December 2006

New Year’s Resolution #4, Cure Addictions: Digital Breath Alcohol Detector

Well, not quite a device to help you completely stop drinking, but the Breath Alcohol Detector will at a minimum tell you whether it’s safe or not to get into your car after you’ve had a few. Naturally, you can adapt it to become a tracker, and over time reduce the amount of alcohol you [...]

Read more

New Year’s Resolution #4, Cure Addictions: SmokeLessCounter

If you smoke, you know very well that you need to quit. There’s no question (from a scientific point of view) that smoking is bad for you. If you believe otherwise, you are in denial! So it’s fitting that one of the resolutions that we chose to help you fullfil is one of beating addictions. [...]

Read more

Apple Leads Amazon Orders

Amazon released their numbers for the holiday season and Apple did quite well. According to MacRumors, six of Apple’s iPod models placed in the top ten in the MP3 Player category while three MacBook models placed in the top ten in the Laptops category. Apple also placed three iMac models and one Mac Mini model [...]

Read more

New Year’s Resolution #5, Save Money: 120V 18 LED Light Bulb

You can save money by saving energy. You can replace your ordinary bulbs with the 120V 18 LED Light Bulb. This low-energy bulb can be run 12 hours a day for a year at a cost of only 80 cents (whereas a 65 watt light will cost roughly $35) and the LED bulb should last [...]

Read more

New Year’s Resolution #5 – Save Money: Kill A Watt

You can identify which appliances are really costing you money with the Kill A Watt device. By plugging the Kill A Watt into a wall socket and then connecting an appliance to the gadget, the Kill A Watt will measure the consumption of power by the kilowatt-hour allowing you to calculate just how much that [...]

Read more

New Year’s Resolution #5 – Save Money: Quicken

The third New Year’s Resolution “the Geeks” would like you help achieve is to “save money”. Really, this is a resolution that is achievable through watching your finances, planning a budget and sacrificing to follow that budget. There are several packages of software that can help you do just that (except for the sacrificing part!), [...]

Read more

New Year’s Resolution #6 – Increase Personal Productivity: Treo 700p

Besides the two featured books for increasing personal productivity, personally I’d recommend a smartphone like the Treo 700p that will help you take along your contacts, notes and calendar. The Palm Treo 700 is the first Treo model to come in both a palmOS version (700p) as well as a Windows Mobile version (700w/700wx). We’ve [...]

Read more

New Year’s Resolution #6 – Increase Personal Productivity: Getting Things Done Book

One of the better books for helping you increase personal productivity has to be “Getting Things Done”. Both the Chief Gadgeteer and I have gone through this book and have gained some excellent tips for increasing productivity. We know first hand that “Getting Things Done” is a good book about productivity. Granted, we don’t follow [...]

Read more

New Year’s Resolution #6 – Increase Personal Productivity: Lifehacker Book

The second New Year’s Resolution “the Geeks” want to help you conquer for the coming year is to increase personal productivity. One of our favorite blogs in this area in our RSS feeder is lifehacker. Lifehacker has gone analog with a paperback book called “Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day”. Here is a [...]

Read more

New Year’s Resolution #7 – Learn Something New: Free Trade Magazines

Another way to “learn something new”, the first New Year’s Resolution we’re covering, is to keep up with the latest trends in your trade. We’ve partnered with TradePub to provide readers with the opportunity to subscribe to trade magazines for free. Ranging from Automotive to Computers to Engineering to IT, TradePub has free magazine subscriptions [...]

Read more

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →