Gizmos for Geeks

Amazon.com launched a new service that lets you search for, and buy products that they sell … using text messaging. It’s called TextBuyIt. Oh yes, I can see it now… drunk text shopping.

The U.S. podcasting audience reached 18.5 million in 2007, according to eMarketer and was projected to top 65 million by 2012 with 25 million listeners downloading one or more podcasts a week.
Ad spending on podcasts in the U.S. is also expected to creep up, from $165 million in 2007 to $435 million in 2012.
Major podcasting […]

Recently, the Geeks received “Cool Stuff 2.0: And How it Works” and decided we needed to make a book a Gizmo of the Day. Why? Well, this book shows and explains in an easy to understand way how technology works. Some of my favorite topics they covered include a High Tech […]

Normally “the Geeks” don’t feature books, but Scott Seegert has written a very entertaining one called It’s a Guy Thing: Awesome Innovations from the Underdeveloped Male Mind.
It’s a Guy Thing examines 70 patents over the past 140 years that were obviously invented by men in the looses term. Some of the […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

One of the top New Year’s Resolutions people make is to learn something new. By learning something new people feel they add an additional dimension or interest in their life. The first idea “the Geeks” have to help you in this quest is a Safari Subscription.
Safari provides an electronic […]

Zinio Systems offers digital magazines in a slick interface that allows you to flip through magazines easily, zoom in, use a markup tool and search easily through magazines. I’ve always wanted to grep through magazines, and now I can!
Some of the Digital Lifestyle magazines offered by Zinio include Home Theater […]

I’ve noticed one of my favorite magazines, Home Theater, has been picked up as a Zinio Digital subscription and I plan on resubscribing starting with the next issue via digital subscription.
Over the past year or so I’ve been able to read a few of my magazines digitally using the Zinio Reader […]