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A new study has come out that shows some trends in how we use our cellphones.
The 2011 WIRELESS NETWORK PERFORMANCE SURVEY asked over 22,000 wireless customers for their answers on cell phone use and their carrier. Here is some of what they found:
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How would you know if your wife or girlfriend were a spy?
Well, if they were any good as a spy – you probably would never know at all.
But there are, apparently, at least FIVE SIGNS YOUR GIRLDFRIEND IS A SPY that can help you make sure that your girl is on the up-and-up.
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Today’s challenge? How long would you be able to live in an apartment that was just 11′ long and 7′ wide?
That’s about 78 square feet total.
Do you think you could survive living there overnight? A week? How about a month?
Luke Clark Tyler doesn’t see it as a challenge at all — he’s doing it, and paying $750/month for the privilege of LIVING IN A SHOEBOX-SIZED APARTMENT IN NEW YORK CITY.
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TiVo has been taking it on the chin lately.
The recent blog post in the New York Times entitled TiVO, Nice Service if You Can Get It, is the typical drivel written by somebody who hasn’t taken the time to properly research and use the product they’re talking about.
As an example – the writer, Joshua Brustein, says that TiVo has an expensive fee of $19.99/month. He doesn’t mention that you could purchase a lifetime subscription for $499. If you’re planning on keeping your TiVo for longer than 24 months, the lifetime subscription is the way to go. (Web Watch won’t mention the number of deals that are on the TiVo website that may lower the overall cost even further.)
The article goes on, with the writer’s cable company trying to pimp their own DVR over a TiVo — hey, that happens. Same thing with the account of what he went through to get a cable card, involving multiple trips, phone calls, and a service tech who never showed up. Obviously not an issue with TiVo, but with the cable company the writer is using. For our TiVo service, Web Watch drove over to our local Cable Shoppe and picked up the cable cards directly. Installed them into our new TiVo ourselves, and were up and running in just about an hour or so.
Obviously each user’s experience is going to be different, but none of what the writer included in his article is specific to problems with TiVo.
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Buy the poster No Boys Allowed – 2 Girls Using the Men’s Room
It’s a common sight at concerts, festivals, or other public events — long lines at the women’s bathroom.
Yeah, we know – women take longer in the restroom than men do. Bathroom equality in new buildings, and all that.
Web Watch remembers one Jimmy Buffett concert where the entire backside of the bathroom building had been co-opted by girls who were just looking for a place to pop a squat. They didn’t care that they were peeing in full view of drunk Buffett fans — they were just happy that they had a place to go.
Seeing a lineup of 30 girls all peeing against the side of a cinderblock wall is quite a site. Power in numbers, indeed.
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Buy DEAR PLAYBOY ADVISOR:
QUESTIONS FROM MEN AND WOMEN
TO THE ADVICE COLUMN OF PLAYBOY MAGAZINE
If you’ve read Playboy magazine over the years (and by “read”, we mean “flipped through the pages to the pictorials, occasionally check out the interview, read the Playboy Funnies, and check out a cartoon or two”), then you should be familiar with Chip Rowe and the rest of the Playboy Advisor staff of intelligent and well-read question-and-answer writers.
Sure, Web Watch could point you to any number of articles about how to secure your wireless router, but why should we do that when Playboy has summed up the steps to take in such an easy-to-understand manner and pleasant packaging?
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Don’t buy THIS Lotion Applicator…
check out the one below instead:
We’ve all been to the pool or the beach, with the hot sun blazing down. In one hand is a tube of sunblock, and the other just doesn’t reach all the way around to those special places where the sun actually does shine… a little too much.
So what’s a person to do?
You can do what Kate Slavin did after she ended a 2-year romantic relationship — she designed a product to allow herself to DO MY BACK without anyone else’s help.
We’ve all seen braille buttons and signs posted on the drive-up ATM, and many people (unfortunately) then have to mutter to their travelling companions, “hey, look at the braille on the drive-up ATM? How many blind people drive?”
Let’s be honest – the real trick is not that their are braille-labelled buttons on the drive-through ATM, but that the buttons are associated with a display screen.
There’s no braille on the screen, so how would a blind person know which button to select? Oh, we know there’s an easy answer to this, but Web Watch likes to point it out anyway. It may be practical to the blind, but to a sighted person, it just looks like bad design.
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Are you pregnant?
Ever wonder what it would be like if your belly had a big glass window like your oven does, so you can glance at your developing child any time you wanted? Yeah, it would put new meaning to the phrase “a bun in the oven”.
It ends up that Melody Shiue has designed what could very well be the answer to your prayers:
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Are you one of those women who go out of their way to avoid any semblance of panty line or tan line?
Just like you, Web Watch knows plenty of women who fear having panty lines so much that they are the first ones to admit that they invented going commando. These women get angry at the thought of having to “be proper” and wear any sort of underwear that makes its presence known on the outside of their slacks or dresses.
Web Watch hears your screams. We’re here to help.
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Have you purchased a computer lately?
Once you get past the initial “MAC vs Windows” discussion, the choices typically come down to price variations. Web Watch has always said — and it’s been holding true for the past 20 years or so — that the “ideal” computer that any computer nerd would want will cost about $2,000.
You’d be surprised that the $2k number holds up, even in today’s retail environment where a decent home computer can be had for around $500. Note that we said that this was a computer ideal for a computer nerd, not just any machine that would get somebody through the next two years of English class at the local university.
And that’s because that $2000 computer is one that is going to last for a number of years because it has all the bells and whistles for today, and will likely not need to be upgraded anytime soon.
But Web Watch understands that not everyone has $2k in their back pocket. Which brings up that more important question: if you had limited funds with which to buy or outfit a computer, WHAT SHOULD THE MONEY BE SPENT ON?
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It’s probably the single most frequently asked question at NASA and of all astronauts: HOW DO YOU GO TO THE BATHROOM IN SPACE?
Well, lucky for us, National Geographic has been able to go “behind the scenes” for us to get this video of exactly what the astronauts do to train how to use the anti-gravity space toilet.
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The Luscious Bellydance Workout for Beginners
The NYTimes recently posed the question, WHAT’S THE SINGLE BEST EXERCISE?
The writers spoke with physicians, physiologists, and even a professor of sport and exercise science (and also a past Olympian) for their opinions, and they were able to come to a single conclusion.
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We’ve all seen BACK TO THE FUTURE, where all you need to have is an almanac of sports results from the future in order to make yourself a billionaire.
But the concept does lend itself to a bigger question if you were to time-travel further back in time to when ancient civilizations could be really impressed with what we see as everyday, common technology: WHAT WOULD YOU BRING WITH YOU FROM THE FUTURE THAT WOULD MAKE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS BELIEVE YOU WERE A GOD?
Like you don’t already think of yourself as a god anyway.
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How many cloth diapers does one family need?
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New parents often have a dilemma to decide, sometimes even before they try to have kids in the first place: are they going to be a “disposable” family or a “cloth” family?
More and more, the trend in eco-friendly parenting is to go with the cloth diapers. Technology has caught up to the absorbent fabrics being used, and they don’t have the stigma that going natural used to have in the past (“unexpected leakage” being the predominant concern).
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