by Bobby Rio on January 24, 2012
It’s taken us awhile, but we finally did it: A few weeks ago, we broke down and got our first ever smartphone. And man, what a difference the whole thing has made. We’re now … well, it would be kind of pointless to tell you all exactly what we’re doing with the smartphone seeing as just about EVERYONE, EVER has been using them for years now. But, suffice it to say, our mind is blown and we are in a gadget frame of mind. So when we stumbled onto this article over at Men’s Health about the various amazing gadgets on display at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, well, we just had to share it.
Padfone
Of the bunch that has us most excited has to be this two-in-one tablet thing:
Asus Padfone
Here’s a problem I bet you didn’t know you had: You have a tablet, you have a smartphone—what’s on one is never really on the other, right? Asus’ novel solution is to make a tablet with a dock for the phone, so you just plug in and start tableting! It’s like a screen-embiggener! It eliminates the need for multiple downloading of apps, disparate content between them, and a host of other problems that come with our increasing reliance on multiple devices.
Ask us if we were interested in this a few weeks ago, and we would have ignored you, said it wasn’t really an issue for us, and then got back to typing out a text message on our crappy phone to someone who sent a photo message, alerting them to the fact that they’d have to email it instead. But now! I didn’t even know this was a problem you could have, having TOO MANY screens. And now I do, and I want that problem to be solved.
There’s another 30 or so great gadgets on display at the link above, so if you’re interested, click on over.
by Bobby Rio on January 17, 2012
So you met her at a house party, got her name, know who she’s friends with, but didn’t get her number or trade any vital information. Meaning you have to head over to the virtual private detective for things like this: Facebook.
Don't let her think you're a dog
The problem is, once you find her, what do you do? You can Be Her Friend, sure. That’s the easy part. All it is is a simple click, and if she refuses you then it’s pretty easy to get the hint. But when she does accept you as a Friend and puts you in her large grouping of people, what’s the next step? Asking her for a date on Facebook could be taken one of two ways: (1) She was waiting for you to do so and will be super excited that you did; (2) She’ll be super-creeped out because your profile is terrible and full of proof of your sketchiness.
Which is why today we’re highlighting this article over at AskMen.com that goes through the various things on your Facebook profile that you need to “clean up” before taking that step of using the social networking website as a place to find your dates. For example:
Clean Up Your Photos
Clean up any incriminating photos (or at least hide them). Sure you may have been joking around with your friends when you were motorboating that stripper, but you don’t need to post a pic of it for all the world to see. I once had a friend of a friend try to ask me out on Facebook. He looked cute from his profile pic, but upon further examination, I realized he was a sex fiend. Or at least he presented himself as such on Facebook. Every other photo was a shirtless shot taken in front of the mirror or a photo of a half-naked female ass. He thought he was an art photographer; I thought he was a perv. Helmut Newton he was not. Keep the drunk pics, the one of you at the porn convention and any mirror self-portraits hidden. They definitely are not going to endear you to a woman.
Who knew? Head over to the above link for a bunch more valuable tips such as these. Never freak out a girl accidentally on Facebook again!
