Filed under: Video , Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Web services , Freeware No doubt you’re familiar with the BBC iPlayer : we’ve been closely following the product’s development since its cross-platform launch a little over a year ago.... 

Filed under: Audio , Web While the author’s guild may have problems with software that can convert eBooks to poorly pronounced audiobooks , there are a lot of good reasons you might want to convert text to speech. It can make written documents... 

Filed under: Fun , Games , Time-Wasters Hail can be a real bugger. In real life, we usually only have to put up with a few dents in our vehicles. In Effing Hail , on the other hand, the frozen menace is capable of a whole lot more destruction. The goal... 

Here’s a tip folks: don’t get in car wrecks. If you someday find such a situation unavoidable, however, here’s another: keep that laptop of yours in the trunk, or at least in a case tucked down behind the driver’s seat. Mounties... 

Filed under: Mozilla , Browsers Mozilla is inching closer to the release of Firefox 3.5, which includes a faster Javascript engine, a private browsing mode, faster page rendering, and changes to the way tabs are handled. Firefox 3.5 beta 4 is due to... 

HTC’s been pretty coy with pricing on the Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond2 , but now that units are starting to trickle out overseas , the numbers situation is getting slightly clearer. HTC’s just announced that an unlocked Pro2 will set Singaporeans... 

It seems that Dell jumped the gun a wee bit by shedding some light on Samsung’s forthcoming self-encrypting SSDs, but now Sammy is providing us with all the missing details… er, most of them, anyway. In conjunction with Wave Systems, Samsung... 

LG’s X110 netbook has been floating about Europe since last year , but it is apparently still headed this way , and it’s now once step closer to availability now that it’s passed through the FCC. Not surprisingly, the netbook itself... 

Those who live rock and roll lifestyles need accessories that look the part, accessories like the Ion Audio Tailgater. It’s a $199 iPod dock that, with a few scuffs and scratches and stickers, wouldn’t look too out of place getting kicked... 

Back in late March and early April, when we first heard the terrifying tale of two shifty, hapless carrier pigeons intercepted while attempting to smuggle cellphone parts to inmates in a high-security Brazilian prison, we thought it was merely an isolated...