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  • How to hide that subwoofer in the corner of the room

    How to hide that subwoofer in the corner of the room

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Keeping your home theater (my wife calls it a living room) clean and uncluttered can be a real pain if you have a decent sound system. Sure, there's the obvious "run the wires under the floor" trick, but what do you do with the elephant subwoofer in the corner? It's big, it's ugly, and it's absolutely necessary for a decent system.

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  • Woot! New 8.9-inch Eee for $150

    Woot! New 8.9-inch Eee for $150

    Posted on September 7, 2009 | No Comments
    EeeWoot.com is selling new 8.9-inch Eee netbooks for $150, today only. That's a pretty good price on a non-refurbished portable computer, if you're in the market.

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  • Is that FriendFeed in your pocket, or – oh, it is?

    Is that FriendFeed in your pocket, or – oh, it is?

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Are you addicted to FriendFeed? Can’t get enough of Robert Scoble’s incessant posts? Want to keep up with them even when you’re on the go? Are you praying to the heavens that Facebook doesn’t screw up FriendFeed post-acquisition? Then Stir (iTunes link) might just be for you. Created by StructLab Stir is an iPhone app [...]

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  • Back-to-School: Keeping Tabs on your Toys

    Back-to-School: Keeping Tabs on your Toys

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    For all you students out there, we hate to be the bearer of dismal, soul-crushing news, but school starts up again in a few scant weeks (and for some of you, even less than that). Sorry, but soon you’ll have to say goodbye to lounging around the house playing Xbox, liquored-up trips down to the [...]

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  • Let’s celebrate Firefox’s 1 billionth download!

    Let’s celebrate Firefox’s 1 billionth download!

    Posted on August 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Where were you when Firefox passed 1 billion downloads? It happened sometime yesterday, some five years after its first release, in 2004.

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  • How does a 55-inch LED HDTV from Samsung sound to you?

    How does a 55-inch LED HDTV from Samsung sound to you?

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    As a reader of CrunchGear, I can only assume that you're familiar with a recent invention called “television.” It's truly a remarkable thing: it transports lights and sounds from the four corners of the planet, and brings them right to your living room. It's like you're actually at the big game! A recent upgrade, called high-definition television, improves the quality of the picture. Samsung, which is a company based in far-away South Korea, has a new line of high-definition televisions called the 8500 Series. It uses something called light-emitting diodes (“LEDs”) to light up the image—no more replacing tubes!

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  • NPD confirms: People are still confused by ‘netbooks’

    NPD confirms: People are still confused by ‘netbooks’

    Posted on June 23, 2009 | No Comments
    The NPD released a new report that says, essentially, consumers have no idea what the hell a “netbook” is. Something like 60 percent of consumers who bought a netbook thought that it would have the same capabilities as a notebook. Even more troubling for the companies who produce netbooks is that only 58 percent people who bought a netbook instead of a notebook were satisfied with their purchase. That leaves 42 percent of people who are terribly upset. I've long thought this was the case, and it all stems from the name “netbook.” Consider this:

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  • President Obama: Don’t spend all day playing video games; go exercise!

    President Obama: Don’t spend all day playing video games; go exercise!

    Posted on June 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Let's not dwell on this for too long, since it's largely a non-issue. President Obama, speaking to the American Medical Association (mostly about health care, such as it is), listed “video games” as a potential bad guy... for your health. You know, sitting on a couch all day long trying to rack up Achievements.

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