Daily Tech and Gadget

It’s the start of yet another lazy Saturday, so let’s make things a little more interesting with a side dish of outrage . A 15-year-old student in Pennsylvania has accused his high school of spying on him using a school-supplied MacBook. The school had accused the boy “inappropriate behavior” that it found him engaged in via the built-in Webcam. ..Read More

Now that Google Chrome has entered the world of fully-extensible browsers, with its recent addition of extensions and Greasemonkey scripts , you’ve likely found yourself perusing the libraries and tweaking until your heart’s content. With that, however, comes the inevitable – browser crashes. While Google Chrome doesn’t have a safe mode in the same way the Firefox or Windows ..Read More

paperbag was the first of a whole bunch of you to send in CNN’s article on ‘book piracy.’ To be honest, there was so little substance in the article that I didn’t see much of a reason to post it — but since people keep submitting it, it seems that quite a few of you are hoping to discuss ..Read More

Good news, everyone! Our very own iPhone / iPod touch app is finally really available in Apple’s much talked about and critically acclaimed App Store! That’s right, all the excitement and info you’ve come to know and love from Engadget is now bottled in an easy to digest and delicious iPhone form. The application — easily downloadable from your ..Read More

A Google application that builds walkable tours of city (or country) attractions has been significantly upgraded to make it much, much easier to use. Google City Tours , one of the in-progress projects on the Google Labs site, has been overhauled to l0ok, feel and work a lot more like Google Maps. A Google software engineer who blogged about ..Read More

If you’re sick and tired of typing in your password every time your PC comes out of sleep mode, there’s a simple tweak you can do to prevent it from happening again. Over at the How-To Geek site (my home away from Lifehacker), I’ve written up a guide to changing the setting in each version of Windows, since it’s ..Read More