Monthly Archives: April 2011

A not atypical coffee roaster, like an old-school Probat favored by Stumptown, looks like this (or this). Not a small machine. Unless you compare it to Dave Hartkop’s Helios 4, a solar-powered coffee roaster. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/9vGDWrqxXao/super-roasting-coffee-with-600-mirrors-and-a-giant-ball-of-fire-in-the-sky Roustabout Girl Happy … Continue reading →

A good mobile application is a fine balance between simplicity and functionality. You’re using it on the go, so you don’t have a lot of time to sit there and fumble with the phone to figure it all out. But … Continue reading →

So you’ve recently purchased a shiny new iPad 2 but now you need some nice wallpapers to choose from. If you’re looking for some cool iPad 2 wallpapers I’ve gathered a few here that you may enjoy! Stay tuned for … Continue reading →

Don’t ditch that premium cable subscription just yet. The long-anticipated HBO Go app just hit the iOS App Store and Android Market, bringing original HBO series and a variety of blockbuster films to your mobile device. You’ll need an HBO … Continue reading →

Mozy is one of the most popular cloud backup services around, with more than one million users storing around 70 petabytes of data. Its popularity apparently put it on the acquisition radar of VMware — which has now made Mozy … Continue reading →

In this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, the crew waxes geeky on phones, bikes and exercise gear. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/podcast-113/ A BIG HUNK O LOVE A BOY LIKE ME A GIRL LIKE YOU Love Me Tender Loving You Jailhouse Rock

Sand Trap is one of those games that at first seem too hard to bother with, but when you try to stop playing it you discover you’re hooked. The goal is to get as much sand as you possibly can … Continue reading →

Concrete bombs. France has been dropping 660-pound concrete-filled training bombs on Libyan tanks to crush them while minimizing collateral damage, since “there is no, or very little, shrapnel thrown out,” according to French military spokesman Thierry Burkhard. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/hcnk_RJlOaI/how-do-you-kill-a-tank-without-killing-civilians … Continue reading →

Desire HD owners have had their hands on some previously leaked versions of Gingerbread, and the final shipping version of Gingerbread for the device has now appeared. It’s unbranded so you need not worry about any carrier bloat added and … Continue reading →

Mozilla, continuing its year-long crusade to speed up Firefox startup and shutdown times, has published a name and shame list of the Firefox’s slowest add-ons. The list is just one part of Mozilla’s new efforts to highlight slow add-ons, and … Continue reading →