I’m not talking about Phantom here, I’m talking about the web browser, Opera. Apple has beef with the competition and in turn has decided to keep Opera off the App Store. Says ZDNet: Mr. von Tetzchner said that Opera�s engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won�t let the company ...

Halloween is upon us, so we’re keeping our eyes peeled for some spooky home decorations that will surely scare the kids. What could be more frightening than pumpkin carvings of your favorite (or least favorite) politicians? Nothing comes to mind. These “campaign-o-lanterns” offer a slew of PDFs you can use to begin carving your political pumpkins. I don’t know about ...

Hennessy is the world’s most popular brand of cognac. Cognac is the choice beverage of classy dude’s everywhere like Saturday Night Live’s the Ladies Man and North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il, so it was really only a matter before Hennessy stepped into the realm of menswear. Since everybody else seems to have their own shoes these days, Hennessy’s first ...

Verizon is digging deep in to the pockets of its corporate users by charging an additional three cents per text message sent to its customers. This won’t affect you when you’re texting your friends, however it will affect standard-rate and premium programs of mobile terminated messages. That includes text alerts, interactive voting notifications, SMS search responses and pretty much anything ...

Supporting the Obama campaign can be tiring, unless you build your own stool out of the handlebars from your bike. Then of course, you’d ride your bike with no handlebars. Spotted on Make, Flickr user Xnedski found this Obama supporter carrying bike handlebars. As you can see, this man carries his handlebar stool everywhere. It beats wearing a garbage bag ...

While we’re not going to dive into the details of the much anticipated Blackberry Storm (Verizon’s iPhone rival), we definitely wanted to share these pics with you. For once, it appears Verizon will have an awesome phone to offer customers, a first for the company. With an touchscreen interface like the Storm’s, I think Apple has a serious competitor to ...

Come winter, I will not wear a standard set of gloves. I am a texting machine and I need my fingers ready to pound on that “S” key all day long. So I wear cut off gloves. It sucks but it will have to do. Women? They’re lucky. They can wear DOTS gloves. At $13 to $18 a pair, they’re ...

I’ve gone back to school, so expect to see these later in the day on occasion. Hope you don’t mind, sweetcheeks. Don’t forget our new contest with t-shirts! An update on Philly’s WiFi situation Alien-inspired tables Don’t give your girl any handmade Nintendo jewelry if you’re looking to get some action iTomCruise I’m going to go with creepy For the ...

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin may be working the whole naughty librarian vibe, but she’s apparently having a little bit of trouble with the internet. After John McCain revealed that he had chosen the Alaskan governor as his running mate, editors discovered that several new users had spent hours leading up to the announcement making 30 flattering edits to ...

I love the mean, snarl-toothed looks these gargoyles have. Whether you hate Obama or McCain, your political adversaries will be sure to get hot-headed when they see one sitting on your desk. At $25 each or $40 for both, these make a great gift for anyone remotely interested into politics or Satan. I still have one question, though: Where’s Bush? ...