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Survey: How Far Do You Sit From Your Monitor?

Aesthetics and ergonomics rarely go hand-in-hand, as we've found when choosing between traditional versus stylish home office seating options, but we know darn well how important it is to compute at a...

Survey: Golden Squiggle Design Contest

We're working on a small design contest that would take submissions over the summer, post them in August and then show off the winners in early September. Right now we're narrowing down the boundarie...

Survey: What Are You Watching Hulu On?

We all know that both television shows and movies are moving away from discs and cable operators and towards the web. Even the cable companies know they have to come up with a way to jump on the 'net...

Survey: Are You a Tech Minimalist?

Some of us love to collect the biggest, baddest tech out there. Collect them and pile them up on a pedestal, displaying our excellent taste in diverse tech and knowledge. On the other hand, you might ...

The Amazon Kindle DX: Bigger Size, But Is It Really a Big Difference?

click for more picsOur team over at Apartment Therapy New York was bubbling with anticipation with today's announcement about the updated, larger Amazon Kindle DX. Perhaps it's because we live in a ci...

Survey: Widescreen Aspect Ratios, 16:10 or 16:9?

While many of us have come to accept the strange resolutions provided with the 16:10 aspect ratio seen on most widescreen LCD monitors over the years, we're starting to notice a slow push towards the ...

What's In Your Mobility Setup?

After taking a look at messenger bags and backpacks, we're starting to think about our eventual switch over to a mobility computing setup (so we can work at cafe's and look good while doing it). Er.. ...

Survey: To Messenger or To Not Messenger Bag?

Some of the peeps at our offices are lookin' for a new bag for their laptop and day-to-day stuffs. We hear messenger bags are in. Word on the street says they suck big time for the shoulders though. W...

Hot or Not? Flat Panel TV Covers?

Hmm, we like the idea behind Melissa's Instructables for a Flat Screen TV Cover. She has a point about keeping a valuable large panel screen protected from dust and scratches (our cats occasionally li...

Survey: Save Money By Buying an Off-Brand HDTV?

According to a recent report by our fellow high definition aficionados over at HD Guru, sometimes purchasing a cheaper "no-name" brand TV might actually cost you more in the long run. Comparing warra...

Survey: Do You Flirt via 1s and 0s?

Ok, today is tax day. One of the most depressing days in a humble freelancer's opinion -- the self-employed get royally screwed when it comes to the IRS. But rather than sit and stew over the amount o...

Do You File Your Taxes Electronically?

One more day, procrastinators. And we say that with a smirk, since we just finished filing our own Fed and states taxes online. We don't know how our parents did it the old fashioned way with pen, cal...

Survey: Got A Texting Addiction?

After hearing about Dena Christofferson's daughter's little texting problem, ending in a whoppin' $4756 monthly bill that accumulated after her record-breaking 10,003 outbound SMS texts (in addition t...

Survey: Is Bigger Always Better?
We're Talking Desks Here, People.

While some of us can't live without an extra-large surface to do our work, others find having such humongous work areas to be nothing but a dust magnet that encourages crap to easily accumulate over a...

Blast from the Past: What Was Your First Computer?

I didn’t get a computer until I was midway through high school – that was 1994. It was a hand me down from a family friend, a Macintosh SE/30. While I don’t remember the specs, I do remember it...

Survey: Are DVDs Still Better Than Blu-rays?

After reading up on IGN's recent piece on the number of pluses the DVD format still had to offer, we became a bit convinced that perhaps Blu-ray had a remaining adversary to contend with - despite lea...

Survey: Twitter Jobs
Would you tweet for work?

Man, it seems like everyone and their mom is tweeting these days -- congress tweets during the prez's non-state of the union address, jurors tweet in court, but according to our very scientific surve...

Survey: Twitter and Facebook Instead of Email?

For many people, at least the ones we know, updating Twitter and Facebook is a daily routine that is right up there with having a cup of coffee in the morning. It is so common that the words themselve...

Survey: Hybrid Lounge Seating at Home?

We started seeing these hybrid work-lounge chairs become popular 2-3 years ago, popping up all over in new modern university buildings and libraries. Last week, a friend came up to us and asked if it ...

TV's in The Kitchen: Cozy or Excess?

Growing up, our grandma had a small black and white TV in a corner of the kitchen. Since she was always whipping up a dish or a fancy dessert, you could usually find her in the kitchen with the TV on...

Survey: Do You Want to Beam Movies from your Cell Phone

This month Samsung releases their W7900 cell phone in Korea. What's so special about it? It has a built-in projector that can beam a 50-inch image on any surface. With digital light processing chips ...

Survey: How Do You Watch Movies These Days?

While our readers have made it clear that they're pretty on the fence about viewing cable TV on the Internet, the movie industry's approach to curb illegal downloads has been pretty diverse when it co...

Survey: Will the Kindle Replace the Book Shelf?

Earlier this week Jon Stewart (yes, we are a little obsessed) invited Amazon's Jeff Bezos on the show to talk about the new Kindle e-reader. In between the loud and jovial laughter by Jeff, Jon broug...

Netflix Flirts with HBO Streaming
Would You Pay Extra to Watch?

We don't have cable, though we sure do love watching TV. The main reason we don't is that we don't agree with the cable payment structure. Why do we have to pay close to $100 for hundreds of channels...

Survey: Do You Want To Watch Your TV In 3-D?

Last month, we managed to get our hands on some 3-D glasses for a single commercial during the Super Bowl and NBC's "Chuck," but was kind of let down with the performance of the glasses. To be honest,...

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