After a fake craps dice prank on Thad during Haasfest 2004 was so successful, we had to come up with something for Haasfest 2005 that would top it. The idea was to pre-record a Texas Lotto drawing and a save it on the TIVO. We bought a lottery ticket with the numbers to match that [...]

Ever been stuck behind a pesky proxy that blocks your favorite sites while at work or school or wherever? Well due to this super easy and smart hack you won’t have to worry about that anymore. The concept behind this hack is that you use the Google language translation web application to translate the site(s) [...]

O’reilly has posted an excerp from their iPod and iTunes Hacks bookon their digital media blog. This is a great how-to for people that are trying to consolidate their remotes into a single device, the iPod!
This article even tells you how to upload the controller sounds and so that you can get the same effect [...]

If you haven’t seen Google’s aptitude test yet then your in for a treat. Try and see if you can answer any of these questions.

Every year on a special winter day little boys and girls wake up to find something special in their iPod. Little do they know how close they came to losing it all. Baaa Humbug! A special adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the visitation of 3 ghosts on Christmas eve. Visit a podcastchristmascarol.com [...]

Chris Parnell & Andy Sandberg acted out a skit on SNL recently entitled “Lazy Sunday” in which they rap out their day preceding their going to the new movie The Chronicles Of Narnia. There are some really great lines in this like, “Pibb + Redvines = Crazy Delicious!”This is soooo freakin’ funny go watch it [...]

Xmas is early at I4U News. Miss Santa (aka Holly) already brings you her cute toys. In real life Holly is sales professional having worked for fortune 500 companies. I guess she can sell anything. She shows her wild side, playing soccer, wakeboard, and she is rides motocross dirt bikes. Her passion in life [...]

One of the newest additions to the social networking sites is Frappr, a mash-up of Google maps, Del.icio.us & Myspace. This site is pretty interesting and fun to browse as you can find people of like interests in your area or across the globe. Frappr has become quite popular with the podcasters in the last [...]

A couple days ago we reported that Coca-Cola is coming out with a coffee-flavored version of Coke, called “Coca-Cola Blak”.
Well apparently, it’s already been done in Russia. Pepsi apparently came out with a cappuccino flavored cola, and is distributing it in Russa, Romania, and perhaps other parts of the world as well.
For some reason you [...]

Holy crap. I’ve seen DVR-related contests before, but never one like this. The new DirecTV DVR (their first without TiVo software running) seems to be locked down, and Weaknees, the company known for TiVo upgrades is willing to pay up to $25,000 for a hard drive upgrade solution [via BoingBoing].
There are a slew of DVR [...]