Upgrading Heat Registers in a Craftsman Bungalow
The dream is in the details
When you’re trying to restore your craftsman home to its original beauty, details matter. When I first started working on my craftsman, my primary concern was about making sure I that had a functional and efficient heating system. Living in a dream home can be [...]
Eggo Shortage! How to Cope at Breakfast Time
How do you solve an Eggo shortage?
Last time I went grocery shopping, I noticed there was only one flavor of Eggo waffle in the freezer, and it was the plain kind. Luckily, the store brand offered the flavors I was looking for: blueberry and chocolate chip.
I grabbed the off-brand boxes [...]
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Picks Safest Vehicles
27 vehicles make Top Safety Picks list
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has come out with its annual list of Top Safety Picks. Eight SUVs and 19 cars have been given Top Safety Pick awards for 2010. People who want to make sure they’re getting the safest cars before filling [...]
Netflix Careers and Job Opportunities
The power of the Internet
The power of the internet is unlimited. It has evolved into something of global demand as more people are leaving the traditional ways of communicating and running to the internet to give ‘fast’ and ‘convenience’ a whole new meaning. Just about everything can be accessed online; [...]
Washington Blade Publisher Window Media Shuts Down
Washington Blade out of print
The demise of the newspaper began long before the recession, and it will continue afterward. Newspaper publishers are finding it harder every day to compete with digital media. Window Media, which was the country’s largest publisher of gay newspapers, has shut down.
Window Media published the Washington [...]
Black Friday Ads 2009: Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and more!
The Black Friday Fever
Black Friday has been the top trend for the past several weeks. Everyone is itching to find great deals offering for Black Friday 2009. Black Friday, which lands on the day after Thanksgiving Day, unofficially kicks off the holiday shopping season. And boy, things are looking hot, [...]
Gizmo5 Gives Google More Voice | Is Google on a Spree?
Another big purchase for Google
Four days after Google announced it is acquiring AdMob, a mobile advertising service, for $750 million, Google announced it will acquire Gizmo5, a voice-over-IP service. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t have to talk to a loan company in order to buy out other [...]
Target $3 Appliances | Black Friday Chaos to Ensue
Target Black Friday ad says $3 appliances
Black Friday. I understand why people head to the stores in droves when retailers advertise great in-store deals for Black Friday. What I don’t understand is why stores do this, especially in the case of Target’s $3 appliances, which are being publicized in the [...]
Reebok Easytone Shoes | Pros and Cons
Do Reebok Easytone shoes work?
There’s a lot of hype surrounding the new Reebok Easytone shoes, which boast that they can help firm up your gluteus maximus. Reebok Easytone shoes retail for $99 to $109, so the hundred-dollar question is: Are Reebok Easytone shoes worth it?
With the holidays so close, it’d [...]
AdMob Joins the Club | AdMob Now Belongs to Google
Google buys AdMob for big bucks
It appears as though the release of the Motorola Droid may have done it: Google plans to invest heavily in mobile advertising. It will plunk down $750 million to acquire AdMob, “the world’s largest mobile advertising marketplace,” according to the AdMob web site.
The $750 million [...]
Motorola Droid Tips: Read the User Manual
Motorola Droid tips digest
I know what you’re thinking after reading a title that says “read the user manual.” Why would you thumb through pages and pages of lame text when you could just look up what to do on the Internet?
While reading the owner’s manual for Motorola Droid tips is [...]
Rent the Runway Offers High Fashion for a Low Price
Recession spawns Rent the Runway
Rent the Runway, a web site that uses the Netflix mail-order model, would have been a good idea even when the economy wasn’t bad. However, it appears Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Carter Fleiss, the site’s creators, are destined for guaranteed success during a time when everyone [...]
Verizon Droid Sales Conjure Images of iPhone Release
Droid sales attract cell phone geeks
Stores opened at midnight. People lined up in the streets, awaiting Verizon Droid sales. When did people become cell phone geeks? I think it started with the iPhone, which was the first mobile communication device in recorded history to cause people to behave this way.
Now, [...]
Price Wars! Verizon Droid Eris vs. Motorla Droid
Verizon Droid Eris a cheaper Droid
Everyone has heard of the Motorola Droid, set for retail release tomorrow. We’ve all seen the commercial publicizing Droid’s quest to one-up the iPhone. However, today it has gotten out that another Droid, the Verizon Droid Eris, will also be available, and for half the [...]
Federal Minimum Wage and U.S. Labor Laws
Federal minimum wage 2009
Since July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 per hour. That means in every state in the United States, employers must pay workers at least $7.25 per hour. In Washington, D.C., it means employers must pay $8.25 per hour because the law there dictates [...]
Honda Skydeck Concept | Futuristic or Blast from the Past?
Back to the future, anyone?
People who have seen the Honda Skydeck concept minivan, which was unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, call it “futuristic.” The front doors are scissor doors. You know, like the ones on the DeLorean, so that’s what I thought of immediately when I saw photos of [...]
Microsoft News: Microsoft Layoffs Continue
Microsoft Layoffs Continues
In January 2009, for the first time in its history, Microsoft Corp. announced it would cut some 5,000 jobs over the year as the company witnessed a drastic decline in revenue. The company suffered an 11 percent drop in profit, leaving many Microsoft workers unemployed and in need [...]
Casino Denies Man Jackpot, but Keeps Case out of Court
Jackpot! Or not.
Do you ever get that feeling that you want to throw your computer out the window when you experience a glitch? Imagine a computer glitch that made you think you had won more than $166 million. Obviously, in this story, a casino denies a man a jackpot.
In Tampa, [...]
Microsoft Layoffs Finished Ahead of Schedule!
Microsoft layoffs go the extra mile
Microsoft confirmed that it’s laying off 800 more employees today. Along with that announcement come a couple of fun facts: not only are they ahead of their June 2010 deadline, they are ahead on numbers of people they planned to lay off!
So I guess laying [...]
Oprah Payless Coupons | Savings in a Text Message
New kind of coupon
Though Oprah Payless coupons do exist in the usual, online download and print out format, this time there is a twist. If you go to Oprah.com/payless, you have the choice of downloading and printing the Oprah Payless coupons or getting a text message that says you are [...]
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