Microsoft has shared some news about the state of its most and least loved Web browsers — Internet Explorer 9 and 6, respectively. Even with IE9 only recently exiting beta, Microsoft reports that 3.6% of Windows 7 users are now running the new browser (no mention of Vista… what’s with that?). The post also reveals that the adoption rate is almost five times what IE8 garnered in the early going. It’s also interesting to note [...]

If you’re thinking about buying an Android phone, you might want to give your business to AmazonWireless. When you buy an Android phone through them, you will receive a Digital Bonus of $15 worth of credits. It works out to a $5 credit to the Amazon App store, $5 credit of Kindle content and $5 [...] Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/07/21/buy-an-android-phone-from-amazon-and-get-free-stuff/ Poppy Montgomery

Quick. Name me five e-readers without asking Google. Tricky, right? After the big names — Kindle, Nook and Sony — you might remember Kobo, but then you’ll be left scouring your memory. That’s not to say there aren’t any other e-readers. It’s just that in the U.S the market is already dominated by these big [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/bobooks-wacom-powered-ereader-is-big-in-europe/ Pink

Allow me to introduce you to the game that caused you to not get any work done today. Pig Up! is the latest addictive creation of PopCap Games, the creator of casual hits like Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies, and the company that just got acquired by megapublisher Electronic Arts for three quarters of a billion [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/07/pig-up/ Summer Altice

ThinkGeek never fails to impress me. Case in point – they are now offering a Titanium Straw for your beverage slurping enjoyment. Why would anyone need a titanium straw? Ummmm… because! This particular straw is made of food safe titanium that is 7″ long and has a 40 degree angle at one end. Now we [...] Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/07/20/suck-it-with-a-titanium-straw/ Rebecca Mader

Source: http://tabletbuzzblog.com/ipad2-video-review-should-you-buy-one/ Lori Heuring

Sand Trap is one of those games that at first seem too hard to bother with, but when you try to stop playing it you discover you’re hooked. The goal is to get as much sand as you possibly can out of the maze and into the bucket at the bottom of the screen. You need to rotate your maze every which way to get the sand rolling around it. You then try to direct [...]

When you’re aboard a ship barreling towards unknown shores, the last thing you want is an inconspicuous lighthouse guiding you in. Our friends at Oobject have a collection of the most extreme examples of lighthouse design from around the world. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/KXEtt0AIW24/ Lorri Bagley

Dropbox offers a lovely client for Android, but it’s lacking true “sync” functionality. You can merely browse your Dropbox, pull files into the device, and manually upload specific files. DropSpace is a little Android app that makes Dropbox on Android work like Dropbox – that is, you get real folder synchronization in the background. When you run the app you’re prompted for your Dropbox credentials. After logging in to Dropbox, you get to select which [...]

GNOME 3, after more than two years of development, has been released into the wild. GNOME 3 is not merely the logical successor of GNOME 2: it is an entirely new project, started from scratch, to create a “completely new, modern desktop designed for today’s users and technologies.” The best way to check out GNOME 3′s new features — and it has lots of new features — is to run a live version of openSUSE [...]