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How to avoid getting sick when travelling by plane

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 21, 2011

It’s the holiday travel season, and tons of Web Watch readers are going to find themselves flying on a crowded plane, more than likely sitting next to somebody who’s just getting over the flu.

It’s like the giant lottery of luck, who you get to sit next to on the plane. Everybody eyes the other people at the terminal, wondering who gets to be lucky enough to sit next to that young attractive man or woman while avoiding eye contact with that overweight, unwashed hairy dude wearing a torn muscle shirt.

Eww.

Tags airplane, germs, health, Travel

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Video Fun: The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 20, 2011

Insults Every Man Should Know

The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time

Tags 10 Things, language, Movies, nsfw, Video

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How many vowels are there in the English alphabet? If you answered “5”, you may be wrong

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 19, 2011

American Dialects for Actors, Directors, and Writers

How many letters are there in the English alphabet?

According to Rick Aschmann, there may be just the standard 5 vowels that everybody knows (a, e, i, o u), but when it comes to pronouncing those same letters, there are at least 16 different vowel sounds that people use around the country.

Tags 10 Things, language, Party Talk, Travel

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What PS3, Xbox360, and Wii owners really do with their systems

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 18, 2011

Xbox 360 with Kinect

So Web Watch is in the process of packing up some of our video game systems and putting them away. The PS2 and Xbox Classic are no longer needed, and don’t even get us started on the TurboGrafx or Sega Genesis that were also taking up precious shelf space.

We’ll leave the Wii and PS3 where they are as we still use those regularly, as we anxiously await the long-rumored Xbox 720 to come out to replace the Xbox 360.

So what does all this mean? We’re not the only ones with older gaming systems still hanging around and being used.

But what are they being used for? It’s not always what you think.

Tags gadget, Internet, Movies, Music, nintendo, playstation, ps3, video games, wii, xbox, xbox360

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How to remove Carrier IQ from your phone

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 17, 2011

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Google Android Figure

By now, you probably have heard about CARRIER IQ, that software that many cell phone manufacturers and service providers had installed on all sorts of cellphones in order to track how well their networks were performing.

The issue, if you didn’t know, is that CARRIER IQ wasn’t a very well-designed application and was recording a lot of each user’s phone actions without that person’s knowledge. Now, Congress has gotten involved and it’s turned into a big ugly mess.

Tags Android, apple, cell phone, cellphone, gadget, How To, Internet, iPhone

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Tips for Proper Office Party Etiquette

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 16, 2011
1 Comment on Tips for Proper Office Party Etiquette

The Office Party

The “Office Party”.

It’s the perfect time to get drunk and tell your boss what you really think of them, right?

Wrong.

Web Watch used to work for a company that was rather liberal with their alcohol at events. After a while, we had to wonder what one needed to do to get the Big Boss pissed off enough to fire someone for what they did at the office holiday party. It became a fascinating experiment.

Web Watch recalls one party many years ago that we attended where the Big Boss ended up carrying one of the part-time employees out to a cab because she was passed out drunk. This didn’t seem to have any affect on her career at that company, as she’s still employed there.

Tags alcohol, business, etiquette, How To, Party Talk, underwear

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If you have ever downloaded anything illegally, you may want to visit this site

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 15, 2011

BitTorrent for Dummies

Remember how much fun Napster was, back in the day?

Yeah, well Napster is officially gone now.

What about LimeWire? KaZaa? Yeah, you shouldn’t be using those either.

Nope, whether you agree with the legalities (or lack thereof) of those sites, none of the old fun “file sharing” apps and websites are valid anymore, thanks to the movie and music industry.

And the proliferation of $0.99 songs and apps on the iTunes store. That kinda helped a little bit.

Of course, you always have that peer-to-peer sharing via BitTorrent, which is a legitimate way to legally share giant files amongst people who need them. Unfortunately, a few bad apples had to go and ruin BitTorrent for everyone else too, by using BT as a way to throw around pirated movies and music.

Tags Crime, How To, Internet, Legal, Movies, Music, website

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Movie theaters react to NetFlix with new “Pay one price, see unlimited movies” http://movi.ps/vnQbFi

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 14, 2011

Why Popcorn Costs so Much at the Movies

If you love going to the movies as much as Web Watch does, you’d be seeing at least two movies a week, every week for a year.

Granted not every film you see is going to be good. And not all will be in genres that you always enjoy.

But you’ll definitely see all the great films, all the funny films, and all the films that people will be talking about the next day if you take the time to go to the theater regularly.

But not everyone can afford to spend $12 per movie ticket these days. Seeing 2 films a week for 52 weeks can add up to over $1200/year… and that’s not counting parking, popcorn, sodas, snacks you sneak into the theater, beer (purchased at the fancy theaters that have a liquor license)… and you can count on doubling that if you go with a date.

$2400 a year, just to sit in the cool air-conditioned comfort of a big screen theatrical event with someone special a few times a week, every week of the year.

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