Happy New Year's Day everybody! However you're spending today (like relaxing or nursing your hangover. . .) it's also time to muse about what 2009 will bring us. Check out my slideshow for the biggest upcoming rumors for what will be hot in tech, as well as the inevitable releases.
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If you've been following our Best of 2008 Polls and Results Roundups, then you'll know that 2008 didn't let us down in terms of new gadgets, tech news stories, iPhone goodies, video games, TV and movie tech, and neat new online tools. For the second year in a row, Apple surpassed the rest in terms of hot new products, newsworthy stories and all the Steve Jobs coverage, which managed to keep us on our toes.
A big thank you for a memorable 2008, and I look forward to yet another exciting year! Wishing you health, happiness, peace, and prosperity in '09!
As MacWorld inches closer and closer, I can't help but have a little fear of what will become of the Apple I know and love once Steve Jobs retires. Although Apple insists that he is ready to hand over the torch to a new set of leaders, the rumor remains that his health is the reason for the changeover and subsequent disappearing act from MacWorld.
What do you think — Will Apple be the same without Steve Jobs as the leader and face of the company, or is the fear just all in our heads?
These days, a social network has to be pretty useful for me to want to join, considering my myriad memberships. One that makes the cut is Cook Eat Share, which is an awesome website and network for recipes and your experiences with them.
Although there are other sites to share recipes, I love that you can encourage your family to join, so you can get Great Aunt Carol's famous pie crust recipe anytime. The other great feature of Cook Eat Share is the group section; join or make a group based on an event, region, or type of food!
To learn how to post your favorite websites to our Website of the Day group, read more
It's as if Nintendo was all about making geeky fools of its cute spokesboys, as they did with a very young Paul Rudd. Here, they gave the full-on Poindexter treatment to a couple of young lads discovering The Legend of Zelda for the first time ("Nice graphics!" they exclaim).
If you find any more great old finds like this, be sure to join the Vintage Geek group and add them!
Please, someone, tell me what it is about Star Wars that makes me want to have items that I have long outgrown. They put Storm Troopers on keychain-sized figurines and throw pillows with famous lines, and though they go with nothing, though I would be embarrassed for my nongeek friends and family to see them, I want them.
And here we go again: Star Wars Plush Dolls ($14). Look at their big heads! Is it too much to hope that when I have kids, these will still be produced? Maybe I better order a few to keep just in case.
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