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  • June 20th, 2011

    Tips My Dad Says

    Make Magazine asked geeks for the best advice their equally geeky dads gave them when it came to making cool stuff and here are some of the best ones on a single card. → Read More

    March 11th, 2010

    Tip: Use packing peanuts to hold nails and screws in place

    Using a foam packing peanut to hold a nail or screw in place is brilliant. I like to think of myself as a pretty mild-tempered person but any time anybody’s asked my wife about the most angry she’s ever seen me, she always tells the story of when we first moved into our apartment here in Boston and I went around the house hanging our window blinds. Shoulda used peanuts. → Read More

    December 16th, 2008

    Reminder: Please use your laptop ergonomically

    Flickr’d Oh man, the Wall Street Journal sure is concerned about your Health and Well-being. It seems that laptop sales have, for the first time in recorded history, have overtaken desktop sales. That’s bad news because laptops encourage people to sit in all sorts of unhealthy positions and develop poor computer-using habits. (“Golly gee, why don’t I surf YouTube all night… → Read More

    December 3rd, 2008

    Quick Tip: Hold down F2 on MacBook Air, new MacBook Pro at start up to enter Hardware Test Mode

    Just an interesting little tidbit: there is a system test built into the EFI on MacBook Airs and MBPs – most Alu MBs with an Intel processor. If you hold F2 and start the computer, it will drop into hardware test version 3A152, which is apparently right in memory. This saved me when I didn’t have my MacBook Air start-up disk available. → Read More

    December 1st, 2008

    Tip of the Day: On Scarlett Johansson's success and nuptials

    A charming soul sent us this note as a reaction to a story about young Scarlett Johansson getting married to Ryan Reynolds. While to many this would be a happy occasion, we can be assured that Ryan will be very disappointed because Scarlett Johansson is a clone and has no secondary sexual characteristics! This, clearly, is why she wouldn’t let us examine her when we were following her… → Read More

    November 28th, 2008

    Black Friday reports? Send them to tips@crunchgear.com

    From here We received our first Black Friday report this morning from Florida where Best Buy was doing business as usual. Our spy went to the store at 4am and found no crowds or pushing. In a considerably sadder situation, a worker at a Long Island Wal-Mart was crushed and a woman miscarried. Holy crap, right? That said, tell us what you saw today in your travels. Email us at tips@cg or drop a… → Read More

    May 30th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips-at-crunchgear-dot-com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are a few that we missed. RE: RE: Braces Article Gets You Into BracesReview.com Directory FREE ($299.90 VALUE) Hi Doctor – For the next 2 weeks we will be accepting articles from Orthodontists/Dentists on any related dental topic. In exchange for the article, we will… → Read More

    May 24th, 2008

    Mysterious boatload of something declared by Apple

    We received a mysterious tip in our e-mail inbox from Ryan Peterson at ImportGenius.com that stated the following; Hi, I conducted a comprehensive analysis of Apple’s U.S. customs declarations over the past few months, and detected a massive surge–188 containers–of a new product never before imported by the company.  Given the dwindling stocks of the current generation, and the… → Read More

    May 16th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips-at-crunchgear-dot-com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are a few that we missed. “Last weekend before holiday… Catch me while you can…I leave on Wednesday the 20th May When you are ready for the ultimate in upscale, exclusive female companionship give me a call. Your pleasure is my business…. → Read More

    May 9th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are a few that we just couldn’t get to this week. order….. Good Day,        My name is mike william and  I will like to know if you can supply me with a special Order 0f 3000 piecess T-shirts. below is the Describtion of my… → Read More

    April 25th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. E-mail Subject: The size has huge value! Hey man, ok I had to send you this site, I ordered a V yr P gb X qp L and these things work amazingly! For real, I’ve tried a bunch of other ones but they don’t work… → Read More

    April 18th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn’t post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. ShowerPAL.US Hi, Will you be interested in selling ShowerPAL. Please visit http://www.showerpal.us for more information. Thank you. Sid Rizvi → Read More

    April 11th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Investment Offer Attention: President/CEO I have a client from Jordan who is interested to invest  39 Million Dollars in your country under your supervision and directives. Exclusive details upon your… → Read More

    March 28th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. “crunchgear”Domain Name & Internet keyword Registration Dear Sir or Madam: We are Beijing Erimut Network Information Technology Co., Ltd in China, which is the domain name registration centre here. A… → Read More

    March 21st, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Re: weekend party hey I just stumbled upon your photo you look good my msn name is jane22star@hotmail.com → Read More

    March 21st, 2008

    Tips for left-eyed photographers

    Joe McNally gives some tips for folks who focus with their left-eye. It’s a little lengthy, but if you’re keen on improving your image sharpness at slower shutter speeds then maybe you should watch. The rest of us can pass on this, but it never hurts because you might pick up a tip or two. via PB → Read More

    March 14th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Hello Hi dear!! My letter will surprise you!! My name – Elena. My age-26 years. I live in Russia!! Private life didn\’t turn out well. I decided to find a foreign man. I dream to meet a decent, kind and… → Read More

    March 12th, 2008

    Dear People Who Make Horse Catheters and Want Us to Write About You: Cory tells you how to send us links

    Good old Cory Doctorow. Is there anything the man can’t do? He makes fiction, babies, and blog posts with reckless abandon and he has a nice soft head, like the head of a wee chick but a wee chick that can beat your ass in a conversation about Net Neutrality in a second. Anyway, InformationWeek hired Cory to tell the PR world how to submit links. His main suggestion? Send a link with an… → Read More

    March 7th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Easy weight loss Be thin http://www.kocheg.com/?hfclavhwzxb Be thin → Read More

    February 29th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. special order HELLOI am Phillip Markman from florida and i will like to know if you carry in stock Cafeteria Tables for sale? if yes please do email me back with the price range and the types you have in stock and also i… → Read More

    February 22nd, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Req: honesty and transparency I am an attorney at law and here to introduce and solicit your consent to introduce a profiting joint venture in which you neither will spend money nor time in, rather, your honesty and… → Read More

    February 15th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Your Favorite Horse!! Have you been looking for products of a horse? Well, we have Galupy, the galloping Horse; just click the link to see all of his products. → Read More

    February 1st, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. ENQUIRY Hello,I am Edmond Woods of Virgin Travel Agency,SCOTLAND.I need to make reservation for Two (2) of my client coming from London . Check-in  Date :  2nd April,2008Check-out  Date :17th April,2008… → Read More

    January 28th, 2008

    CrunchTip: Make your Time Machine back-up drive bootable!

    [photopress:time.gif,full,center]Time Machine is, of course, the automated back-up feature of Leopard, the latest version of OS X. Mac OS X Hints has a pretty good tip on how to make your back-up drive bootable, and it’s something I thought I should share. Just use Disk Utility to do a restore on a blank drive, one you plan to use for Time Machine. When done, you can boot off of it via… → Read More

    January 18th, 2008

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. I LOVE LIFE Hi,I am Sally 19yrs old from Freetown and i live in Senegal,i deceided having you as a friend knowing that it is an act of expressing one’s self and feeling,i feel that before we can have a good… → Read More

    January 2nd, 2008

    New rules limit the number of spare batteries you can bring on a flight

    Junior executives on-the-go should take a few minutes to head over to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Web site. It seems the DOT has implemented some new rules for 2008 as it relates to lithium batteries. Simply, you’re not allowed to put spare, unconnected batteries in your checked luggage anymore and you can only bring eight grams of lithium battery on-board with you. Eight… → Read More

    December 21st, 2007

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Subject: Hy friend I ‘m tony a live in Brazil. I show oportunty make money. Not need invest acess: http://www.sendearnings.com/?r=antoniobr This second opportunity pay to you $10, 00 when your friend joins and… → Read More

    December 14th, 2007

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Subject: Looking for an apartment in Tel-aviv Me and my wife are looking for an apartment 2-2.5 rooms, in the centre area of Tel-aviv for one year. The apartment should be clean and at least in a very good condition. → Read More

    December 7th, 2007

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. Subject: Mannequins order Hello,This is Marcus Brown from California and i will like to know if you do produce Mannequins?i will order them to my new company in Ghana.i will like you to email me back if you have so… → Read More

    November 30th, 2007

    The Back Burner: Things we didn't post this week

    A big thank you to everybody for filling our tips at crunchgear dot com inbox with wonderful, unique, and newsworthy items. Here are five that we just couldn’t get to this week. → Read More