Geek Squad: Hot or Not?
As we mentioned earlier today, Geek Squad is opening a new facility to help redress customer grievances. So Gizmodo wants to know, what has your experience been like with the Geek Squad? Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser. Feel…
Geek Squad Tries To Suck Less With New Facility, Fabio Helps Too
You know the Geek Squad, right? Those admittedly nerdy guys and dolls in Best Buys ’round the country that try to fix your computer? Well, they’ve heard many of the complaints lobbied against them like slow turn around time and not-as-high-quality-as-it-could-be service. (Brian Lam, our fine leader, had a few friends screwed by the Geek…
Fabio on Technology: A Brief Interview
As promised earlier today, I interviewed Fabio at the Geek Squad event yesterday. Here’s some highlights. •Fabio likes his Macs. He uses Final Cut Pro to edit video he does for TV, but is using a G4. WTF? He’ll spring for a MacPro soon, though, he assured me. •The dude is an old school gadget…
Handy Halloween Projects
Halloween is just a few days away, but that still leaves time to build yourself a geek costume or buy yourself an animatronic scary cat. If you’re looking for inspiration, the Monsterlist of Halloween projects has links to hundreds of Halloween related props and projects that you can build, ranging from a $20 fog chiller…
Sub-$500 Laptop
Do you love the Earth? You’d better, or she’s gonna kick your ass. To save yourself a Gaia ass-kicking, consider the Everex StepNote NC1500, a laptop with a 15.4-inch screen and a 1.5-Ghz VIA C7-M processor. This, Everex claims, makes it the world’s most energy efficient notebook. While it’s not going to win any speed…
Tech Tease: Whose Tablet Is That?
So here’s your chance to indulge in the sort of idle speculation that makes the tech publishing world fun. Which big vendor is teasing a new tablet PC today in closed door briefings? Hint: it’ll come in any color you like, as long as it’s black. Your guesses, please, in the comments…
720P Projector For Under A Grand
Silly me, thinking that 720p projectors were big, expensive things that only people with a paycheck more frequent than us freelance writers could afford; The Optoma HD70 DLP projector costs under a thousand bucks. Sure, it only does 720p when the really fancy ones do 1080p, but it’s cheap, and according to Audioholics, pretty damn…