LinkedIn iPhone App Gets Revamped UI

LinkedIn, a social networking site for professionals, recently issued a major upgrade to its iPhone app. It’s darn gorgeous.
The app’s user interface mimics the large, bubbly buttons of the iPhone’s home screen. Each button directs you to a different part of LinkedIn: status updates, profiles, connections, inbox and so on. The app is fast and [...]

How to Put a Broken iPod to Good Use

Our friends at Macworld have a simple list of uses for a dead iPod. The suggestions include using the iPod as a car stereo (if the battery no longer charges), turning the iPod into a storage drive, or tethering the iPod to a computer as an always-plugged-in iTunes player.
Decent suggestions, but I had to chime [...]

USB Overload: 24-Port Hub Offers More Holes Than You’ll Ever Need

This USB hub has 24 ports. Who could possibly use such a thing? I regularly have to re-jig my USB setup to fit in everything I use (not to mention the gear I test) and I can’t ever see myself needing almost a quarter-century of sockets.
We suppose it could be good for those who need [...]

Hard Drive Packs In Every National Geographic Issue Ever

As a youngster, I was once given a one-year subscription to the National Geographic. Like most people, I looked at the (wonderful) pictures and promised myself I would read the articles later. A promise which was, of course, never kept (although I did often sneak a peek at the pictures of the women of tribes [...]

Kim Kardashian Sued By ‘Cookie Diet’ Company

Kim Kardashian being sued for something she Tweeted.

Packaging Slip-Up Hints At New 8GB iPhone 3GS

This label could point to a new 8GB iPhone 3GS, a replacement for the current $200 iPhone 3G. The picture was snapped by a German T-Mobile customer, David, and posted to the Apfeltalk forums.
David was supposed to receive a refurbished 8BG iPhone 3G, the cheapest model in the iPhone lineup. He got the handset [...]

Top 10 Celebrity Meltdowns of 2009

Pop Tarts presents its third annual compilation of the most self-destructive celebrities.

Rumor: Google Nexus One $530 Unlocked, $180 With Plan

Screenshots sent to Gizmodo from an anonymous source reveal the possible price and tariff details of the Nexus One Google phone, along with some extra hardware details.
The Google-designed handset is expected to be launched at an invitation-only Android-themed special event on Tuesday January 5th. If these leaked pictures are correct, then the Nexus One will [...]

Why Jake Gyllenhaal Can’t Seem To Stay Out of Jail

Experience gained in researching film now has him popping into prison on a regular basis.

Power-Free iPhone Projector: It’s All Done With Mirrors

The HypnosEye cellphone projector is the lowest tech solution you’ll find to the problem of throwing your cellphone’s video onto a nearby wall. It is also the only gadget in history that sports an “adjustment cushion”.
First, here’s what the HypnosEye doesn’t do. It doesn’t hook up to your iPhone’s dock, or your portable media player’s [...]