Here’s a nice little mod to start off your snowy morning. Found in the MAKE Flickr pool, Flickr user Shoxcorp snuck a full 3.5-inch hard drive inside a fine-looking moleskine notebook. Who would ever think that your private data is inside a journal? Notebooks? Private? You be the judge. Link

Can people actually afford such extravagant luxury during our current economic crisis? Bang & Olufsen seems to think so and is rolling out its new BeoSound 5 luxury audio system today across North America. For the exorbitant price tag of $5900, you get the base system, which will no doubt require additional purchases to make the most out of the ...

If you haven’t heard of the Das Keyboard, it’s a $100+ keyboard for your computer that features no writing on the keys. Thus, you’re supposed to become more efficient at typing, or so they claim. But what if we own a Mac? We don’t want some ugly navy blue keyboard near our precious Apple of California design. That’s why Steve ...

You may be used to making music with apps like GarageBand, Logic Pro and Pro Tools. But did you know, that you can use the world’s most popular photo-editing software to manipulate sound? Using a program called Photosounder, John Keston was able to save a piano recording as a bitmap image file. He then loaded it into Photoshop, added some ...

I was asked by the developers of SmartRSS 2 to play around with it before its release on the iTunes App Store. The software, released by Visuamobile, is one of the best RSS readers I’ve used period, let alone for an iPhone. It’s very quick and although it lags up at times, this is expected when you’re grabbing hundreds of ...

The iPhone never ceases to amaze. This time around, Apple’s wondertoy is busy solving a Rubik’s Cube as seen in the above video. You simply take a picture of your unsolved cube, the software, CubeCheater, analyzes the colors and then gives you step-by-step solutions on how to solve the cube. Quite amazing that you can just whip out a cellphone, ...

Yesterday, around 9:50am, I received a text message on my iPhone 3G. I opened it up and lo and behold, what do I see? A fish, a soccer ball and a traffic light. What the fuck could this be? After asking my friend how he sent images like that via SMS, he soon explained to me that these were Emoji, ...

Our latest contest is hotter than an Alabama wedding between two cousins. Apple will release iLife ’09 January 27th You won’t believe what RIM’s CEO said Such a fucking cool helmet Want to know how OLEDs work? Use Emoji (emoticons) on your iPhone 3G Meet the G1-controlled robot If you’re into software, give Wakoopa a try (my username is “fusioned”) ...

Contest or not, it’s the weekend and we guarantee a delicious helping of links or no money back. Palm and Apple throw down That guitar boat we wrote about last year? It’s up for auction The Steelers will win Super Bowl XLIII if Madden has his way Love design? Love motorcycles? This is for you Quicksnap: The better ice cube ...

Check my links, they’re moving in stereo. The $999 Macbook gets updated The Scrabble keyboard It’s a table! It’s a cloth! It’s rad! Meggy Jr. is back Discuss hackable digital TV boxes 1UP.com interviews the man behind the music of Contra Old Forester Birthday Bourbon Have great links you want showcased on Afternoon Linkage? E-mail us: tips AT gearfuse DOT ...