Last year, Disney bought the online virtual polar landscape that is Club Penguin, a virtual world where kids romp and play as penguins do.

This year, they've introduced a plush toy line that extends the virtual polar landscape into the thawed real world with the Club Penguin Series One figures, produced by Jakks Pacific and available at www.ClubPenguin.com/clubpenguinshop.  read more »

Flat is the word. 

They fold flat, they have a flat frequency response, and they sound kinda flat.  But flat is a GOOD thing for headphones.  Really.

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Dale is joined this week by a substitute host: Ringmaster Greg from Dancing with Elephants.  read more »

As Apple goes, so goes the industry. When Apple announced the iMac sans floppy drive, the PC industry proclaimed it a failure, because nobody would buy a computer without a floppy drive. Based on the unprecedented success of the iMac in its many fruity, flowery, and lamp-like incarnations, this prediction was clearly wrong, and the rest of the industry followed. Today, you'll have trouble finding a PC with an included floppy drive.  read more »

Dale and Teresa are back without pumpkins.  read more »

Industry's Greenest Notebooks  read more »

Just a few weeks ago, I swapped an eMac and an iBook for a MacBook as an all-in-one solution. That said, I still prefer a desktop computer, especially the full-size keyboard. When I want to move it (it's a laptop, after all--that's the point!), I have to drag around keyboards and mice or else use the smaller and less comfortable laptop keyboard, so when I heard about Logitech's diNovo Edge, Mac Edition, it seemed like just what the carpal tunnel surgeon ordered.  read more »

My kids love to draw and paint, but they also love their computers, and Wacom, known for their drawing tablets, offers tablets in a variety of sizes and feature sets. While the more expensive ones appeal more to professional graphic artists and serious hobbyists, the Bamboo series make the digital art pad available to families on a budget ($79 and $99, the cheapest Wacom tablets ever).  read more »

Computers still cost money, and you want them to last, so here are some tips to keep your computer clean, not only to preserve the mechanisms, but to improve your health.

Monitor

Monitors, whether flat or CRT, are best cleaned with a damp cloth. Whatever you do, don't spray Windex on the monitor screen. Also, make sure to watch the vents on the top and/or back of the monitor for dust buildup, and use a damp cloth or Q-tip to clean out the vents.  read more »

Wacom and E Ink have put digital pen to digital paper to partner the Penabled digital pen to the Vizplex epaper display, opening up guaranteed new products that will allow you to set aside that notepad and just grab your electronic notepad. Full Story Follows:

Wacom(R) and E Ink(R) Partnership Delivers Pen Input to Electronic Paper Displays

Combined expertise provides innovative and flexible human interface solutions to mobile computing platforms  read more »