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Ashlee Simpson's Guilty Tech Pleasures: Her BlackBerry and Electric Toothbrush
Pop rock singer Ashlee Simpson recently caught up with AOL's Switched to talk about all things tech. . .
Rosie O'Donnell Loves Her iPhone
When Rosie O'Donnell is chillin' out on set, her gadget "must haves" include her Nextel cellphone and her iPhone. I always knew Rosie was crafty, but until she started her own blog, I had no idea she was so tech savvy! AOL's Switched recently chatted with Rosie and her partner Kelli about their favorite websites, texting, and yes, the iPhone.
Ruben Studdard Discusses His Tech-Obsessed Life
Recently, AOL's Switched had the pleasure of talking with American Idol Season 2 winner Ruben Studdard about his love for his BlackBerry, how he still wants to get an iPhone, and his annoyance with the short battery life on his iPod, phone, and laptop. Here are some of the highlights from the interview:
- On what was the longest time he's ever spent playing a video game in one sitting and what game it was: "About three hours. It was NCAA college football from EA Sports.
Top 10 Most E-Mail Addicted Cities In The US
The folks over at Switched inform me that AOL just completed a massive survey on e-mail usage throughout the United States, which polled residents of the country's top 20 markets. The results? While teens may think e-mail is so 1999, there are many adults (and teens) who are in need of a little e-mail detox.
Do You Sleep With Your Cell Phone?
Turns out our addictions to our smartphones and laptops aren't just affecting our love lives and vacation time.
According to AOL's E-Mail Addiction study for 2007, 40 percent of e-mail users have checked their e-mail in the middle of the night. Which means, people are sleeping with their laptops, smartphones (ie BlackBerries, iPhones and Treos) right at their bed side.
iPhone Obsessed? Is it A Mental Disorder?
With the week of iPhone madness almost over it's time to sit back, relax and consider what it is we've all been through. The folks over at Switched have put together a hilarious and thoughtful video looking at America's "iPhone hysteria," i.e. i-Sanity, which has had its grips on millions of us since Macworld.
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Eco-Friendly Outlet Banishes Power Vampires For Good
Vampire power month may be over (how appropriate that it was in October, no?), but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying to find ways to reduce our electric bills! We are living in a digital world, which means nearly everything needs to be juiced up to work. I've already got my laptop working overtime at the office and at home, so you can imagine that I'm a pretty powerful energy vampire on my own.
Yes, You Can Take Screenshots on Your BlackBerry
You already know that you can easily take screenshots on your iPhone with just a few clicks, but taking a screenshot on your BlackBerry may prove to be a little more difficult . . .
Plug Into This Cute Robot Power Strip
I love it when someone takes a boring household item that we all need — like a power strip — and turns it into something fun. Case in point: the Electric Man power strip from Urban Outfitters. This cute robot-shaped power strip has four grounded outlets — one on each of the little guy's appendages.
Daily Tech: The TwitterPeek Is For Tweeting Addicts
- The new TwitterPeek device is for people who don't own a smartphone, but want to send lots of tweets — CrunchGear
- Here's how cell phones have evolved over the years — MSN Tech
- Spring Design is suing Barnes & Noble for copying their own eReader which resembles the Nook — Engadget
- Verizon will start rolling out their Bing mobile app to BlackBerry Storm 1 owners — CNET
- These movie titles will be coming out on Blu-Ray this week — Switched
- It's giveaway time on GeekSugar! Log in for your chances to win one of these AT&T Smartphones — GeekSugar
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