Apple on Wednesday morning launched iTunes Plus, an extension of its iTunes Store that has begun selling DRM-free music tracks for $1.29 per song. iTunes Plus The new iTunes Plus tracks feature high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quali…

Link to Apple launches iTunes Plus alongside iTunes 7.2 release

Search giant launches Google Gears, open-source software that brings offline access and local storage to the Web browser.
Link to Google kicks offline Web apps into gear

Over the long weekend I made a change to our local network that has worked very well so far: switched the DNS from Comcast to OpenDNS. Some pages load faster and I’ve have found the shortcut functionality handy (pictured above).
Although you can do shortcuts with other programs (think a less powerful ActiveWords in the browser) […]

Link to Amazing House (creative idea)

Apple released iTunes 7.2 updated in the Mac OS X Software Update tonight, which offers “iTunes Plus”, Apple’s new DRM-free $1.29 offeringsWith iTunes 7.2, preview and purchase iTunes Plus music—new higher-quality, DRM-free music downloads from participating music labels.
Link to Apple Releases iTunes 7.2, Launches iTunes Plus (DRM Free)

Want to do more with your Playstation 3? HELIOS Software and Terra Soft Solutions have made available for free download a modified version of the Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) distribution.
Link to Free simplified Linux distro for PS3

Linux only: Open-source app AllTray docks any application to the system tray that does not have a native tray icon. AllTray works in KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Fluxbox, and WindowMaker, and can tuck any…
Link to Featured Linux Download: Dock any application to the system tray with AllTray

Too-busy-to-read (or slackass) bibliophiles are in for a surprise if they grab Al Gore’s latest account of his hunt for Manbearpig from the iTunes Store. Apple has confirmed that The Assault on Reason, as well as a number of other new books released on the iTunes Store will not play on iPods, though they will […]

There are a few things weird about this phone. First, if we were to design a cellphone to smell foods and keep track of your diet, we probably wouldn’t design it like an avocado. Second, on the off chance that we were to design it like an avocado, we probably wouldn’t make it an avocado […]

theANEMIX is a modular, customizable lighting system inspired by the bioluminescence of deep-sea creatures that produces 3D effects in space. It uses an easily modifiable panel composed of a reflective and a luminescent layer, which is LED-powered, to produce its effects. However they do it, it looks pretty damn sweet, as you can see in […]