Holidays

BBQ Temperature Fork – know when your food is done

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With another July 4th weekend around the corner, here’s the perfect gadget for you grillers – a quick reading temperature probe. Within seconds of sticking this temp fork into your meat, be it fish, beef, lamb, pork or poultry, you’ll know whether it has reached the right temperature.

Works on only 2 AAA batteries, and has a small built-in flashlight to help you figure out the doneness of your barbecue meat.

Gimme!

Price: $24.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Beer OS – Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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Every year on March 17, we honor Saint Patrick (circa 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland. Whether or not you choose to celebrate the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish foods, imbibing Irish drink (usually Guinness), or attending parades, we wish you a safe a happy holiday.

Everyone wants to be Irish on St. Patrick’s Day… even computer operating systems. So as you raise your glass to St. Patrick this year, try to pretend your beer was a computer operating system. It might go a little like this…

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12 Threats of Christmas from an IT Security Perspective

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I have to give a shout-out to ma boys over at PGP Corporation including James and Andres for helping me encrypt the world, one laptop at a time. Here’s a neat Youtube video harmonizing the 12 Threats of Christmas from an IT Security perspective presented by PGP:

By the way did you know the PGP in PGP Corporation no longer stands for “Pretty Good Privacy”? PGP Corporation dropped that a couple years ago when they incorporated. Facts to live by.

TechShout’s Top 10 Tech and Gadget Gifts for Christmas

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TechShout’s Top 10 Tech and Gadget Gifts for Christmas TechShout wrapped up their top 10 Tech and Gadget Gifts for Christmas yesterday including three gaming gadgets (Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Sony PSP), a couple of cameras (Sony Handycam DCR-SR100 and Nikon Coolpix S1 Digital Camera), a couple portable audio devices (Apple iPod Touch and Sansa Shaker MP3 player) as well as a few other gadgets including Logitech Wireless DJ Music System, Sony DVPFX810 Portable DVD Player and the Brando MP4 Watch.

While it’s hard to feature all the top gifts compressed into 10 items, TechShout tried and did a nice job. Two tech and gadget gifts that are notably missing though are GPS units and Digital photo frames. Both types of products sold amazing amounts of volumes this Christmas season, at least in the states.

Read the entire TechShout article here.

Lazy Man Lights

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Lazy Man Lights Perfect for a high tech redneck, the Lazy Man Lights let you put lights up for year round displays changing color of the lights depending on the holiday. These Lazy Man’s Lights are LED, so you will never have to replace a bulb, or have half a string go out on you and your electric bill won’t skyrocket.

Each strand has 50 feet of lights, with 25 feet of lead string, and has six colors which can burn steadily or flash in different patterns, programmed by you on the central control box. Your house will be pre-decorated for Easter, Christmas, Chanukah, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, etc… even weddings, baby showers, or birthdays.

Gimmie!

Suggested Price: $79.99

USB Fiber Optic Christmas Tree

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USB Fiber Optic Christmas Tree In the vast desert wasteland of your cubicle farm, where corporate standards for decoration only allow for limited expression, this little tree says the most in the littlest package – “Merry Christmas.”

This Christmas tree is stuffed full of fiber-optics that pulse festive rainbows of red, blue, and green throughout. Plug the little tree into your computer’s USB power, or go “wireless” with two AAA batteries.

Gimmie!

Suggested Price: $12.99

Leg Lamp Replica from A Christmas Story

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This half-scale reproduction of the Leg Lamp from the 1983 movie A Christmas Story isn’t completely accurate, but for a mere $40 bucks it’s probably close enough for most Christmas Story fans. And honestly, it’s smaller scale will be more apt to blend in with the average living room. It certainly does with mine, never failing to draw smiling comments when a new guest first sees it.

I wonder how long it would take for HR to give me a call to “talk” if I brought my Leg Lamp to work?

My friend has been saying for years, in jest, how he’d love to have the Leg Lamp to place in the window of his house, for all the neighbors to see. And his wife has sworn that it would never happen… now she is going to kill us for getting him this for Christmas!

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Hi-Tech Thanksgiving Turkey Help

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Have a habit of getting yourself in to a jam when cooking Thanksgiving dinner (USA)?

When things go wrong in the kitchen, sometimes you probably feel like running down to the closest restaurant and asking for some professional advice. Actually physically busting into a restaurant kitchen may be a little extreme, but thanks to a few websites like ChefsLine.com and Chefs.com, experienced chefs are connecting with home cooks via email and instant-messaging.
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Halloween for Geeks

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Are you all about the DIY? Are you geeky about Halloween? If so, the Geeks are compiling a list of Halloween DIY projects that Geeks can get into over on Halloween for Geeks! We’ve scoured the web and linked to the coolest Halloween projects including creating your own Axworthy Flying Ghost or a Animatronic Skeleton.

Some of the projects are simple and take no time to complete while some projects are professional quality and take weeks to complete. Check out Halloween for Geeks for your Halloween DIY project fix!

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