As you and your date talk, laugh, and discuss lighter topics, it’s inevitable that he or she will, at some point, ask you a “tough” question. These inevitable questions can take many forms and they are too numerous to list here. Often, you’ll just have to do the best you can with the question and then, after the date, plan to answer it better the next time you’re asked it. The principle to remember is this: be honest – tactfully honest. Each question is an opportunity to reveal something about yourself that will make you more attractive. Let’s take a look at one of the more common ones.

“So, what kind of work do you do?”

You’ll want to have an answer ready in advance for this one. The essence of answering this question effectively is to describe what you do in one or two sentences. A great way to look at it is: answer the question in a way so that an eight-year-old would understand you, and then say, “Cool!” Saying that you’re a “project manager” or a “systems engineer” doesn’t really tell the other person much. Try something along the lines of, “You know how online sports betting is really popular now? I write the software that makes it work.” If you’re unemployed, in school, or working what you consider to be a menial job, you can still answer this question effectively. “I’m working as a waiter while I’m getting my MBA,” or “I’m interviewing for a public relations position.” If you really are unemployed, of course, it’s best to get some job – any job, not only to increase your self-respect and income, but to help you answer this question! Present yourself in the best possible light, just as you dress and style your hair to make you look your best.

Nintendo has been around for what seems like forever. Who doesn’t love the original Super Mario, and the classics like Zelda and Metroid? Satoru Iwata, the President of Nintendo doesn’t want to merge with any phone devices. As of now, Nintendo is doing fine and Iwata doesn’t see any mobile phone as a competitor.With all the apps the Iphone offers including a large variety of advanced and cheap games on the go, Iwata is going to have to consider mobile phone reviews and merge with a device of choice.

Nintendo DS and PS3 are awesome but they are expensive and can only be played at home. The Iphone not only has multiple games to choose from but the all the games can be played anywhere. They go where the Iphone goes. The Iphone also has a clear touch screen which makes playing games easy.

Perhaps and incentive to get Nintendo on board for the merge would be necessary. Iphone although great as is, could come out with a new phone capable of everything it already has consisting of storing and buying music, keeping up with business, internet, and endless applications however, the new phone would be specific to gamers and have a wider screen. The new phone geared toward gaming could also have a built in mini control similar to a sliding keypad that could pop out the side.

Some issues would be things such as the Iphone’s battery life. How impressive would the controller inputs be in an Iphone. Would they actually be worth it or would they realistically be pretty lame causing true gamers to want to stick to the game counsels?

Talk about technology making life easier for the inhabitants of this planet! Want to smoke now and not worry about cancer or tuberculosis? Want to walk into a crowded room and smoke without being worried about getting kicked out of the room? Want to smoke carefree not unduly bothered about the tar corroding your lungs? Technology can help you do all that. Smoke E-cigarettes of electronic cigarettes. The electric cigarette is probably the invention of the century for all smokers who don’t want to quit smoking but want a healthier alternative and to all smokers who want to quit smoking but are unable to do so.

What is an E-cigarette or electronic cigarette? An E-cigarette is a battery operated device that looks and feels like a conventional tobacco cigarette and which works by releasing small doses of nicotine to the smoker by vaporizing a nicotine-chemical solution present in the device. The E-cigarette is designed to look just like a real cigarette and some E-cigs even feel like real cigarettes, especially the ones from Cigarti. How does an E-cigarette work? The E-cigarette consists of three main parts: mouthpiece or cartridge, heating element or atomizer, and the battery and electronic parts.

When a smoker inhales or sucks on the mouthpiece of the E-cigarette, electronic sensors located inside the device activate the atomizer, which in turn vaporizes the nicotine solution in the cartridge. This vapor is inhaled by the smoker and the vapor is without the harmful substances present in conventional cigarettes such as tar, carcinogens and carbon-monoxide. The result is a much less dangerous smoke to people that smoke and to everyone around them. This is the technology behind E-cigarettes, and this is the technology that hopefully will bring down cancer, tuberculosis and all smoking related illnesses.

Sometime you need to express your inner geek. Some people express it by dressing up in costumes and some take it down a notch and wear one of these cool t-shirts below:

I Google Myself When I Am Alone

And your mother said you would go blind….

You Looked Better On Myspace

We all know a photo can hide a 1000 things about a person, especially on Myspace

I’m Huge On Twitter

Let everyone know your Twitter status

Digg This!

The iconic Digg shirt, always a geek classic

The Ultimate Reddit T-Shirt

Wear the Reddit code of arms and show your support for the anti-hispter movement

Nice <body>

Get yourself a cute geek girl that gets your inner geek

I Can Haz Cheezeburger

Whats a list of Geek tshirts with out a LOLCat?

EFF.Org – NSA Spy T-Shirt

Show your support for a FREE internet by wearing this EFF t-shirt

Oh Yeeeeaaaah!!

Think Web 2.0 is awesome? And You like Kool-Aid? Then have the perfect solution for you

I Am A Registered Hex Offender

A non-chalant way to let people know their wi-fi and blue tooth devices are not safe around you

Don’t see a t-shirt that fits you inner geek or nerd? There a many online t-shirt printing companies that can satisfy your needs. Grab your favorite design, find a cool t-shirt printer and make your own! Who knows, maybe other people will like it and you can earn yourself some internet monies.

Performance enhancing drugs are not the sole properties of athletes, body builders, and sportspersons anymore. They have made deep inroads into college campuses all over America, and they are being taken by the nerdy bookworm as well as the devil-may-care attitude student. Amphetamines like Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta are popular choices of students who want to get higher grades in their exams. For the lesser academically inclined, these prescription drugs give them the added boost to study longer and harder. For the gifted, these are just supplements to stay awake all night and get better grades than before. In fact, it has become the culture in many a campus in America to pop these pills come exam time.

Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta are prescription drugs that sold legally everywhere in America, and they are prescribed by doctors to treat a condition called Attention Deficit Disorder Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is a condition that is responsible for low levels of concentration, attention disorder, and high levels of energy. In short, students with ADHD will have problems sitting through to study for long hours because their minds will not permit them to focus on what they are studying and will be distracted at the slightest external interference. What these drugs do is delay the onset of sleep and increase concentration levels. Much similar to a strong dose of coffee or a can of Red Bull in effects, these drugs can help a student stay awake for long hours in the night.

High competition levels, peer pressures, parental and teacher pressures, and high expectations among the students themselves contribute to systemic abuse among the student community. The easy availability and the legal status of the drugs, unlike cocaine, crack, ecstasy, or other drugs, also contribute to the mass abuse. The college campuses are peddling joints as many students with ADHD problems, who have ready stocks of these pills, sell their pills to others at rates that range from 5$ to 10$ a pill. Many students even find ways to get a prescription from the doctor citing problems that are the same as the symptoms of genuine ADHD.  Among the general populace, Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta are used by people who lead fast lifestyles that demand staying awake all night to party or to work.

Many pro-gamers are also users of these drugs, and they feel that using these drugs enhances their gaming performance, put off fatigue, increase reflexes and mental alertness through increased concentration levels. A lot of gamers stay awake all night to play games over the internet, and many of them end up being addicted to both gaming and these drugs. The huge prize money some of the games on the internet offer are also another motivation for these people to try amphetamines like Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta.

Overall, Ritalin Adderall, and Concerta are prescription drugs, strictly to be taken under the instructions of a doctor, and they are never to be over used or abused. These drugs can also have dangerous side effects just as the performance enhancing drugs, steroids, and supplements, which body builders, athletes, and sports persons take. Insomnia, fatigue, irritation, and aggressiveness are common once the initial buzz feeling wears off, and constant use can raise the blood pressure, heart rate, and sometimes even be the cause of a heart condition called Arrhythmia, which sometimes can be even fatal. That said; apart from the dangers for one’s health that these drugs pose, is it fair to gain an advantage over others by getting better grades or beating others at games by using these drugs is the moot question? If you or someone you know needs helps please contact your local drug rehab.

A Short Video On The DangersOf ADHD Medication & Abuse

There are more than a billion internet users in the world today, of which, there are about 300,000,000 serious online gamers. That’s terrific news for the online gaming industry. In spite of the economic slowdown, there is no big impact on the gaming figures, and the top ten video games continue to make huge revenues. Although, there have been no big gains for the industry in 2009 so far, there is no serious plunge in the business, and the reason for the slow growth could be attributed to the non-availability of newer versions, or the slow response from the gaming industry to the wishes of the gaming aficionados.

However, it should be said that the best selling video games in 2009 are continuing their good run because of the features they offer like easy usability, extra features, upgrade options, multimedia capabilities, themes, and costs. There are many different types of video games from first person shooter to online dress up games that are doing terrific business in 2009. Video games such as Street Fighter IV, Halo Wars, Resident Evil 5, Call of Duty, Killzone 2, Resident Evil 5, Mario Kart, Pokemon Platinum Version, Wii Play, and Wii Fit are the top favorites among boys, while dress up games seem to be doing tremendously well with the girls.

The increase in sales in the girls’ section could be due to the increase in numbers of female gamers this year, and also due to the many options and features that many online gaming companies make available in their respective versions of dress up games. Also, parents of little girls seem to be endorsing and encouraging such video gaming activities of the children because video games such as dress up games are clean fun minus the violence of popular video games. Dress up games can be a family activity, too, as a mother and child can participate in a gaming session without qualms. With options available for playing online, or for downloading onto the computer, cellular phone and IPod; dress up games are surely on the way to becoming top video games in sales in the coming years.

Asus, the leader in the global manufacture of netbooks announced only four days ago that it’s teaming up with Disney, the world-famous animation giant, to come up with a netbook aimed at kids between the ages of 6 and 12. They have christened their joint offering the Netpal.

Both the Disney logo on the lid and the two colors the netbook will be made available in – magic blue and princess pink – are bound to draw the attention and desire of kids the world over. Parents wary of getting their tiny tots hooked on to the dangerous internet, need not worry, as these ultraportables come equipped with 40 comprehensive parental control features which allow them to monitor and easily control the content their kids view online as well as the people they get in touch with via email. Parents will also be able to have a say in when the netbooks are used by making use of the calendar feature.

Available with either a 16 GB SSD or a 160GB HDD, these Intel Atom N270 netbooks come equipped with 1GB RAM, and 8.9”WSVGA displays that possesses a resolution of 1024×600. They are also Wifi enabled. All other features are on par with other netbooks of the Eee PC line and include among other things 3 USB ports, 2 audio jacks, 1 VGA and 1 LAN port. Built-in speakers, 0.3 MP webcamera and an SDHC supported SD and MMC reader form other significant features.

What will make these netbooks a kid’s delight are the pre-loaded Disney websites and user interface. Kids can browse these sites using the many attractive Disney browser themes which feature age-old Disney favorites as well as a whole range of other Disney characters. Attractive 2D menu options have been designed to make the website accessing process fun and friendly for little ones. As they grow older kids will also be able to make use of the alternate Windows XP home edition OS that comes installed.

Both the SSD and the HD versions promise a battery life of 5 hours. The former weighs 1kg while the latter adds about 200 gms on account of the HDD, batteries included.

The Disney Netpal is all set for a late July entry into the market and will be sold via both the Amazon website and Toys “R” Us retail stores. They are estimated to be priced at $349.99.

Take your kiddo to the toy store next month and don’t be surprised if you end up buying him a Mickey Mouse covered Disney Netpal.

There are tons of programs out there that do the same thing your paid or ad covered ones do for free. Or if you are a windows hater rebel who refuses to follow the crowd these are perfect for you. I challenge anyone who feels a free version can never be as good as a paid version of a program to give these alternatives a shot.

Pidgin

Most IM clients are already free but popular ones like aim are covered in annoying advertisements and always open up the aim homepage when they open. Pidgin has no ads, is much lighter on system resources and also handles a large number of clients so there is no need to have 5 different ones installed on your pc

AbiWord

A much more light weigh word processor with more features and less system use, it sounds too good to be true. Running Microsoft word takes around 30mb of RAM where AbiWord uses less than 6mb. One of the best features is as the window you are using it in is made smaller so you can multitask the text is made smaller so you never have to scroll left and right to see the whole document.

Gimp

Switching from Photoshop to gimp is very easy, most all of the same tools are there but just sorta tucked away in a new location. A few hours learning curve is worth the few hundred dollars you will save and there are some neat extra features that photoshop doesn’t have as well.

ThunderBird

There are probably a thousand reasons why you should not use Microsoft Outlook. Besides all the design flaws, low productivity, and exorbitant price it is a not so secret passage for viruses onto your PC. When worms and viruses are being created and embedded into image and attachments they are created to exploit wholes in Outlook to get into your machine. Thunderbird is much more secure and a smaller user base so less viruses are created for it.

Open Office

A free, open source complete office suite with all of the same features as Microsoft’s but with the better system performance that comes from open source engineering. Microsoft Office is pricey to start with but when you consider the costs of upgrading to the newest version every few years it’s outrageous. All Open Office updates are free and completely compatible with Microsoft Office.

FireFox

Firefox has grown so much in the last few years that it is practically main stream but it is still worth noting.  If you are still using internet explorer hurry up and pull your head out of the ground and download it. Everything will explain itself in the five minutes to follow.

AVG Free

Tired of those annoying pop-up telling you that your Norton Antivirus subscription has ran out and it is time to pay to download the newest version. Well uninstall it and try out AVG Free. It has some of the largest virus definition files available and is actually more accurate at identifying viruses than Norton.

7zip

If you don’t like the way windows handles its own zip files or are tired of hitting the button that ask to find a program that can open this file on the internet try this file extractor that handles many different file types.

Foxit Firefox PDF Plug-in

Adobe reader takes forever and a day to load and uses a ton of resources. When you are trying to view a pdf on the web you have to wait for it to start. Foxit is a pdf plugin for firefox that allows you to quickly view pdf’s within the browser.

Ubuntu

When you are finally tired of all the over priced programs and ready to be done with it for good it is time for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a Linux based Operating System. 98% of the software made for it is free and open source so you would actually have to hunt for a paid version of most programs

Wanna peak into the geek culture. Wonder what a geek would do on a lazy afternoon? I’ll tell you. A true geek would dig through his garage, find a old g3 mac and a bunch of old floppy equipment and go crazy creating a strange raid array of floppies like this geek did. With almost 4mb of usable memory and transfering a mp3 in just over 30 seconds it make you wonder why we ever quit using floppies in the first place.

After Creating the floppy raid drive he has moved on to create more wierd and usless things. Check it Out Here

The New NVidia GPU is knocking Intel off their feet with the Tegra GPU that is offering HD playback with less than a watt of power. The device’s CPU leaves the Intel Atom in the dust with a lot less energy usage to boot.

At a presentation the Tegra was used to play a video from their rival Intel saying that a GPU mobile device would not support HD playback. The video was shortly followed but the HD trailer to the new Star Trek movie which played through flawlessly.

The Tegra is ARM based with 8 cores each dedicated to a separate task and when a core is not in use it is put to sleep to conserve power. This technique allows it to complete most tasks using less than 1 watt of energy. Even the Intel Ultra low Voltage processors use about 15 watts and do not perform nearly as well. Here is the breakdown of what each core is used for.

• ARM 11
• ARM 7
• GPU
• 2D Engine
• HD Video Encoder
• HD Video Decoder
• Audio
• Imaging

The Chip is so energy efficient that is could support up to 25 hours of music playback verses Intels five, ten hours of HD play back where the Atom only gets 3. This sort of power saving will make your netbooks and mobile devices even more portable than before. You won’t have to worry about bringing a charger with you, just plug it in every night like you would your cell phone.

Nvidia hopes to one day be able to create a gaming platform out of the Tegra although it is no where near Crisis standards at this time. Just to give it a little test they tried out the classic quake and were able to achieve 46 fps second which is definitely playable. The Atom Could Only Reach 17 fps.

When the first batch of these guys hit the shelves they will have a cap of 512mb of RAM and some lower end models with as little as 256mb. The effort is to keep them under $200 and they may be even cheaper with carrier discounts when you sign a contract. Because of the processor configuration they will only support Windows CE and Android which is less than exci

ting but those who have got to used them seemed to have little complaint so we will have to see.

It will be a few months before the first few go up for sale to the public but there are already a few OEM’s with working samples of what they are planning and NVidia is talking to two phone carriers who are still un-named.

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