September 2, 2010

How Many Times Have You Broken Your Phone During Your Two-Year Contract? [Qotd]

When thinking about the cost of a cellphone, we consider the phone itself and any service plans, but what about the price of misuse? How often are we finding ourselves paying an unsubsidized price to replace phones under contract?

It’s just so easy to damage a phone. It slips out of your hand and crashes to the ground, gets knocked into a sink, thrown into the wash, and abused in who-knows-what other ways. The lousy part is that when you need to replace your precious gadget in the midst of a one-two-three year agreement, you’re very likely to find yourself paying full retail price.

It’s miserable, but it happens to even the best of us.

What we want though, is for you to ‘fess up. Tell us how often you’ve been in this costly situation during your last two-year agreement and whether it’s affected any of your buying decisions. [Thanks to Shooter for this QOTD idea!]




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How To Build The World’s Most Useless Machine [DIY]

No, this isn’t an instructional guide on how to build a TwitterPeek. This device is even more useless. Impossible? Hardly. Check out the video. Then hit the following link for the complete set of build instructions. [Instructables via Neatorama]




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LED Shower Bathes You In Cascading Light (and Lots of Water) [Home]

Visentin’s LED shower heads are pretty stunning, that is, until you realize that, not only are you completely naked in front of your guests, but you’re also splashing water all over the living room. [Visentin via Trendir]




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Single Photo Tutorial: How to Make a Mask With Photoshop [Photoshop]

Get it? Get it?? Yeah, I bet you got it. [tumblr via tumblr via Super Punch]




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Wallpaper Roundup: Ringing in the New Year [Wallpaper Roundup]

New Year’s Eve is upon us, ring it in with some New Year’s-themed wallpaper. Judging by the wallpapers we found, 2010 is going to be all the neon and sparkles the futurists of yesteryear promised us.

Note: The “Full Size” link directly under the picture only shows you the sample image we uploaded for this gallery. You need to click on the name of the particular wallpaper in the right hand column to access the full range of sizes at the source site.

Not keen on the gallery layout? See all the larger images on one page here.


Glowing 2010 by ~ritamd
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2010 is coming by ~GuilleBot
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2010 by ~Sant1ag0
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january 2010 – smashing wp by ~nefretizm
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Happy New Year – 2008 by *pincel3d
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Hang In rope by ~ribhu
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happy new year 2010 by ~ayeb
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New Year Champagne by ~Maarel
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Happy New Year 2010 by *Thvg
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Minimalistic New Year Wallp. by ~Lazlo-Moholy
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New Year’s Eve by ~mladenmilinovic
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New Year by *nuaHs
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