Enjoy A Drink This New Year’s With These Apps
This Friday, as we say good-bye to 2010 and welcome in 2011, many of us will be celebrating with either friends or family. And most likely we will toast the New Year with a drink in our hand.
But if you haven’t attended bartender school or gone away to college, how do you concoct the perfect cocktail? Use an app, silly.
New Laptop? What To Do With Your Old One
We hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas weekend. Holidays are a great time for getting together with friends and family, and stuffing your face until you have to unbutton your pants.
And holidays that involve the giving and receiving of gifts are even better. Especially if you get tech gifts. Read more
Angry Case For Your iPhone 4
With over 50 million downloads, Angry Birds is easily the most popular game app for your iPhone, iPad or Android device.
Show your love for those enraged little birds by accessorizing your iPhone 4 with one of these cool hard plastic cases. Choose the red or yellow bird, or the green pig king for only $24.99. Read more
Last Minute Gift For The Non-Geek In Your Life
So it’s Christmas Eve, Eve, and you haven’t finished your shopping. No worries.
You have a few choices – you can get over to Amazon.com, where you can still order up until 3:30PST today in order to receive the gift tomorrow. And deplete your 401k to pay for the shipping. Read more
Get A Massage From The Comfort Of Your Desk
Sure we’d all rather go to a spa, sip on mimosas and wear a fluffy robe. But if you’re stuck at work and cannot get to your local relaxation establishment, you can warm up and relieve that holiday stress with this little toy.
Get your mind out of the gutter people. Read more
Moving? Get Organized With These Apps
You may have noticed my absence from posting such informed pieces, such as Halloween Costumes For Your Gadgets and Use Your BlackBerry, Get Starbucks, but I have moved. No, The Neat Geek site is still where it has always been. But The Neat Geek herself has moved.
1,600 miles away from the only state she has ever lived in. And that’s not the part that has my head spinning. Read more
Lonely? Download A Talking Pet
My daughter is an only child, and at four and a half, sometimes she can get a little lonely.
And at four and a half, she’s also very tech savvy having recently asked me if she could download something. So apps are a big part of my parenting. I should write a parenting book, I know. Read more
Never Lose Your Phone Again With These Security Apps
Do you love your phone? Does the thought of losing or having your phone stolen make you want to hyperventilate? Did you just go check to see where your phone is?
With the amount of time and money we spend on our phones, it makes sense to do whatever we can to protect them. We buy screen protectors, we pay for insurance, we buy cases, but what about a security app? Read more
Keep Up-To-Date On Product Recalls
Since this is the time of the year when most of us are spending a great deal of our time shopping, it would be nice to know that the product we’re buying is safe.
Checking the FDA or the Consumer Product Safety Organization websites before we leave for the mall isn’t exactly convenient. But an app that checks both sites, and more, is. Read more
Sometimes Your iPhone Gets Cold
Or sometimes you need a cool way to cover up your iPod or iPhone? Or sometimes you just want you and your device to match.
Whatever the case, this new iPod Hoodie is stylish and useful for keeping your iPod or iPhone free of scratches. Read more
“Mommy, I Want To Be Like Barbie. Get Me My BlackBerry”
Barbie has worked everywhere, and has been everything from a flight attendant to dentist to a McDonald’s cashier. And once again she’s looking for a new career.
Throw a pair of glasses on her, give her a smart phone, a blue tooth headset, and a laptop and voila – she’s a computer software engineer. Read more
Keep Your Songs Tidy
While many of us love to download new music – ahem, legally – we can admit that sometimes when we open up our iTunes library, it gives us a headache.
So many songs and so little time to actually keep them organized. Well, necessity is the motherhood of invention my friends. You need it and someone smarter than you invented it – Tidy Songs. Read more
Apps To Celebrate Hanukkah
Tonight marks the third night of Hanukkah. And for all of you who celebrate the festival of lights, why not go a little high-tech this year.
And really drive your bubbe crazy. Read more
Mabel’s Labels Giveaway Winner!
And the winner of Neat Geek’s first giveaway contest is comment #7 – Melanie!
Congrats Melanie! If you can just email your mailing address to genna at neatgeek dot net and we will have Mabel’s Labels send you those Cord Control Labels. Read more
What To Buy Your Neat Freak This Holiday Season
You know the type – the perfectionist that has everything in her home and life completely organized. When you walk in her house, there is nothing out of place and she makes you take off your shoes.
Oh wait, that’s me. Read more
