The latest Logitech lapdesk is somewhat novel. Sure, it’s still a lapdesk with the primary purpose of protecting your naughty bits from toasted skin syndrome, but it does a little extra with a speakers. Up top are two USB-powered stereo speakers. Now, these things probably aren’t known for their audio fidelity, but they should be better than your notebook’s stock speakers. → Read More
From CrunchGear BFF Snow:
Picked this up off of Swissbike.com (caution: autoplaying video) and thought people might think it’s cool.
“The SwissBike TX is a full-size bike (26″ wheel) that folds to fit in the back of a Mini Cooper. The whole philosophy behind this bike is that it offers the full-size stability and ride quality that is needed for a good commuter, while still having all the… → Read More
I just checked BFF to see what shenanigans you kids have been up to. What do I find? → Read More
From BFF: A few months ago I won (via CrunchGear) a nice piece of hardware that now replaces the veteran hdd divx player I bought from Hong Kong about the same time last year. The enclosure was much more reliable than the other “made in china” (sic) stuff I bought back then, but somehow its remote died this summer and it’s not that fun to pause/play/stop using the built-in buttons. It works… → Read More
A tale of woe from BFF: My office received a box from AT&T today. We hadn’t ordered anything from them so we were a bit confused by it (we host our production website at an AT&T data center). The outside of the box had this on it If you can’t read it says “Time to take control of evolving data storage needs” and has a picture of a race car on it. We opened the box to find a remote… → Read More
Hey, winners: we’d love it if you could post citizen reviews of the gear you got at BFF. We built that site for you guys to share your opinions with us and it’ll be great to get lots of feedback from you all. → Read More
Ryan writes: I’ve posted a lot of comments regarding my fanboydom towards the blackberry. Other than the large amount of MAPI calls made to an exchange server I see nothing wrong with a blackberry on a BES for any business user, technical or non technical. That being said I’m once again carrying a crackberry after two years with a Q, I’m very excited about it and am totes in love with my new… → Read More
This morning I got my mytreo.net Newsletter and despite the fact that the page anchors don’t work in Gmail, I read (skimmed) the first paragraph and decided to try the service they were promoting, Jott. The link in the email took me to a Palm page with a longer article that I didn’t actually read and no quick and easy way to get to what ever Jott was going to make me do to use it (sign up or… → Read More
This morning I got my mytreo.net Newsletter and despite the fact that the page anchors don’t work in Gmail, I read (skimmed) the first paragraph and decided to try the service they were promoting, Jott. The link in the email took me to a Palm page with a longer article that I didn’t actually read and no quick and easy way to get to what ever Jott was going to make me do to use it (sign up or… → Read More
Want to win a 2GB MP4 player? Head over to BFF and post exactly what you’ll do with this damn thing once you get it. The more shotguns, rabid raccoons, and bodily fluids involved, the better. Please put “EXPLODE PIGBOAT” somewhere in the title. The entry with the most comments and votes by Monday, noon EST, will win the player. Warning: the player may cause herpes, loose stool… → Read More
Ganked from AppleCollection From BFF: Here it is, the iPhone2, in all it’s glory! Isn’t it the most spectacular device you’ve ever seen! It’s beauty is simply unmatched and matched only by itself. Words cannot describe the feelings of effervescence it bestows upon he who holds it. Never has a device offered the complete euphoria that is the iPhone2. It is truly the end of all others and… → Read More
Jas posted a link on BFF about his new game, Seek Me. Hi all, It’s been a long time since I posted anything, so here it is…I am working on a new game that I hope to release soon. I am testing it now to make sure that it is all working fine and dandy. Here are some images and some video of the games earlier levels. It is a puzzle platromer where you use your limited teleporting ability and… → Read More
This just in from a BFF poster: Unlocking the iPhone is getting popular in the undergrounds and AT&T is lossing millions dollars because of this activity. What with Jailbreak and Metasploit, people can now easily unlock their iPhones or tinker with their units. But there are a lot of reasons why you should not unlock your iPhone. http://www.iphone-codes.com says aside from the risk of getting… → Read More
Ryan over at BFF just posted an extensive conversation he’s having with a spammer. Hop over and give him some ideas! I am Wang Yan,a staff of Private Banking Services at the Bank of China (BOC) United Kingdom. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and his investment placedunder ourbanks Management 4 years ago. I wish to invest thesefunds in your country and I need your… → Read More
Whether it’s a detailed and intelligent alaysis of the Zune or a liveblog of Lindsey Lohan in The Parent Trap, our CG BFFs are providing great content every day. Guys – email me at john @ crunchgear.com with your preference of iPod Classic or Zune 2. First come first served, so get cracking. → Read More
Over on BFF, Skorch has posted a fairly well thought out rant on a few things he really hates about Linux. What’s great is that it’s not just “Linux sux! lolz!” flamebait, but actual good reasons that Linux isn’t all that and a bag of soggy Oreos. I personally feel that Linux is like Volkswagens: They’re OK for some people, but not for me. Take it away, Skorch. → Read More
Over on BFF, user Jaxim has posted a really terrific piece for our Blind Review contest on what the Zune could use to make it even better. Not that it’s a dis on the Zune; Jaxim starts by saying that he’d still take one over an iPod Classic, but he makes several good points that the guys at Bear Creek might want to think about. It’s a great read, and not just a good entry in the… → Read More
Great post by JAS on women in gaming. As in any industry, when it get’s big it only wants to get bigger. How do you do this? Easy. Find what demographics are not the biggest fans and make something to convert them into fans. The question is, when your weakest demographic becomes the majority target will the majority suffer? Women. Women have consistently been targeted as the weakest demographic… → Read More
In an effort to bring some of our BFF content to the main site, we present a quick paen to Western Union by Marswoo. This got me excited when I first read it from Google Adsense’s Blog. As a web publisher based in the Philippines, waiting for my Adsense checks every month was not only agonizing but also fearful. Agonizing because it usually took the second week of the month for the check to… → Read More
We here at CrunchGear were thinking. We do that infrequently, preferring to allow our reptilian forebrains to react quickly and forcefully to stimuli. But we ended up thinking and we wanted to offer a forum or message board but didn’t want to do what everyone else was doing. After snapping at a passing fly, we decided to create BFF, a blog-like entity that lets you, the reader, post, react… → Read More
USA Today, that bastion of hard news, is covering a new fad popular with the kids called “B-logging.” They talk about two “b-loggers,” Om Malley and Mike Orvington, who used to work at real jobs and now eat ice cream and write about computers. Now I don’t know who these people are or what they think they’re doing, but I think it’s bad to show people that… → Read More
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