| Business PC Upgrades That Pay Off |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 29, 2010 - 7:16 AM PST |
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With so many offerings in the market today, it’s hard for businesspeople to decide which computer to buy or whether it’s time to upgrade their computers. The truth is that even the worst computer sold nowadays is powerful enough for running basic applications such as browsing, e-mail and an office suite. Therefore, why should a business user spend money to replace or improve old computers?
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| SkyMall’s Most Bizarre Products – Part 5 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 21, 2010 - 12:54 PM PST |
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You already know the highlight of my trips by plane: SkyMall. Check out some more bizarre products I found on the pages of this glorious magazine (click here to read the previous part). - Remote-controlled mouse for cats: in order to explain why I think this product bizarre, I need to say that I have a cat. Yes, I know that this may count some points against me on the Queer-o-Meter, but what can I do? Everybody that has or had cats knows that they love to play, but with anything that isn’t manufactured. You go to Petco, spend 20 bucks on a toy that you think your cat will love and he (or she) simply ignores the treat. Then you go to the bathroom, tie a piece of floss to a piece of toilet paper and there we go, the cat goes crazy after the new “toy”. My old cat in particular loved the wrapping paper of the small Kit Kat candy. I would do a small ball, toss it in the middle of the living room and he would play with the “creature” until it was “killed”, then he would bury it under the rug, and after that he would come back to me asking for another ball. It is possible to find some cats that like to run after plastic mice, but I particularly think this is highly unlikely – frankly, I think you will get better results using the remote-controlled mouse to play a prank on your friends (imagine the commotion in a packed classroom). The “fancy” thing about this mouse is its cheeseburger-shaped remote control, which also charges the mouse's internal battery.
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- Toy for cats: Read the text above. You will spend USD 80 on a piece of junk that your cat will ignore.
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- Crank-operated radio: Ninety seconds cranking this radio generates enough energy for you to listen to the radio for one hour. Wow. Maybe the “genius” that created this pearl has never heard of rechargeable batteries?
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- Hitch deer: This should win an award. I won’t even discuss the (non-)convenience of having a hitch on a car if you don’t have a trailer of some sort. But at least now you can give it some utility. You buy this deer, put it on the hitch and it starts moving its paws and blinking in red when you step on the brake. There are other versions, like the bass that swings its tail, the dog that bites, the bike hog or the duck that flaps its wings.
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| SkyMall’s Most Bizarre Products – Part 4 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 16, 2010 - 11:54 AM PST |
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And the oscar goes to... - Statue of a sumo wrestler: It was exactly what I was looking for to put in my yard. Outstanding.
- Sumo wrestler table: Fantastic, especially for the person that will seat facing the guy’s rear end. It is the furniture piece that was missing in my living room!
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- Statue of the Abominable Snowman: No comments, by far wins the first place in our selection.
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I still have more bizarre products selected that I will be posting very soon… Click here to read the next part. |
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| Engrish: The Anti-Marketing |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 11, 2010 - 11:32 AM PST |
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As you know, nearly all computer components are manufactured overseas, mainly by companies in China and Taiwan. Even thought overall product quality has vastly improved in the past years, there is one area that still needs a lot of improvement: the text present on product boxes and in documentation, many times written in “Engrish,” a form of the English language that only makes sense to whoever wrote it. |
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| SkyMall’s Most Bizarre Products – Part 3 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 11, 2010 - 10:58 AM PST |
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And continuing my selection of SkyMall’s most bizarre products (click here to read the previous part)... - I don’t even know how to call this. A swing for pickup trucks? I don’t know. But look how ridiculous. Check out the looks of the guy on the right, it says everything about this “device” usefulness. I am asking myself how difficult assembling this junk could be. It isn’t easier, faster and cheaper to simply buy some folding chairs and throw them inside the trunk?
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- Pajama jumpsuit: If it wasn’t for the Abominable Snowman statue this product certainly would get my title of most bizarre junk I’ve ever seen. The advertiser hired some cute girls to make you think that is cool to wear this ridiculous pajama (or for fat women to think they will magically get thin by wearing it, since their XL size fits whales up to 260 pounds). Think about the practical implications. The jumpsuit opens from its front side so if a woman has the “calling from mother nature” in the middle of the night she is screwed, when she is finally able to remove the jumpsuit she will be already all wet. Worse if someone feels that fatidic “faster than the thought” twinge on the tummy. Oh, by the way, see how the jumpsuit works also as socks, since it doesn’t have opening for your feet.
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- Palm trees and flamingos: Oh… The “Las Vegas” kit that I’ve mentioned before. It is so cheesy, so cheesy, that is chic. I swear that one day I will buy these just for the kicks.
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Click here to read the next part. |
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| SkyMall’s Most Bizarre Products – Part 2 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 8, 2010 - 8:54 AM PST |
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Continuing my “The Best of SkyMall” selection (click here to read the previous part): - Sandals for aerating your lawn: no comments!
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- Fake rocks for your garden: outstanding, how come nobody had thought of that before? And you can also hide things under the rocks!
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- Blanket with sleeves: yep, you read it right, see the picture, unbelievable. Pay close attention to the guy on the first picture. Can someone please tell him that this is the reason he doesn’t have a girlfriend?
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- Personalized branding iron: Not as bizarre as the other products, but I’ve never thought about something like this before. You order with the letter you want (probably your initials). Perfect for barbecue lovers!
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Read part 3. |
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| How to Make Online Banking More Secure |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 4, 2010 - 8:27 AM PST |
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The US banking system is one of the most insecure ones in the world. Let’s take a look on the flaws and how the IT department from banks could easily fix them. |
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| SkyMall’s Most Bizarre Products – Part 1 |
| Author: Gabriel Torres | Date: June 4, 2010 - 7:22 AM PST |
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If you travel by plane you know it. If you don’t, you don’t know what you are losing. It you make you laugh or your money back guaranteed. I am not talking about any theme park. I am talking about SkyMall, the magazine available inside airplanes that sells the most bizarre junk ever invented. For the past few years I’ve been collecting the most unbelievable products sold by this magazine, and I finally decided to post my collection of “The best of SkyMall” (or it would be “The worst of SkyMall?” – you decide!). Since by now I have a huge collection, I decided to break it down in several posts. Enjoy! Some products are “normal”, only falling on the “questionable taste” category – for example, pink flamingos for you to put in your front yard or fake palm trees wrapped in Christmas lights. I wouldn’t buy these products, but I knew that this kind of junk existed. But the hot stuff on SkyMall are the inventions that I never thought that could ever exist, like the fantastic vacuum cleaner to suck mosquitoes. In my opinion the most fantastic SkyMall product is a real-sized Yeti (a.k.a. Abominable Snowman) statue for you to put in your yard. Holly cow, how could I live to this day without this statue at my house? The guy that invented it is a genius! Enough for introductions, let’s get it started! - Poor man’s spa: An inflatable pool with Jacuzzi jets. USD 900 for you to have this junk that you are probably going to use only for a week. If it was cheaper I would buy to match my trailer all patched up with duct tape.
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- Mouse pad with electronic drums: Rapper’s delight. In fact it is not so bizarre and costs only 40 bucks. Yeah, I think I could have this one.
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- Mosquito sucker: This is one of my favorite inventions. How come nobody had thought of this before? For USD 50 you can safely suck mosquitoes, flies, bugs and spiders.
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I will scan more stuff later and post them here. Click here to read part 2. |
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