iHome Wants To Charge Every Gadget You Own

iHome wants to get rid of your loose cables and chargers and replace them with their base docking station. The elegantly named iB969 is a good looking hub that charges your iPhone, iPad, and any ol' gadget that connects through USB.

The Holy Grail of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture

Despite all the cool productivity porn modern technology has birthed, the Holy Grail for me is simple: I want to create and edit plain text from anywhere (desktop/tablet/phone), and I want the results to sync flawlessly between devices. And now I can.

Ubiquitous capture—that is, the ability to snag any thought or idea any time and any where it happens to crop up—is a key component to nearly every productivity philosophy. You want to capture those fleeting ideas before they're gone, and you don't want to waste brain power obsessing over remembering it until you can write it down somewhere. Below, I'll walk you through the best ubiquitous capture system I've ever encountered.

Citrix enlists iPhone 4 in its quest for 'Nirvana phone' portable desktop client (video)

Critix has been touting its "Nirvana phone" concept -- a handheld device that can be paired with a monitor / keyboard for remote desktop use -- for quite some time now. Back in February, the minimum hardware specs were nothing to challenging, and as it turns out, Apple's iPhone 4 pretty much exceeds 'em by a long shot. And it has VGA out capabilities and Bluetooth keyboard support. So, you can imagine where this is going.