Rob was sick of misplaced chargers, scattered electronics, and the hunt for outlets to plug his gear in. Inspired by the charging stations he’d seen on Lifehacker, he built a spacious one for himself.
Just like Gina had repurposed a small cabinet to clean up her gadget clutter the cabinet, Rob turned a computer cabinet into [...]

If you think it is safe to download PDF documents and view them once Adobe finally releases its patch next week, think again. Didier Stevens, an IT security consultant last week demonstrated that simply viewing the folder containing compromised PDF documents within Microsoft’s Windows Explorer is enough to launch the exploit.
It appears that this is [...]

Paul Worthington is head of Strategy for Wolff Olins New York. You can follow his updates on Wolff Olins’ Tumblr and Twitter.
Brands must not lose their internal focus amidst the din of new information.
The world has changed. The new reality of online customer conversation means brands will need a strongly defined sense of self in [...]

The problem with distant glimpses of the future is that getting there takes some time. Such is the case with the TCR-2009 Trash Collecting Robot, which is a neat, but primitive robot garbage man.
Created by three Malaysian university students, there’s currently only photos available of the TCR, so how well this thing actually functions remains [...]

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Best Home Server SoftwareMedia files, data synchronization, and remote backups, oh my! Home computing has advanced to a point where [...]

One of the most interesting trends on the Internet right now is a move towards a more real-time experience. We have seen a lot of discussion lately about how Twitter is leading the charge by creating a search engine for the real-time web, for example. However, there are also a good number of other services [...]

We’ve established that Twitter is a viable place for brands to put up shop, but now that they’re microblogging away, how can they measure their output, customer service endeavors, conversation abilities, and overall ROI?
You could try one of these 10 reputation tracking tools, but Omniture’s already powerful analytics product, SiteCatalyst, is now the first of [...]

We know, we know — steampunk is sooo over and whatnot. But I can’t help it that some of the best crafters don’t think so and make amazing things like these Victorian-era ghostbusting tools.
Created by enigmatic toymaker Doktor A, these lovely gizmos – including the “Automatic Medium: Séance Engine” and the “Phenomenologocal Extrapolator” [...]

Nothing too sexy to report, but Firefox updated tonight to version 3.0.7. Head on over to the release notes for more of the specifics, but basically you’ll get several behind the scenes security and stability fixes as a part of a big old list of bugs that were smashed. If Firefox didn’t already take care [...]

Vivek Kundra, long expected to be appointed the first ever CTO of the US Federal Governement, will instead be appointed as the country’s first Chief Information Officer (CIO), according to reporting done by the Washington Post’s Kim Hart.
Kundra became “web 2.0 famous” last Fall when as D.C. CTO he switched 38,000 District of Colombia government [...]