Barcode Scanner is exactly what you need to easily find and enter PointsPlus values, and a great companion app to Weight Watchers Mobile for iPhone If you’re a Weight Watchers subscriber using Weight Watchers Mobile for iPhone, Weight Watchers Barcode Scanner is a great companion app for quickly calculating points values. Manually typing in fat, [...]

Like bacon-laced ice cream or deep-fried turducken, the ultra high performance SUV is a curious amalgam of ingredients governed by an inscrutable raison d’être. Source: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/02/benz-ml63/ Hayden Panettiere Haylie Duff Heidi Klum

After 16 years and billions of dollars, the U.S. military’s experimental, laser-firing 747 has flown its final mission — ending an era of sci-fi schemes at the Pentagon. Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/airborn-laser-rip/ Jennifer Sky Jenny McCarthy Jessica Alba

If you used Windows XP for a long time (who didn’t?), one of the biggest changes when moving to Windows 7 or Vista was the massively-altered Explorer. While the new Explorer introduces some useful new features, it also removed just as many — which is where Classic Shell comes in! We’ve covered Classic Shell before, [...]

We’ve all thought it, but never dared think it could be true: what if Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL actively monitor our instant messenger chats? What if mentions of ‘bomb’ and ‘underage’ are tracked and sent to law enforcement agencies? What if chat providers don’t agree with the things we say, or the links we share, [...]

The creativity that went in inventing McDonald’s miracle flavored rice is so beyond my little human brain that I’d have to be high as a kite to understand the magic. But oh the magic. The culinary geniuses at RocketNews24 cooked rice with a Big Mac, fries, chicken nuggets, sauce and coke to deliver what has [...]

This morning, Corel released VideoStudio X4. We’ve already published a quick overview and hands-on of the application, and now is the moment you’ve all been waiting for: We’re giving away ten full licenses of this new version, each worth $99.99! To enter our random draw, you just have to leave a comment. Full terms and [...]

Corel seems to be on a roll lately; after releasing WinZip System Utilities just last week, this morning the company announced VideoStudio Pro X4. VideoStudio Pro is aimed at home users and small business professionals who want to create professional-looking videos, but without the hassle, steep learning curve and price of Adobe Premiere Pro and [...]

Wean yourself off the cursed disposable plastic bottle. Try a bottle with an integrated carbon filter. Source: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/02/water-bottles/ Ashlee Simpson Ashley Greene Ashley Olsen

It is almost possible to dismiss Michael Mann?s account of a vast conspiracy by the fossil fuel industry to harrass scientists and befuddle the public. But now comes the unauthorized release of documents showing how a libertarian thinktank, the Heartland Institute, which has in the past been supported by Exxon, spent millions on lavish conferences [...]