702 FEATURING MISSY ELLIOTT “STEELO” Album: No Doubt (Biv 10/ Motown; 1996)Songwriters: Chad Elliot, Missy Elliott, George R. Pearson and StingR&B Peak Position: #12“You stay on my mind/ Think about you all the time/ Got to get to know you well/ If you kiss then I won’t tell” Before there was Blaque and Destiny’s...

MOTOROLA VU20 IN THE FCC Motorola VU20 in the FCC Lending credence to the fact that Motorola’s bringing a phone called the VU30 to Verizon in the near future is this, the ‘VU20′ that we just saw pop up in the FCC’s approval records. The manual for the roundish, nondescript flip makes mention of NATE...

NEW MOTOROLA 5 MEGA PIXEL SLIDER New Motorola 5 mega pixel sliderBGR posted some great live shots of a new unannounced Motorola device. It is a slider that features a 5 mega pixel (non AF) camera with Kodak lens, MOTOMAGX Linux platform, quadband, EDGE, bluetooth, Wifi, 100 MB of internal memory, microSD support and a ROKR style touch...

LARGE APERTURE, STANDARD PRIME LENS FOR THE LATEST DIGITAL CAMERAS 50MM F1.4 EX DG HSM The Sigma Corporation (COO: Kazuto Yamaki) is pleased to announce the new large aperture 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM standard lens. This is a large aperture prime lens with a standard focal length of 50mm, ideal for digital cameras. This lens is perfectly suited for a wide range of subjects enabling outstanding,...

NOKIA 5310 XPRESS MUSIC - ORANGE (T-MOBILE) Design Nokia doesn’t blindly follow trends, so it wasn’t surprising that the company didn’t rush to copy the thin-phone success of the now-ancient Motorola Razr. But with the eye-catching 5310, Nokia is giving slim design a go. And we can report it comes together quite nicely. At 4.1...

FIRST DRIVE:CHEVROLET AVEO Chevrolet Aveo buyers get a choice of two petrol engines, a 1.2-litre or 1.4-litre, both of which were used in the old Vauxhall Corsa. Both offer decent pace, particularly the 1.4-litre, although higher revs see them get noisy. The long-winded gearchange is also rubbery – and the gear ratios themselves...

AUDI R10 TDI WILL USE BIOFUEL AT 2008 LE MANS 24 HOURS After 2 successful victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Audi R10 TDI will surely be among the favorites to take the title once again, but Audi are hardly a company who would rest on their laurels. This year prototypes entered will be powered by the next generation of Biofuel, which has been manufactured...

UNISAW - PART 3 DISSEMBLY For this phase of strip down, I managed to remove the motor and blade raise and tilt wheels. Many of these photos I took for later reference, as I know I’ll need them at some point for reassembly: I managed to remove the trunnion assembly and brackets without pressing out the worm gear spindles....

UNISAW - PART 3 CONTINUED Took some additional images from the last stage, these include the broken tooth (near the bottom, 6th): These images show the ground out front trunnion bracket (the welds have been ground down) - there’s a small hairline gap in the inside corner - I’m having it touched up this weekend as...

SO WHAT’S MODERN ABOUT THIS? OK - so the title is a bit misleading. It reflects my interest in modern furniture - my interest in tools is just the opposite - the older the better. I like old iron (or Arn) powered tools that were built from the turn of the century up to the 60’s. Those heavier, cast-iron tools just run so...