Tag Archives: Dept. of Uselessness

How I Fail at Facebook Gaming, or 'F*#$ It, I'm Screwed'

by Dina Ely
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How I Fail at Facebook Gaming, or 'F*#$ It, I'm Screwed'

Hi, I’m Dina, and I’m a serial Facebook gamer. I’ll admit it. I’m not proud, but I’m willing to own up to the occasional unfortunate side effect of my cat-killing levels of curiosity. Facebook gaming is one such effect: I marvel at the phenomenon, get swept away in the crowd of my friends peer pressuring me daily to help them build a chicken coop or drain the blood from a small child, and jump into the deep end. I go full force for a couple days, and sometimes a couple weeks…heck, two games have had my attention for a couple months…which is saying a lot. But for the most part Read more »

High Five – Left Hand, Please!

by Noemi Twigg
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High Five – Left Hand, Please!

What day is it today? Most of us will probably automatically say “It’s Friday the 13th!” Indeed, today is the only Friday the 13th of 2010. If that wasn’t special enough, today is also International Left Hander’s Day (or Lefthanders day, depending on your source). This holiday was first celebrated in August 13, 1976, due to the initiative of a group called Lefthanders International. The aim, obviously, is to further the cause of left-handers, who can be considered as minorities in this predominantly right-handed world. Read more »

Lifelogging Device For Techie Cats

by Noemi Twigg
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Lifelogging Device For Techie Cats

I’ve never been a cat person, but I cannot deny that these critters can be so cute; and there is no doubt about it – there are a lot of techies out there who are so in love with their cat pets. If you’re one of them, you will be delighted to know that Sony has just created a gadget that will allow your cat to be part of the cyberworld – through Twitter in particular. During the even Open House 2010, which took place on the 28th of May this year, Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) Inc. showed off what they call a lifelogging device for cats. The idea Read more »

Bacon on your iPhone! Yes, there's an app for. Still no cure for cancer though.

by Franky Branckaute
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After the sexy girls cleaning your iPhone screen we can announce you another useless application, game, for the iPhone: iBacon [iTunes link]. There’s not much to say about the game other than that it allows you to show off your bacon baking skills on your iPhone. And it’ll rip you off for $1.19. Dept. of Uselessness as far as I am concerned, not because we don’t like bacon here at FG. we love bacon, if used interestingly but this is just another stupid money costing app. Read more »

Sexy girls clean your iPhone screen. Or something like that.

by Franky Branckaute
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Sexy girls clean your iPhone screen. Or something like that.

If you thought we had had it with the useless iPhone apps, you are wrong. Apple long has promoted ‘There’s an app for that’ and the fun site App for That can someone bring the occasionall laugh, but sometimes things just go to far. We all know the Lightsaber now, the Cylon Detector and the different Mootools. Needs moar cowbell. Read more »

Are you serious? Music Balloon!

by Jim
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Are you serious? Music Balloon!

This portable speaker is more expensive than the iPod it’s attached to. At US$76.16 I couldn’t imagine grabbing this low-powered (0.7-watt) speaker and look the wife straight in the eye. Boy, if I did I’d surely get a black-eye for sure! LOL. With recession hitting everyone worldwide ONLY the fashionista may have the “balls” to pull this purchase. Yuen’To’s Music Balloon speaker has a rechargeable battery that lasts about 2 hours. One of the features I like would be that it can just be used anywhere as it dangles quite well. It only needs to attach itself to your MP3 player’s speaker plug. But considering it’s a mono speaker system, Read more »