When you use a site like Gmail, you have to decide: Do I want to use the service’s website, or do I want to use it through an app, like Outlook? Here’s how to get the best of both worlds. More

There’s no doubt Google has a sense of humor — its excellent April Fools jokes are a testament to that. But there’s a wealth of funnies that can found any time of the year too. Here we pull together a handy list of Google “Easter eggs” that you can uncover right now. Bearing in mind … Read More

The Palm Pre Plus is eye-catching in its minimalism. Unlike most of the cookie-cutter handsets on the market today, it is wavy and glossy, with almost no visible controls. The gadget feels delightfully solid in the hand. At just under 5 ounces the Pre Plus is very light, but it doesn’t feel fragile or inexpensive. The … Read More

As part of a graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design, students built miniature cities out of common household objects—including this power strip . They’re just missing mini-people. [ Spoon Tamago via Crib Candy via Boing Boing ] More

Several star commenter have noted recently that the troll factor is rising again. This post is reminder that all comments wasting words and the comment moderator’s time wondering about such issues as “why does gizmodo love/hate/get paid by company XYZ?” may result in zero warnings and then a ban. And whatever happens to your comment … Read More

Even though Microsoft’s big MIX event is still days away, the Windows Phone 7 Series development platform is already pretty well defined. It’s also clear that Microsoft wants to keep things tidy for developers by requiring all WP7 phones to meet a certain base-level spec . Now, thanks to a post from Microsoft’s Shawn Hargreaves, … Read More

Kwedit , the innovative and suddenly controversial payments platform for virtual goods, is releasing some early data. The service lets users promise to pay later in lieu of a direct credit card payment when they want virtual currency for social games like Farmville. It’s not a legally binding promise, but users have an incentive to … Read More

What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quite a chore, as I need to log into over 10 different services before I start doing anything. Now, Mozilla … Read More

Raising its stake in the heated battle over the local smartphone market, LG Electronics, the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker, yesterday opened a smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system. Korean clienteles have access to merely one other Android-based smartphone, the Motoroi from U.S.-based Motorola. That makes LG’s latest handset the first locally made Android-based … Read More

Unless they’re incredibly quiet or potentially explosive , you won’t find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages? We’d tell you about that in a heartbeat — even if the wonderfully wasteful contraption turned out … Read More

Considering the fact that Windows XP is still the most-used OS worldwide, anyone considering swapping out their old hard drives for a new one should heed this advice: be careful. You may want to even consider not doing it. More

Remember the HarmoNESica ? A brief refresher, then: it’s what happens when you’ve got a copy of Super Tecmo Bowl , a Pocket Pal harmonica, and the desire to create a unique musical instrument. But if you don’t have any of the aforementioned ingredients and just want the end result, eBay’s got you covered as … Read More

It’s no secret that Google and China aren’t exactly BFFs at the moment, but now Motorola has thrown its hat into the foray in a rather large way in order to protect its own interests and presumably make a nice bit of coin while doing so. As of this quarter, all of Motorola’s Android smartphones … Read More

A recent study by the company Strategy Analytics suggests that owners of the Apple iPhone rank highly in terms of likeliness to return to Apple for repeat business when looking for their next mobile device. The report,”iPhone Owners Most Satisfied and Likely to Repeat Purchase,” added that mobile users of QWERTY based phones were significantly … Read More

Some technology such as wireless charging for cellphones has been around for quite some time, but has yet to be refined or as near to perfection as the Case-mate’s Hug. The Hug has become a quick favorite among iPhone users as it is one of the best charging pad’s on the market over the past … Read More