Tag: Online
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eBay Valet is For People Who Are Too Lazy to Sell Their Own Stuff
If you’re too lazy to list stuff you want to sell on eBay, then here’s an app that you might want to check out: eBay Valet. It’s like a valet, only instead of parking your car for you, it sells your stuff on your behalf instead. Here’s how it works: just take a picture…
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Crypto Stick Replaces Passwords With a Flash Drive
Writing down passwords to folders filled with confidential files or stuff that you’d want to keep a secret is a bad idea. But at the same, most people feel like they have no choice because memorizing passwords for hundreds different folders is no easy task. Cue the Crypto Stick, which is essentially the next-generation flash drives…
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RemoveMe Lets You Unsubscribe From E-mail Lists With A Single Click
Subscribing to email lists is relatively easier compared to unsubscribing from them. Some hide the unsubscribe link so you’ll (presumably) give up on trying to unsubscribe. Others redirect to an invalid unsubscribe page or instruct you to send them an email requesting to be removed from the list instead. The most annoying case is the…
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Wrangler Debuts Moisturizing Jeans
The only thing better than getting yourself a new pair of jeans is getting one that’s been infused with “hydrating oils and butters such as apricot kernel oil, passion fruit oil, rosehip oil and shea butter.” Right? No? Heck, we don’t know anything about fashion, or whether women would ever be into such a thing,…
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‘Doodle or Die’ is Kind Of Like ‘Draw Something’, Except You Play On a Browser Instead
Remember Draw Something, that interactive doodling game by OMGPOP that quickly went viral upon its release? Its popularity died out almost just as fast as it rose (I bet Zynga felt like slapping themselves silly since they acquired the developer for hundreds of millions at its peak) when mobile gamers moved on to the next hot…
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Amazon Introduces Same Day Delivery
By Chris Scott Barr When I’m wanting to purchase something new, I usually have to debate on just where to buy it. The biggest decision is whether I want to save money and buy it online, or spend a little extra to have it today from a brick-and-mortar store. Well if you happen to live…
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googleDrive – A Better Way To Spend Your Thursday
By Andrew Liszewski You probably already know about the online flight simulator that lets you ‘fly’ a virtual plane over the satellite images provided by Google Maps. Well here’s a similar idea, but instead of flying a plane, you actually get to drive a miniature car over the standard street maps view. Once googleDrive is…
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SnoopStick – Goodbye Privacy
By Andrew Liszewski The SnoopStick is a USB flash drive apparently designed with the intent of allowing parents or employers to keep an eye on what their kids or employees are doing online. Just plug the SnoopStick into any USB equipped PC you want to monitor and then run the setup program which takes about…
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Mattel IM-Me – Safe Instant Messaging
By Andrew Liszewski Another piece of kid-friendly tech shown at the Toy Fair in New York this week is the IM-Me instant messenger from Mattel. Unlike a Blackberry though, or even standard online messaging the IM-Me is intentionally rather limited in regards to who your kids can talk to while online. The IM-Me consists of…
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Acoustic Energy Wifi Internet Radio
By Andrew Liszewski Even though the name sounds like a bit of high-tech snake oil (Acoustic Energy?) I still like the motivations behind this radio that can tune into internet radio stations instead of standard AM or FM broadcasts. While the internet really has unlimited potential I think at times many people are missing out…