Engadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: for Her

So you want to get your girl something gadgety for the holidays, but don’t quite know what. We’ve got you covered. In addition to our own thoughtful ideas, we also roped in Engadget-ladyfriends Veronica Belmont and Jill Fehrenbacher to make some suggestions and ensure we’re not too far off base. (In other words, if you’re [...]

The NFL is trying To "Enrich Themselves" By removing Free Broadcasts

Says Comcast. The moment of truth may be coming in the NFL Network/Cable showdown. This Thursday the NFL Network scored what is arguably the most interesting regular season game of the year (at least in the NFC): The 10-1 Packers vs. the 10-1 Cowboys. But, not a whole lot of people are going to be [...]

42 Pictures: Celebrities as Star Wars Characters

Imagine Tom Cruise as Chewbacca, David Letterman as C-3PO, Gandhi as Yoda, or Dick Cheney as a grotesque and powerful criminal overlord.
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Digg the Candidates…..

You can now check out the 2008 presidential candidates profiles on Digg! Add your favorite candidates as a friend to show support, and to see all their Digging activity in your friends’ activity feed. Many of them will be Digging, commenting and even submitting content.
On the Digg the Candidate’s main page you will see a [...]

The 12 ‘Germiest’ Places in America

…Called “the dirty dozen,” it’s a laundry list of the germiest places you’re likely to encounter during an average day. Sure, there are outbreaks of microbes and viruses across the country, but these buggers are where you live…
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TV on Your PC: Hulu, Joost and Miro Reviewed

The Writers Guild strike already stripped us of our Daily Show and Colbert Report, and now it may take away Heroes and House as well. Looking to escape Reality TV hell? We’ve painstakingly reviewed three free (and mostly legal) video services—Joost, Miro and Hulu—for your faux-TV enjoyment during these dark times.
The Contenders:Hulu: NBC Universal/News Corp.’s [...]

Microsoft struggling to convince about Vista

The majority of IT professionals worry that migrating to Windows Vista will make their networks less stable and more complex, according to a new survey.
Ninety percent of 961 IT professionals surveyed said they have concerns about migrating to Vista and more than half said they have no plans to deploy Vista.
“The concerns about [...]

First Beta of Firefox 3 Now Available

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and [...]

Top 10 Celebrity Trainwrecks of 2007

Let’s face it, we all love a good trainwreck. We complain that the news is only filled with the stories of the people who get bad attention, with nary a mention of the folks doing good, but you all must be interested or celebrity blogs like this one wouldn’t be so popular. And don’t tell [...]

Broadband speeds days numbered?

Enjoy your speedy broadband Web access while you can.
The Web will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms local cable, phone and wireless Internet providers, a study by business technology analysts Nemertes Research has found.
“Users will experience a slow, subtle degradation, so it’s back to [...]

SETI has a protocol on how to respond to First Contact with ETs

The “Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence” advises what to do and who to call if aliens are finally found.
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Top 25 Celebrity Miis You Got To See

When I first found out, Nintendo was releasing the Check Mii Out channel I was somewhat excited. I still hoping for a better online experience on the Nintendo Wii, so I thought that a channel like this was created to keep gamers (casual gamers of course) busy until Nintendo set up their online infrastructure. [...]

Minnesota bank held up twice in one day

WEST ST. PAUL, Minn. – The TCF Bank in a Cub Foods was held up twice in one day — by different robbers. Kyle Loven, a supervisory special agent at the FBI’s Minneapolis office, said the first robbery happened around 9 a.m. Tuesday, when a man presented a demand note to a bank teller and [...]

Incredible Comet Bigger than the Sun

A comet that has delighted backyard astronomers in recent weeks after an unexpected eruption has now grown larger than the sun.
The sun remains by far the most massive object in the solar system, with an extended influence of particles that reaches all the planets. But the comparatively tiny Comet Holmes has released so much gas [...]

Considering a Home Theater Projector? 10 Points to Ponder

What makes home theater projectors so sexy, so compelling and so different from a regular old TV set with its LCD or plasma screen? We’re going to break it down for you, and let you know why it just might be worth it to consider putting together a dedicated home theater room—a temple devoted to [...]