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Steven Combs shares with Sarah Brownlee one of the best deals available in a pocket sized digital camera, the FujiFilm Finepix V10. At less than $150, this 5MP camera is a wonderful addition to your shirt pocket or purse on your next outing or trip. Steven recommended this camera to a co-worker, who works as [...]

Steven Combs demonstrates to Sean McHose the Digital Blue QX5 USB Computer Microscope. They take a closer look at the microscopic world and even learn the distance between Lincoln’s knees on the back of a penny. This spot originally aired on February 19th, 2007. Not a very popular spot with the YouTube folks. Very few [...]

Looking for a weekend project to fill the void on Sunday evenings now that Battlestar Galactica has gone into hiatus until 2008 (is it us or does that just seem wrong)? Leave it to the origami experts in Japan to provide you with some very interesting and cool paper projects.
Just surf on over to the [...]

The Associated Press (AP) posted this tory about a 101 year-old Washington man who just passed, with flying colors, his drivers exam. Below is a snippet from the article:
LANGLEY, Wash. (AP) - Alden Couch just celebrated his 101st birthday. And he passed his Washington state driver’s test with flying colors, if you listen to him. [...]

This ain’t no April Fools joke folks. You can now download music from iTunes in a higher quality format and without Digital Rights Management. This means you can now use some of the music you have purchased from iTunes on any device as long as its for personal use. It’ll cost you 30 cents more, [...]

Steven Combs describes the features of Apple’s Airport Express to host Sarah Brownlee. Not only a gadget used to offer portable 802.11g WiFi connectivity, but this white box will also extend the range of an existing network and stream iTunes music to your home stereo receiver for the ultimate sound quality. If you have multiple [...]

GUOM and BimP reader Russell Champoux sent us this news tip from Google about their new Gmail Paper feature. Here’s what the Google Paper page has to say about this new service.
Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Well, you [...]

We’re not big fans of widgets here at GUOM. Sure we have the occasional moment when we want to know the weather as we head out the door, but other than that, we don’t use the F12 key much. We’ve even disabled widgets on our eMac to save precious system resources. There just hasn’t been [...]