Don’t let the facts and figures confuse you; girl gamers are a rare and special breed. I mean, honestly, how many girls do you know talk smack over Xbox Live during a rousing game of Halo 2? Yea, that’s what I thought. But hey, if you want to get your girl interested in playing video [...]
Recently, I received a fresh new laptop from Dell. Upon receiving it, I did the traditional “installation of Windows from scratch” on it to remove a lot of the garbage that is preinstalled on Dells. Then I got really busy installing tons of great software that takes care of pretty much every software need I [...]
These days it seems like anyone with an idea and some time can crank out a Web 2.0 startup, be it a service, community, one-trick-pony or ambiguously named whichamadinger. It also seems like many of these startups could use some guidance to help them find their way. With goofy names, varying user experiences and questionable [...]
Warning: If you are morally opposed to wasting time, read no further. A viral marketing company, The Viral Factory, has put together a list of top 10 most viral videos that have made office life across the world finally bearable. We present them to you here, in one space, for your procrastinating pleasure. If you [...]
In the couple of months I’ve been using Digg, I’ve really got used to the service and I love it. However, there’s always room for improvement… Here are 10 features that I feel would make the Digg experience better:
Beer quells heart disease and chocolate staves off cancer? Though often tagged with a disclaimer, studies that tell us to eat, inhale and generally indulge in “bad stuff” is music to our ears. So go ahead and enjoy these bad-for-you remedies—everything in moderation, as they say—until the next study inevitably overturns the research.
I like to think I am an expert when it comes to sleep, I put as much practice in as I can possible manage. Even I (a self confessed ‘Sleep Guru’) didn’t know as much about my favorite pass time as the person who made this list. Read on…
OK, so if you live in Florida or Southern California, you may not need to read this column. But if you live in a cold-weather state, or perhaps if you are planning to visit loved ones in a colder clime over the winter holidays, the following tips literally could be life-saving! And even if you’ve [...]
411mania got the idea right when they talked about their list of top 5 anything. From top 5 RPG characters to top 5 worst movie-based games, the guys who put up their individual lists always do a good job (or at least a funny one) explaining their choices. Most recently, the staff of 411mania decided [...]
Games based on movies have greatly increased in quality over the last few years and now they are something gamers can actually get excited about instead of cringing when they are announced. We take a look at the best movie games (in no specific order) available for the Xbox.
Nonprofits that have made the jump from Internet Explorer to Firefox — a free, open-source browser developed by the Mozilla community — often cite better security and tabbed browsing as major reasons for switching. And while Firefox alone is often touted by its users as a convenient, safe, and feature-rich Web-surfing tool, it can be [...]
Despite the year’s end looming, your tax fate is not yet sealed – there are still some chances to optimize your tax filing and save some money, says the nation’s largest state accountant group. The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA)recommends these ten year-end steps for consumers to get their filings in [...]
We have a ton of toys in our house. I can admit to that. I honestly have to because I spend too much of my time stepping on them or tripping over them to deny their existence. We have toys. Still, for all the toys that have made it into our house, some of the [...]
If you want to improve your eBay sales, one of the easiest and usually cheapest ways is to improve the quality of photographs used in your auctions. This top 10 will give you most of the answers you need to have better photo’s and hopefully improve your income to boot!
A remarkable number of the best filmmakers in the world work exclusively with the same director of photography, movie after movie. This fact isn’t remarkable in or of itself; what’s interesting is the debate it might—and probably should—spawn: an auteurist chicken-or-egg argument. If Wong Kar-wai films look fantastic, as I imagine we can all agree [...]
When it comes to Open Source games, it often seems like the selection is limited. Sure, everyone has played Tux Racer and Frozen Bubble, but what comes after that? The answer seems to be “not very much.” Most OSS games suffer from inexperienced coders (i.e. they’re just not “fun”) and poor implementations of the concept. [...]
Most Americans have at least one credit card, but how many really know when their interest rate can be raised, how much interest they can legally be charged, and why credit card companies raise rates? These are the eight things every credit card user should know.
