By Chris Scott Barr Some days it really does seem like the iPhone has an app for everything. Heck, if the phone lacks a piece of hardware that you’d need to accomplish something, there’s an accessory for it. At CES we saw the L5 IR Remote Dongle , which (as the name implies) turns your phone...

By Chris Scott Barr Some days it really does seem like the iPhone has an app for everything. Heck, if the phone lacks a piece of hardware that you’d need to accomplish something, there’s an accessory for it. At CES we saw the L5 IR Remote Dongle , which (as the name implies) turns your phone...

By Andrew Liszewski These days putting an ‘i’ in front of a product name makes it sound particularly high-tech and cutting edge, but back in the day, sticking ‘amatic’ at the end had the same effect. So it’s interesting that the makers of the Lace-amatic chose to go old...

By Evan Ackerman If someone steals your keys, they can steal your car. Yeah, it’s obvious, but there are ways to make your car less accessible. For example, you could remove the steering wheel. Or one of the other wheels. Or the engine. Take that, thieves! I guess maybe it would get a little bit...

By Andrew Liszewski Thankfully, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, someone had the foresight to remove the SpecPlates off a handful of Imperial Star Destroyers before they were sold for scrap after the Galactic Empire fell. And now, many unspecified years later, they’ve made them available...

By Chris Scott Barr If you’ve dabbled in computer networking for very long, you’ve no doubt learned to craft your own cables. You’ve also probably discovered that your average Cat5 cable can be turned into one of several different types, depending on how you wire it. It can get frustrating...

Editor’s note : This is a guest post penned by Ethan Nicholas, developer of the million-dollar iPhone game iShoot and the newly released Kim Rhode’s Outdoor Shooting . Before the iPad was even announced, Nicholas was already conceiving his next game with the tablet device in mind. The Internet is...

By Evan Ackerman This looks, at first glance, like an incredibly useful charging accessory: it plugs into a USB port and has adjustable teeth to charge any of those blocky, unfriendly, proprietary custom camera batteries. Any maybe it still is an incredibly useful charging accessory… But when...

OpenCandy , the startup that tries to offer bundled applications that you might actually want to use, has added Joe Kraus , founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, to their board. Kraus is currently a Director of Product Management at Google. Alongside the news, OpenCandy has also shared...

Editor’s note: Earlier this week, guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan wrote a post about the state of online video . In this post he follows up with some thoughts on what’s holding back this budding industry. Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo , a leading producer of premium,...

Apparently, Yahoo didn’t like the bad press it was getting following its decision to shutter its own Shopping API and instead strike a deal with PriceGrabber to use their data. Neal Sample, Yahoo’s Vice President of Open Strategy has a rather passionate post today on the Yahoo Developer...

Yesterday, we noted that $5 million had be raised in donations for Haiti though text messaging in the U.S. alone. Today, that number surpassed $10 million, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced. Perhaps more importantly, some of the big players involved in the donations are making moves to...