November 2011
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5 Signs That You're Addicted to Twitter
But why do the characters look like McNuggets?
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iMeme: Finally, We'll Have An Abundance of Memes! ...
Michael Fogleman has become the hero of everyone who lacks both photoshop and a life.
Fogleman is the creator of iMeme, a meme generator and facilitator.
Choose the character you want (Forever Alone? Baby Godfather?) and the text you’d like in the meme. A little adjustment, a little alignment.. and bam. You’ve just wasted 4 hours that you will never get back. Shh… if...
PayPal Predicts No Wallets by 2016
PayPal’s new report ‘Money: The Digital Tipping Point‘ predicts that consumers won’t need to carry wallets by the year 2016. (Clearly someone doesn’t have a toast wallet.)
Managing Director of PayPal UK believes that in 4 years time, mobile payments will take off. He says, “Children born today will become the UK’s first ‘cashless generation’. It will be...
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Macbook Air Doubles As Compact Mirror
Calling all geeky prettyboys..
If you are a Mac lover and a metrosesual, you might want to consider putting the Macbook Air Style Compact Mirror on your Christmas holiday wishlist.
This handful of happy is all over Ebay, starting at $5.00 a pop. (You know Nana would totally drop $5.00 for her favorite grandbaby.) Consider it a travel platform for your daily affirmations, doggone it. Bonus! ...
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Instagram, Calendagram, Casetagram, and Coming...
Holiday crap gift ideas just won’t leave me alone.
It’s no suprise that the interweb is spewing products at us in hopes of selling us its weirdo goodies. It may come as a suprise that I am spewing a bit myself (ew?).
Anyway. Instagram has 2 new products that would make pretty groovy gifts. Calendagram produces wall calendars using your Instagram photos. ...
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Happy Holidays and Stuff
As the holiday season hastily approaches, so does that feeling of impending doom because you haven’t gotten gifts for your cats coworkers yet.
Fear not, young whippersnapper! For the web savvy individuals on your list, consider Code Cards. Written in popular web languages like PHP, Javascript, and CSS, these greeting cards display Christmas and New Years messages of tidings and joy.
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Retro Phone is So Not Annoying
Are you tired of the convenience a mobile phone brings? Is having an iPhone just too mainstream?
Fab.com has created retro phone handsets that plug into your phone. They’re like, soups trendy you guys. I bet Zooey Deschanel totally has one of these.
Hold on.. check out this normal dude. He’s got one of these phones and yet.. something is...
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The Salvation Army Goes Digital
I am a lady who loves the Red Kettle campaign and The Salvation Army. The reasons are threefold:
I love making conversation with elderly strange-ers.
I love singing loudly at semi-inappropriate times, whether on- or off-pitch. Bell-ringing presents an opportunity for both.
KMart is desolate and eternally creepy wasteland that deserves a sprinkle of joy for one season every year. I deliver...
Black is Back: The Return of Rebecca Black
Listen up, haters. Rebecca Black has just released her 3rd single. And oh, wait til you see the lens flares and motion blur on this masterpiece. Titled “Person of Interest”, the song and video chronicle Black’s fascination with a Bieber-haired preteen who goes missing. Murder? We may never know.
Unfortunately, neither this song nor Black’s 2nd single were...
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If Facebook Had Existed Throughout History..
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Man Calls 911 When iPhone Malfunctions
Michael Alan Skopec, my new hero, was arrested last week. The 48-year-old Illinois man champion called 911 to report that his iPhone was malfunctioning. Not just once though. Skopec called the emergency line 5 times. The calls were traced back to Skopec’s residence, where he was found all sauced up. After all that iPhone trouble, Skopec then got arrested for resisting a peace officer. ...
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A Nation Gives Thanks on Facebook
The U.S. Military Facebook page is celebrating Veteran’s Day with a campaign called ”A Nation Gives Thanks”. Facebook users can leave personal messages to active and retired members of the military. For those who don’t wish to personalize a message, a thank you message to the entire U.S. Military can be submitted. The Facebook page keeps track of the amount of thanks...
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This 6th Grader is More Accomplished Than You
Thomas Suarez is a 6th grader at a Manhattan Beach middle school. He is also one of 20 featured speakers at this year’s TEDx technology conference.
Suarez has been gaining authority for programming iOS software. Thus far he has created 2 sweet apps, both of which are available in the App Store.
My reigning app is called Bustin Jieber, which lets users play whack-a-mole with Justin...
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Finally, Experience the Internet via Smell
Introducing Olly, the first product to notify you of happenings on the internet through your nostrils.
Finally! We can each connect to the web through the power of smell!
Choose whatever scent you want for Olly by inserting the small aromatic object into Olly’s back end (…) Whether you want to insert a slice of pepperoni, a drop of rum, or a some of your ex-girlfriend’s...
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Poorsquare: Foursquare for the 99%
Frequent Foursquare users know the horrendous truth — checking into a business does not automatically mean receiving an extra sprinkled donut. Or a free game of bubble hockey. Or a 10-second ride on the mechanical bull. Sometimes, Foursquare users check into a business and get bupkis.
That’s where Poorsquare comes in.
Poorsquare uses Foursquare’s...
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Classic Children's Book Gets a Digital Upgrade
Remember the children’s book “Goodnight Moon”? The one with the sweet little bunny who says goodnight to everything in his room before going to sleep?
Good night, kittens. Good night, mittens. Good night, clocks. Good night, socks.
No longer must you read such an unrealistic book to yourself your children. An updated version of the book hits stores tomorrow. Written and...
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Harvard Drop-Out Zuckerberg Returns
ROADTRIIIIP! This morning Mark Zuckerberg grabbed his bros, beef jerky sticks and road sodas — all in preparation for his cross-country trip to Harvard University.
The Facebook CEO is heading back to his alma mater today in search of a worthy intern to work (for free?) at his company.
This trip marks the first time Zuckerberg will be back at Harvard since dropping out almost a decade...
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How Biased Are the Search Engines, Really?
The Mission: Using a handful of common key words, I will conduct the world’s smallest and probably least accurate study ever. The Task: 1. Search each of the following phrases on Google, Yahoo, and Bing: -news -email -sports -maps -blogs -shopping 2. Note which search engine favors its own sites. The Hypothesis: I am hypothesistic (that should be a...
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YouTube Now Available in Afrikaans
I-YouTube isikhuluma IsiZulu ne-Afrikaans!
YouTube has released 2 more African language versions due to a successful launch of YouTube in Kiswahili and Amharic last year. Since that launch, YouTube has seen a 175% increase in YouTube views. You know, no big deal.
YouTube has now added Afrikaans and isiZulu in order to expand YouTube’s fleshmitt grasp to include more countries and aquire...
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Captchas Are Difficult for Humans, Not So Much for...
Captchas, those unGodly security measures comprised of distorted text and number sequences, are said to be unreadable by robots. That theory is now kaput. Finally.
A Stanford research team has created a software program which allows robots to decode captchas.
The program, called Decaptcha (clever, Stanford), can decode some captchas easier than others. The easiest to decode? The captchas of...
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2012: The Twitter Election
“2012 will be known as the Twitter election.”
This quote is from Robert Gibbs, former press secretary to President Obama. Gibbs worked with Obama on his social media-fueled 2008 campaign.
Gibbs believes that while social media used to trail in campaign importance, it’s now the first thought of campaign managers.
This year, Obama has added FourSquare and Tumblr to his social...
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