From: Butterscotch on Mon, Feb 07 2011 1:01 PM

If you’ve ever wanted to turn your

iPhone into a heart rate monitor

(who hasn't?) then we've got an app for you. The

Pulse Phone iPhone application

allows your iPhone to

check your heart rate

simply by

using ...

From: Butterscotch on Mon, Feb 07 2011 1:01 PM

Sex is Fun. Chalk that one up as the most obvious statement on record and also as the name of your new favorite podcast, iDevice app maker and purveyor of sex games and manuals. The core concept of this multi-faceted educator and purveyor of all things sex, is to keep sex fun, safe and satisfyin...

From: Butterscotch on Mon, Feb 07 2011 1:01 PM

In this episode, we’ll show you how to add columns on Hootsuite . Columns can be added to each of your various services such as Facebook , Twitter and Foursquare so that you can organize your information streams better. We'll also show you how to delete columns and organize your...

From: Butterscotch on Mon, Feb 07 2011 1:00 PM

TV Hat is one of those products that make you say "why didn’t I think of that?" and then immediately answers the question for you: "because I can't see myself (or indeed anyone else) wearing it." However, if you're the socks and sandals sort, the I don't care what anyone else thin...

From: Butterscotch on Mon, Feb 07 2011 1:00 PM

The new so-called Google Phone, the Nexus S, is the follow-up to the Nexus One. We take an in-depth hardware and software tour of Gingerbread, Android 2.3, running on the flagship Android phone. The Nexus S is a sizeable upgrade over the Nexus One, but it does feel incremental... perhaps that’s ...

From: Butterscotch on Fri, Feb 04 2011 7:54 PM

Brother P-Touch, the label maker for organizing geeks gets an update, Escort, the GPS + radar solution for speed demons with no sense of direction. Also, cases that protect all your digital gear, a super hero that can rescue your iPhone, a wireless keyboard case for your iPad, an iPhone case wit...

From: Butterscotch on Thu, Feb 03 2011 2:01 PM

Ok Go is a social media success story. The band that is its own entity and its own task master is indy in the purest sense. Rather than toiling away in obscurity though, the band has harnessed social media like no other, selling over 600,000 records (well, digital album downloads) while creating...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:14 PM

The Spykee spy robot from Meccano / Erector will watch the house while you’re away, thanks to his laser security beam. He lets you check up on the pets while at work with his webcam eye and lets you stay in touch with home thanks to VoIP two-way voice communication. You can even control him ...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:14 PM

Depending on your personal viewpoint, either nothing in life is free or the best things in life are free. These great open and

free college and university articles

, and even entire courses that you can take for free will dispel that notion if the former or affirm it if the l...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:14 PM

All of us are bombarded by information in our daily lives. Pictures, Web pages, phone numbers, addresses, lists of things to do and much more. Evernote gives you a way to "remember everything." On top of that it gives you a way to access that information from your desktop, the Web, you...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:14 PM

Not too long after

desktop mice

lost their tracking balls thanks to the proliferation of optical technology, they lost their tails to the wireless trend too. Poor things. As anyone who’s ever used a laptop trackpad for any extended period of time will likely tell you, someti...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:14 PM

Microsoft . Love 'em or hate 'em, it is hard to argue that its hardware division makes some great products. Excellent build quality, clean industrial design, many degrees of ergonomic architecture and comfort across the line. The Wireless Keyboard 3000 is an entry-level wireless key...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:06 PM

Last episode , we made our own game with Kodu. Now, we can make a spin-off movie to build on our game’s success using Windows Live Movie Maker . Joey deVilla runs Junior through the process of creating and editing movies with Windows Live Movie Maker and sets him on his way to his 15 minutes ...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:06 PM

Molly McDonald demonstrates her dislike for all things undead in The Sweet Stuff: Casual Games this week. Her

top three Zombie themed browser games

comprise Flaming ZomBooka, Zombie Baseball and the ever popular Simpleton. These

free online zombie games

...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:06 PM

Keep prying eyes off your BlackBerry’s screen with a 3M Privacy Film. It's not the most elegant solution, requiring you to cut the film to size, but it will cut off the view for anyone who's looking at the device on an angle; like that person beside you on the plane or a prying colleag...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:05 PM

Doc spends a lot of time working, but he spends a lot of time waiting too. Today, Doc covers four of his favorite free card games for the iPhone. They’re all excellent and they're absolutely free!

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:05 PM

Sometimes it may seem like your Windows 7 PC takes a long time to boot. There are a number of things that can cause this slowness. If you have a lot of programs that load at startup, that could be the cause. We’ll show you how to make your

Windows 7 computer boot faster

by <...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:05 PM

Cheryl Poirier, AKA Miss Download, takes a look at QBrew ; free software for home beer brewing . If you’re an old hand at making your own beer at home, you'll feel right at home here. You can manage your own full-grain brewing recipes , get specific gravity measures, an International Bit...

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:05 PM

This week, Molly helps reunite a lost kitty with its robot overlord in Robot Wants Kitty, chases her dreams in Robot Unicorn Attack from Adult Swim and teleports through a tough puzzler in Andrew the Droid.

From: Butterscotch on Wed, Feb 02 2011 4:05 PM

If you’re a travelling salesperson or otherwise a road warrior or if you particularly enjoy printing out pages that look like they came out of a circa 2000 fax machine, Jay Goldman has just the device for you. The PrintStik prints from your Windows PC, BlackBerry