USB memory stick for the clinically paranoid

The IronKey is triple-encrypted, filled with epoxy resin to prevent tampering, shielded from electron microscope snooping and best of all - if you enter the pass code incorrectly ten times it will self destruct.

Ideal for storing Powerpoint presentations and living out a Walter Mitty-esque fantasy life.

Ridiculous video watch for the friendless

This is obviously ridiculous and is the equivalent to hanging a kick me I'm a loser sign around my neck.

And yet.. and yet..

links

AirPower wiki
locations of power outlets in airports
HOWTO: make a night vision webcam
for entirely legitimate, security-based purposes wholly unconnected with that restraining order
QueryCatFAQ database - how to do almost everything (or at least, everything that has been lightly documented by a geek)

Gmail adds IMAP (for some)

Google has quietly rolled out IMAP access for a seemingly random group of GMail users. IMAP makes a lot of sense as a roaming email protocol, compared to POP3's focus on single-device offline reading.

It's a brave move for Google in some ways - if enough users start reading their mail in 'real' desktop client apps like Thunderbird, Pegasus and (cough) Outlook or via Blackberry (etc.) then they are bound to see a drop off in ad revenue as users stop seeing those context sensitive blipverts at the top of their browser. Could they be about to start injecting ad copy into our emails?

Prism - Mozilla's 'browserless' web platform

Prism is a spinoff from Mozilla Labs' WebRunner XUL applications environment that allows web apps such as GMail, Flickr or FaceBook to run as desktop apps in their own seperate client windows.

I probably have GMail open enough to warrant breaking it off the browser tab bar into it's own space, although I'm not sure what it would add to the experience other than making me use the Alt-Tab keys a bit more often. Prism would definitely be useful if you were trying to offer web apps on the corporate desktop, though - particularly if you wanted to jump on the web app bandwagon without actually letting your employees use the web.