Posted in Gimmick, Technology on Oct 20th, 2009
Halloween is around the corner. You are probably shopping for the perfect mask to complete the costume for your fright night doppelganger. Don’t forget about your phone. You can put a mask on your phone’s caller ID so that it too can assume an alternative identity and get in on the fun.
The site: www.spoofcard.com
What [...]
Posted in Technology, Time Saver on Sep 30th, 2009
I like to drop things off. Kids at pools. Unmarked bags in garbage cans. Friends from still-moving vehicles onto curbs. My laundry at my girlfriend’s. Large files into cyberspace.
Life’s just easier that way. Especially, the putting large files into cyberspace part.
The site: Drop.IO
What it is: With Drop.io you can upload files as large [...]
Posted in Technology, Time Saver on Sep 23rd, 2009
It’s a type of phone service.
Not the kind you think.
Perv.
I used to try to do it manually. Repeatedly hitting every button on my phone’s keypad in a desperate attempt to confuse that little automated voice so that it’d give up on me and put me through to someone who speaks English (as opposed to [...]
Posted in Gimmick, Technology on Sep 22nd, 2009
What is this? An email from Keyser So– *poof.*
Think of the possibilities. You know how all of those sites make you enter an email account to register. And then you have to go and get the email they send you and click on the link to register. And then you’re stuck receiving spam from [...]
Posted in Technology on Sep 15th, 2009
Who hasn’t been there?
You’re writing an email talking all sorts of yin-yang about your sister’s boyfriend. Or your boss. Or that girl who gained a little bit of weight (she’s still really nice, of course). Or maybe you’re sending one of those emails about some number of girls and a cup with inappropriate pictures [...]
Posted in Technology on Sep 10th, 2009
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The sitch.
It’s time to make that call you don’t want to make. It’s been a couple days since you met her and all you can think about is asking her out on a date because, unbeknownst to her, she’s the grandmother of that grandchild you’ve always wanted, but you know if she [...]