Holidays

5 Alternate High-Tech Christmas Gift Options

December is finally upon us, the Thanksgiving turkey is all gone and the festive shopping season is in full swing. This Christmas, you probably have quite a few gadgets on your wish list, and your family, friends and kids will have lots of ideas about what they’d like to find under the tree. Looking for [...]

Happy July 4th!

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The Geeks wanted to send out a Happy Fourth of July to our American readers! Additionally, we wanted to thank all our loyal readers for sticking with us since we opened our blogging beta doors on July 5th, 2004… 7 years ago. Thank you!

Groupon and FTD Coupon Fail – Who’s to Blame?

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Group coupon startups beware… be careful who you partner with when releasing coupons. In Groupon’s first major misstep (leaving aside the horrible Super Bowl ad), Groupon partnered with the nationwide FTP florist to provide $40 worth of flowers for $20. Once shoppers clicked through the deal, the shoppers found out the prices offered through the [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day – did you forget?

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Valentine’s Day may be a hotly contested “Hallmark” holiday around your house, but if you did not come to an agreement with your significant other prior to today… you should pick up some flowers, a gift and attempt to make a reservation at a nice restaurant. Otherwise, prepare to sleep on the couch for a [...]

The Future Looks Bright

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In 4 minutes, Hans Rosling charts the progress of 200 countries over the past 200 years trending both wealth and health in this video. Overall, the trend is towards a bright future so… bring on 2011!

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays Gadget Fans!!

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Here’s wishing all of you, our fantastic readers, a very happy holiday season and a gadgety new year! Image courtesy of Mupsu

Last-minute ThinkGeek Discount Coupon Code

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Here’s a last-minute geeky deal for the season. ThinkGeek’s is giving $10 off $50 or more. On $50, that’s 20% off! Just use code CJHOLIDAY and this lasts until the end of the year 12/31/2010.

Trip Advisor App Helps You Record Your Holiday

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For those of you who like travelling, you should check out Trip Journal by iQapps for what is seen as the ultimate journey tracking and sharing app for mobile phones available today. It even recently won Google’s most innovative travel app award, bagging them a $100,000 prize. Trip Journal allows you to fully record the journeys [...]

A few of our favorite Cyber Monday Deals

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We’re not about to try to match the quantity of listed deals that other shopping and coupon sites do, since that’s not what we do, but we just thought we’d share with you some of our favorite deals that we spotted for today, Cyber Monday. O’Reilly is offering 60% off their entire catalog of digital [...]