http://www.nodrm.com Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:10:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While we're stuck waiting for something other than lithium-ion batteries to power our laptops, at least we can quench our alarm clocks' thirst for power, with water. Ambient Weather has created an alarm clock whose power source is actually tap water. As the water begins to evaporate, just ... http://www.nodrm.com/2007/09/21/water-powered-alarm-clock/ It's a fact that Sprint's EVDO service is faster than T-Mobile's EDGE service, but just how much faster is it? To test this out, we used the Mobile Speed Tests @ http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed. According to the website, the mobile speed tests: attempt to convince your mobile device to download a measured ... http://www.nodrm.com/2007/05/13/sprintt-mobile-mobile-speed-test-comparisons/ Similar to our previous post How To: Use Sprint/Samsung A920 as an EVDO Bluetooth Modem with Mac, we have written out the instructions for using Sprint/Samsung's new Upstage as a Bluetooth Modem with your Mac. If you've got an Upstage and a Mac, this really is a great mobility ... http://www.nodrm.com/2007/05/12/how-to-use-sprintsamsung-upstage-as-an-evdo-bluetooth-modem-on-mac-osx/ Snapmania has added a unique feature to its online photo sharing offering: Tourist Remover. Tourist Remover is a free (sign-up required) web based tool which automatically removes the tourists, passing cars, or roaming wild animals from your photographs - allowing you to capture that perfect, lifeless, image of the ... http://www.nodrm.com/2007/03/04/remove-unwanted-tourists-from-your-photos/ Ambient Technologies, borrowing a bit of technology from its Ambient Orb, is testing out what it aptly calls the Ambient Clock - a clock that can query your Google Calendar and display busy time.  In the above pictured prototype, busy time is depicted by the shaded outer ring of the ... http://www.nodrm.com/2006/11/09/ambient-clock-synchronizes-with-google-calendar/ We can't say how long this service will remain free - or how long it will even exist - but if you're looking to free up some storage space on your home LAN MediaFire.com will sure be nice while it lasts. Mediafire.com allows you to upload files of any ... http://www.nodrm.com/2006/11/05/mediafire-free-file-hosting-unlimited-file-size/ Google Finance has recently made its debut, and Yahoo Finance has recently taken a leap ahead, beefing up its offering with many new Web 2.0 features, so why do we need another pretty looking financial information hub? Commission-free trades for one. Backed by Morten Lund, one of Skype's ... http://www.nodrm.com/2006/09/23/zecco-commission-free-internet-trades/ If you're at all familiar with home networking, the windows firewall found in Windows XP SP2 is nothing but a nuisance. After you've turned it off, you will continue to get annoying pop-up balloons telling you how risky your decision to forgo Microsoft's protection was. Fear not, after ... http://www.nodrm.com/2006/09/04/turn-off-the-firewall-balloon/ Google's latest foray into the web based application world brings us Google Spreadsheets - a collaborative web based excel. As was the case with the initial craze surrounding Google's GMail web based email app, Google Spreadsheets is invite only. You can sign up and wait for Google to ... http://www.nodrm.com/2006/06/08/ebay-google-spreadsheets-invites/ According to our source at Verizon, the Motorola Q will not be launching this month. Coming out of "friendly-user testing," Verizon is looking for keyboard modifications thought to be along the lines of bigger keys and some changes to the way certain keys interact with the phone's OS. ... http://www.nodrm.com/2006/04/05/motorola-q-not-coming-this-month-says-verizon/