Tag: CHRISTMAS

Don't know what to get your favorite Twitter-using friend for Christmas this year? TweeSP may be able to help. It's a site that reads any user's recent tweets and uses them to make some guesses at a gift list of a dozen or so items, using data from Amazon.com. The TweeSP site doesn't reveal the algorithm behind the lists, just chalks it up to magic and meditation. How accurate is TweeSp? Well, ...

Adding to the magical wonder of Coke's 'Snow Globe Santa' Christmas commercial, Google's AdMob team has collaborated with the One True Soda Master to create a truly festive Android experience: a snow globe live wallpaper (QR code after the break). The live wallpaper -- which basically turns your Android phone into a very cute snow globe -- will be promoted via the AdMob network, which many ...

You've gone and waited until the last minute to buy the gang at the office their annual holiday gifts. Trouble is, it's too late to order something online -- and who wants to fight with holiday crowds at the mall? Wouldn't you rather just do some nice, relaxing shopping from the comfort of your cubicle? There's plenty of great stuff you can give digitally via email, Facebook, or even printed ...

Apparently, even domestic Christmas lights are controlled by computers nowadays, and hopefully, as you all know, that means they're hackable. Andrej Kyselica, a Microsoft employee, took some GE-35 Christmas lights, hooked them into a .NET Micro Framework embedded controller, took another developer's work, developed a driver -- and voila! PC-controlled Christmas lights (video after the break). ...

Ho ho ho! I remember, when I was 8, Santa called my father's mobile phone. He had a message for me, and it blew my mind. A few years later, my dad told me it was his best friend, and he had bought a new SIM card just so I couldn't trace the number! Ah, the lengths adults go to preserve the magic of Santa Claus. Today, things just got a whole lot easier. If you want to create a personalized ...

Back for its sixth year and as nerdy as ever, 24 ways gives you a delicious daily dose of design and development between the 1st and 24th of December. Almost every article has something to do with CSS or HTML, and it's definitely not targeted at beginners -- but if you work with websites, or you know someone that does, 24 ways is a must-read. The archives are fantastic, too, if only to see the ...

NORAD, the military wing in charge of defending North America from maritime and aerospace attacks, seems to have a lot of spare time on its hands. Since 1955 NORAD has tracked Santa Claus as he travels around the world delivering presents -- and since 2007, Google has also been part of the project, integrating NORAD's data with Google Maps and Earth. Basically, once Santa gets on the move -- ...

It's December 1, and time for the countdown-to-Christmas giveaways to begin. Sebastian already let you know about Gameloft's free-game-a-day deal, and Fontdeck is running a similar deal for font fanatics. Each day from now until December 25th, you can pick up a high-quality webfont from Adfont Calendar absolutely free. The fonts are free to use on any website that receives less than one million ...

Gameloft, one of the biggest mobile game developers in the world, is giving away a "special gift" every day, from today until Christmas. All you have to do is follow Gameloft on Twitter and keep an eye out for the new offer each day. With such a huge back catalog, it's impossible to say which games will be made available -- but as long as we get Assassin's Creed before Christmas, I'll be ...

There's no denying that Angry Birds is an addictive little game -- and an unbelievably popular one at that. Sales are still going strong in just about every mobile platform's app store and seasonal versions are have fans clamoring for more. Well, good news, Birds lovers! If you ponied up your hard-earned 99 cents for the iOS Halloween version you're getting a special gift in your digital stocking ...

Ahh, the spirit of Christmas! Not that I would know anything about that, actually... But if Christmas is your thing, you might enjoy Garden Gnome Carnage. Or actually, even if it's not your thing, but you just enjoy the concept of brutally flinging tiny, merry garden gnomes all over the screen to the sound of hectic 8-bit music, this may be for you. You're dangling off of a building's chimney. ...

The holidays are right around the corner, and we figured it's time to start coming up with some useful, thoughtful and hopefully interesting gift ideas for the geek (or geeks) in your life. Most of these are quite affordable, so you might not have to pick just one. Gifts that keep on giving: online subscriptions There are tons of great subscription-based online services. Picking out just a few ...

Many of you probably received a shiny, new netbook, laptop, nettop, desktop, HTPC, or something else with a CPU in it running Windows for the holidays. One thing that has come to be synonymous with new PCs is dreadful preinstalled software (nerdy types call it crapware or bloat). For the most part, the programs OEMs pack onto their systems suck. They're marginally useful at best, and just eat ...

If your idea of a great Christmas is spreading a zombie virus throughout a population of unwitting pixelated people, then Infectonator: Christmas Edition is the game for you. Lee recently told you about the original Infectonator, but this version is loaded with infectious holiday cheer! The levels may be Christmas-themed, but this Infectonator plays a lot like the original: just click to drop ...

You don't want to mess with Serious Santa. When evil goblins break into Santa's workshop and kidnap his elves, Santa breaks out the big guns and goes to war. This Santa is not the "right jolly old elf" from The Night Before Christmas, this Santa is a rifle-and-rocket-launcher-toting elf who's out to kick some serious goblin booty. Unlike Serious Sam - which seems like Serious Santa's ...