Category: Gadgets

Make your own Customized Crayola Crayon Box

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 25, 2011

There is a hierarchy of crayons in school.

The average child starts out with the standard 8-color box of Crayola crayons. Web Watch is quite fond of this one, as we never really got past the fact that there are different color Reds and Blues in today’s world. To us, it’s either “red” or “blue”, with none of those various shades.

As you got older, you would get the 16 or 24-count box of Crayolas.

Eventually, you’d be lucky enough to get the holy grail: the famed 64-count box of Crayola Crayons with the built-in sharpener in the box.

Eventually, even that was too boring, and Crayola came out with the 128-count box. Yeah, those kids were living the good life. They may not have been able to draw worth a darn, but they had all the tools available if they tried.

Tags art, parenting, school, shopping, website

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Is your girlfriend a spy? Here are five things to check

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 15, 2011

Spy Girls: License to Thrill

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.

Tags 10 Things, gadget, Relationships, website

Gadgets How To Travel

Today’s Challenge: How long could you live in a 12′ x 7′ space?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 12, 2011

New York Apartments

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.

Tags gadget, How To, Party Talk, Real Estate, Travel

Gadgets TV

Possible takeover target TiVo has awesome customer service (not to mention easy TiVo upgrades)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 22, 2011

Buy the TiVo PREMIERE XL

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.

Tags computers, Customer Service, gadget, hardware, TiVo, TV

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Women of the world – a better pee solution for you!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 20, 2011

No Boys Allowed - 2 Girls Using the Men's Room
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.

Tags bathroom, gadget, website

Gadgets How To Internet

How Playboy secures their wireless network

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 13, 2011
1 Comment on How Playboy secures their wireless network

Dear Playboy Advisor: Questions from Men and Women to the Advice Column of Playboy Magazine
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?

Tags gadget, How To, Internet, playboy

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Trouble applying sunscreen while at the beach by yourself? Just ask for someone to DO MY BACK

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 7, 2011

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.

Tags beach, Beauty, gadget, shopping, website

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A compilation of Bad Designs

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 24, 2011

The Design of Everyday Things

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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