Category: Websites

How To Get Rid of Unwanted Books: Sell them Online!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 1, 2009

If you are like Web Watch, you probably have shelf upon shelf of books all around the house.

Books stacked in corners, piled away in boxes, placed on nightstands.

Books are good things to have around… but sometimes you end up with tons of books that you just don’t need anymore. Maybe you’ve outgrown them, maybe you just don’t need to keep that series of Tom Clancy novels “just in case” you decide to read them again.

Sure you could sell them for $0.25 each at a neighborhood garage sale (if you’re lucky enough to get that much for them), or you could donate the books to a local library or assisted-living facility.

But Web Watch has a better idea: try selling your books online.

Tags Book, How To, shopping, website

Movies shopping Websites

Halloween Poll: What is this year’s “IT” costume going to be?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 25, 2009

It’s that time again.

Time for creative-minded folks to start thinking about what they want to slap together for Halloween.

And this year, with Halloween falling on a Saturday, you just know that the costumes have to be more amazing than ever.

Oh sure, there will be the standard “couples” costumes that cutesy dating couples have to do: Jon & Kate should be a favorite (put on an Ed Hardy shirt and walk around brooding, and you’ll win first place). Paula Abdul, Michael Jackson, and the Octomom will make their appearances as well.

But here are the important things to remember when putting together your Halloween costume:

Tags holidays, Movies, shopping, website

Funny Websites

Whatcha Looking At – How About THESE Photos?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 23, 2009
1 Comment on Whatcha Looking At – How About THESE Photos?

Sometimes all you want is a good, unadulterated laugh.

Especially if that laugh is at someone else’s expense.

And even more so if that someone else’s experience is caught on camera.

PWNED ON CAMERA is one of those sites that you can’t help but scrolling through the photos just to see what other uncomfortable situations were caught on tape.

Tags Blog, photography, website

How To Websites

What Missing Tupperware and Missing Pants Have in Common

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 18, 2009

You know the drill: somebody borrows your favorite cookbook, DVD, hammer, or pair of pants and keeps them for a while.

Maybe you’ve forgotten who you loaned things to.

Maybe they’ve forgotten who gave them things they have on the garage shelves.

Web Watch has books and DVDs that we know belong to other people, but we can’t keep track of who we need to give it back to.

We also know who we loaned our Tupperware out to a few years ago… and they STILL haven’t returned it.

This makes us angry. DVDs, books, and pants are easily replaced. Good Tupperware, not so much.

Tags How To, Pants, Tupperware, website

How To TV Websites

How To Find Your Favorite NFL Team on TV

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 13, 2009

When you are a fan of a particular NFL team and don’t live in that city’s local viewing area, you really only have these choices for being able to watch your favorite team play on TV:

Hope that your team is playing in one of the weekly nationally-televised games (Sunday night football, Monday Night Football, one of those Thanksgiving games, or that random Thursday or Saturday night game that gets national coverage)
Hope that your local FOX or CBS affiliate is carrying the national 4p game that week in a double-header and that your team is in it
Get DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket, so you can pay more money than you should just to watch that one game every week
Go to the local smoke-filled sports bar and watch the game on one of the bar’s big screens… and if you’re lucky you’ll get the game audio instead of having to watch it with closed captions
Watch the game later on a replay aired on the NFL Network
Follow along online via nfl.com’s game stats/scoreboard page

Or you have the most common option: rely on your local CBS or FOX affiliate to decide which games they’re going to air in their markets. The worst part is that they don’t have to make that decision until late in the week preceding the game date.

Tags football, How To, TV

Internet Websites

What the Internet Knows About You

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 9, 2009

How much does THE INTERNET KNOW ABOUT YOU?

Quite a bit, actually.

Visiting this site will display a list of all the most popular websites that you’ve visited.

The question is, how does this website even know? And will disabling JavaScript or anything else keep this from happening?

Tags Internet, website

Games Internet Websites

Play MONOPOLY Against The World

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 8, 2009

The hard part about playing Hasbro’s MONOPOLY is trying to find other people who are willing to play with you.

All your friends who normally love to play games all complain that it takes too long to play, or nobody really wants to be banker, or your rules are different from the way want to play.

Web Watch says that you can leave those friends behind.

Because now Hasbro and Google have teamed up to produce a terrific interactive use of Google Maps called MONOPOLY CITY STREETS that takes the game of Monopoly and applies it to any city in the world, and you can play along at home.

Tags board games, game, Internet, website

Funny Gadgets TV Websites

Press the Button. You Know You Want To.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 5, 2009

Some Internet sites are designed to be useful.

Some are not.

Today in Web Watch, we will focus on a few websites that definitely fall into the latter category: websites that ask you to do just one thing – push a button.

Tags flash, gadget, game show, Internet, TV, website