Comeks mobile comics

Comeks is a great Series-60 application that lets you take camera phone images and enhance them with comic-book like artwork, speech bubbles and other effects. You can then assemble these images into

Six Degrees of Crunchation: Houston, Problem

If you’re having a problem emailing me your photos, please post them somewhere – Photobucket, your own site, etc. – and email a link to john at crunchgear dot com or AIM me the link

Skype 2.6 Beta available

Skype has just released version 2.6 of its web phone software as a public beta. So what’s new?  The new version makes a big deal of Skypecasts which I have not really taken too so far. The new

MySpace driving more retail traffic than MSN search

New Hitwise findings indicate that MySpace sent more US traffic to online retail sites last week than MSN search, the third largest search engine on the web. That’s big news, as it’s tangi

On the Nth Day of Christmas, There Shall Be 360s

Eurogamer TV had an opportunity to talk with Microsoft Europe boss Chris Lewis at the Leipzig Game Conference last week, and apparently, Lewis had some great news to tell all of our moms. After the di

Flickr has taken the #1 slot in the UK

Hitwise UK is a great site for keeping track of global as well as UK web trends.  They have just posted about Yahoo! Flickr once again becoming #1 website, in the Hitwise Photography category,

Two New BenQ Cameras Hit the Streets

. Both cameras have advanced digicam features like automatic exposure control and shake-correction. They can also output in 16:9 mode, which is cool in that “well, OK” kind of way. Throw i

Wii Madden '07 Video Surfaces

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been excited about playing Madden 2007 (and all the other sports games) on the Wii since I first saw the controller. So, when I saw this video on YouTube,

The iRocker Chair

Just when you thought that iPod accessories couldn’t get any more ridiculous, furniture-maker Adonis announces a line of iRocker chairs. These “interactive sound chairs” carry an onb

Gravel In Pocket?

With what might be the worst product name ever, Commodore will demonstrate tomorrow at IFA its new personal media player the Gravel In Pocket. Despite its unfortunate naming, this PMP seems to be a re

The little Browzar that hides everything?

The Yorkshire Post has a story about Freeserve founder Ajaz Ahmed’s latest venture browzar, “a new internet browser which allows users to surf the web without leaving a history of websites

Six Degrees of Crunchation Contest: Almost Over

Get those entries in, kids. We’ll hold the floodgates open until 6pm PST.

Syringe Shaped USB Thumb Drive

USB flash drives are a dime a dozen, meaning companies need to spice up their offerings to get any kind of recognition from consumers. One way is to make it huge, like Toshiba’s 16GB drives. Ano

OriginalSignal: Gadget Sites Galore

I spoke with Tako Steinz of Stillpoint Media who just launched Gadgets.OriginalSignal, a beta aggregator for gadget websites. Right now it trolls fifteen major sites – including Crunchgear &#821

Lego Mindstorms NXT – Fun For Big Kids Too

The next generation Lego Mindstorms improve on the original 1998 model of do-it-yourself robotics with a “32-bit NXT control brick, ultrasonic sensors, a revamped set of pieces, a new piece of v

HTC TyTN (XDA Trion) 3G Windows Mobile PDA Phone Available Now

Both models of HTC’s smartphone—the HTC TyTN or the re-badged XDA Trion—are available for purchase now on Dynamism’s website. Both are available for $899, which means it’

Sprint Treo 700wx Manual Online Already

All 436 pages of Sprint’s user manual for the Treo 700wx is online, leaked for your consumption. Seriously, 436 pages? Isn’t that a little complicated for the average user? Well, you Treo

SynapseLife bundles lots of little tools

SynapseLife is a suite of integrated online applications for managing various parts of your life. The company is currently accepting email addresses for beta release notification on the first of Octob

Six Degrees of Crunchation Contest: An Hour Left

Ok. It’s Crunch time. We’re closing our contest at 12 noon, PST and we’ve got one entry so far. If I were in this contest, I’d definitely like those odds – that means one

Apple Doesn't Want People Knowing About Leopard

Remember our video post last week about Leopard and how its Expose + Spaces was supposed to work? Yeah, Apple doesn’t quite like it, and told us as much in the form of a NastyGram. Apparently, b
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