Lifestyle posts

If you are at all familiar with the early nineteen-nineties, then you know that kids really liked three things: Super Mario; cool sneakers; and rolling other kids for their stuff. Well now, in a rather stylish nostalgic mash-up, you can relive the time and crime you may or may not  have ever experienced with these spiffy Super Mario sneakers. Nike has created these custom shoes featuring everyone’s favorite Italian plumber (who, for some reason, looks rather angry, right?). Rather than using a pixelated Mario or the design from, say, Super Mario Galaxy, these kicks have a nice meta touch and…

You know, non-techies will often deride users of Twitter or Facebook and other social media for ‘having no life’ – and we know how wrong they are. But cheating at Foursquare? Yikes, that’s sad. I mean, let’s break it down: using an app designed to encourage you to get out, you instead sit on your couch and pretend you went somewhere? Suddenly, my life seems way less lame. But thankfully, Foursquare have figured out a way to prevent some very pathetic people from cheating. Essentially, they’re only going to hand out points, badges and mayorships when your phone can verify you’re in the place you say…

A photographer named Stéfan decided to create a 365 day photo project of Stormtroopers in everyday scenarios. He started the project on April 3, 2009 and finished it this April. The photos show a fun and comical side to what Stormtroopers might actually be doing on their days off or on missions that they are sent on. These photos are sure to get a laugh out of anyone, Star Wars fan or not. Sources: WildAmmo, Flickr…

Smallpc.com has just announced the release of their 10.4″ LCD Touch Screen Computer model SDC100. It was designed and tested in the most extreme environments to ensure that it could be used in the most daunting situations. Other computers face problems such as glare on the screen from sunlight, or issues caused by water damage. Those are things that users won’t have to worry about with Model SDC100. The computer is sealed, waterproof and the display offers excellent viewing, no matter what the conditions are. Some standard features include: 32GB Solid State Drive, 1G DDR Memory, 3 USB 2.0 ports…

Ever found a beer that you really like but not too sure on where to get it? BreweryFans.com is a new website that was created to help beer fans ask different breweries “where can I get your beer?” The website uses Web 2.0 and maps which restaurants, bars and beer stores carry a specific beer so that fans can easily find where to purchase their beer. “BreweryFans.com aims to make history by being the first company to use Web 2.0 tools to begin to show where any of the more than 10,000 craft beer brands in the U.S. can be found, purchased, and drank,” said Jonathon Lunardi, BreweryFans.com CEO and…

The once popular social networking site, Bebo, isn’t faring so well against it’s competition: Facebook and Twitter. Bebo is owned by AOL but the company is in talks of whether or not they should sell the site and end their involvement entirely. Bebo reached it’s highest peak of popularity in 2008 and has slowly been plummeting since then. I’m an avid social-networker and I have to admit that I’ve rarely heard of Bebo. Flashy sites like Facebook and Twitter have sucked me in with their chat options and sleek new designs. According to this article, Bebo was the second largest social-networking site…

Analysts Gartner have churned the waters of their scrying pool and apparently decreed that by 2015, at least 50% of people under the age of 15 who have computers purchased for them, will be recipients of touchscreens. Meanwhile, I’m sitting here typing on an ‘old school’ keyboard and feeling like a total dinosaur. The good news for me is that apparently 90% of business computers by the 2015 projection will still be old, reliable mouse-and-keyboard units. Which is dandy, because frankly, I’m not buying this whole touchscreen ballyhoo just yet, even if it is hip with the kids. Especially if…

My friends and I have always talked about how arcade driving is so much more satisfying than real-world driving; you know, the unrealistically responsive steering, the third-person camera angle. It would be a dream. What? Yeah, I’ve got friends. Can’t blog all the time. Anyway, it seems the crew at Rooster Teeth have actually gone and given this concept a real-world shot by blacking out the windows of a pickup truck and securing a camera to the back of it via a really long pole. I won’t spoil anything, but I will say I am now officially content with real-world driving. There’s a bit of sailor-talk…

Ever sent a text while driving? Thought it would be alright to just pick up the phone and have a quick conversation while trying to pay attention to the road? Chances are we’ve all done it. Now that Ontario has passed the ‘Countering Distracted Driving and Promoting Green Transportation Act,’ motorists have to wait until they’re off the road or use a Bluetooth device if planning to chat while driving. Voice on the Go unveiled their new hands-free idea today. DriveCarefully is a unique app that allows BlackBerry Smartphone users to keep their eyes on the road instead of on their phone. Completely…

iTunes keeps cosying-up to Facebook, the world’s largest social network. Now it seems Apple plans to support Facebook Connect, enabling a wave of networking opportunities for music fans. Apple has been promoting iTunes through Facebook for ages. Its UK iTunes Festival last year offered free tickets, music and other promotions to customers via Facebook, and in the US the iTunes team have been developing its own Facebook presence, adding polls, featured items and more. Integration between Facebook and iTunes already lets you share songs on iTunes via Facebook, though this only lets you…