Tag: Holiday 2010
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Staff Picks: The Best Tech of 2010
The holidays are over and the new year is here, time to recover from your multiple food-induced comas and get back to work (or school). But before the year 20-double-matchsticks gets under way, we here at Techerator decided to take a look back at what 2010 brought us. So here it is: our Best Tech…
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So You Got a New Kindle for Christmas, Now What?
Like many of you lucky people out there, I got a new Kindle as a present this Christmas (thanks, Mom!). I’m an avid reader so I know I’ll make good use of it, but I’ve come up with a few simple tips that can help you get the most out of your new toy. Oh,…
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Everybody Wins When Google Teaches Your Family About Technology
Ah, the holidays. A time spent with family opening presents, reminiscing, sharing, and diagnosing any computer problems. Okay, so maybe that last one isn’t in the normal holiday routine for most people, but for all the tech gurus out there it is all too familiar. If you are like me, the holiday season is spent diagnosing…
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How I Used the Internet to Save Time and Money While Shopping
As I believe I’ve stated on most (if not all) of my past articles, I am kind of lazy. I did not line up at 2:30am on Black Friday in hopes of scoring huge deals. In addition to that, I am in college, therefore I am, let’s say, not as financially well off as I…
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Holiday Gift Guide: The Gifts You Want (But Can’t Necessarily Afford)
As Mick Jagger once said, “You can’t always get what you want.” And around Christmas time, this statement holds especially true. In a time of giving and sharing, Christmas is always about making a personal wish list, checking it twice, and waiting for the 25th to roll around to see what items can be crossed…
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Holiday Gift Guide: Something For The Whole Family Edition
For some, holiday shopping is a joyous and fun task, but for others it’s a difficult one. A lot of the difficulty stems from not knowing what to get someone. Being a person that loves shopping, let me give you a little guidance for buying gifts for the whole family. Gift Ideas for Grandparents My…
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Holiday Gift Guide: Snowboarding and Skiing Edition
Do you have a skier or snowboarder on your Christmas list, but have no idea what it means to shred the gnar or hit the deep pow? Worry not, because buying them anything on this list is sure to give them the same tingly feeling as making first tracks on virgin snow (it’s a good…
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Holiday Gift Ideas: President of Adobe Edition
Getting the right present for a special person can be a real challenge, and finding the perfect gift for President and CEO of Adobe Systems Incorporated Shantanu Narayen is no exception. This holiday season, let’s give back to Adobe what they have so generously given to us – unnecessary icons all over our desktops. (In…
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Stay connected & save: 6 tips for padding your bank account in the New Year
With the New Year just around the corner, saving money seems to be on the minds of many people. Being a graduate student, I am not among these people, because Academia pays huge sums of money for almost zero work. Let’s be serious, I’m broke, and I need to save some dough. New Years is…
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Techerator’s Holiday Gift Guide 2010
Buying gifts can be a challenge (and you don’t want to be the person that only gives gift cards for presents, do you?) so our team is putting together some great holiday gift guides this season to help you out. This list will be updated as new guides are published, so keep checking back for…