Live traffic cams on your mobile phone

Now there’s Mobileyes - a free mobile traffic camera service available for most of the big metro areas in the country.

The application for mobile devices is advertising-supported and delivers traffic cam images real-time from Hartford, Conn.; New York; Los Angeles; Kansas City; Houston; Knoxville; Indianapolis; and Washington, D.C.

It doesn’t work with the iPhone but is compatible with data enabled phones on the Sprint, Verizon Wireless, AT&T-Mobile networks. Users can access the service from anywhere on popular smart phones such as the BlackBerry, Palm Treo and the Motorola Q.

To download the video application, go Read more

How to download YouTube videos

I’ve found a cool and easy-to-use program that lets you download YouTube videos.

The videos are easily viewed online but because they are in the Flash format, can’t be downloaded and saved to your hard drive and then used in, say, a PowerPoint presentation.

There’s a $25 program called Video Piggy that does it for you. It’s really simple. It allows you to convert those Flash videos to AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV and 3GP video formats, for easy playback on your computer and DVD player. You can even extract the audio to an MP3 if you want.

To check it out Click Here.

Speedy label printer is very handy gizmo

One of the biggest printing hassles in the world is doing address labels, envelopes and the like. That’s why a label printer is a useful gadget.

A label printer is far from a necessity. But if you do a lot of shipping or use address labels for your mail, or have a need for name tags and the like, a standalone label printer sure can be handy. And with Christmas card season coming in a couple months and all that hand addressing, a good label printer can be a real time saver.

That’s what the Seiko Smart Label Printer 450 does. At about $130 or so online, this is Seiko’s fastest printer to date, spitting out labels at about one second each. It uses direct thermal technology, meaning there’s no need for printer cartridges, ink or toner. And it prints a respectable 300 dpi.

Here’s my video review:

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My biggest disappointment is that this gizmo prints only in black and white. It hooks up to the USB port of your computer. Set-up takes about five minutes and it so so easy to use, you don’t even need to consult the instructions.

It does name tags, business-card labels and it works with both Macs and PCs.

Microsoft’s Sphere multi-touch computing

Microsoft’s Surface has been all the rage. But put in the round and you’ve got Sphere multi-touch computing.

Apple says MobileMe is now working

Okay. Exhale slowly now. Apple says MobileMe is now working, closing in on three weeks after it was supposed to be up and running and in place of Mac.com. Apple Insider is reporting AppleInsider | Apple says MobileMe transition complete, lost messages recovered [u].

YouTube video exposes brutal cop

It’s happened again. Citizen journalists, using camcorders to record various events, have caught a brutal New York cop in an unprovoked attack on a bicyclist. It used to be this was the sort of stuff we saw in sweeps week local TV investigations.

Now, we check YouTube.

The latest happened during what’s known as a Critical Mass bicycle ride in New York. These events, held around the country, get a lot of bikers out to draw attention to the fact that bicycles have as much right to the road as anyone. We have the video… Read more

New Targus bags speed through airport security

Targus is relieving some of that pain with its new Zip-Thru Corporate Traveler Laptop Case, which will eliminate the hassle of having to remove your laptop from your laptop case when passing through airport security. Read more

Whats a GB? A TB? Understanding tech terms

Ever wondered How Much Data Is That? is a very cool site that tells you how much data a Megabyte or a Gigabyte can hold, with all sorts of equivalent comparisons. Very handy Read more

What’d you say? The iPod is damaging my what???

The down side of the iPod and the Zune and whatever else you stick in your ear. U.S. facing possible hearing loss epidemic: study - Yahoo News.

China Has Twice as many Internet Users Than U.S.

We’re number two… beaten 560 million to 216 million. China Has More Internet Users Than U.S. — Internet Usage — InformationWeek.

MobileMe Working Perfectly For Me

Not all is gloom and doom for MobileMe. Tom Fitzgerald says MobileMe Working Perfectly For Me.

Top US social networking sites

WHich one is most popular? IT Facts has listed the Top US social networking sites.

No surprises in the top two: MySpace and Facebook.

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