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All professional photographs are usually touched-up a tiny bit. Sometimes specks of dust need to be removed, maybe the image needs a little bit of color correction or even a dose of red eye reduction. Then there are images that get completely ‘shopped (aka Photoshopped). For example, look at the terrible image of Oprah to …
The USPS Inspector General's office is not happy with the red envelopes used by Netflix for their DVD mailings because they have to be hand sorted.
How early is too early for marketers to start hyping their Super Bowl spots? The earlier the better for companies that want to—or need to—make an impact, according to an upcoming survey. Or, as with Frito-Lay’s Doritos and the NFL, which both ran consumer-generated ads during Super Bowl XLI this past Feb. 4 (on CBS), …
The Batmobile from Batman Forever just sold for only $297,000. It cost Warner Bros. $2,800,000 to create Batman's Batmobile car for the 1995 film. So why did the Batmobile sell so cheaply? It's a bad deal. Here's why.
So it turns out a white onion is not only good for salsa, but could be good for charging iPods too. Here is a video showing you how to charge an iPod with an onion, Gatorade and USB cable.
How can you not love the classic 1983 holiday film, A Christmas Story? The cult classic grows in popularity every year and with it, one of its most recognizable props, the Christmas Story leg lamp.
Automatically feeding my fish while on vacation is no longer a problem thanks to the Eheim Automatic Fish Feeder. The EHEIM Everyday Fish Feeder is awesome.
Internet giant Google is expanding from search and advertising to try developing cheap energy alternatives to coal.The initiative, Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal, will focus initially on solar, geothermal and wind energy. Google (GOOG) will use its vast resources to buy companies and hire engineers to see this initiative through. “Our goal is to produce …
Mom always said don’t play ball in the house, but she never said anything about flying a drone airplane… did she? There’s a new miniature airplane on the market that’s called “The Butterfly“. This miniature plane is the world’s smallest drone and only weighs 4 grams. Its state of the art 900Mhz R/C system lets …
Some users of the Facebook Inc. Web site have been startled by a new feature that tracks their activity outside of the site and shows it to their friends — renewing questions about the privacy implications of a growing practice of exploiting personal information in online advertising. The social-networking service earlier this month began posting …
Starbucks, showing the first signs of store saturation and fewer transactions per store, tomorrow will break its first national TV ad campaign to get consumers to buy another cup. In a conference call in which the company said the economy appears to be damping consumers’ affection for the $3 latte, Starbucks CEO Jim Donald said …
Bebo is offering publishers yet another way to reach young audiences. The company launched an ambitious Open Media platform with 22 major content partners and promised to create more interactive programming following the success of Kate Modern, the sequel series to lonelygirl15.
No one knows for sure exactly how Arbitron’s big switch from diary to Personal People Meter to compile radio ratings, a change set for January in Chicago, will affect the audience figures on which station ad rates are set. The notion is that PPMs are more reliable because they virtually eavesdrop on what the sample …
Google is getting ready to start beta testing a new in-game advertising system involving pre-roll and mid-roll inserts placed within Bunchball Games releases, reports GigaOM. Later in December Google will also begin to embed video-type ads in the cult game Psychonauts, available for PC, Xbox and PS2. Via methodshop
Google Inc. is trying to shake up the wireless industry by helping to create cheaper phones that can access advanced Internet services — and carry its lucrative advertising. Now that the Internet giant has cemented an alliance with 33 partners, the question is whether they will follow through on its attempt to change the rules …
Apple’s Steve Jobs helped save a sinking music industry, with his iPod and iTunes digital music store. Struggling record labels swallowed hard and accepted his 99-cents-per-song pricing because they had little choice. When it comes to video content, however — hit television shows such as “Heroes” and “The Office,” and movies — Jobs’s bargaining position …
How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month? Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000? Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million? The answer — which may be any, or none, of the above — is a critical one for Condé Nast, …
