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Using Twitter to Promote Yourself

If you’ve been anywhere around a social network over the past year, you’ve likely heard of Twitter. Twitter has started working its way into the backbone of many social networks as an integrated tool. Bloggers use Twitter to promote their latest post, community leaders use it to make announcements to their members, news organizations post [...]

5 Ways to Improve Your Audio Podcast

1: Reduce echo and background noise by lowering the volume of your microphone and amplifying it later while editing. This can greatly improve the overall track and comes with an interesting side effect of making for a deeper more radio-like vocal presence. If you are using a hyper-sensitive microphone, background noises can often drown out [...]

My Mahalo Added to Mahalo Search

Today we’re talking about Mahalo. Mahalo is a human-powered search site headed up by Jason Calacanis that is designed to reduce spam and increase user experience. They do this by having a member of Mahalo view every site that the search engine picks up for specific keywords for integrity, topic eligibility, and whether or not [...]

Best Buy Offers Gift Cards to HD DVD Owners

If you purchased an HD DVD player from Best Buy prior to February 23, 2008, you can pick up a complimentary $50.00 gift card for each player you purchased from them.
From Best Buy Website:
An Important Message from
Best Buy for HD DVD Player Owners
For months, there has been much debate surrounding the two competing high-definition video [...]

The Frugal Hulu

Hulu has been released into the wild this week, and the buzz is certainly making its rounds. I have been using Hulu as part of my almost-daily activity since October, and must say that they have certainly improved by leaps and bounds over the past few weeks before launch. So what is Hulu?
Hulu is a [...]

The Frugal Musician - Using Virtual Environments for Self Promotion

This is a topic that I feel very close to, since I depend on my work as a disk jockey as I would a second job. My work is done using a program called SAM Broadcaster to send streaming audio to a large server that then streams my broadcast to listeners all over the world. [...]

Is it Time for Virtual Worlds to be Taken Seriously?

A great deal of the tech community has regarded Second Life with a distant shrug and a smile. The idea of a virtual world has been tossed around since computers were in their infancy, and even more so after the dawn of the Internet. There is, however, a growing movement from within these virtual environments [...]

The Worst Laptop With the Best Design (MacBook Air)

Yesterday, Steve Jobs brought the MacBook Air to the world in a big way. The initial design is amazing. A notebook you can fit inside a manila envelope that features two gigs of RAM, an 80 gig hard drive with 64 gig flash option, and a new flavor of multi-touch goodness. This notebook has all [...]

The Age of Digital Extremes

We are standing at the beginning of a remarkable trend in the world of technology. This trend has many facets with one central idea in mind, being the next extreme advancement. Whether it is a 105″ plasma television or a fully functional video screen thinner and smaller than a dime, there is an active movement [...]

The Frugal Post-Christmas Sales

As you’re shopping this holiday season for the ones you love, you are going to come across deals that make your own mouth water. One of the more interesting trends that have been honored since the times our grandparents shopped for their sweethearts and parents. This trend is the amazing end-of-year specials that pop up [...]

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