If you spend your free time going gaga over cell phones, here’s a chance to make money from your Twilight-level geeky admiration. Cell Phones Etc. (cellphones.ca) is looking for writers, those with a masterful written command of the English language, and with a sense for the latest cell phones (duh), including what they can do.

Just email branden -at- cellphones.ca (replace “-at-” with “@”) for more information. Here are some things the site requires:

Regular Contributor: 1-2 articles / how-to’s a week (ie. “10 Hottest Phones Under $10″, “A Look At The Richest Men in Mobile”, “The Complete Roundup of iPhone Clones”, “How to beat roaming charges while traveling abroad.”

Columnist: A weekly or monthly opinion column covering a mobile topic of your particular interests or expertise.

Phone Writeups: We need some help with short writeups for each phone that we add to our database. Those should be 1-3 paragraphs, not a review, rather a general overview of the device, who its designed for, etc. Think a Coles Notes version of wikipedia entries. Unbiased, concise but more consumer friendly.

What about compensation? More from Branden:

Payouts will depend on the length of the piece of course. Shorter blog posts and commentary will run between $5-10 per post. Longer length articles / features will run $15-$50. All will depend on the piece, the quality of writing and how big of role the individual takes on with our new site.

This opening looks intriguing enough; if my schedule wasn’t so full, I would’ve started pimping my articles on cellphones.ca on The Gadget Blog by now!

The promos intensify as the holidays near. For this weekend, you can check out the following discounts available from Dell, Alienware, and HP:

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This Inspiron 15 laptop only $399 after $100 instant discount and coupon code 40M?6?W03KFH93. Plus get free next …read more

According to The PC Guild, it’s possible to make $80,000 a year (or a bit over $6,600 a month) fixing PCs in your area—even if you charge for only 4 hours a day:
I bill for about 4 hours a day on average, and I charge $70 an hour. I mainly fix computer problems related to corrupt hard drives, RAM installation, CD/DVD ROM repair, internet connectivity issues, printer problems, audio problems, and the like.
I charge $20 just to take a look at your computer. If you decided that you want me to fix it, (after I tell you how long it …read more

Is it just me, or has a competitor finally beat Apple at its own superiority-driven marketing game? The newest Verizon ad promoting the Motorola Droid does so by dissing the iPhone, implying it to be a shallow, “digitally clueless” toy only meant to look pretty:
What do you think of the ad? Verizon Wireless seems pretty confident about their wireless broadband network, so they’d better live up its claim of mobile net superiority! The Droid “Pretty” ad feels like a kick-ass answer to Apple’s “there’s an app for that” campaign, featuring witty and pithy messaging the Mac maker is known for. …read more

Last October, Henrik Anderson had ripped his entire DVD collection to his computer, in an effort to challenge the Danish legal act that allows copies of media to be made for personal use, yet at the same time prohibits attempts to disable copy protection technology.

Mr. Anderson, after circumventing the DRM of his DVDs and effectively breaking the law, reported himself to the Danish anti-piracy group Antipiratgruppen. He had requested that the group respond by December 1, “indicating whether or not [it intends] to prosecute him” and has yet to receive one as of today.
The Danish man is determined to force …read more

The online retailer is at again, with a bunch of discounts lined-up for the holidays. All the following promos are for US buyers only, and run until this December 14, CDT (unless otherwise specified):
Dell Laptops
Select laptops starting at $449. Save up to 40% on Dell’s most popular laptops.
New Lower Price on Dell Netbooks! Now starting at only $279 + free standard shipping.
Save $404 on the Studio XPS 16 laptop! Only $1099 after discount
Dell Desktops
Inspiron 537s desktop starting at $499 after savings and includes a 20″ monitor.
Complete desktop package featuring the Studio XPS 8000 desktop and 20″ …read more

Need ammo for your next trivia competition, formal or not? What if someone asks you “What’s the world’s largest multi-touch screen?”* The answer: a massive 4574 square-foot display at Nürburgring, known to Formula One enthusiasts as the venue for the German Grand Prix.

Drool-worthy specs follow:
The two-piece wall consists of a huge LED media facade (at the top), and a multitouch information-wall (at the bottom), and impresses by its physical size, as it totals a surface of about 425 square meters, equaling more than 6000 computer displays.
The interactive interface emerges out of 34 million pixels generated by 15 high definition projectors, …read more

To err is human. But for those who predicted the iPhone would fail before its launch three years ago, hindsight makes these critics’ errors look even more spectacular. A choice collection of so-called iPhone deathwatch quotes follows, with highlights collected by CNN Money from APPL Investors:

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.” Palm CEO Ed Colligan, commenting on then-rumored Apple iPhone, 16 Nov 2006
“Apple is slated to come out with a new phone… …read more

Apparently, some people won’t accept Windows 7 as Microsoft’s apology for Vista. Derived directly from “Apologize”, the “rock” one-hit wonder of (fittingly) One Republic made popular by Timbaland, I give you: “Too Late, Windows 7″f course a Mac had to figure somewhere; it’s the new love of the disillusioned former user, who considers Windows 7’s arrival a little too late. Hit the video comments on YouTube for opinions following the classic Windows vs. Mac themes:

“Idiot. Macs are more expensive for the same hardware”
“Haha, PCs aren’t as reliable or secure as Macs”
“Oh yes I totally agree! OS 1 is definitely better …read more

You may have already seen this: a video of a teen adolescent hurting himself over Modern Warfare 2. Disturbingly, the more this kid gets angry over Modern Warfare 2’s suckiness (I disagree by the way), the more he lashes out physically, finally taking out the camera towards the endhere are obvious questions over the video’s authenticity, whether it was the psychologically-abnormal rant or an actor practicing his craft in other words. Regardless, this video is simply too creepy, keeping my natural penchant for schadenfreude whimpering under the covers. That’s what a real bleeding wound (from all appearances) and tear-filled, nearly-incomprehensible …read more