Yahoo enhances Search Pad tool

Yahoo will significantly expand the number of people who can test its Search Pad service, an online notebook for saving and sharing notes, links and Web site content when conducting research using the company's search engine, reports PC World.

Search Pad, announced in February, has been in limited testing, but now Yahoo will make it available to people in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina.

Yahoo has refined and broadened the service's features since unveiling it, such as adding ways to share its content, previously limited to e-mail.

Gdgt, a new site co-founded by Peter Rojas (founding editor of both Gizmodo and Engadget) and Ryan Block (former editor-in-chief of Engadget) has been unveiled, says CNET News.

It's a community-driven site, wiki-like in features and general atmosphere, so it's the site's users that will make it succeed or fail.

"It's the gadget site we always wanted," Rojas and Block say about their new site. Conceptually, it's quite simple, and potentially powerful.

The Solargorilla is a foldable solar panel that can be used to charge all kinds of electronic products, states Computing.co.uk.

It features two sockets. One is designed to charge laptops, and there's a USB socket for charging smaller devices

A selection of power adapters is supplied in the box, and others can be ordered from the company.