Have you ever been in a place that is so interesting that you wished you could photograph the whole thing?

Did you know you can make a picture that surrounds you completely? It's called a spherical panorama, and you can see it in more and more websites every day. You only need to have Quicktime installed, or better yet, a plugin called DevalVR.

There are also websites that will teach you techniques to make your own panoramas, like for instance panoramas.dk. The problem is that you get the sense that you need pretty hefty equipment to even get started. Not anymore! In this article, I spill the beans on how to use a point and shoot camera (maybe even the one in your cell phone) to make these gorgeous panoramas and send them to friends and family.

Let's say the recession has hit you so hard that you've had to pawn your computer. Do you have to give up your cyber-personality? Absolutely not! here I tell you how you can have pretty much the same capability built into a simple USB flashdrive, which can take over a host computer and make it do what you want, without it being able to do anything about it.

It may also come in handy if you suspect your computer is bugged or has a virus. . . or simply you can't stand Windows anymore. . . .