Rather than giving you a best case scenario prediction of the battery life in your notebook, Battery Eater Pro uses every power-hungry option to try to drain your battery as fast as possible. This is in many ways a better benchmark, since it’s consistently repeatable, and lets you know what you can expect under the [...]
I got an extra box from Valleyschwag today, and inside was bonus schwag for attending their Hoedown via webcam and IRC!
I got an awesome backpack from AlwaysOn - now, if you know me, you know purses and bags are my thing, so you can imagine how excited I was!
Also inside were a duplicate VideoEgg shirt [...]
Oh please. Speaking as an ex-Best Buy tech, pre-Geek-Squad, the service there sucks. The customers were always told their machines would be ready in 2-3 days… 2-3 weeks was more like it; much more if we had to send it in for service. Not to mention, if we had to wipe the [...]
“Valleyschwaaaaaaaag! Yay!” is what I said when I saw the package. Woohoo! It’s been a long time coming, and now it’s here! Spoilers below!
I got: A black t-shirt from VideoEgg, a blue, gray, and green massager from Findology (disable your ad blockers or there will be almost nothing there!), an orange pen, keychain-bottle opener, and [...]
From CNet News:
Default Program is a new feature Microsoft has added to Vista to avoid the problem of applications taking over common functions, such as playing music or browsing the Web, from each other. Rather than letting competing applications fight, it will give the user a single interface for deciding which programs should do which [...]
I think the only thing better than Hello Kitty is her pet Charmmy Kitty. (And Charmmy’s hamster friend Sugar!) And now, Charmmy has an MP3 player. Awesome!Via CrunchGear
I actually noticed this on Yahoo’s site today before I found it in the news. Yahoo’s got a new security seal program. Create a text seal by typing in a word or 3-word phrase and choosing the background color, or upload your own image as a seal. The seal is locked to your computer, and [...]
Many stores have a policy that, if the price on the shelf doesn’t match up to the price at the register, you can get the item free, or, at more restrictive stores, they’ll give you $5. A woman named Alana Lipkin in Massachussetts has gotten so good at finding pricing errors that she routinely gets [...]
This is stupid. Google is cracking down on people who use “google” as a verb (as in, I just googled the new guy at work.) Google says it has serious trademark issues.
The problem with that is, when I say I’ve Googled someone (as a verb), I really AM using Google!
Has Jell-O been hurt by [...]
Keep that Hello Kitty Visa I posted the other day safe from skimmers with this RFID-blocking wallet.
How about a Benq-Siemens Hello Kitty cellphone? (via CrunchGear)
