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Wells Fargo Scam
This post is not an endorsement supporting Wells Fargo. In fact, I largely disapprove of Wells Fargo and think they’ve been up to some questionable activities in relation to my good-standing accounts. If it were up me, I’d love to see Wells Fargo fail miserably – but not at the expense of the average customer. [...]
How to Increase Gas Mileage on Your Car
Brandon Wirtz, a member of the LockerGnome team, decided it was time to make a few upgrades to his Mini Cooper. One of these upgrades – which is primarily focused on increasing horse power and gas mileage – is to increase the amount of air flow to the engine by replacing the stock air intake [...]
How To Unbrick Your iDevice After Upgrading to iOS 4.3.3
This is a guest post written by Reza Malayeri, a frequent contributor to our LockerGnome channel on YouTube. Reports are flying in that apple’s iTunes server is experiencing a glitch that will turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a very high priced BRICK. Needless to say, this is a very scary scenario, and [...]
50 Divorce Tips for Women
Okay, so someone doesn’t want to be with you anymore – or you don’t want to be with him. There are 6.7 billion other people on this planet for you to get to know. When it comes to finding a loving, compatible relationship, it really isn’t over until… well, it’s never really over. The idea [...]
How Much Are You Worth?
This is a guest post written by Matt Gamboa. If you ask most people the question, “Do you get paid enough?” You’ll most certainly always be answered with a NO. Salary is a top concern and there’s always that certain number that will make you a happy worker. Fortunately, there’s a Seattle Startup to let [...]
Smilebox Makes Scrapbooking Easy
This is a guest post written by Matt Gamboa. Are you in to scrapbooking? Do you like to make decorative web cards to celebrate the birth of a baby? Does the thought of making a high school prom collage online to share with your Facebook and Twitter friends excite you? Well, don’t worry about taking [...]
How To Get Famous on YouTube
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This isn’t a joke. If you’re a geek who can handle yourself well on camera, and you don’t need a ton of hand-holding to get things done quickly, we should definitely talk. I’ve helped boost the standing of a few YouTubers [...]
Geek Eats: the Secret Double Dog Dare Dandy!
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of ampm. All opinions are 100% mine. I eat. Sometimes, I eat a lot. That’s not the problem, really; (a) I usually don’t know when to stop, (b) I hate cooking for myself; (c) I hate cooking for others; and (d) I like meat. This [...]
Et Tu, Cloud? Caveat Clickor!
For the longest time, we knew where our data existed – it existed on our computers, typically on a hard drive or potentially a floppy disk. So now when we create files, let’s say on a Web service like Google Docs, for example, we may never actually know where that file sits. We know we [...]
50 Divorce Tips for Men
co-authored by Imei Hsu (RN, MAC, LMHC) Okay, so someone doesn’t want to be with you anymore – or you don’t want to be with her. There are 6.7 billion other people on this planet for you to get to know. When it comes to finding a loving, compatible relationship, it really isn’t over until… [...]
Stupidphone vs Smartphone
Independent studies claim that the the Rotary beats both iPhones and Android devices in a series of real-world tests. How? The dialing mechanism has force feedback. None of this namby-pamby, touchscreen crap. Haptics are for the lazy. Forces you to remember actual phone numbers. That’s for when you’re trying to call your “best friend” (whose [...]
J Smiley Outlook Email: Problem and Fix!
What’s up with that J, yo? I’m going to assume you’re using Microsoft Outlook 2010 at this point – or you know someone who uses it. But even if you’re not in either camp, you should pay attention. The following fix applies to every single Microsoft Office program that uses its universal AutoCorrect feature. I’ve [...]
History of Shaving
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Gillette. All opinions are 100% mine with my The millennia-old design of the straight razor reached its turning point when French barber Jean-Jacques Perret proposed the idea of a safety razor — a straight razor designed to be less bloodletting than its predecessors by [...]
Everyday Tech
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Gillette. All opinions are 100% mine with my Health: Shaving – I still remember the first time I tried to shave. Oh, I definitely completed the task – but the first razor blade nicked and scraped my face until it looked like the hull [...]
Plagiarism Online
Via reader Dean Bailey, largely unedited: I’ve recently started a blog of various categories. One of them is technology and although flattering when I fist noticed that I’d been copied and pasted with nothing more than an “original post” link, I by chance ran into the guy who did on a tech forum and broke [...]
