Archive for February, 2011

Amazon is very happy to sell you an official Kindle cover alongside a Kindle purchase. In fact you have two options: with or without a built-in light. Third-party covers also exist, but they all cost $30+ and the quality varies.
There is a much cheaper alternative, though, if you don’t mind doing a little crafting. It […]

The people at Sports Illustrated know a thing or two about sports photography, so when they put out a video explaining how photographs are taken and processed at the Super Bowl, I stop and watch. Previously we’ve talked about the experience of pro sports photography, but that was nothing compared to what these guys are doing.
The […]

Certainly one of the most tedious chores next to doing the dishes in our household is folding the laundry. Sure it is no big deal to wash the clothes and put them in the dryer, but actually folding clothing items and putting them away always seems to take forever.
Good thing that technology may have an […]

If you have ever had the opportunity to construct build-it-yourself furniture, you know full well the success of the whole project depends on the clarity of the instructions. If you have good instructions the project will be a breeze, but if the box contains poorly written instructions, your furniture could turn into a nightmare quickly.
Kind […]

As I keep on trying to tell my girlfriend, there’s really no point to getting married. Reigning blows down upon me and shrieking something about freely lactating cows, she refuses to believe me… but luckily, Mark Zuckerberg does, and the proof is in the addition of a couple new relationship statuses on the popular social […]

Twitter just left potentially millions of its BlackBerry and Android microbloggers hung out to dry by suspending two of the most popular Twitter apps out there in UberTwitter and Twidroyd, along with other clients that have yet been named… and we don’t know why.
According to Twitter’s official, uh, Twitter account, UberTwitter, Twidroyd and others “violated […]

The rate at which flash drives continue to get larger and faster is quite astonishing. Who would have thought 5 years ago that today we’d be able to buy 256GB+ SSD that outperforms any standard hard drive?
As flash capacities have got higher, pen drives or USB sticks have got very cheap to the point where […]

As I keep on trying to tell my girlfriend, there’s really no point to getting married. Reigning blows down upon me and shrieking something about freely lactating cows, she refuses to believe me… but luckily, Mark Zuckerberg does, and the proof is in the addition of a couple new relationship statuses on the popular social […]

Twitter just left potentially millions of its BlackBerry and Android microbloggers hung out to dry by suspending two of the most popular Twitter apps out there in UberTwitter and Twidroyd, along with other clients that have yet been named… and we don’t know why.
According to Twitter’s official, uh, Twitter account, UberTwitter, Twidroyd and others “violated […]

The rate at which flash drives continue to get larger and faster is quite astonishing. Who would have thought 5 years ago that today we’d be able to buy 256GB+ SSD that outperforms any standard hard drive?
As flash capacities have got higher, pen drives or USB sticks have got very cheap to the point where […]