program. Simple, gorgeous, effective. Multiple alarms for different needs, nice fade up audio for relaxed awakenings, use your own MP3 or WMA music or audio, flexible and very configurable settings. Lovely! Tired of setting your alarm clock to a different time each day? Tired of waking up to typical radio fodder or annoying beeps? Citrus can help. Citrus is a software alarm clock, and the result of many missed busses. As a student, I used to…
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RealPlay Wireless – Nintendo Wii type gaming heading for a Playstation near you soon
So Nintendo’s announcement yesterday of extremely phat profits appears to have spurred on the games industry no end. No sooner is the ink dry on the press release from everyone’s favourite Wii company, than up pops the In2Games crew to announce the imminent arrival of their RealPlay Wireless range of Playstation 2 games and controllers just in time for the Xmas rush. We’re talking about a set of six games retailing at £29.99 each, which come with some nifty wireless motion sensing peripherals to…
Read MoreGobi – the hotspot killer arrives?
Qualcomm has just announced its MDM1000 Gobi global mobile Internet chipset for notebook computers. This is a big deal because it allows laptop makers to embed full on cellular broadband and GPS functionality in every machine that comes off the conveyer belt. Remember how laptop embedded WiFi chips powered the rise and rise of home wireless networking and 802.11 in general? Well expect the same kind of disruptive effect from this technology, only in favour of cellular broadband. The two…
Read MoreBoynq Wake Up – iPod speaker and alarm clock done stylish
Boynq Wake Up. Sometimes having a cute piece of white tech sitting by the bedside can actually make you want to wake up early. Well, so we’ve heard. This attractive artifact contains a charging dock, FM radio alarm and 20W amplifier. Available in white or black. Tags: gadget, boynq+wake+up, ipod+alarm+dock
Read MoreVero Solar Powered Bluetooth Hands Free Car Kit – perpetual mouth motion at last?
The Vero ENB-100 Solar Powered Bluetooth Hands Free Car Kit lets you talk for ever in your vehicle as long as you sit under a sunny sky somewhere nice and warm. Cave dwellers or vampires, however, need not apply. £59.99. The Vero ENB-100 provides wireless freedom within a distance of 10m/30 ft from a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone in your pocket or at any place in your car. You can talk wirelessly on the phone with your hands on the wheel while…
Read MoreWorld’s first Toyota Prius Limo – shirley shome mishtake…?
The world’s first Toyota Prius Limo. Canadian with way too much time on his hands decides to accommodate his family of six in green style. Six doors, 10 seats, 50 mpg and a bunch of turning heads at the mall. Er..do not try this at home folks. More here. The price was small. The cost was high. We have less than $10,000.00 in it. All the parts came from two cars with non rebuild able junk titles. I was able to recoup…
Read MoreKeypad Credit Card – PIN, Chip, Passcode, Sign and Hurry…?
The Keypad Credit Card – aka Embedded Authentication Device – is…well a credit card with a built-in number pad. Why? Well…um…perhaps because they can? The company’s last effort along these lines was a credit card with a password screen, which also seemed a little redundant. We would have thought that a PIN number, signature strip, encrypted chip, security strip number and card number was enough for most people. Maybe they’re just a tad more paranoid than we are? For example, a…
Read MoreFlauntr – probably the most comprehensive photo editing service on the web
Flauntr is just about the most ambitious photo manipulation site out there, headquartered in Switzerland and engineered in India. We’re talking a range of free web applications which let you add artistic effects, do basic editing like red-eye removal etc and even format images for your chosen upload service like Flickr, Bebo or MySpace. The tools are fast to use and the results are excellent, although the major drawback is a lack of a stepped undo, which means that you can only reset…
Read More350 Pages – super simple online web site creator
350 Pages is a new free online web site creation service. OK, so there’s a bunch of these DIY sites out there, some good, some not, but this one is not bad at all. Why? Well it’s very very simple for a start. Every element on the page has a ‘hover over’ toolbar which you use to edit, remove or add. So you can literally drag things around, resize them, and remove or change them all in an instant. And without knowing any…
Read MoreWUBI – fast and safe way to install Linux on your Windows computer
Wubi is a free program you can use to quickly and easily install Linux on your Windows machine. Run the proggie, choose drive, size, password and language, press ‘Install’ and you’re done. The beauty of this little tool is the fact that it does a ‘no-partition’ install, so you can install Linux, play around with it and uninstall it instantly via ‘Add/Remove Programs’ if you don’t like it. Or if you do like it, you can make the dual boot install permanent…
Read More15″ Gigantor Digital Photo Frame – big enough to store Tom Cruise’s ego…maybe…
15” Gigantor Digital Photo Frame. The story here is not so much the fact that this is a large digital frame, but the price. $249.99 is teeny, tiny digital frame levels, which makes this one heck of a bargain. It’s got a cherry wood frame, plays JPG or BMP formats and contains a memory card adapter which copes with most anything you can throw at it. Luckily the 15″ Gigantor Digital Photo Frame really delivers with a sharp 1024×768 resolution,…
Read MoreUSB Mini Battery – power when you want it, ugly when you don’t
USB Mini Battery. Aw c’mon, there’s no way that you’re going to drag this puppy out of your pocket and hook it up to charge your iPhone now is there? A gorgeous, sleek and delectable icon of design history connected to the worst phone in history? OK, OK, joking, joking. But look at that charger will you, all grey plastic and October 1998. Sheesh! $36.00. Have you ever had experiences that devices are running out of battery while in use? It…
Read MoreSpy Clock – become a mirror master of all you survey
Spy Clock. Shiny, convex, glass mirror with hands. Sure it’s a clock, but what else can it show behind you? $25.00. A convex glass mirror with sleek metal hands, the Spy Clock lets you know what’s going on at all times. One AA-battery A convex glass mirror with sleek metal hands, the Spy Clock lets you know what’s going on at all times. One AA-battery Tags: spy+clock, mirror, gadget
Read MoreTokBox – free video calling
TokBox is yet another free web based video calling service. Did we mention free? It’s browser based, embeddable on web sites and it has a very Californian marketing package which is sure to make it popular with all and sundry. We’re still trying to find the differentiator. Free video chat No cost. No prepaid minutes. Really free. No downloads Talk through your browser. No chat client needed. Any website Embeddable on all websites and social networks. Privacy control You…
Read MoreDoody Calls – the best darn job in the whole darn world
“Hi Mom, I just got that job I was telling you about.”“Aw great sweetheart, I’m so pleased! What are you doing?”“Well…it’s something to do with pet poop and scooper tools.”<Click> Doody Calls. Pooper scooping for gold. Franchises available. Form an orderly queue please at the back. With DoodyCalls Premier Pet Waste Removal Service, you can wash your hands of the whole clean up business. Let us clean up after your dog and make your lawn a fun, clean, safe place to…
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