I don’t want to play the “peace on Earth, goodwill towards men” card but I would like the following five things, which I think would benefit other people besides just me.
1. Mandatory Online Cancellation Policies
If a company lets you sign up for service and manage your account online without talking to anybody, it should be mandatory that they let you cancel the service online too. I’m looking at you, Real Player, Sirius Satellite Radio, Comcast, almost every bank, most credit cards, Vonage, and thousands of other digital charlatans. No more using the “for your security, you must call us on the phone to cancel your account” excuse. Bullshit. If signing up online, putting our account information online, and letting us pay our bill online is safe then let us cancel online too. I’m sick of talking to retention people.
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DemystifyingDigital is a feature written by Dan Havlik, editor of DemystifyingDigital.com
If you’re scrambling to buy a holiday gift for any of your friends with a digital camera, you can’t go wrong with a portable printer. While in the past these portables were long on cuteness but short on features and print quality, the latest models from Canon, HP, and Epson rival desktop inkjets of days gone by. Best of all for anyone who’s ever mumbled “How do I get my pictures out of my digital camera?” portable printers provide a fast and easy solution for making prints. A great stocking stuffer — provided, of course, that it’s an extra large stocking.
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Let’s face it: most of us geeks want to be writers. I, personally, want to write pornographic Monchichi fan fiction, but you might have a novel in you or even a tech book. Here’s what you gotta do. Go get yourself a copy of Scrivener and start plotting out your Dune meets Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whisle Stop Cafe magnum opus. This program allows you to place all of your ideas on virtual note cards that can hold anything from character sketches to entire scenes. Mix and match all you want and buck the linear editing style we’ve all grown to hate. Because you can “fill in” your story, you don’t have to worry about looking at a long blank screen and can place your ideas into proper perspective. It’s only $39.99 online.
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Just to follow up on my Xbox 360 Elite and HD DVD player recommendation from yesterday, I wanted to recommend Assassin’s Creed for both the Xbox 360 and PS3. But it seems as though the PS3 crowd are having some troubles with Altair freezing in mid-jump along with a handful of other glitches. This, however, should not detract from the game itself, which is fantastic.
The AI in AC is unlike any I’ve seen before. For example, if you’re walking through a crowd and bump into someone a little too hard then the surrounding guards will take notice and come pummel your ass. On the other hand, you can easily find allies within that same crowd that will help you escape. I can’t stop playing it and any plans I have for the night have been forgotten or rescheduled. The introduction alone is worth the money.
Game play is smooth and graphics are wicked crisp. The story line is very intriguing and without doing any prior research into the game it caught me off guard. You don’t need me to really review this for you. The hype is well deserved and it’s just that damn good. Take a Leap of Faith or grab a Gamefly subscription and check it out.
BTW- Ubisoft is looking into the glitches for the PS3, but it just goes to show you that the Xbox 360 far superior. Heh.
I never thought I’d see the day that I stopped throwing down $2 (minimum) for a strong cup of coffee at the local coffee shop. Now, I throw down $8 for an entire bag of beans and have my coffee waiting for me in the morning-time.
Here’s what’s great about this machine. You put the beans in the built-in grinder, it grinds them into a fine powder, and makes the coffee. That’s it. It’s simple. It takes under a minute to get everything ready to go and then the coffee’s ready shortly thereafter. It’s delicious, too. So delicious that I’ve stopped using creamer altogether.
The carafe keeps the coffee warm for hours and there’s a permanent filter so you don’t have to keep buying the paper ones. At $150, it’s a bit on the expensive side but it’s totally worth it if you drink coffee every day. There’s a timer function, too, so you can (say it with me) set it, and forget it. You’ll wake up in the morning to some delicious, delicious coffee.
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We’re not too keen on gift guides here at CrunchGear and it’s probably more painful and tedious than writing up the latest Hello Kitty contraption. Alas, we don’t have much of a choice so here’s my gift guide where I’ll cover the be all and end all of gear bags, a variety of phones from all the major carriers, a few gaming recommendations and my choice of DSLRs. Keep your fingers crossed, folks. It’s gonna be a wild and crazy ride. 
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Askmen.com got their top 10 hottest tech women of 2007 all wrong when they failed to include geeksugar, in my honest opinion. Anyhoo, geeksugar put together a gift guide for the geeky girl in your life and you should probably pay attention since we all know you’re scrambling around trying to figure out what her cup size is and whether she likes edible panties. To each his own, but these are some sure fire ways to score brownie points with the little lady. Geeksugar does a great job covering the basics from condoms for the BB Pearl to a fashionable Kodak camera wallet to a Mango Tango Faux Croc Laptop Bag. Check it out and you’ll thank her later. Trust me. 
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