Gadget Junk Proliferation

I have been prompted to write about an arbitrary topic, digital penguins; a strange request. I immediately thought of Linux, due to their cuddly mascot, but instead I stumbled upon this abomination. For the not so low price of $24.99 and $6.95 for shipping. What now, grandma? You're $31.94 short and, while you may have checked a gift of your holiday shopping list, you have just contributed to a pressing phenomenon: e-waste.

E-waste is an issue so out of hand, there are entire communities that revolve around stripping valuable materials from gadgets that we will, almost certainly, through away. The health and pollution problems in these communities is in some ways shocking, but in other ways exactly what you may expect when you think about the toxins, such as mercury, that are present in lots of the computer scrap we discard. So please avoid buying novelty electronics you don't need, and won't use. Always make sure to properly recycle your waste to avoid polluting the earth and the lives of others in developing nations.

Digital Candy 2.2: A new bittorrent search tool

Digital Candy is a great new program to search for files on the bittorrent networks, giving you a better chance of finding what you require. It will search many sites at the same time, saving you time and it also has an updater, so the sites should always be up to date.

I would describe myself as a heavy bittorrent user. Though, while I like to think I search for files efficiently, through bookmark keyword shortcuts in Firefox or using an application like T.E.D. to get TV shows, I am always interested in making my digital life easier, faster – more efficient. This new tool promises to deliver, for windows users, at least one way to do that by allowing you to perform advanced searches of multiple torrent trackers all at once and providing a centralized list of your query results. It is by no means the only or ultimate solution, but you can now get the content you want just that much more quickly, with energy left to enjoy it.