Macs to Get Netflix Watch Instantly Access via Silverlight

As a Netflix customer, I often enjoyed being able to sign on to Netflix on my lunch break and watch TV shows from their “Watch Instantly” service. Unfortunately, I had to load it up on my virtual machine that runs XP because due to DRM restrictions, Netflix was unable to offer Mac users the service … Read more

No Costume, DIY Skills, or Time?

Halloween is coming up on us, it’s just this Friday! You have 4 days and counting left to make sure you have secured yourself some sort of Halloween candy. Whether you’re going out on the town, going trick-or-treating with little ones, or staying at home and giving out candy, it’s always fun to dress up … Read more

Online Matchmaking: Not Just for Unnaturally Beautiful People

If you’ve ever been on MySpace or Facebook or any number of other popular web sites with a demographic consisting of young, lonely, or otherwise non-family oriented people, you’ve probably run across True.com ads featuring some crazy attractive woman trying to talk to you in a chat window in front of her web cam, or … Read more

Go Green With Charter and Win a Honda Civic Hybrid

Charter, the company that brings thousands of people internet, television, and phone services has a contest going on now where if you live in one of their service areas and purchase any of their services, you are automatically entered to win a new Honda Civic Hybrid worth almost $24,000. It looks to be pretty loaded: … Read more

Tech Round-Up

There have been a lot of tech news bits and pieces that have been covered in detail elsewhere, so I won’t rehash them completely, but here’s the major announcements from the industry in the last few days: Man denies hacking Palin’s Yahoo Account – The man accused of hacking Governor and VP-hopeful Sarah Palin’s Yahoo … Read more

EA Downplays Spore DRM and Pirated Download Count

Popular video game publishing company Electronic Arts (also known as EA) released a video game not long ago on the PC platform called Spore. First, they released a “teaser” demo called Spore Creature Creator, which let you play around with creating your own creature out of miscellaneous parts. You could change the colors, length, width, … Read more

New Fast & Furious Comes Out Summer 2009

When The Fast and the Furious came out several years ago, I thought how hilariously silly it all was, even if the action was terribly enjoyable. Face it, people love fast cars, big explosions, gun fights, and this series has all of that. Minus good acting. But hey, you don’t really go see movies like … Read more