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RUMOR: Apple Keynote Today – The Macbook Wheel
After almost 6 years of leaving their customers in the dark, Apple will be streaming live to the public today. Interesting that the company is having a change of heart around the same frame where it was reported that the Macbook Wheel was expected to be released. Watch this video from 2009; tech-hungry consumers just [...]
My Droid Incredible Video Review on Steroids
Incredibly, I got the incredible** chance to review the Droid Incredible and see if it lives up to its reputation of incredibility of putting out incredible video, picture quality, sound and more. I was incredulous, so you will see how the Incredible fared by after my incredible amount of video scrutiny. Incredible! NOTE – This [...]
Game Night Giveaway – Win a Free Xbox 360 Slim or Kinect
Life isn’t easy being a super poker champion… or not. hehe. Once you check out the video above explaining a bit about how the contest works, then you can enter the drawing here for your chance to win an XBOX 360 S or a Kinect… it’s free, so don’t miss out! Separate from the prize [...]
I accidentally an Android Phone!
In the middle of reviewing the Droid Incredible, I got quite a surprise: Learning later that I had accidentally booted into ‘hboot’ or the bootloader, it felt good to know that I did not blow up the phone that HTC had so kindly let me borrow. What does this mean for my video, you ask? [...]
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
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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 [...]
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)
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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 [...]
Blocked from a Website or Video? Protect Your Privacy with Proxies!
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Surfing the Internet these days can be risky business. You give up a great deal of information when you visit a web site such as your IP address, the city you are in, your browser info, your operating system; sites may also leave tracking “cookies” on your PC…or worse. Do not fear, all is not [...]
‘Sexting’ – Everybody’s Doin’ It!
It all started with catching one titillating glance. Just one peek of the smoking hot brunette’s freshly inked sleeve as she sat down next to you in your Creative Writing class. A week passes and you finally muster up the courage to ask her a question about sentence structure. She replies by writing her number [...]
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!
Open Source – The Real iPhone Killer
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The iPhone is the king of the hill when it comes to smartphones. Everyone knows that, right? Well, that isn’t exactly true – in North America RIM (the Blackberry) holds about half of the entire smartphone market. Globally, Symbian-based devices (primarily from Nokia) are the most popular, followed by the Blackberry and then the iPhone [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
An Idea Worth Spreading?
Here is a new video where I explain a new segment that I hope to explore with you. (don’t mind the crazy preview image, ha!)
Space Age Ants – NASA in Your Home
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Fish. Snakes. Frogs. Spiders. These are on the top of the list when it comes to low-maintenance pets. Some of us unlucky children could only be trusted with brine shrimp, cleverly renaming them Sea Monkeys. Yet if you’ve ever owned one, you’d know that all of those creatures dull in comparison to the industrious ant. [...]
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. [...]
Review: Kodak Zi8 – Gift or Garbage?
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This is a complete review of my new pocket HD camcorder, the Kodak Zi8. Since my unboxing of this HD cam a while ago, I have taken so much footage with this baby it will make your head spin! Since I’ve spent so much time with it now, I have a good idea of what [...]
