Make Your Own Cartoons and Slideshows on YouTube

No camera? No problem. YouTube just added a few apps for creating your own videos with animated characters and still images.

Cool as Morning Joe: Coldest Star Yet Discovered

Next time you take a sip of coffee, consider the possibility that you could be sipping on a star.

Happy Birthday OS X!

Hey, OS X! It’s March 24th! Happy birthday! Ten years since your first full release in 2001.

A Wiki History Of The World In 100 Seconds

London-based software engineer Gareth Lloyd and colleague Tom Martin created this wonderful video of the history of the world – well, of Wikipedia’s history of the world, at any rate.

The In-Flight Phone is Making a Comeback [Update]

[Update: Aircell reached out to clarify that its smartphones will be for business aircraft only -- executive jets and the like -- and there are no plans to bring these phones to commercial airlines. Original story continues below]

The Slow and Agonizing Death of the Landline Phone

When was the last time you used your landline phone? For many people, especially 20-somethings in the UK, the answer to that will be: “What landline?”

Four Ways to Make Gmail Better

For this week’s TIME.com Technologizer column, I wrote about Gmail–a service which I find both indispensable and frustrating. In that story, I didn’t account for all of Gmail’s pros and cons, though. And one major pro is that there are an array of third-party tools that teach Gmail new tricks.

Let Twitter Tell You Where to Invest Your Money

Want to stay ahead of the Dow Jones? Apparently, the new way to do it is to pay attention to Twitter. A paper from the Universities of Indiana and Manchester called “Twitter Mood Predicts The Stock Market” seems to suggest that the overall mood of the social network is a surprisingly good indicator of where [...]

Rejected iPhone Radiation App Gets Released Anyways

If radiation gives you the heebie jeebies, it’s a bit too late to panic, because all cell phones emit radiation. You still might want to pay your respects to tawkon, though, a company that recently developed an iPhone app to measure the radiation coming through when you’re yapping away.

Google Launches Think Quarterly Magazine

Google UK has released the first issue of a new in-house magazine, entitled Think Quarterly.

Color: A Social-Networking Phone App That Connects to People Around You

Word to the wise: This app is not for people who can’t handle Foursquare. But if you can get past sharing your location to the world (and love to tweet and Facebook with rabid enthusiasm), Color, a social-network-slash-phone-app, is an interesting social network that’s designed to meet people.