We’ve discussed a few options here at TNW for selling goods, both physical and digital. The problem with most of them is that, no matter how easy the setup might be, it’s still too involved when you just have a single item (or perhaps 3 or 4) that you’d like to sell. Gumroadis a solution to this problem, made bySahil Lavingiawho alsodeveloped Crate. Rather than creating an entire storefront, Gumroad lets you assign a link to a product....

Here’s your funny story for the day: a random guy asked if anyone had a crack forThe F-ing Word of the Day iPhone appon theXSellize forums, and wound up with a free copy. To the original poster’s surprise, the developer himself, Chris Baker, responded, saying he was flattered — that the day someone wanted to pirate his software was the day he considered himself to have ‘made it’. He goes on to explain that he’s not a rich guy and maintains the F-ing Word of the Day website for free out of the goodness of his heart, and closes with:...

The week is winding down towards a holiday weekend, so we are trying to write a few light items to keep you smiling. Today, a game. You know those little multicolored square on the Windows Phone 7 home screen? Those are ‘Live Tiles,’ small pieces of screen real estate that can update with new information. You know what comes next: innovative development to re-purpose that part of WP7 technology in a new and fun way....

We’re told that men don’t like to shop as much as women do, soGuyHaushas decided to make shopping for the essentials, simple and automated. I discussed GuyHaus with CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Middleton today, and he tells me: It’s magic when a product just shows up at my house and my wife asks me what brands I buy, and I say I don’t know, it just showed up When you visitGuyHaus, there is no signup process, you just choose which packages of essentials you need, including toilet paper, toothpaste, and shampoo....

TheTwitter accountof NBC News has beencompromisedby a hacking group calling themselves the ‘script kiddies’ and has been Tweeting out false messages about a terrorist attack on Ground Zero. The Script Kiddies group is apparently sympathizing with hacking group Anonymous as the name appears to refer to the Department of Homeland Security calling Anonymous‘just a bunch of script kiddies’earlier this month.Updated with statements from NBC and Twitter below. The group has just changed the NBC logo to a graphic and altered the ‘about’ section of the account as well....