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MTV Decides to Launch Its Own Music Site

GeekSugar — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:00:57 -0700

Take Hulu and YouTube, add some pretty colors, and you've got MTV's latest creation: MTV Music. Not a revolutionary new music site, but what I do like about it is it's your one-stop shop for thousands of music videos from the past and from the future (Duran Duran, vintage Madonna, it's all there). Choose to watch on the site or embed on your own blog, and it even gives you a full screen option. They've still got some kinks to work out, but overall, a handy and simplistic music site.

Hit Me on Twitter Music Video Is All About the Tweets

GeekSugar — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:55:52 -0700

You know Twitter has made it to the big leagues when a music video essentially dedicated to the microblogging networking site gets MTV airtime. I got a real chuckle when I tuned in and saw Mistah F.A.B. rhyming about his followers and the lovely ladies he plans to "hit up" on Twitter. Here's a snip it of the song's juicy lyrics:

First it was Black Planet, then MySpace, then Facebook took over my place, whoa, now I'm stuck on Twitter.

Are you stuck on Twitter enough to make this your Summer jam?

Daily Tech: Google Reveals "An Almost Complete" Android Phone

GeekSugar — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:55:27 -0700

It hasn't officially been announced, but Google showed off its latest pics of a working Android Handset at a Developer Day in London. - Engadget
The Internet provider Wayport will be enabling wireless music downloads for Microsoft Zune customers in WiFi hotspots at more than 9,800 McDonalds. - CrunchGear
MTV has just launched the Backchannel, a new online game that mixes chat and social networking tools. Basically providing you with a new place to complain about characters on The Hills. - Switched
Note to self. Be sure to erase all the data on my cell phone before I sell, recycle, trade, or give it away. A woman's phone ended up on eBay after she donated it to charity; with all of her personal information intact. - Consumerist
George Lucas decided to make a "surprise" appearance at the official launch party for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed at Best Buy in San Francisco. - Crave CNET
It's giveaway time! Be sure to log in to your TeamSugar account for your chances to win geek-chic beach gadgets and accessories! - geeksugar

MTV And HP Host PC Design Competition

GeekSugar — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:06:16 -0700

If you're sick and tired of boring computer designs now is the time to get out your art supplies and seek inspiration. HP and MTV are hosting a global “Take Action. Make Art" design competition and challenging people around the world to create graphics for a special edition HP notebook PC. read more

Contest entrants are being asked to submit ideas from "subjects they are passionate about, whether it’s related to fashion, music, the environment or peace." The winning design will be selected by a panel of judges including Shaun White, snowboarding Olympic gold medal winner and one of the “achievers” featured in HP’s “The Computer is Personal Again” marketing campaign. The winning submission will then be used in the design of a special edition HP Pavilion notebook PC.

HP has been on an advertising roll recently, launching a print campaign with Gwen Stefani as well as online and TV spots with Serena Williams, Jay-Z and Vera Wang.

Contestants can submit a design along with a brief explanation at MTV through Oct. 17.

Rapper, Water Man, Geek: 50 Cent's New Video Game

GeekSugar — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:00:45 -0700

I was going to start off this post calling 50 Cent a rapper, except he's so much more these days! Artist, Hillary Clinton supporter, Vitamin Water pusher, and for the second time, video game star. Yes, 50 Cent will "star" in the new video game Blood on the Sand, MTV reports.

This new game is a follow-up to 2005's Bulletproof, also put out by Vivendi Games, and will feature original music from the artist. Judging by the pictures of the game, it looks to be pretty violent fare and not my usual cup of tea, but I applaud 50 for expanding his entrepreneurial talents and getting all up into the geek world even more - we know how he loves his technolog-ay, don't we?

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What Gadget Do You Use to Waste Time?

GeekSugar — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:00:14 -0700

You know when you are stuck on a bus, waiting in line, sitting in a dentist's office or just plain bored? Do you whip out your cell phone or gaming device for distraction? Or maybe you are like LC, who turns to her iPod for music and videos. Whatever the situation, I'm wondering what gadgets people tend to use when they need to kill a few minutes. Depending how much time I need to waste, I usually start on my BlackBerry, sending texts and returning emails and then I move on to my iPhone to watch YouTube videos. I guess you could say it's the business then pleasure method of passing time. What about you? What do you use? Photo courtesy of MTV

Tech News Roundup - Giant Speaker Chair Concept

GeekSugar — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:00:02 -0700

Speaker Chair concept serenades you - Techie Diva
Canon had released a whole mess of new cameras - Crave
Panasonic custom color cordless phones for any room - Shiny Shiny
Back to School Safety Means a Bulletproof Backpack - Inventor Spot
Osaka University develops teeth-controlled iPod interface - Engadget
Pete Doherty on Second Life: What Became of the Likely Lad - UK Gizmodo
MTV Closing URGE Music Subscription Service - Switched
Samsung SPF-72V Digital Photo Frame - Apartment Therapy

Geek Tip: Make Your Own Ringtone

GeekSugar — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:30:59 -0700

Like it or not MP3 and polyphonic ringtones and Jamster - the company that sells ringtones via commercials on music television - have invaded our world. You can't go to the store, movie or hairdresser without hearing someone's individualized, cheeky and frankly unfair to the general public ringtone of whatever song MTV tells them is cool that week. It's a sound crisis that intrudes my thought process on the daily - I speak from experience when I say once you hear "Eye of The Tiger" three or four times a day you are bound to start living and breathing it - so I would hereby like to propose an alternative.

If you want a fun ringtone (I know most phones come with awful options because companies want you to pay for rings), you can create unique and slightly-less-repetitive ringtones at Mixxer.com. The site helps you create and download your own tones, it's free and you don't even have to register.

All you have to do is upload your MP3 file, clip your favorite 30 second hook and send the ringtone to your cell phone. Check out the site for a full guide.

C'Elegance = Chic Cell Phone Bling Bling

GeekSugar — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:01:14 -0700

Icing out your cell phone with personalized charms and gems has long been an artistic and fashionable outlet in Europe and Asia, but has only recently begun to sneak into American culture. Right now my charm affections lie with C'Elegance, a company started by the Cell Phone Bling Group's gold member Suzanne.

Suzanne started the company after a trip to Hong Kong, where she discovered how trendy technology could be. She returned home, started experimenting with making her own charms and quickly teamed up with her daughters to create C'Elegance.

The result are chic, shiny and beautiful charm sets that combine a signature logo charm, Swarovski Crystal and Semi Precious Stones, and personalized charms. All charms are connected to silk cord via a tiny clip, so they can be easily taken off, rotated or worn together.

The line has been featured in Elle Magazine, appeared on Access Hollywood and was even part of the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.

Prices range from $19 to $250 for jewelry pieces and $2.50 to $12 for charms. Available online at C'Elegance. For a full gallery of charms, read more

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First of all, join the Cell Phone Bling Group
Click "Create and Share!" on the left hand side
Choose "Blog"
Give your photo a Title
Leave the category as "general"
Change the channel to "technology and gadgets"
Add keyword(s) (for example mine for this photo was "Cell Phone Bling")
Click on the "Add Image" link below the "body" box
A popup window will happen - click on "Browse" to find your image on your computer
Once you have the image chosen, click "Submit"
The popup will show you your image, choose size: "normal" - if you want, you can give it a title (which will show up as a caption)
Click "Insert" and the popup will go away
Your "body" box will now have some text in it. Leave it as is. If you want to add some text before the picture, do it before the code that has appeared.
Click Submit

So join the Cell Phone Bling Group and start posting your great photos! Yours just might end up on the geeksugar homepage!

Geeky Girl We Love: Nandini Maheshwari

GeekSugar — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:30:00 -0800

Last month we featured some of the cutest geeky couples and bachelors in the blogoshere, which left many of you wondering - what about the women? Fear not my fine friends, we were just saving the best for last. March is women's history month so I figured there was no better way to celebrate than to highlight some of the smartest, most creative and successful women on the internet. First up, Nandini Maheshwari, editor of Born Rich, a site that makes the stuff of MTV's Cribs look like Salvation Army rejects, and co-founder of the Instablogs Network in India. While Nandini spends her days exposing the glamorous gadgets and accessories of the insanely wealthy, she's a smart, down-to-earth commerce graduate that's championing the geeky girls online movement. Her pick for sexiest geek in the world? Her hubby of course! read more

Geeksugar: So clearly you keep very busy as a blogger, but what are some of your other hobbies?
Nandini: Reading - I am more into magazines and non-fictional stuff. I love to indulge in adventure sports, watching movies (I would like to admit here, I just hate watching war movies, no matter how good they are) and I love to enjoy almost every good thing in life.

Geeksugar: This is my favorite question to ask bloggers - how many hours are you online everyday?
Nandini: I'm online for some 10- 12 hrs on an average.

Geeksugar: Your first computer was a ...
Nandini: My first computer was a XT machine, and I remember playing Chess and Prince of Persia on it.

Geeksugar: Born Rich is filled with amazingly decedent gadgets and luxuries that seem out of everyone's price range are there any luxurious things you've featured that you really want?
Nandini: Diamond-Studded Ego-lifestyle notebook, the Multimedia RUF Cinema bed, and the Calspas Luxurious Bath Tubs With 42" Plasma TV.

Geeksugar: Are there any items you featured that you ended up buying?
Nandini: Yes, I have a passion for mobile phones. So, I ended up buying almost every one of the Nokia N-series.

Geeksugar: How many blogs are in your RSS reader?
Nandini: I have some 200 odd blogs in my RSS reader at present.

Geeksugar: Bloggers have the fortune and misfortune of having unorthodox schedules. Can you describe what a typical day is like?
Nandini: The alarm goes off at 7:00 am, but it's only music to my ears and motivates me to sleep some more. I wake up around half an hour later with my husband bringing morning tea and my laptop. I go through my mails, new comments on my blogs and check out few feeds while sipping my tea. Start forming mental checklist and go over my "To Do List" again and decide what to do for the day (this changes throughout the morning). My husband, Ankit goes to work before me, so I prepare our lunch, watch few morning shows, and scan through my RSS feeds again.

After I head to the office I catch up and eventually drag Ankit from his PC to the lunch table (this happens everyday without fail). Lunch is a great place to bounce new ideas. Also meet few guys around the office. Then I start to panic by evening, since I have done everything except any blogging. But miracles happen and by night I have written around 6-8 posts. Leave office by 8:00 pm and prepare dinner. I welcome Ankit at the door and catch up on the day that he had with me. Catching up is followed by dinner/sitcoms/friends/being a good wife. I check stats, email and back-links again before saying goodnight which is around 12:30 am in the night. Have to drag Ankit again from his laptop to get some sleep.

Geeksugar: Who do you think are the top 5 sexiest male geeks in the world?
Nandini: Oh, that's a sweet one…

Ankit (my husband), he's is a Super Geek and one of the cutest guys I have always met. And, I am not saying this just for the heck of it! Whatever I have achieved would not have been possible without his support that, I often need whenever I am on writer's block or just low at work. He is also full of new ideas.
Charlie White - editor at Gizmodo. I love his blogging, his anchoring on his Sirius Coolness Roundup Show and I love his humble and modest nature too! I have told him this too and telling you now…I would like to make a list of "I have" just like he did…it's another thing that my list won't be half as impressive as his…no exaggerations!
Graham Bell - from TreeHugger. He looks so cute … and his achievements....don't think I need to say! He has led to the term Eco-Geek..in true sense.
Kevin Ross: He is cute too! and I love wasting my time on Digg everyday and watching his diggnation.
Peter Rojas - editor of Engagdet : He single handedly brought Engadget to a super gadget blog.

Geeksugar: Who do you think are the top 5 sexiest female geeks in the world?
Nandini: That would be...

Judie Hughes of the Gear Diary will always be the first one! She is just so amazing as a woman and as a blogger. She have a way with words…wish I would have learned the same vocabulary she had!
Katie Lee - the shiny editor of ShinyShiny
Amanda Congdon - Though no longer with RocketBoom she was kind of a pioneer in video podcasting.
Marissa Ann Mayer - the Vice President of Google - a true example of beauty with brains.
The beautiful and chic editor of geeksugar. I am sure she is responsible for all of the male audience on geeksugar.

Geeksugar: Oh, you make me blush! Who is the only blogger you admire the most?
Nandini: Oh, that's a tough one…I admire so many! As I have to name just one…I will go by the one I took inspiration from for BornRich – Deidre Woollard of Luxist.

Geeksugar: How do you feel about being called a "geek"?
Nandini: I love it! Geek is in.

Geeksugar: What is your goal for BornRich and the Instablogs Network?
Nandini: I want Bornich to be the best luxury blog in the world, and reach out and entertain my audience more in different ways. Instablogs Network's new version "Instablogs Community" has received a tremendous response. Now we are working on our next version where we could truly be an online newspaper by getting into localized blogging as well. We are also working on our own Ad server to help our bloggers monetize their work more.