If you are anything like me, you waited until the last minute to do your Christmas shopping. What does a person get for their non-tech savvy friends, or in my case, my parents. Luckily, there are a number of FREE tools out there to reduce your tech support calls from mom. For me, the biggest [...]
I have always been partial to the Nintendo brand when it comes to video games until the past few years when I started leaning more towards Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console. The systems are comparable in games, graphics and overall capabilities. You, as a consumer, may lean one way more than the other, but I personally [...]
Much like everyone else on the planet, I have been hearing a lot about people’s recent encounters with the new Transportation Security Association’s (TSA) protocols. With the holiday season among us and the threat of being faced with a similar situation, I thought it important to touch base on this topic. Some experts have chosen [...]
It took me a minute to remember, too. I think I’ve still got a MySpace profile collecting spam out there somewhere, but who knows the last time I logged in. I don’t think anyone I know still uses it either. So the announcement that the once-largest social network has finally conceded to Facebook came as [...]
The Google Voice app has finally made it to the iPhone and reviews agree that it was worth the wait. It’s been about a year and a half since Google originally submitted it to the Apple App Store, and after months of of back and forth between Google and Apple, the app has finally been [...]
I came across an interesting article on switched.com today about an invention that will memorialize the dead using social networking. It’s quite an interesting concept despite the unpleasant associations of death. See the full article here. Using the E-Tomb – described as a design that looks part tomb and part external drive – users can [...]
Every day marketers are finding new ways to make money off of the everyday consumer. In one of my past blogs I talked about the HDMI industry and how product labels are designed to trick the consumer into purchasing a more expensive cable that does the exact same thing as a cheaper one. Another new [...]
I come from a “mixed” family. My mother prefers to err on the side of caution – “If you don’t know someone, you can’t trust them.” My father, on the other hand, was on the opposite side of the spectrum. I remember riding in the car with him as a teenager while he picked up [...]
According to the US Department of Energy, the US spends roughly $4 billion every year on “lost electricity”. This energy is lost to “vampire devices” left in sleep mode. Vampire power – the electricity consumed by devices that are plugged in but not in use – accounts for 5 to 10 percent of all residential [...]
With the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft has created quite a buzz around the interwebs. I would like to think the design team really put their heads together for this one. They’ve created a phone that is actually useable, for both personal- and corporate-types. On the personal side, the phone is a pretty decent [...]