Hasta La Gadget!

You may remember the meme created by this nominee for GIF of the year.

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While there’s no award just yet for outstanding achievement in the field of procrastination, The .GIFYs may just be the closest thing.

A top contender for a .GIFY in the 'WTF' category.

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Sponsored by advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, The .GIFYs call themselves “the first ever awards honoring the animated GIF as a medium, social commentary and art form” with nominations in categories including sports, news and politics, WTF, and of course the venerable “cats” genre.

Five or six GIFs were nominated in each of 12 categories, including “GIF of the Year,” by a panel of 15 of the Internet’s greatest enablers of procrastination from sites like Buzzfeed, Tumblr, and GIFPop. In addition to plenty of cats, Oprah, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Kanye West are among the celebrities who make appearances in the nominated GIFs.

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Is there anything worse than your cell phone dying right when you need it the most? I don’t know about you, but it seems like I can yap all day on a single charge, unless I have some sort of emergency. Flat tire, stuck in traffic… on my way to the hospital. Inevitably, when I really need the darn phone, it’s dead. Lately, there happens to be a very nice selection of ways to keep your tech charged, so dead phones are becoming thing of the past.

Check out the Plug Purse, a very inexpensive solution to your problem, the Plug Purse is a small wristlet style purse, with a mobile phone charger built right inside. Plug Purse has everything you want from a little handbag, in that it’s small, but has enough room to carry most of your essentials. Use it as your everyday bag, or if, like me, you like to haul around more stuff, use it as a wallet and cell phone holder. The Plug Purse has a rechargeable internal battery that holds enough power to completely recharge your cell phone, and the internal power cord is built right in so you’ll never lose it, and it is compatible with virtually all cell phones.

So if you want a cute, convenient and very affordable phone charging option that you’re not likely to forget when you leave the house, get yourself the Plug Purse. The Plug Purse will hold your keys, makeup, checkbook and credit cards with ease, recharges easily via USB, and comes in your choice of black, pink, teal, red or brown. All for under 20 bucks, at plugpurse.com
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Do you dream a whole lot? If you have answered in the affirmative, then you would know that sometimes, there will be dreams where you know that you are dreaming and yet also remain in control, while in other dreams, you feel powerless – extremely powerless, and cannot wait to wake up. Well, Kickstarter did carry the Aurora Dream-Enhancing Headband project that has now been fully funded, and what makes this particular device so special is, this device will be able to let you gain control of your dreams.

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It seems like everybody knows better about passwords, but not everybody behaves better. SplashData’s list of the worst passwords of 2013 has given the easy-to-crack “123456” the crown as the most common bad password of last year. It took out rival (and equally bad) “password” to claim the throne.

The fact that this list exists is thanks to all those people who still use simple, hackable passwords despite repeated warnings to shape up and get complicated with those valuable strings of letters and numerals. It’s not just a few people using passwords like “123456,” it’s millions. The list was compiled using data dumps of stolen passwords that have been posted online.

It’s time to fess up about your password patterns. You may be a security-minded type with unique, tricky passwords that you change often. You may throw your hands in the air and just not care. Perhaps you think “password123456” will do the trick.

Vote in our poll and talk it out in the comments. If your passwords are brilliantly complex ciphers, how do you remember them? Do you maintain a hierarchy of passwords ranging from simple to more complex depending on what’s being protected? You may even be so bold as to admit to being one of those “123456” people. Let’s hear it.

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