DeGeeked.com Snuggie™ / ShamWow® Sweepstakes

You may think we’re crazy, but we’re giving away arm loads of Snuggies and Shamwows over at DeGeeked! The contest just started, so head on over there for all the details on the DeGeeked.com Snuggie™ / ShamWow® Sweepstakes.

Prizes

Snuggle up to these prize packages! There are seven, count ‘em, seven winners in the DeGeeked.com Snuggie™ / ShamWow® Sweepstakes! It sells itself!

Grand Prize (1)

One lucky winner will receive:

• One genuine Designer Snuggie™ (Leopard or Zebra print)
• One genuine Snuggie™ (not Designer, but still comfy)
• One genuine ShamWow®
• Two awesome book lights

Sorta Grand Prize (3)

Three lucky winners will receive:

• One genuine Designer Snuggie™ (Leopard or Zebra print)
• One awesome book light

Pretty Grand Prize (3)

Three lucky winners will receive:

• One genuine Snuggie™ OR One genuine ShamWow®

How to Enter

You can enter the DeGeeked.com Snuggie™ / Shamwow® Sweepstakes by doing any or all of the following. The more ways you enter the more chances you have to win! (We also heard that if the response is huge, and we mean huge, more prizes might be added. Just saying…)

Complete any of the following to enter. The more of these you do, the more times you’re entered and the more chances you have to win! So, do them all!

• Tell your friends about the contest using the this form.
• Follow @degeeked on Twitter, and send us an @ reply containing the word “#SnuggieBonanza”. Make it funny or memorable – you never know, it might help.
• Become a Fan of DeGeeked on Facebook.
• Write a blog post (preferably, a positive one) about DeGeeked or the DeGeeked.com Snuggie™ / ShamWow® Sweepstakes on your blog. (Shoot us an email to make sure we notice the post.)
• Submit a question to DeGeeked.com. In the question field, include the text “#SnuggieBonanza.” And make it a real, usable question, otherwise we won’t count the entry. Be cool.

DeGeeked Holiday Tech Gift Guides

The DeGeeked elves have been hard at work this holiday shopping season, digging through tons of tech gifts scattered around the workshop to bring you a slew of tech gift guides to make your holiday gift-buying experience just that much easier.

We’ve got top 10 tech gift lists for everyone on your list – from travelers to cooks to the person who has everything. Check them all out:

• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Travelers – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Golfers – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Outdoorsmen – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Music Lovers – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Her – 2008
• Top 10 Gifts for DSLR Owners – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Environmentalists – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Cooks – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Boys
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Girls

There are also lists to fit your budget, large or small:

• Top 10 Tech Gifts under $50 for 2008
• Top 10 Gifts under $100 for the Techie in Your Life
• Top 10 Tech Gifts under $200 for 2008

We’ll continue to add more as we march through December, so make sure to check back often.

Happy shopping and happy holidays!

Long-awaited DeGeeked Tech Gift Guides

It’s been over a month since we’ve posted an update here, and we apologize for that. We’re going to make it up to you with a handful of links that will kick your holiday shopping off with a bang and save you time and money along the way.

• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Environmentalists – 2008
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Cooks – 2008
• Top 10 Gifts under $100 for the Techie in Your Life
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Boys
• Top 10 Tech Gifts for Girls

This is just the tip of the iceberg. We have more tech gift guides coming down the pike, so check back often.

DeGeeked.com now has comments!

Many of you have written in to provide extra input on some of the questions posted to DeGeeked, and we appreciate every bit of your feedback. Some of that feedback has been really good. So good that we figured the whole world should be privy to it.

That’s why we’re excited to announce the launch of user comments on DeGeeked.com today. Check out any individual post to read and post comments on that question/answer.

New DeGeeked Content Partner: DigiScrapInfo.com

The DeGeeked Crew is very pleased to announce a new content partnership with the digital scrapbooking site, DigiScrapInfo. Here’s a brief intro on them:

DigiScrapInfo.com is dedicated to bringing you information and resources for digital scrapbooking. In helping people with questions we realized a great need existed to have this information in one place. Our specialty is organizing with ACDSee Photo Manager. In addition, we provide resources on photo book printing and other online printing resources. So many places are offering printing services and we have a list to guide you in finding those resources. Lastly, we blog about tools digital scrappers will find interesting or useful.

We will be posting things over at DigiScrapInfo once a week or so to let their audience in on all our good DeGeeked tips on digital photography questions and products.

5 Wicked Awesome Photography-related Posts

It is a fact that one of the founders of DeGeeked.com has a BFA in photography from a fancy art school in New York City, so we have a pretty good idea who is behind the latest string of photography-related posts. That said, he knows his stuff, so check these out, because they are special.

• What accessories do I really need for my digital camera?
• Top 10 Photography Web Sites To Get You Started
• Top 10 Digital Cameras from Photokina 2008
• Top 10 Digital SLR Cameras

But wait, that’s only four posts. The title says “5 Wicked Awesome Photography-related Posts.” Yeah, we know, we can count. We’re the geeks, remember!

The fifth post isn’t in the above list because it wasn’t written by our resident photography expert; it was written by (and we’re very excited about this) DeGeeked.com’s very first Guest Author, Christo van Gemert! Cool, huh? You know what’s even cooler? He’s from South Africa and an actual professional writer! Here’s his very brief bio:

Christo hails from South Africa, a surprisingly tech-friendly country. He’s a journalist for Digital Life magazine, and has been writing about computers, gadgets, games and the internet since 2002. He uses a Mac and lives by the motto, “The best gadget is the one that has as much technology as is needed to get the job done.”

And without further ado, here’s Christo’s first post – and the fifth post, as promised:

• How do I know what kind of memory card to get for my digital camera?

We think Christo really hit this one out of the park, and we look forward to many more posts to come.

DeGeeked takes the mystery out of securing your wireless network

How do I secure my wireless network? Oh, if we had a million dollars for every time we heard that question! And we bet you’ve either asked it or been asked it, depending on your tech-savvy stature. No more worries, my friends. Now you have your go-to answers:

5 Steps to a Secure Wireless Network

As with all DeGeeked answers, it’s just the facts. No in-depth explanations of the relative merits of WPA and WPA2 or how encryption works or any of that. Just five (with a few more hidden within the answers) simple settings that you can flip in your wireless router to make it and your wireless network more secure. Plus, we through in some resource links for good measure.

Top 10 lists for you HDTV bargain hunters!

We know people love lists. We know people love bargains. That’s why we continue to add to DeGeeked.com’s stable of consumer electronics top 10 lists. This time, we’ve added two awesome lists related to HDTVs.

• Top 10 HDTVs under $500
• Top 10 HDTVs under $1000

So, the “under $500″ one speaks for itself. Who wouldn’t want an HDTV under $500. But the Top 10 HDTVs under $1000 contains a couple surprises.

First, all the TVs aren’t just high-def, they are 1080p high-def! Not only that, these aren’t little TVs suitable only for your half bathroom or something, they are all 32 inches or larger. Lastly, these are not off-brand, refurbished HDTVs. All are brand-names (Sharp dominates the list) and brand new TVs.

Do yourself, and your wallet, a favor. Check these lists out and buy yourself a little back to school present on the cheap.

Digital cameras, high-def video cameras, top 10 lists, oh my!

If there’s one thing we know it’s that everyone loves lists. So, we’ve added a new feature on DeGeeked. Top 10 lists! The first four are up. Here they are:

• Top 10 Digital Point-and-Shoot Cameras Under $200
• Top 10 Digital SLR Cameras
• Top 10 High Definition Video Cameras
• Top 10 Digital Point & Shoot Cameras

Check back often for more top 10 lists. And let us know in the comments what top 10 list you’d like to see.

DeGeeked.com is one month old!

DeGeeked.com launched exactly one month ago today to provide simple answers to tech questions for all those people who were tired of getting technical questions to tech questions. We’ve heard from a lot of you that our site has helped you solve a problem or answer a question you’ve had, and that makes us feel great!

But we haven’t answered all the questions in the world, yet, so we encourage you to ask us your tech question.

In case you were wondering, our most popular question to-date is: What’s the best digital camera under $200?

Thanks to all our visitors and question-submitters. We thank you for your support!