Do USB charging cables snake all over your desk? Have you been forced to add an additional power strip to free up enough outlets for your USB power adapters? If so, then Kanex’s Sydnee, a four-port USB charging station, might be just the ticket.

Calepin’s founder decides that the minimalist blogging platform isn’t a business for him, so he’s releasing the code as open source so anyone can run their own Calepin service.

Disappointed by the single-use nature of cheap plastic spudgers for getting into electronic gadgets, Marshall Clow gives the iSesamo spudger from Newer Technology a test run.

Want to blog occasionally, without the fuss of learning new software or setting up a complex account with a blog posting service like WordPress? Calepin, a free blogging service that leverages Dropbox and relies on text files written with Markdown formatting, may be just the ticket.

When faced with disk corruption on his MacBook Pro’s SSD, Marshall Clow spent several days working through different possibilities for repairing the problem and recovering files that had changed since his last backup, all made more difficult by the lack of a SuperDrive. Read on for the details, and the lessons that we should all remember.