Peanutweeter, the hilarious marriage of random funny tweets with Peanuts cartoons, was removed from Tumblr Friday, following a claim that the blog violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. See Also: Peanutweeter Brings Peanuts, Twitter Together With Hilarious Results A tweet from the @Peanutweeter account, sent just after noon PDT, claimed that the site had been taken offline following ...

Can Microsoft remotely disable third-party accessories from working with the Xbox 360 and get away with it?

Microsoft released a software development kit for its Kinect gaming system on Thursday, and hackers are already testing the limits of what the device can do.

Attention, all butterfingered geeks: Panasonic announced an Android tablet Thursday that's made especially for you. The Toughbook caters to those prone to excess dropping, electronics or otherwise.

The Army is addicted to PowerPoint -- with all the self-loathing that addiction entails. Luckily, an Army veteran is teaching soldiers how to use the presentation tool while still avoiding 'Death By PowerPoint.' And he even works for Microsoft.

Buzz Player is an iPad (and iPhone and Android) app that lets you stream video from pretty much any device on your network. That means you can watch movies stored on a network-attached hard drive without switching on a computer. It's pretty amazing. There are other solutions for streaming video to the iPad. Air Video takes ...

Duck Duck Moose has been providing quality apps from the beginning. I still use Wheels on the Bus as a demonstration to early childhood professionals of the potential playfulness and value of technology for younger children when it is done with a child's developmental needs at the fore. Musical Me! is their latest offering and is ...

Griffin's DJ Cable lets you split the output from Algoriddim's award-winning Djay app so that you can cue and mix like a real disk jockey. The y-shaped cable plugs into the headphone socket of your iPhone, iPad or Mac and sends the master and cue outputs down different wires. And unlike expensive USB sound devices ...

As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...

Social networking giant Facebook is working on a new platform aimed squarely at Apple's dominance of the exploding market for mobile applications, according to Techcrunch. The new initiative, code-named "Project Spartan," is based on the HTML5 standard, and will work on the mobile version of Apple's Safari browser.

Yahoo enters the mobile app search space Thursday with AppSpot, now available for iPhone and Android. It has a few neat features, but has a long way to go before it becomes my preferred method of app discovery. On initial launch AppSpot asks if you??d like to scan your existing iPhone applications so it ...

I don't know what's most impressive about the iCufflinks. It could be the fact that these glowing standby-symbols fit their electronics into such a tiny package, or it could be that the makers at Adafruit actually reverse-engineered the pulsing sleep light from Apple's MacBooks. Each cufflink contains an LED, a battery and the controlling circuitry. Screw ...

As we've reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day's puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they've decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm... Google a Day? GD? ...

The details on Google's next Nexus smartphone may have been revealed, and tipsters are saying the phone is an "absolute beast." Well-sourced mobile blog??Boy Genius Report claims??that the Nexus 4G, as it is currently being referred to, will house a faster dual-core CPU and run the next-generation Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich. Tipsters also told BGR ...

Facebook is reportedly going to launch a photo-sharing app to rule them all -- but don't be too quick to think that quirky niche sites like Path and Instagram have been slain.

Smartphone hardware manufacturer HTC made a complete 180-degree turnaround: "Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to the Desire."

Note: The eclipse is now over, and the video feed no longer works, and so has been removed. Ah, the wonders of technology. It's 3:30pm where I am, and it's a bright, sunny day. I can, nonetheless, watch the total lunar eclipse currently in progress, thanks to the fine folks at Google, who have also changed ...

Starting at 2:20 p.m. EDT today, the Earth will pass between sun and the moon, casting a ruddy orange glow across the moon's shiny, meteorite-battered surface.

No matter what new sitcoms and dramas the networks dream up this coming fall, I can almost guarantee the absence of one type of show: a show about academia. But a television show about academics -- professors, scientist, and graduate students -- is more necessary than ever before. And there's no shortage of real drama to fuel story lines. The show would be packed with backstabbing and gossip, glimpses into the intellectual servitude of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, the agony of dissertation defenses, the thrill of scientific discoveries, the ulcer-creating tenure process, professors?? quests for fifteen minutes of fame, and, of course, the inevitable lab love affairs.

I read a lot of books. A lot. I think my wife probably wishes sometimes that I'd take up cigarettes or drinking... it'd probably be a cheaper vice. My split is fairly even between fiction and non-fiction, but I also separately classify computer/technology books in their own category. I do this because I probably read ...