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High Tech Turns Bathrooms Into Spas

High Tech Turns Bathrooms Into Spas

The two most vital rooms in a home for women are the kitchen and the bathroom.  The two most important rooms for men are the – game room, entertainment room, office, den, man cave or whatever he chooses to call that special room where he kicks back with a beer and remote control in hand [...]

High Tech Suits Help 2010 Winter Olympians Compete

Today’s Olympic athletes are world class competitors, and often the winning margins are so slight that any edge can have major consequences at the time of competition. As we saw with the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the infamous Speedo LZR Racer suits contributed greatly to having a competitive edge.
With that knowledge, it should come to no [...]

Windows 7 Tablet Perks Infographic

Windows 7 Tablet Perks Infographic

Windows 7 continues to build on the tablet capabilities that we first saw on Windows XP. We have an infographic that details some of the new (and improved) tablet features that you will find with the latest from Redmond, Windows 7.

Budget Friendly Tech Gift Ideas

Budget Friendly Tech Gift Ideas

Everyone knows that tech gifts make some of the really coolest gifts to give out as Christmas presents. But, with the current state of the economy as it is, I proposed to myself a challenge: To find respectable tech gifts for $20 or less. I know what you are thinking – the words “tech gift” and “$20 or less” go together about like Macs and plentiful FPS games, but nonetheless I believe that such a thing is possible.

20 Gift Ideas For The Hard To Buy For In Your Life

20 Gift Ideas For The Hard To Buy For In Your Life

My favorite holiday of the year is Christmas.  The sounds of holiday music in the air.  The smells of Christmas cookies baking in the oven.  All the festive decorations to behold and the malls and shops with their hustle and bustle of shoppers looking for that special gift… how could you not get in the [...]

Insane Gadgets or Genius: You Be The Judge

Insane Gadgets or Genius: You Be The Judge

So many times you see or hear about a new gadget that makes you say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” And then there are times when we hear about a new gadget and say, “What the heck were they thinking?”… Some of these gadgets seem crazy, silly and downright insane; yet, some seem quite ingenious. Check these gadgets out and tell us what you think – insane or genius?

Computers Gone Bad – The Best Movie Computer Villains

With the advent of computers, came a fear that they would somehow develop human capabilities and turn on us. Hollywood capitalized on this idea… and thankfully we have these great ‘Computers Gone Bad’ movie computer villains… From the classic, Dr. Strangelove to the Terminator movies, here are some of the best computer villains:

13 Crucial Wordpress Plugins for SEO and Networking

13 Crucial Wordpress Plugins for SEO and Networking

The Wordpress.org plugin directory contains 6,889 plugins as of today, October 13, 2009. Nearly 55 million plugin downloads have gone through the Wordpress system. With that many choices available, how is one to know which are the best for their blog, and which are beat? Everyone wants plugins that will help boost [...]

40 Geek Gals and Why We Love Them

40 Geek Gals and Why We Love Them

40 of the best geek gals you’re ever likely to find… some paved the way for us to let the geek inside us out. From past to present and from the real to fictional – check out these geek gals…

14 Mac Safari Plugins That Won’t Cost You a Cent

14 Mac Safari Plugins That Won’t Cost You a Cent

Some Mac users love Safari. Others see it as the bane of internet browsers. Some use it out of respect for the Apple brand – it’s what comes on the machine, so it is pure Mac. Some use it because they appreciate its simplicity. Some hate it for the same reasons; [...]

25 Geek Guys and Why We Love Them

25 Geek Guys and Why We Love Them

Times have changed. Now men are proud to be referred to as geeks. Geeks are cool. Geeks are sexy. Check out these 25 geeks and why we love them.

and it’s Goodbye from me…

After 2 years at the helm of iGadgetLife.com, I have decided to call it a day and sell the site and handover to some new owners.
It’s been great fun, I have met some brilliant people, been to some cool places and of course been able to play with some great gadgets!
This isn’t the end for [...]

Happy New Year from iGadgetLife

To all my readers I’d like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.
I wonder what wondrous Gadgets 2009 will bring us?

GooSync Review & Giveaway

GooSync Review & Giveaway

Since my previous post on Google Calendar Sync, I have been using GooSync to sync my Google Calendar to my N95 for the last couple of weeks.  I have to say that I have been very impressed with the simplicity of it all..
The free product allows syncing of one calendar with entries 30 days in [...]

New Look

If you have been browsing iGadgetLife this weekend, you may have noticed that some things may have looked a little odd. This was down to some major changes to the look and feel of the site. To be honest I was never very happy with the old look since the site re-brand last [...]

Merry Christmas

I just wanted to wish all my readers here at iGadget Life a great Christmas!
I hope you all get lots of exciting new mobiles and gadgets! (as do I!)

Transformers on DVD for £9.99

Transformers on DVD for £9.99

What has to be the best movie of the year, if not some, is now available for pre-order from play.com for only £9.99 (including postage)!

Sadly you’ll have to wait until 3rd December to get those awesome autobots from Transformers on your small screen!  Personally I can’t wait.
The half-price offer is limited, so like me. get [...]

I’m Back!

Hi Guys,
Sorry it’s been a little bit quite recently, I escaped the miserable British weather for the hotter climes of Turkey for 2 weeks.  The day after my arrival back, I was invaded by family, so have not had time to catch up with by blogging for 3 weeks…
What have I missed anything exciting?

Teething Trouble

Teething Trouble

It would appear that things haven’t been as successful as I first thought with the migration to the new site. For some reason WordPress decides to revert to the standard (boring) default theme every-so-often. I have yet to figure out why this is happening. Odd as it was working fine in a [...]

New Name, New Look

As you may have noticed the site has a brand new name iGadget Life! and for those of you reading via RSS it also has a bit of a new look too..
igadgetlife.com was started way back in February 2004 as somewhere I’d share my passions for all things gadgetty. Recently though things have gotten a [...]

Sorry for the small outage!

I just upgraded my site to the newly released WordPress 2.2 – which managed to break my K2 Template.  A bit of poking around in the template code and all appears to be back to normal..
Let me know if you see things that aren’t working as expected.
Neil.

R.I.P. Stew Bunny

Stew and Harvey in the garden together last weekend. Filmed on my N95 (of course!)

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play_blip_movie_222787(); Sadly Stew’s health (the rabbit) suddenly and unexpectedly deteriorated this week and it was noticed on Wednesday that he was very subdued. Initially we thought it was down to the exceptionally hot weather we have [...]

Feel Festive with Debenhams

Feel Festive with Debenhams

Feeling festive yet? No, me neither.. Two weeks today till the big day and I still have a ton of Christmas shopping still to do…

For those of you who need to get into the festive spirit, Debenhams have something free to get you on your way.. Remember the remixed Santa Baby song used in the [...]

links for 2006-07-26

BlueHarvest: Manage DS_Store, resource forks, Trashes and more.
(tags: apple hack osx filesystem mac software tools)

OSXFAQ – Technical News and Support for Mac OS X
(tags: apple hack mac osx finder)

dabble | launchpad
(tags: video vlog community)

Raging Menace – MenuMeters
(tags: apple mac osx software tools Utilities monitor)

links for 2006-07-21

NODE101
(tags: Blog video community vlog media videoblog)

Current TV // The TV Network Created By The People Who Watch It
(tags: tv video videoblog vlog media)

Minty Results

Minty Results

I have to say that my purchase of Mint was the best $30 I have spent!
My webstats are so much easier to read now – and the information that can be gained from the additional Peppers is just facisaniting. For instance – on Tues when I checked, I had some hits from Beirut, Lebanon [...]

Free Landline & Mobile Calls from Gizmo Project

Free Landline & Mobile Calls from Gizmo Project

Looks like the VoIP wars are starting to hot up with the announcement that the Gizmo Project now have free calls to landlines and mobiles with their ‘All Calls Free’ plan.
The Gizmo Project All Calls Free plan allows you to make free phone calls to other active Gizmo Project users in 60 countries around [...]

Hellodeo Launches

Hellodeo Launches

For a very quick and simple way to send somebody a video message, check out hellodeo.

The great thing about Hellodeo is that all you need is a webcam and and web browser! No special software installs required. Using the Flash recorder and player on the Hellodeo homepage, you can quickly record your message, upload [...]

Five Day Giveaway

Five Day Giveaway

Everyday this week I am giving away a free invisibleSHIELD* to one lucky reader.
Yes, I liked the invisibleSHIELD that I reviewed here so much that I’ve teamed up with the folks at Shieldzone so that five lucky readers can protect their own gadgets with an invisibleSHIELD of their choice*.

If like me, you like to keep [...]

links for 2006-07-16

Hellodeo
(tags: Blog video odeo webcam flash)

iPod Transmitters to become legal in UK

Looks like the way-out-of-touch UK law that currently means that devices like the iTrip are illegal is set to change at the end of this year.
The law dating back to 1949(!) is finally being brought up-to-date by UK communications regulator Ofcom and should be in place by December. Currently the law prevents devices broadcasting FM [...]

Feeds Have Been Moved

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http://feeds.feedburner.com/nechbi

links for 2006-07-13

theory.isthereason
(tags: Blog technology)

PaulStamatiou.com – tech news/reviews/guides
(tags: technology blog)

O’Reilly Network Weblogs: Quartz Composer iSight Prank
(tags: isight video osx hack apple quicktime quartz)

New Look Complete

Well the transition to WordPress from MovableType has gone pretty smoothly. I am very happy with the results and am liking the way that the site looks, I hope that you do too. I have had to make some major changes to the way the site was structured from when is was driven [...]

Mint Widgets

I love my Mint installation – it’s such a great web stats solution. It’s great watching what people are looking at, where they came from and where they go.
Of course I can’t sit and look at the stats page all day long, there is another way to see activity using Mint Junior, a Dashboard [...]

I’ve Gone All Minty!

I’ve Gone All Minty!

I hate SPAM!!
It’s just everywhere. You get it in your emails, I’ve had it in my website comments and trackbacks, now they are driving me mad in my website stats.
I think that website statistics are fascinating – it’s so interesting to see what people are looking at and how they get to my website. [...]

Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Now Available

Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Now Available

Yes folks the waiting is now over, the beta 1 release of Firefox 2.0 is now available for download. Although not publically announced on the Mozilla website the files are all live on their FTP Server.
Featuring a built-in spell-checker (a must-have for us bloggers!), a phishing filter, built-in session restore, more control of those tabs [...]

Free Zooomr Pro Account

Watch out Flickr here comes Zooomr!
Zooomr are currently giving away free Pro Accounts to bloggers who sign-up and start using them.
Here is my first upload, a picture of Harvey taken last night waiting patiently for food during a BBQ!

nechbi.com goes WordPress

As you will probably have noticed things have changed a little over the last couple of days. I have decided to ditch MovableType and move my blog across to WordPress. I have been toying with the idea of doing this for some months now, after a couple of test installations on my server, [...]

Feeds have been moved

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Please point your readers to http://feeds.feedburner.com/nechbi.