Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers We're well aware that the phrase "unlimited" doesn't actually mean anything to cell phone providers. Unlimited data plans rarely are that. In fact, most plans come with a hard and fast cap at 5 gigabytes (GB) of data per month, and, if you exceed that limit, you'l...

Filed under: Cell Phones One of the newest weapons in the arsenal of stalkers is text messaging. Texting has two major perks for those hell-bent on harassment: the constant attachment folks have to their cell phones and the tendency of handsets to pester their owners until unopened messages are view...

Look, we like showering as much as the next guy, but we yearn for something newer, more exciting, shinier, and horrendously more expensive in the personal hygiene world. That's why we got so excited when we saw the Aquapeutics Luxury Steam Shower U6810. Now, we're sure some of you are wondering, "Wh...

Filed under: Cell Phones While not nearly as disgusting as finding a Band-Aid or (gag) a human finger in your food, we still understand why Emma Schweiger of Wisconsin was a little perturbed to find an aging Nokia cell phone in her bag of Clancy's Ripple Potato Chips. Schweiger was absentmindedly mu...

Filed under: Computers Fair or not, you've got to be very careful what you post online these days. Schools, employers, and everyone else is probably going to check out what you choose to share on social networking sites like Facebook. View Poll Sixteen-year-old Kimberley Swann learned this the hard ...

Filed under: Computers, Advice, Laptops, desktops If there's one important task computer users regularly ignore, it's backing up their data, including important items like their office documents, music, videos, and photos. Things go wrong sometimes: Computers get viruses, hard drives fail, and ex-gi...

Filed under: Computers, Celebrities, TV, Visionaries Wow, Woz... turn down the shirt a little bit buddy. Look, we're used to the Apple co-founder's eccentric ways. He rides a Segway everywhere, carries a metal business card, and has decided to lend his geek cred to the reality TV crap-fest 'Dancing ...

Filed under: Computers, MySpace Alright Christians and Catholics, you know what time it is. It's Lent time! Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season, which, for the uninitiated out there, is a period of fasting and sacrifice meant to remind the faithful of the 40 days and ...

Filed under: Cell Phones digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/02/18/teen-arrested-for-texting-in-class-hides-cell-phone-in-butt/'; While it might have been a tad on the excessive side to call the police on a 14-year-old girl for texting during class, the teen in question certainly didn't help any...

Filed under: Cell Phones, iPhone We know that you watched '21' and started wishing you could count cards and take a casino for all its worth. You probably even thought you could do it and get away with it... if it weren't for your lack of math skills standing in the way. Fortunately, we live in an a...