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Work-it, Walk it Girlfriend.

by Sylwia on January 5th, 2012

Happy New Year Cutegeeks!

Some of you may believe in new year resolutions, because it gives you an opportunity, or the illusion of starting fresh. Many folks make resolutions to loose some extra pounds, or something to a similar effect. If you’re one of those people, don’t do it for the pounds, to it for your quality of life, energy, and to live longer!

Watch this video from Lifehacker: A Half-Hour Walk Can Make a Big Difference, Even If It’s Your Only Activity

The video was made by a doctor who is passionate about preventive care. His main point is, go on a walk, get up and move for 30 minutes. Why? Because out of everything else you can do for your health, mild activity shows the most improvement for everything from diabetes, dimensia, and decreases bone fractures (because you’re making your muscles stronger which make your bones stronger).

He also mentions how even if your activity doesn’t cause you to loose weight, exercising regardless will boost your life expectancy!

So go on, get some comfy shoes on and “walk like an eqyptiaaaaaan”.

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SHPE-NYC STEM Toy Drive

by Radiris Diaz on December 2nd, 2011

How About That For Some Acronyms!

Let me try that again…The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, New York City Chapter, is holding a Toy Drive next Friday Dec 9th, focused on toys that encourage learning of the Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). It makes sense. We have a very apparent gap in what are future decides to pursue as careers and what better way to address the gap than by getting to the source itself, our future, in a language they speak and enjoy, toys.

I am a member of this organization and while I am not an engineer, I sure am Hispanic and I’m finally a professional =) you don’t have to be though. The reason i joined this organization is because of the hard work and effort that they put into their chapter events to make us, more marketable and knowledgeable, through their professional development events. What I also admire is their commitment to the community, as seen with this event.

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Facebook Ecstatic to Have Gowalla User Data

by Radiris Diaz on December 2nd, 2011

It’s confirmed! Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg just confirmed the acquisition of Gowalla. Facebook tweeted, “We’ve acquired Gowalla. I’m ecstatic and can’t wait to have access to thousands of users’ location data.”

I am not a Gowalla user, in fact I have no idea what Gowalla was until I just googled it, but knowing that Facebook just settled a privacy lawsuit their comment by their CEO makes me wonder if they are really concerned about protecting our privacy or is our information simply a money making tool for them.

Why so ecstatic Mark?

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When phones become teething toys

by Radiris Diaz on November 20th, 2011

While we all want the children in our lives to eat apples – preferibly an apple a day, to keep the doctor away…having them chew away at our apple products just isn’t what we had in mind.

My 5 month old god-daughter – aka Julianne – the iPhone 4Slobber – is an avid lover of all apple products – her favorite being her mommy and daddy’s iPhone. While this picture is extremely cute, and we are all patiently awaiting the arrival of her adorable teeth, having to speak into a drooled phone just isn’t cool.

Being the tech collector that I am, I was able to donate an old flip phone to the cause, but like many of us know, today’s babies are smart. They are so smart they want ‘smart’ phones – so I’m sorry Fisher Price – you just won’t cut it with my precious Julianne because she knows her divalicious mommy will not sport a highlighter yellow colored device. Right Glo?

Don’t worry, I found a solution on Amazon.com!

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Holy Moly – AblePlanet Noise-Canceling Headphones for only $69!

by Radiris Diaz on November 16th, 2011

Okay – so I am almost freaking out – but not in a bad way, in a really good way, because I’m so freaking excited!!! Thanks to GroupOn - this deal is on!

AblePlanet makes just as good, if not better, headphones than Bose – yea – I said it. Their stars on the front are also cuter so yea…if you need the cute factor, forget bose and go with AblePlanet. The sound quality compares to no other and they are very comfortable to wear – even for long periods of time. I own these headphones and while I’d be pretty pissed if I purchased them at full-price, I didn’t, they were a gift :)

These headphones are amazing. I’ve owned them for over 2 years but always used them on the road. They make zoning out – more real, especially if you’re commute to work is done on a plane.

There are 2 days left to purchase these!!! Jump on it!! They are worth over $250! Oh and there is free shipping…this is an awesome gift option…i’m just saying…

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HTC Vivid the Porn Phone?

by Radiris Diaz on November 16th, 2011

HTC-Vivid-ATT[1] According to TMZ, the people who paid Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton for their sex tapes, is threatening to sue HTC over the name of one of their newest smart phones pictured left, the “HTC VIVID”.

Vivid (the porn company) claims that users may get confused and think that they are behind the phone. Vivid has given HTC until Monday to change the name of their smart phone to something else, or they will sue.

I wonder what HTC will do, I think it will be pretty hard for them to change the name of a device that is already on the Market and available from at&t wireless.
What porn company makes cell phones anyway? Well besides Playboy.

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All We Want For the Holidays is a Phone Call

by Radiris Diaz on November 8th, 2011

That according to a study conducted by research firm Toluna on behalf of VTech. manufacture of cordless landline phones. Some of which are REALLY COOL like the LS6245 and the LS6375-03.

According to the survey, we are feeling the effects of the economy with more than half of those who participated in the survey saying they “wished they had more money for presents”. The survey also found that a lot of us including myself although I did not participate in the survey would love to have a phone call from Friend and Family during the holidays. Please note the emphasis on FRIENDS and FAMILY.

The survey found we really don’t want calls form our co-workers during the holidays or people we really don’t get a long with, so before you pick up the phone think about it first if we aren’t related or good friends maybe you shouldn’t dial the number. Smile

Now off to call my mami!

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Polaroid Making a Comback?

by Radiris Diaz on November 8th, 2011

Maybe I am misinformed, but didn’t Polaroid exit the instant picture business and started to focus purely on printing pictures? I remember seeing and hearing that back in 2008. But I suspect someone at Polaroid didn’t get the memo because today at CES Unveiled Michael Reyes from HardwareGeeks.com spotted what he described to me as a dinosaur with a LCD screen.

The Polaroid Z340 is an instant 14.0 megapixel digital camera with a 2.7” LCD screen. It instantly prints out 3×4 full color images and unlike the polaroid film of old you don’t have to wait for the picture to develop it comes out developed!

What’s also so cool about the Z340 it doesn’t use INK to print your images. I’m confused too but it’s technology called ZINK (Zero Ink Printing).

The Z340 is available now, for more info visit Poloaroid.com.

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Firmware Update for GoFlex Satellite

by Radiris Diaz on October 26th, 2011

GoFlex Satellite owners there is a new firmware update for your wireless hard drive.

The new firmware is version 1.2.0.012 and it has a host of new features. My favorite being the ability to add music to a photo slide show. You also can now view your music’s album art.

This is the first update of the firmware since it was released in July. Wendy Wick had a chance to review it and she loved it. Check out her review here.

You can download the firmware and also see instructions on how to update the device here.

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MAINGEAR to offer Intel Core i7 2700k Overclocked

by Radiris Diaz on October 23rd, 2011

MAINGEAR today informed the world that they will have the the new Intel Core i7 2700k in their Shift and F131 desktops.

The i7 2700K is a quad-core (4 core) processor with a clock speed of 3.5GHz and 3.9GHz Turbo boost. MAINGEAR is also overclock the 2700K Intel processor to 5GHZ which will make it SUPER fast, think of all the multi-tasking I can do!!!

The price of the F131 and Shift with the 2700k is $1228 and $1985. I in no way can afford one, at least not right now but would love to have one. For more info click here.

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