You know, just when I thought I couldn’t possibly love this iPod Touch any more than I do, I find something else to download. This app, free for a limited time thanks to your pals at Bing, is a dream app for people into the nostalgia of listening to songs from their high school or [...]

I don’t know what I did that caused Hershey’s to break up with me, but allow me to take this opportunity to tell them I’m sorry. I remember the days of long ago, where once a week a box would come from them filled with all sorts of delicious … Kisses, Hershey Miniatures, the not-yet-available-in-the-store [...]

Dear Fellow Obsessive-Compulsives who may own an iPod Touch or iPhone, Don’t do it. Sure, it may look like fun to be able to play drums or bass on “Learn to Fly” any time you want (especially if you’re a commuter), but then you buy the full edition and you cannot stop. Bass line on [...]

So, the birthday gift my Mom got me — the iPod Touch — arrived yesterday, and since then, I’ve been downloading apps like they’re going out of style. I’ve got news ones, fitness ones, games for the train, etc. But just now … I found the one that will totally cement my destiny in life [...]

Part of the nightly routine in the Malaysian hut is G4‘s programming block called “Junk Food TV.” (Look, I’ve never claimed this is the blog of a highly cultured television critic. Truth be told, I would be a great television critic — if it was 1987 and I could talk about the latest plot developments [...]

You know, I’d like to consider myself a pretty savvy consumer. Sure, you put something on TV and sell it for $19.95, I’m going to be interested. Chances are, I’m going to be totally convinced I really need it. (I’m looking at you, Slap Chop.) I’m a (reasonably) smart enough consumer, also, to recognize how [...]

Oh, Samsung. You are so on my list. Yesterday, after referring to a run-in with PNC that made me “want to drink and punch a kitten in the face,” I made this picture in Photoshop. Later, I was telling my friend Michael I needed to save this picture to bring out for the posts I [...]

So, this year for Christmas, my Mom got both my sister and me a Slap Chop. This, naturally, excited me far more than it excited my sister because I am a complete sucker for anything sold on television for $19.95. In case you’re one of six people in the world who don’t know about the [...]

In the magic Inbox, I learned of this drink — the Black Friday Cocktail — which bills itself as the perfect way to end your shopping day. For those of you who may want to try this (and given that about 95 percent of my traffic from Google searches comes from people searching for “Three [...]

From the “Products you probably figured existed, but you didn’t want to know about anyway” file: Wow. From promotional language: Simply put, GoGirl is the way to stand up to crowded, disgusting, distant or non-existent bathrooms. It’s a female urination device (sometimes called a FUD) that allows you to urinate while standing up. It’s neat. [...]