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Hiding Behind the Monitor
Though this is an issue much more severe than any one game can reflect, many of you have asked for my thoughts on this story as a female gamer. For quite some time there has been an uproar over the plans Blizzard had to force WoW players to post as themselves (using their “real life” [...]
Nixie Fails her Driver’s Test
According to an insurance company’s telephone survey* of more than 2,000 drivers…
30 percent of women have drank and drove.
77 percent of women have crashed their vehicle.
36 percent of woman admitted to verbally abusing another driver.
Gladly I succeed at not fitting into either of the above percentages in real life, but I sure fail at [...]
iPhone 4 – Lightweight, Thin and Sexy
Steve Jobs took center stage today at 10 AM PDT at the World Wide Developers Conference, facing the mass of tech-hungry magazines, newspapers and bloggers alike. For the last two years Apple has revealed their new iPhone at WWDC, so the audience was understandably bustling about the potential unveiling of their rumored 4G Iphone, much [...]
How to Do Nixie (Clocks)
It all started when ‘Homo Sapiens Sapiens’ figured out how to draw simple pictures on the cave walls. Human race developed a need for displaying devices, contraptions that would give us the ability to display our creations and various data to the other members of our species. It turned out that cave walls had a [...]
How to Make a Dirt Cheap Lighting Studio
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Whether you are interested in lighting for photography or video, you can find solutions that won’t break the bank. Since breaking the bank was my primary concern, I had constructed an inexpensive decent light studio with improvised odds and ends that served my purpose very well. Although it was was a good option for beginner [...]
Are You a Net Neanderthal?
With the dawning of the Internet, it has never been easier to get in touch and establish relationships with those you otherwise would have never met. Yet, what about the ignorant strangers lurking about the inner sanctums of the Web? Such people inspire me and make me want to poison the water supply at the [...]
VIDEO: The Good, the Bad and The Sexy
Here I reveal my new geeky lair and explain why I’ve been a bit more timid and unpredictable lately. Please keep my family in your thoughts!
Droid Eris Review: Is Android for You?
Smart phones are undeniably the hot new thing to hit the tech market. A few months ago I geared myself up with the new HTC Droid Eris Android phone. After a thorough inspection, I put together a review of this titillating telephone. I really am having a blast with it, and I’m not noticing anything [...]
CES 2010 : Why Should I Care About Boxee?
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The Boxee Box, presented by D-Link, has earned many honors since its announcement. We have been hearing a lot about how amazing it is, the way it will change how we experience media in our homes, and lists of feature after feature that sound cool. But you may have been thinking:
What exactly is Boxee? Why [...]
CES 2010: No More Cable Bondage
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This week at CES Unveiled, a company called Power Mat technologies created a lot of buzz around a product designed to charge mobile devices”wirelessly.” The company remains mum on the tech behind this innovation, calling it proprietary information. We can assume that it, like many new devices hitting the market, functions through magnetic induction…
Read my [...]
Microsoft Natal Takes on First Person Shooters?
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When the action flick Minority Report hit the silver screen, I remember being wowed by the futuristic operations center which was the main focus of the movie. People moving information from screen to screen with a flick of the wrist, looking up suspects and whizzing through data by doing nothing more than moving their fingers. [...]
