Week In Review: Week Ended October 27th

Here is a complete review of the past weeks post.  More to come this week with some more Halloween Freebies, Tech News, How-to's and other good stuff for you.  Don't miss another post - Subscribe in an RSS feed reader or subscribe by e-mail

• Where Art Thou Perfect Mobile Phone? Is There A Mobile Phone Holy Grail?

  I have a confession.  I'm a gadget junkie with a very non-techie mobile phone.  I've been sitting on the sidelines while purchasing a Blackjack for my wife, watching many of my coworkers love their Blackberry Phones and drooling over the iPhone's cool user interface and the N95 neat…

 

• 30 Halloween Themed Wallpapers / Backgrounds for your Computer

Looking to spice up your computer desktop with a Halloween-themed Wallpaper/Background for you Computer?  Flickr's Wallpaper and Background's Group has 30 excellent Halloween Backgrounds for your PC all free for you to use on your PC. …

• Contributing to ZatzNotFunny Blog

  If you've found BrentEvans Geek Tonic Blog by way of ZatzNotFunny.com welcome!  And if your a subscriber of my GeekTonic Blog here, I recommend you add ZatzNotFunny to your must-read sites .  If your not familiar with the ZatzNotFunny blog read the about page . I've been a subscriber and…

• Make Your Own Halloween Hologram

  Want to make a hologram illusion on the cheap for a cool Halloween decoration? Watch this overview that shows the hologram in action as well as how it is made. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO The entire how-to on making a hologram is over at Instructables. Definitely one of the better instructables I've…

• Track The Wildfires in California Mashup & Photo Sites

  News about the recent wildfires across California have hit the Internet by storm.  Twitter, bloggers, forums, and Flickr all have activity about the fires in California. Robert Scoble points out a Google Maps Mashup (see screen-shot below) showing the many places in California that are burning. …

• TV News: Two Cancellations- Update on New Shows & Writers Strike

  After only two episodes, the new CBS TV Show Viva Laughlin has been canceled .  A CSI rerun will replace it this week and then the Amazing Race will fill that Sunday timeslot beginning November 4th.  The reality show Nashville was also officially canceled (it had been pulled from its timeslot…

• Beyond Nielsen TV Ratings - TV Viewing Statistics From Non-Nielsen Places

  Nielsen , TIVO and Snapstream Media .  One of those three names is well known for tracking television viewership, but the other two: TIVO and Snapstream Media (the makers of the Beyond TV DVR software) are not as well known in this realm, but offer a more transparent  and relatively useful…

• Watch Ripped DVD's Using Front Row

  One of the most popular features of my Home Theater PC at home is it's ability to play movies stored right on our HTPC - no need to find the DVD disk and load it into the DVD Player because it's already there on the HTPC and you can pull it up from a menu of the movies stored there.  Well…

• 30-Plus Sites For Free Halloween Jack O Lantern Templates

  The Internet has a vast supply of resources for every occasion and Halloween is no different.  I've compiled a list of 30 different places you will find Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns to use as Jack-O-Lantern Templates for this Halloween.  There are traditional, political, scary and fun…