Why on earth did God decide to put two starkly contrasting things together like cheerleaders and the cheers that they cheer? Cheerleaders are usually pretty hot, and the cheers they do are usually pretty annoying. It’s one of the stranger pardoxes in the universe. Company 81, a clothing company, has given access to their clothing…
Grand Theft Button: Windows Tips
Those of you who have not yet upgraded to Vista, or are like me and dwindle between XP and Vista lands, you probably encounter this problem whenever you copy files: if you’re copying files into a folder where those files already exist, you get a dialog box. This box usually says something along the lines…
Get Plugged In to HD Music Videos
This morning I received an e-mail telling me that new HD music video / social networking site PluggedIn launched in beta today. PluggedIn is apparently a venture by actor / recording artist Will Smith in association with Sony, EMI, and other big name record labels. What immediately one me over when I loaded up the…
Get Your Daily Thrills at Thrillist
First of all, I’m obligated to let everyone know that I’m a BzzAgent, part of a word-of-mouth program where consumers try out products, services, and websites and then tell their friends about them. I’m not getting any reimbursement for this post, I’m just telling you about something I liked. Thrillist is a site where you…
Take Control of Firefox Extensions
If you’re not already on the Firefox bandwagon, get on it! One of the safest, coolest web browsers out there, Firefox is steadily gaining ground in the browser wars. Firefox is extremely extensible through add-ons, or “extensions.” There are a plethora of Firefox extensions out there – ad-blocking software, user-scripting software, bookmark plug-ins, tab managing…
Download High-Quality YouTube Videos
Did you know that most YouTube videos can be downloaded now as high-quality mp4 (MPEG-4) files? There have been browser and URL hacks to download files previously, and several sites and Firefox extensions would allow you to plug-in an URL to a YouTube video and it would snag the file or give you an URL…
Taxes Due Tomorrow & Jack Black on Piracy
Tomorrow is April 15th, the official deadline for us here in the United States of America to file our tax returns. If you haven’t filed them yet, you better get them postmarked by today. Also, don’t forget you can e-file, sometimes for free! Check out irs.gov for more information. As a member of my state’s…
Get Proper Rankings for Your Blog
Google Page Rank has been king of the web for far too long. They use a “mysterious” and “magical” formula whose inner workings is only barely understood by the public. GPR also has a certain amount of manual human adjustment to weed out those that “cheat the system.” How biased or unbiased this system is…
What Tech Are You Packing?
Every tried-and-true geek has their own particular “rig” or powerhouse machine of which they’re proud. While I recently sold my Mac Mini for some spare cash and am currently “rigless,” I’ve had some pretty sweet setups in the past. Since I don’t have my own, I’ll go ahead and give the low-down on the specs…
Use Google to find MP3s and More
Search powerhouse Google has captured millions if not billions of internet users’ attention and replaced the likes of Yahoo, MSN, WebCrawler, and Alta Vista as their search engine of choice. You probably have visited Google at least once today. If you’re like me, you may even use Google as your home page. Do you cringe…