Dell tells me to buy a finger print reader in order to have another color on the system

This is hilarious or there is a color technology out there that requires to scan my finger print in order to show the “bunch o surfers” or some other design on my laptop skin. Really Dell?
see it on the dell site, just select the color scheme as “bunch o surfers”

Excel Links of Week - Who is Obama edition? [Aug 12]

I use google suggest to get new post ideas, I start out by typing “what is”, “who is”, “how to”, “when is”, “where is”, “excel” and see all the suggestions Google comes up with. If I see something interesting I would mark the search topic and use it for posting here. And for the last [...]

Watch out if you are buying insurance online at GEICO - your password is not encrypted

I have noticed something totally strange while trying to get an auto insurance quote online at GEICO. See it for yourself.

They are showing your password in the URL… OMG
Make sure you don’t use the site for getting new quotes as it could be a potential privacy breach as anyone watching the URLs like [...]

Yahoo hopes to create more apps than no. of atoms in observable universe

One of the latest news is that Yahoo has launched BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) using which you can build search based apps. Being a part geek who loves to show off my part knowledge to other part geeks during parties, I went to their website to register for my own app.
The registration [...]

Vodafone - creativity gone awry

Just click those ads and tell me what you understood. Humor me, go ahead, I am waiting.
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Ok, stop scratching, you might loose more hair than the common sense brand managers at vodafone lost.
Apparently these adds convey that Vodafone has solved the unsolvable conundrum of “talk-time” or “validity” by introducing a lifetime valid pre-paid card [...]

Most bizarre print ads - Indian version

Time for another look at print ads, this time for the most bizarre of them all. Mind you, these are not awful or plain lousy ads, for any column-centimeter worth its area has a fair share of lousy ads, these are simply bizarre ads, the kind that will make you go - WTF?
The first one [...]

App. idea for iPhone developers (for other location aware phones as well)

Now that iPhone is going to have GPS built in, here is an application idea any of you iPhone app developers out there.
The idea is simple, whenever the phone-holder is driving, this app would automatically answer calls with a pre-recorded message (that can go like, “Hi.., I am driving right now, please leave a [...]