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What Your Email Address Says About You

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Email has come a long way since its inception. This great infographic from the guys over at The Oatmeal pokes fun at different types of addresses and stereotypes its users.

Way back when I started using email daily, it was through a Unix terminal at school. Then, when I had…

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June 3rd, 2010 by: Range

Steve Jobs Email Reply Generator Probably Gets a Lot of Hits These Days

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Like everything in this world, Apple is not perfect, although lately Apple seems to be showing more of its “not perfect” side. Case in point: Shane’s complaint about the outrageous prices of digital magazines on the iPad. While that may not be directly Apple’s fault, with its leather pants-tight hold…

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May 4th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Email-Counting T-Shirt: T is for “Too Much Tech in This”

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Chris Ball and his wife Madeleine created an email-counting shirt. If you’re looking for a valid justification for the existence of a shirt that can count new emails in binary form then you must be new to technabob. Welcome! And remember, hackers and tinkerers don’t ask why. They ask what…

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April 5th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

USB Webmail Notifier: Another Useless Invention

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The folks at Dream Cheeky are probably not aware that there are several, less distracting email notifiers that don’t take up one of your precious USB ports. While other companies at CES showcased mouth-watering 3D TVs and laptops that turn into tablets, Dream Cheeky brought a USB webmail notifier, which…

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January 10th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Atlus Late to Catch Up on Memes, Sends Press Release With Lolcats in It

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In terms of funny video game company correspondence, I don’t think it gets better than Valve’s multi-purpose mail-outs. Now Atlus is also trying to spice up their press releases, as shown by this e-mail that Aeropause‘s Adam Englebright received:

The email’s continued below, but I think you get why I…

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January 7th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Wear Your Addiction Proudly With Crackberry Earrings

These BlackBerry earrings show the world you’re addicted to that sweet little device, and that you’re not afraid to show it.

BlackBerry (or as it’s commonly known, crackberry)… addiction is actually getting to be somewhat passé, what with the iPhone mania. Still, look at every train, plane, and automobile, and

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August 13th, 2008 by: Karen M.

Sidekick Id Revealed

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Thanks to a leaked rebate form, we now know exactly what the new Sidekick ID messaging device looks like.

From the look of these images, the new model will come in several bright, candy colored finishes which should appeal to the teen market. The T-Mobile Sidekick ID is at the…

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March 30th, 2007 by: Technabob

Blackberry 8800 Adds Gps and More

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Research in Motion today announced their latest smartphone model, the BlackBerry 8800. The new model adds numerous features including GPS tracking, expandable memory, and a long-lasting battery.

The 8800 is a full quad-band GSM/EDGE phone, and lifts many of the features found in the popular BlackBerry Pearl model, such as…

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February 12th, 2007 by: Technabob

Mail Delivered by Actual Snails

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Real Snail Mail is an art and technology project being conducted by the technological artists collective of Boredom Research.

The project has real snails delivering electronic messages via tiny RFID tags attached to their shells. The messages are delivered literally “at a snails pace.” to their destinations. At the Real…

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October 11th, 2006 by: Technabob

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