• The mouse had a big birthday yesterday and Wired put together a beautiful and geeky retrospective of 40 years of mighty mice. — Wired
• Power up with the sun! The Voltaic Generator solar bag is now shipping and capable of charging a laptop. — Boing Boing Gadgets
• Need a little vintage geek pick-me-up? Check out old computer ads to make your machine look shiny and new. — Gizmodo
• Google has added several magazines to its searchable book cache, complete with decades' worth of archives. — Switched
• It's easy to let a salesperson convince you that you need to buy a $50 HDMI cable to make your new gear work. Save yourself some dough with a $10 version! — Crave
• There's nothing better than getting a brand new functional and chic computer for the holidays, which is why we have teamed up with our friends at HP to give one lucky geeksugar reader a HP Mini! — geeksugar
• Feeling crafty at the office? Binder clips make the perfect iPhone stand. — Unpluggd



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I love my laptop (but not in a creepy way), but sometimes I wish I could spruce up the exterior as much as the interior (colorful wallpaper, fun icons, and so on). Rather than spend money I don't have on a fashionable laptop like the Vivienne Tam Notebook, I've decided to get more creative with the laptop I already have.

For $28, I can get one of these special limited-edition Artist Series Laptop Skins, which measure 15.4 inches — making it the perfect fit for my MacBook Pro. Made from vinyl, each skin is not only reusable, but removable as well. So if you get sick of it, you can easily take it off. Designs are entitled "Shore," "Cable Cranes," "Jealousy," and "Underworld."

How did I not think of this sooner? I've always got several annoying pieces of 2"x3" card stock in my bag with my doctor, dentist, or beauty appointments.

One day, I'll have the time and memory to input appointments into my calendar the second I make a new one, but until now, it's appointment card city for me.

There had to be a better way — and there is! The answer was also inside my bag. From now on, I'm taking photos with my iPhone's camera of all my appointment cards. From there, I'll either email them from my camera roll, or just leave them there, because unlike a piece of flimsy paper, I know where to find it!