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GeekSugar's Gift Guide For Your BFF
Your BFF is not only by your side when you adopt a new tech treasure, but she's also there to send a supportive text when you just can't get your home network to function properly. Give your best girlfriend a gift that not only shows off her impeccable taste, but one that fits her geeky lifestyle as well. Check out my picks for your BFF right here!
Tech Dating 101: Do You Save Messages From Your Date?
One of the benefits of of digital technology is that every email, text, and voicemail is easily saved, stored, and relived. It's helpful when you're dating someone — I think it's both fun and cute to reread old messages. (Though I suppose this can get dicey when trying to cut your ex out of your digital life, but that's a topic for another day).
Get Your Song on With iKaraoke
Who doesn't love a good round of karaoke? My girlfriends and I have been known to do some serious singing, so I'm super excited about the latest version of
How Do You Add People to Your Address Book?
When you meet someone new, how do you add him or her to your phone's address book? I'm not talking friends or relatives — I'm talking about people you meet through friends, new business contacts, or anyone else whose number you want to save but aren't planning to become their best friend.
I recently started doing something new: if I meet someone new and want to store their number, I add their first name and, instead of their last, a detail of how I met them.
Geek Out: Would You Use GPS to Keep Tabs on Your Partner?
Well here's a bummer use for GPS: NFL Player Michael Strahan installed a GPS device in girlfriend Nicole Murphy's car, which then text-messaged him her location. Seem a little controlling? Apparently he had reason to be suspicious, because she was cheating on him.
What Video Game Should Become More Girl-Friendly?
The designer of Gears of War 2 recently told Wired that the sequel to Gears of War would be more "girlfriend-friendly," namely, by making the female avatars' breasts smaller and having them not be "bad stereotypes." My knee-jerk sensitive reaction is with him using the term "girlfriend-friendly" — let's be clear — girl gamers do buy and play their own games and don't need to be classified generally as girlfriends (talk about bad stereotypes). The term girl-friendly is just fine.
Help Me Celebrate My Girlfriends Too on Valentine's Day!
The other day I enlisted you guys to help me find Valentine's Day gifts for my geeky guy, and because my demands know no bounds, I still have to beg for help for V-Day. I need gifts for my girlfriends — the girls who have always stuck by me and deserve a gift showing how much I appreciate them too, whether I've been single or happily coupled. So help me find some geeky gifts, high tech and low, for my geeky girlfriends and for those of my friends who haven't found their inner geeks yet and need some help.
Tech Dating 101: What's Up With All the Emoticons?
I was out with a group of girlfriends last week when one of them received a text from a guy she'd gone on a few dates with. It read, "Great time last night ;)" — with the winking emoticon. Apparently after every single text he sends (and sometimes midtext, too), he includes an emoticon.
(Ex) Boyfriend Secretly Films Girlfriend Doing Wii Fit
Usually GiggleSugar writes about the travails of being a douchebag, but here's a story for the geek history books: An enterprising YouTuber filmed his girlfriend (allegedly without her knowing ) while she played Wii Fit Hula Hooping in her underwear.
And then because that wasn't sketchy enough, he posted it on YouTube! Apparently its viral-ness got so out of control (over 2 million views), that people are even suspecting Nintendo of being behind it — as a viral marketing campaign.
geeksugar's Gift Guide: Great Gadgets for Girlfriends
With only a few weeks left till Christmas, you may be in need of some last minute gift ideas. If you've been keeping up with my holiday gift guides you'll know all the hottest gadgets this holiday season. And if not, you can refer back to my lists for some great gift ideas.
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