Do you yearn for the old school Atari games? Of course you can download an app or find a version online to play but some of the fun playing those games was using the joystick and buttons, right? Well yearn no more a docking station for the iPad puts the Atari games of old back in your hands. Old schoolers can start reliving their days of glory for only $59.

So the rage is mobile and although most if not all of the new smart phones have html browsers there seems to be enough data to suggest that mobile users have less patience than non-mobile users when it comes to zooming in and out, scrolling, etc. while browsing websites. It is also true that different mobile devices don’t support some technologies our desktop browsers do such as flash and javascript. To that end the current trend is to create a mobile friendly site. Great and I’m sure you just heard now I have to spend more money on development. Well I’ve found a easy to use solution that can remedy your worries.

piJnz is a mobile landing page creation tool that turns anyone into a mobile website developer. I just created a mobile website for a website that offers photo booths for rent and the process was fast and simple. So much so I had a two page website done in about 20 minutes including adding a plugin to the Wordpress site that re-directs mobile traffic to the mobile site.

Signing up for a piJnz account is easy and they offer you thirty days free trial so you’ve got nothing to lose. Once you’ve signed up you are taken to your My Pages page which will eventually list all of the pages you’ve created. There is a button to create a new page and links to help files on how to create a mobile landing page and other subjects. Clicking on the Create New button takes you to a basic wysiwyg editor laid out like a cell phone. You can add additional functions to the page layout and take away functions/features from the page layout. It couldn’t be easier. Once you’ve create your page you save it and then can preview. Upon clicking the preview button a shadow box displays a cell phone with your content inside complete with scrolling buttons at the top and bottom. No need to check your phone to make adjustments to the page. Very simple and easy to use.

Pricing starts at $9.95 for a three page site and goes up to $175.95 for a 100 page site. Although the pages are hosted at piJnz you can point your own domain to piJnz to give a seamless experience to your visitors. This may not be the only mobile solution out there but it has to be one of the easiest to use for non-technical people, and affordable too!

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The merging world of human and technology just took another step forward. Are hubots around the corner? Probably, we see what technology is doing for amputees, those who are blind and those who are unable to speak so it should not be a surprise that Google is basically teaching computers to “see”. Where this could lead is anyone’s guess and I hope it’s for the better not the worse.

I love gadgets. That might also partially explain my love of James Bond movies as well. Maybe it’s a guy thing, maybe it’s a wanna be cool thing, don’t know and really don’t care. That being said when I came across this blog post on the future of mobile search I just had to share it. How much would this change the way you look at the world?

In their never ending mission to provide the most comprehensive information on all things, Google has launched The Google Election Center. At a basic level a user can submit their address and find their polling center. For programmers an api is available for building custom apps.

The Google Election Center allows users to provide information on their district such as:

• Polling place locations
• Registration instructions
• Ballot information
• State and local election office contact information

A widget is available to those wanting to embed where to vote info on their website. Like many widgets you have some customization ability such as size, border color, a message and logo.

The bottom line is, GET OUT AND VOTE! Those that do can complain all they want to, those that don’t … Zip IT!

Google I/O begins tomorrow, this is their annual developers convention where you can always expect to hear about the latest developments and be teased by what may lay ahead with the company and this year looks like Google is ever yet determined to forge a name as a technology company not just a search engine.

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I could so rule the world if I only had pinball mind control.

I wish I was brave enough to have spinners on my wheels, a custom paint job with purple as the primary color, a braided goatee that hangs to my belly button and … well you get the idea, I would be so pimped out it would scare a pimp. That in mind, why not take the first step and pimp my Nintendo?

Renaming files is not sexy and renaming a lot of files is ugly and mean, check this tool out that allows you to rename files in bulk.

If you’re like me, you’ve got passwords written on post-it notes, in text files or in the “master” excel spreadsheet that was created to solve this but just hasn’t been updated in 6 months or so. Hey, we aren’t all blessed with perfect organization skills. Here is a way to at least secure those passwords or sensitive notes to give you some peace of mind that at least they can’t be stolen. This will only protect a text file so be aware but it’s a start!Steganos LockNote