Jumping on the "Brandwagon"

I recently decided to upgrade my computer... well by upgrade, I mean throw my current computer out the window and buy a new one. Poor computer.

Left to my own devices, I accidentally bought a "taboo" brand (whose name I won't mention). Said computer's specs were more than decent - but when I told the techie what I bought, he simply shook his head with dismay. He said, and I quote, "Please return that computer now before I have to pretend I don't know you."

For someone like me, brand is a very important thing. I'm the girl who everyone knows is addicted to GUESS - sometimes dressing in it head to toe. So the question of the day is, do you believe in technological brandism, are you a brandist when it comes to your technology, or will you buy the "off" brands to save money - despite the heckling you might get from your technologically savvy friends?

IM's - so many chats, so little time...

Chatting is becoming a way of life for most people these days, both in business and personal. But with the onslaught of so many different chat apps out there like Facebook chat, MSN, yahoo & Gmail, the latest new craze is fusing these apps together into one, where you can sign into one interface and reach anyone who's online in one of your social networks at any given time. Enter Meebo, Ebuddy, Google Talk, just to name a few. These funky new free apps combine your various social networking communities so there is no need to sign into 100 different appliations to chat with all of your available contacts.



But the one thing they don't do, is allow you to chat with contacts on your own blog or website. While it's great to be able to get in touch with friends from other social networking communities, what about the need to form a community within your own e-world? So I researched and found this cool software called ParaChat which is embeddable on most websites and allows users of that particular site to chat with one another. There is a free app but if you're willing to pay, it does a whole lot more cool stuff. Check it out




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l33t speak: how to sound "c00l" on the internet

I was having a chat with a friend today, and I thought hey, wouldn't it be fun to post a blog about how to sound cool on the internet! That's when he told me about l33t speak. So I did what any good blonde would do: I Googled it.

First course of action: the good old fashioned Urban Dictionary. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=l33t

Apparently, l33t speak was born back in the 1980's, "hackers that didn't want their websites, newsgroups, etc, to be picked up in a simple keyword search began using numbers to replace certain letters (mostly vowels) such as A = 4 or E = 3."


Another cool link to translate stuff into l33t: http://www.brenz.net/services/l337Maker.asp


Have fun!
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Smartphones: Technological bliss, or your worst nightmare?

Thinking back to my days of texting on a regular cellphone reminds me of a simpler time. A time when people still actually called one another, when emails were not read on phones, a time when the internet was only accessed on a computer, and when pressing the number 3 meant you could type a G, H or I. Being a technological misfit, I swore I'd never join the masses and trade my regular phone for a smart phone. Somehow though, the bug bit me...

I have now become one of the people I swore I'd never become - a textaholic. Yes, it's true. My close friends and family are even starting to notice. My thumbs hurt by the end of the day and I'm sure I conduct more important business and social exchanges on my BB than in person or over the phone combined. I can now troll for dates on my phone through various internet dating apps, I can Google just about anything and GPS myself to pretty much anywhere. I'm constantly entertained, regardless of having company or not. I've been enlightened and I'm never going back!

It's distracting, it's addicting, but there's probably an app to cure that :-P