- Mcdonalds' Happy Meals Toys are only a marketing tool to exploit kids' immature brains
Modern advertising makes sure the devil gets inside your house in a shiny packaging. Take Mcdonalds' happy Meals Toys, for example. Here's what a mother in Caifornia, Monet Parham, who is suing Mcdonalds over the toys is…
Topic: Health, Misleading ad | Read more
- Most identity-theft protection services are glorified credit monitoring services
Identity-theft protection servcices are in the news because of activities of a company called Lifelock, Inc., which paid millions of dollars in 2010 to settle claims of deceptive advertising. However, that hasn't stopped…
Topic: Identity-theft protection, Yro, Misleading ad | Read more
- The #1 secret to losing weight
The FTC did a study and found that 55% of all weight-loss advertisements made claims that were most likely false or didn't provide any proof. Incidentally, the weight-loss industry is worth $30 billion a year, mostly mad…
Topic: Health and nutrition, Misleading ad | Read more
- Should you buy the new iPad? Don't waste your money, go for these options instead
The new, funnily-named Retina screen, is the only thing worth noting in the new iPad. I am not sure what version it is. Will the ipad in 2020 be called iPad 11 or whatI am digressing. Anyway, the new, improved HD-quality…
Topic: Gadget, Ipad, Apple | Read more
- Nike's FuelBand: Do we need yet another wearable exercise monitor?
Will you fork up $149 for Nike's new Fuelband exercise bracelet, gleaming LED lights and all, when there are better, cheaper options in the wearable exercise monitors in the market?
One can imagine middle-class t…
Topic: Geek, Gadget, Health | Read more
- $50 LED light bulb from Philips: A luxury item (cheaper ones already in the market)
Philips won a $10 million contest run by the US government, the L Prize from Department of Enenrgy, to build the best (theoritically) eco-friendly and affordable LED bulb.
The prize-winning LED bulb will soon be launc…
Topic: Gadget, Geek, Eco-friendly | Read more
- 15 books everyone must read and keep at all times to survive an apocalypse
Apocalypse reading is big nowadays. It is a staple of modern existence. We always think the worst is around the corner. And personally, I think so too. So, it is best to stay prepared. Lists of essential survival items c…
Topic: Best Books, Books and Literature, Toread, Survival, Booklist | Read more
- The real truth about Facebook Fan Pages: Only 16% actually see a piece of your content
In a presention for its so-called premium service, Facebook revelaed that when a Facebook page owner posts a piece of content to their Facebook page, and that content spams the News Feeds of that page's fans, only 16% of…
Topic: Facebook, Advertising, Business | Read more
- 35 Most Important Apple iPad numbers
A no-nonsense look at facts and figures that really matter, related directly or indirectly to the iPad.
Pricing and Costing
$499 Price of cheapest iPad, with 16GB of memory and Wi-Fi
$829 Price of most expensive iPa…
Topic: Gadgets, Apple | Read more
- 32 Reasons Why iPad and Apple are Wrong For Us
A rundown of all that is wrong with Apple's latest offering towards world domination, a roundup of what the internet thinks about iPad.
1. iPad is not Green: One e-reader requires the extraction of 33 pounds of minera…
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- Why one educator will not buy an E-book reader
This is the third post in the series about E-book readers, which are an intermediate gadget medium in my opinion. Something better and more open lies in our reading and viewing future, for sure.
This post by a Columbi…
Topic: Gadgets, Ebookreader, Ebook | Read more
- 10 things you must know about Apple Tablet and Tablet computers
This is the year of the Tablet computer. Even Google is rumored to be planning a Tablet. The Microsft-HP tablet is also there, to mixed reviews . We have had tablet before but this boom in Tablets is fueled by the rise…
Topic: Gadgets, Apple, Tablets | Read more
- The Google Nexus One Termination Fee Problem
It is a big problem. You buy a subsidized smartphone and if you choose to end the contract, you pay damages not only to the carrier (T-Mobile) but also to the seller (Google)
What does the Nexus Fine Print actually s…
Topic: Advocacy, Consumer, Googlephone | Read more
- Decade from Hell: A Review of Indian Television in 2000-2009
One watched TV these ten years as if one was already in hell for one's innumerable sins, watching TV when one was allowed to, forcing unbelievably loud sensations to seep inside one's frying brains, believing the crude a…
Topic: Television, Bestofdecade | Read more
- Will Facebook and Twitter ever make some real money?
Like Facebook before it, Twitter has done deals with cash-rich heavyweights, which has given some hopes that the company is actually profitable. How realistic is that thinkingWhen you put the revenue into perspective and…
Topic: Internet and Websites, Twitter, Facebook, Advertising | Read more
- Which websites command the biggest ad rates?
While most blogs and websites thrash around wildly for advertising income, what with Google adsense not being the savior of online publishing as was claimed to be, excpt for the spammers, there are some lucky corners on …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Advertising | Read more
- How to cut your MTNL bills
There is a big difference between the claim and actual performance of broadband service providers in India. This blog post explains in detail how to cut your MTNL broadband bill:
Mtnl's DNS server sucks big time so add …
Topic: Broadband, Howto | Read more
- The most expensive and useless vacuum cleaner in the world
The Crystal Ergoripado vacuum cleaner costs €15,000. Made from recycled parts, is created by a Polish designer and is encrusted with 3,730 Swarovski crystals and there is only on sale. Each item about this news shouts o…
Topic: Moronic, Gadgets, Vaccumcleaner | Read more
- Coming soon: road rules for personal helicopters
There is this $35,000 Japanese helicopter, which is said to be the world's smallest helicopter, able to carry one person. At that price, and considering there are millions of potential buyers, congestion in the skies can…
Topic: News You Could Do Without, Gadgets, Flying | Read more
- Cooltools: Generate your own Adsense income
If you cannot make money with Adsense like Shoemoney, Engadget, Problogger or other heavy hitters, worry not. Use the Adsense Income Generator to create screenshots of fake Adsense cheques to impress your friends.
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