I was excited to try out the new MobileMe push service from Apple, so I made a change to my calendar on my MacBook and then put my computer to sleep. Several hours later, the change still had not appeared on the me.com website or on my iPhone. I thought this was supposed to be instantaneous?

Find the answer after the jump.

iSell Your Stuff on eBay

When it comes to selling your old junk—er, lightly used treasures—eBay is the first stop for many. However, building your auctions via eBay’s Web interface isn’t exactly a fun process, especially for novices. That’s where equinux iSale comes in. iSale is a beautiful application for Mac OS X Leopard that assists you in creating and managing eBay auctions. iSale makes everything easy, from jazzing up your listing to managing shipments, in a familiar iTunes-style interface.

Part internet appliance, part imaginary friend

A stitched-and-stuffed leather Wi-Fi pal, the Chumby is a virtual companion, chock-full of useful and amusing information. It’s somehow still cuddly, even with a 3.5-inch touch-sensitive LCD screen mounted to its face, but its Internet-enabled widgets demand to be taken seriously. Because it’s essentially a small, Internet-connected computer, the Chumby is equal parts digital-picture frame, weather forecaster, New York Times reader, alarm clock, Internet radio, and game platform. Depending on your needs, it could be something completely different. While we found some flaws, its casual, fun nature—and surprisingly handy tools—enable it to blend into any home.

Design your site at freeway speeds

Building an attractive, functional website requires a breadth of skills, from user interface design to HTML and JavaScript coding. It’s rare to find a great designer who can turn out exceptional code, and programming geniuses aren’t generally known for their design acumen. Software companies tried to address this issue with WYSIWYG webpage editors that could generate HTML for you—often with dodgy results. Freeway 5 Pro, however, generates standards-compliant code.

Fire foxy

Apple’s Safari is a fine Web browser, but many prefer the open-source, cross-platform Firefox, which lets you customize it to heaven and back with themes and add-ons, called extensions, that give more functionality. And the brand-new Firefox 3 packs a ton of improvements, boosts performance, and still comes in for the low, low price of nothing. (What a country!)

So you want to be a blogger?  Not just any blogger, you want to be a super mobile blogging Ninja. Blogging as you take down your enemies. Blogging as you sharpen your katana. Blogging while in line waiting for an iPhone 3G. 

For those of us who demand quality blogging on the go, WordPress is available as a free application in the iTunes App Store. It brings convenient mobile blogging to any iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone software 2.0. 

Check out the full review after the jump.

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We hope you put it to more exciting use than we did.