I am on AIM/MSN/ICQ/YIM a lot. Before, I used multi protocol IM clients that allowed me to connect all that once but one of my quirks was that I wanted chat logs saved. Problem is, my hard drives tend to crash and I always forget to backup that folder. Enter Meebo. Meebo is a web based multi protoco...

A new herb for my noodle soup? Ngoc Mai is known for its dishes from Hue, the ancient political and culinary capital of Vietnam, and from that section of its menu I chose bun oc ($6.50), a "clam noodle soup" also rife with pork, squid, and shrimp. The namesake "oc" literally refers to golf-ball-size...

Es ist die Endphase der Conference-Spiele im College Basketball. Bevor am nächsten Sonntag die NCAA (US-Hochschulsport-Verband) die 65 Teilnehmer der March Madness festlegt, stehen in 30 der 31 Conferences die Playoffs an. Die großen, wichtigen Conferences fangen erst in dieser Woche an, mit den F...

The new Mac Mini may be faster and run on less power, but it's still a bitch to take apart. I know it was idealistic of me, but especially with the price of Apple's Mac Mini upgrade options, I was......

Safari 4 Beta sprinted from the gate with a claim to being "3x faster than Firefox" at JavaScript rendering. We're calling Apple's ante and updating our browser speed tests with the latest builds. As in our previous speed tests, we're looking at a few key factors that the average browser user notice...

I’ve noted many times that the NFL Combine is the most overrated event in sports when it comes to gauging talent, yet every year I get caught up in what a guy runs or what a guy jumps or what a guy throws (combine studs that probably went a bit high: JaMarcus Russell, Donte Stallworth, and jus...

Something’s really shitty is happening when one player from Israel gets bumped at a tennis tournament and another is allowed to play. Such is the case at the annual Dubai Tennis Championships when Israeli female tennis star Shahar Peer was denied a visa to play there, while her male colleague,...

Following are excerpts from an anonymous letter sent to school administrators at Colorado State, reporting harassment and abuse allegedly perpetrated by four Rams football players against another student in the men's locker room. The name of the school has been redacted in the document, but judging ...

Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Trucks/Pickups, Dodge Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2010 Dodge Ram 3500HD When it comes to consumer loyalty, you'd be hard pressed to find a more dedicated group of fans outside the heavy-duty pickup segment. Recognizing this, Dodge has brought a slew of f...

Phew. For a moment year or so there we reckoned that amazing FeRAM discovery had been pushed aside and forgotten entirely. Thankfully, Toshiba has picked up the ball and refined the original chainFeRAM architecture by creating a new architecture that prevents cell signal degradation -- which, as you...