Archive for January, 2008
Personalize Your Laptop For Cheap With Laptop Skins
The reason I love KoloBags is not just the style, it’s the fabulous prices. You can look tech savvy for very little. The company who is know for it’s cute and stylish tech accessories has released laptop skins. Just slap them on your your laptop and be stylish why protecting your [...]
Virtual Dressing Rooms… Have They Gotten Any Better?
Back in 2002 virtual dressing rooms hit the scene with the promise of making shopping online much easier and less scary. This fad was highly debuted in the fashion and technology world, and then, like every fad, sort of faded off the radar. The Technology Starlet decided to go into the world of [...]
Taser C2…beauty really does hurt!
Tasers, yes tasers, have turned fashionable. These little buggers are soooooo cute! Just to give you a quick overview about them:
serious take down power
maximum length of 15 feet (4.5 meters)
affects the sensory and motor functions of the peripheral nervous system
penetrate up to two cumulative inches of clothing
lightweight
four designer [...]
Hillary Clinton on technology and other issues that appeal to young adults
Ask Hillary 2, a video on YouTube, shows the candidate answering tough questions from young voters about technology for rural areas and other hot issues. Check it out below.
Samsung Makes Fashion Phone
image from mobile magazine
The SGH-L310 (left) and SGH-L320 (right) are not just fashion phones, but get this, you can create a shopping list, count calories, and have a perfume-matching system. At first I was a little put off by this, I mean, is this a phone for a house mom?
But, for skeptical techies like me [...]
Sugar Inc. & Internap Join Forces
One small step for Sugar Inc. one large step for women bloggers everywhere.
Bloggers are starting to get noticed. Internap Network Services Corporation announced that they have engaged in a contract with Sugar Inc. to provide Internet business solutions which includes managing a server and a network infrastructure to support Sugar Inc’s popular network of [...]
Women Power Bloggers: Inside the Minds of Today’s Successful Female Bloggers Pt II
<<Go To Women Power Bloggers: Inside the Minds of Today’s Successful Female Bloggers Pt I
This is part two of a two part series featuring women bloggers who have changed the way the world views them and their readers (for more background on this article read part one). I communicated with four very different women [...]
Campbell’s Soup adDRESS Your Heart Campaign
I am sooo excited about this post! February is my favorite month, not only because it’s black history month, but it’s also American Heart Month. Heart disease is the number one killer of women in America so Technology Starlet decided to find out how this cause, technology, and fashion were being used together.
I didn’t have [...]
Make Your Design Portfolio Slideshow POP For Cheap
Those who know me, know that my main focus is graphic design, I love designing and creating things using unconventional software and resources. However, my 9-5 job focuses on managing a community technology center for a non-profit organization. Working for a non-profit has taught me, and my IT staff, how to make things happen technologically [...]
Women Power Bloggers: Inside the Minds of Today’s Successful Female Bloggers Pt I
According to the Pew Internet Project’s PIP Blogging Report, 46% of bloggers are female and the numbers are growing everyday. However, many woman bloggers are a slightly upset with the lack of recognition in their industry. After a week of research I finally asked myself why aren’t women more prominent on the web? Of all [...]
Amazon does it again
Amazon Does It Again [read more]Amazon, after launching it music store in September 2007, has reeled in the music giant, Sony Records. That makes their count up to four record labels who have agreed to make their music available online at Amazon’s digital music store. From a consumer point of view this is great because [...]
Three Column Minima Stretch for Blogger
Project: Three Column Minima Stretch
Knowledge: HTML
Website: Compender
Rating: 5 starlets
Difficulty: Beginner
Details: Compender, a blog by a guy named Raymond, doesn’t just talk you through the difficult task of making your blogger template three column, he takes you step by step with screenshots. That’s what I call a good tutorial: step by step, screenshots, and [...]
For the love of God… Stop with the pink tech gadgets please
It’s starting to become an issue, the lack of women in information technology fields is beginning to worry some companies… and why not? Women who start their own businesses and work in corporate America have shown that they have the brains, the style, and the passion to pull off things that men work years [...]
i1155: Portable Multimedia Player for your iPod and DVDs by iLuv
Gadget Review Rank: 4.5 StarletsCost: $249.99
Where to buy: iLuv’s Website
Description: iLuv is dedicated, and I mean dedicated, to accessories that are way different from the competition. Although they focus on MP3 players only, they give all competitors a run for their money. A licensed Apple supplier, iLuv has created i1155, the portable multimedia player for [...]
The Non Traditional Tech Student: 6 Steps to Competing With College Grads for Tech Jobs
We all know that technology is the one area where a college degree sometimes doesn’t matter. But if you want to compete with design and computer science grads, you need to have a strategy, the right resources and a bangin’ resume. How?
Step 1: Find a technology nicheIt’s great to be well-rounded but employers want to [...]
Biggest Technology Moment of 2007
Happy New Year everyone. I could create an entire list dedicated to my most memorable technology moments of 2007. But with Google, youtube, and all the other web 2.0 apps, I would be typing this post forever. So my biggest moment of this year, in tech of course, would have to be [...]
