How many times a day do you check your phone, whether it be for messages, emails, Twitter, Facebook status updates, Instagram, or actually making a phone call to someone? We’re not even talking exclusively smartphone users, who have those things glued to their hands at all times. We’re including all mobile phone users here.
Heck, you may even be reading this Web Watch post on your phone right now.
Continue reading THE AVERAGE PHONE USER CHECKS THEIR PHONE 150 TIMES PER DAY
Have you been to a county fair recently?
If not – then rest assured that they still have the old-fashioned carnival barker there, offering to guess anything from your weight, to your zodiac sign, to your age — all for just a few dollars. Don’t worry – if they get it wrong, they hand you a stuffed animal worth $0.25 to them. It’s sheer profit, even if they lose every single transaction that they attempt.
Has it really been almost 14 years since Web Watch last shared with our readers a website about a ROCK BAND NAME GENERATOR?
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Back in the day (and it’s always “back in the day” with these types of stories, isn’t it?), Web Watch would be known to partake in a drinking game or two amongst friends.
Why? Mainly because the games themselves were kinda fun. A bit stupid, perhaps, but always a fun challenge. Drinking was merely secondary to the activity, as one never needs a “game” of any sort to take a drink whenever one would like.
The key, of course, is to know when to say when and back out of the activity. Drinking too much because of some stupid game rule is never a good idea for anyone.
Continue reading TOP 100 MOST POPULAR DRINKING GAMES, AND 5 DRINKING GAME TYPES
We all own some music.
Whether it be strictly on digital downloads from Apple, Amazon, or other digital vendors; CD purchases, cassette tapes, vinyl — or, if you’re going super old-school, 8-tracks or even some 45 singles… owning music to be able to play on-demand, in the manner and format that most appeals to you, is what some would equate to living the perfect life. Continue reading HOW MUCH MONEY IS MADE PER MUSIC FORMAT SOLD?
Everybody dreams while sleeping.
The key is whether you can remember what you’ve dreamt or not. Some dreams are awesome, some are nightmarish – but all reflect some aspect of the subconscious (whether buried deep or not).
And, if you’re like most people, you may find yourself wishing that you could revisit your dream state to finish out the story that was being unraveled while you slept.
Continue reading SCIENTISTS CAN NOW SEE WHAT YOU ARE DREAMING
It’s happened to everyone, at one time or another.
You’ve stepped away from your desk, bar stool, wherever — and not 3 minutes later you discover that your cellphone is missing.
Gone, in a blink of an eye. Your entire life - photos, contacts, important numbers, etc — all gone forever. Stolen, perhaps. Lost, definitely.
And the chances of finding your phone in the Lost & Found are likely slim to none.
Continue reading ONLY 52% OF CELLPHONE OWNERS HAVE DONE THIS
While most any story about pee can be amusing, there are times when pee is not a laughing matter.
There are any number of reasons why adult men would suffer from occasional incontinence, or just can’t stop the post-pee drip from appearing on the outside of their khaki pants — and that usually happens immediately before an important business meeting where you have to stand in front of the company board and make a formal presentation.
And all you can think about is “are they looking at my pee stain”?
Continue reading MEN: HOW TO STOP THE DREADED “PEE SPOT” FROM APPEARING
Have you ever heard of the acronymEDC?
It stands for EVERYDAY CARRY, and represents those few things that you always carry on your, no matter what.
For some people, it’s the standard — watch, wallet (with specific credit cards, shopping cards, insurance cards, family photos), cell phone, car key, house key. A pocket full of change. Maybe some lip balm.
Women have it a bit easier, as various purse sizes allow for a wide expanse of Everyday Carry items to be toted around like (literally) there’s no tomorrow. Heck, one day we even watched a woman pull out a 1lb bag of coffee beans from her purse that she just happened to be carrying around with her for no observable reason that evening. (Ask us for the full story, next time you see us out and about. It’s a hoot.)
Some of Web Watch’s friends insist on carrying switchblade knives of various deadly lengths. Others prefer the more subtle Swiss Army Knife.
Continue reading WHAT ARE THE ITEMS YOU CARRY ON YOUR PERSON EVERY DAY? (THEY COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE)
Look, we get it.
The Internet is free, right? You have to pay to be online, but once you’re there – the millions of pages of information out there should be yours for the viewing, without being blocked by persistently annoying advertising invading your viewspace.
Web Watch is in a quandray over this – we’re supported by advertising on the site, so why would we want to share with you one simple, easy way to completely block all ads from ever appearing on your computer or WiFi-enabled devices ever again? If this idea takes off, we’ll have to switch to a subscription-based model – but we’d rather not go that route if we can help it.
Here’s something silly. Enjoy!
Continue reading CAT WEBSITE FUN! (BUT APPARENTLY NOT IF YOU USE INTERNET EXPLORER)
Ever look at your bank account statement (or ATM balance) and wonder where all your money went?
Look around your house, and all you see is generic stuff that you really could live without?
Contemplate why you bother with that $5 daily coffee break when the free coffee in the office really isn’t that bad?
Web Watch had a rough childhood.
Our father was a bit of a tinkerer. A gadget-guy. (Still is, actually.)
He loves to put things through their paces, then take them apart to see how they worked or if they could be improved upon.
For a while, when we were young, he was infatuated with battery-operated devices – like toys. So he’d go out and buy the latest, greatest battery-operated toy (even better if it was a rechargeable battery). And Web Watch would get to play with the toy for as long as we wanted to.
Go ahead. Have fun with that.
Until Dad decided that it was time for him to take the toy apart and see what made it last as long as it did on that single battery charge.
Web Watch went through a lot of battery-operated toys during that time. Sure, we got to play with all of them, but only for like a day.
If Web Watch were to mention the name Randy Pausch to you, chances are you wouldn’t know who we were talking about off the top of your head.
But if we were to mention that Randy was the Carnegie-Mellon professor who wrote the book The Last Lecture
We’ll wait.
Just let us know when you’ve gotten back and we’ll continue…
Do you have an iPad, Android tablet, or netbook? Are you glued to your iPhone, Android device, or Blackberry?
Web Watch is going to take a wild guess that you’re not just using those devices for making phone calls or using them exclusively for business.
Continue reading 60% OF WEB SURFING IS DONE VIA A MOBILE DEVICE