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Posts tagged “Web”

Schlage LiNK Lets You Control Your Home From Afar

One of the main concerns of any homeowner is what happens to their beloved place while they are away. This is something that causes as lot of worries. You are not there and you have no control over th...

Twitter Magnets: Use Virtual Magnets to Compose Tweet

If you've finally caught up in the Twitter rage, then you must have started typing away on your cell phone or laptop, trying to come up with interesting tweets. I've read today that 60% of Twitter use...

The Lifespan of a Web Site

Lately, like a kid who just lost a favorite pet, we've been thinking about mortality. Don't worry—we're not getting that deep. We've been thinking about the life and death of our favorite Web si...

When is Your Web Rush Hour?

A study was conducted in the UK to figure out the times in the week when most surfers are connected to the Web. The peak rush hour, when average web speeds slow to a crawl, is Sunday between 5pm and 6...

Get Disposable Identities & Keep Your Real One Safe

It seems like every site you visit is making you register your info and sign up for a login. (When it gets to the point that we have to log in to check the weather, we'll quit the internet forever.) S...

Like Sticking Post-Its on Your Monitor, but Geekier

Sticky notes are one of our analog subjects on Unplggd because of their common use in offices and their resemblance to a pixelated image when plastered across a wall. (See our posts about PixelNotes s...

Get the Most NetFlix for Your Money With This Web App

We don't have to remind you that times are tough. We're all cutting corners where we deem fit to do so. If you're one of many that has canceled your cable service in favor of using web-based TV stream...

When Your Bills are Late and the Bank's Web Site is Down

Nothing is more frustrating than when somebody breaks the internet. Whether it's your personal connection faltering or a bandwidth issue on the server's end, it always seems that the very moment you n...

Hand-Me-Downs is Craigslist for Babies

Gotta love it whenever technology solves another everyday problem. Hand-Me-Downs is a site just like Craigslist, but with the added feature of a target market. Fans of Ohdeedoh, our sister site for fa...

Use the Web to Get in on Black Friday "Fun"

Black Friday is notorious for a lot of things; great shopping deals, long lines and angry mobs of people among them. If the last two are too much stress and hassle for you to take advantage of the fir...

7 Tips to Speed Up Your Web Browsing

No matter how much time, money and energy you put into ensuring that your home internet connection is as fast as it can possibly be, you will inevitably be somewhere with a snail-speed connection when...

Vase Router Does More for Shelves than Sit Behind DVDs

Sitting in front of us on our Ikea Expedit bookcase right behind our collection of DVDs (the blue ones, arranged by color as per an AT suggestion), is our standard antenna-adorned black box of a wirel...

A Simple Bookmark Javascript to Get You Back to Work

If you're having people over for the holidays (or even if you aren't), you might be deep into clearing up and cleaning out your space. And as if making your space look like it's ready for the pages of...

Internet Addiction: It's Real and We Think We Have It

Are you addicted to the internet? How do you know? We figured out that we were hooked when we found ourselves refreshing a blog page over and over several times a day to try and read new posts as soon...

When a Post-It and a Walkie Love Each Other Very Much...

New gadgets come on the market to satisfy a need for their intended audience, right? We got annoying alarm clocks for perpetual snooze'ers who have a hard time getting up in the morning. We also now h...

News: Are Your Pants Down As You're Reading this Post?

This news is coming from the UK, but if our ex-boyfriend's habits are any indication, it's still a stateside trend: 10 percent of web browsers have logged on to their laptops during visits to the toil...

The Future of Cell Phone Communication?

David O'Reilly, an animator and filmmaker, has created an iPhone application, iHologram, that acts as if it were a hologram. For now, it's just an animation of a little running cartoon cat from a film...

Is it OK to Communifake?: The Rules of 'Faking It

Disclaimer: This kid, shot by photographer Derek Olson, may or may not be a 'faker. According to research, 43 percent of women are guilty of communifaking, as are 32 percent of men and 74 percent of 1...