These Yoda Christmas Lights are awesome. Hang them on your tree, in your cubicle, over your bed, on your patio, hell decorate your fake lightsaber. This string of Jedi Master Christmas lights is available just in time for the holidays. Only $29.95 for 10 light-up Yodas on a 10-foot UL listed cord. The only way it gets better is if they talked. “Naughty or nice be you?” “Judge me by my Christmas lights do you?” Your tree will suddenly be filled with ancient Jedi wisdom. And just like the movies, none of these 10 light up Yodas will tell you...
On Friday YouTube unveiled a new feature for the holidays that lets users create hosted video cards to send to friends and family. Users can select this option from any YouTube video, or from a special page that houses selected community videos and links to a user's own clips. There's also an option to make a personalized greeting straight from a connected Web cam. When finished picking the video there are a handful of themes that house the video player, along with space to add up to 230 characters of text, both of which can be sent up to...
As the holidays approach, we could all use a little help picking out the items that won’t get thrown into the back of the closet. And She-bible clothing, currently sold in the new Inhabitat Shop, could possibly be just the thing for the eco-chic ladies on your list. The San Francisco-based label produces environmentally friendly basics that are versatile, super wearable, and easy to pair with just about anything else in your wardrobe. Founded by Deidre O’Boyle and Stacy Rodgers, She-Bible is built on the premise that clothing should be sexy, simple and comfortable– and ready for just about...
A few years ago a barcode scanner application popped up for the Treo 650. It was a fairly basic program that allowed you to use the camera of the Treo 650 to photograph barcodes and would copy the code to a clipboard. But that was where it ended, and I always wished it could do more like help me scan and organize all my CDs, or something like that.Now there's a similar app for Windows Mobile called Barcorama and it takes a slightly different approach. With Barcorama you take a photo of a barcode and the app will open your...
I was nine years old and I was a huge Star Wars fan. I was looking forward to Christmas like every kid and I hoped to get a ton of Star Wars stuff. Christmas morning finally came and back then I would try to sneak out of bed at four or five in the morning so I could start playing. Sometimes I would get caught and I was told to go back to bed, but I always came out later after the coast was clear. That Christmas I woke up early and quickly ran to the living room to...
These will be decidedly unhappy holidays for hundreds of thousands of workers who won't have jobs thanks to the steep economic downturn and the financial crisisJobless Claims Remain High Where the Job Losses Are...
Just in time for the holidays, TrackThis allows you to send a package tracking number to them and they respond with information at each step of your packages path. send your message, with the FedEx/UPS/USPS/DHL tracking code first, followed by a nickname for the package. Example: 123456789123 Macbook Air ...
You’ve got a chance right now. While everyone else has their eyes on celebrating the holidays and doing all their year end rituals, you can make a commitment. You can make your New Year’s resolution almost a full month early. Here’s what you can commit to for 2009: you’re going to have a killer blog. You’re going to write the kind of blog people post, tweet, link, and even print to stick up on their office wall. Your blog in 2009 is going to be the kind of blog that people use to power their own change. This is...
Video technology sure has come a long way in the past 30 years. In the early days the first video recorders used by TV production crews were large quad decks about the size of refrigerator lying on its back and recorded video onto 2-inch wide videotape. Now you can easily find camcorders that fit in your pocket and even shoot high-definition video. This holiday season millions of people will give and receive some form of video, whether it's a LCD TV, video game system, camcorder or other device. Why not consider giving the gift of video in the form...
Are you making a long road trip for the holidays? Curious about how much it’s going to cost you? Cost To Drive can help. When Kris and I took our short vacation in early October, I did something a little different. Though I’ve never been a budget guy, I set a budget for the trip. I knew how much I wanted to spend before I left. As part of my planning, I needed to find out how far we were going to drive, how long it was going to take us (I didn’t want to miss the ferry), and how...
