Were you one of the many shoppers who hit the pavement at 5 a.m. for those Black Friday deals? We at InventHelp love good bargains on the newest gadgets, but the holiday shopping frenzy can be little much. Rather than trudging from store to store in huge crowds to search for that perfect gift, going the easy route with a gift card sounds pretty tempting.
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Poor Vista. Cleverly mocked by rival Mac in its famous PC vs. Mac ads and maligned by PC users, Vista looked good on paper but hasn’t been embraced by the PC public. Even InventHelp’s Invention Girl is holding on to XP for dear life.
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The microwave is one of those inventions that most people take for granted in today’s modern world. Here at InventHelp, there can be a lunchtime line for the microwave on any given day. While no one’s arguing the usefulness of the microwave, a new government campaign is encouraging lunch zappers to double check their cooking times or pay for it with food sickness.
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Maryland residents have good reason to celebrate: XOHM, the next generation mobile broadband that allows users to enjoy the internet from anywhere in their XOHM coverage area, is hitting Baltimore on Oct. 8.
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Inevitably, when you enter a key word in a search engine online, you’ll find plenty of ads that match your results. Now, InventHelp’s Invention Girl has learned that sometime soon this kind of behavioral targeting could be influenced by your web browser searches.
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Last week, InventHelp’s Invention Girl started getting some very strange emails. Disguised to look like news alerts from major broadcasters like CNN and MSNBC, the emails featured the news company’s logo in the body followed by a link to a tabloid-style headline.
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Do you tend to browse the web for the latest headlines? Or do you have a favorite anchor on the nightly news? Perhaps you even have a subscription for the daily newspaper. InventHelp’s Invention Girl leans toward option A (the wild and wonderful web) when I need an information fix.
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InventHelp’s Invention Girl is a huge fan of the Carnegie Library system in Pittsburgh, where InventHelp headquarters are located. I love popping over to my local branch for the latest “gadget-fiction” novels, popular CDs and movies on DVD. And, being able to keep my checkouts for weeks without a late fee sure beats the video store.
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If you’re like InventHelp’s Invention Girl, getting routed through 10 different phone menus by an annoying, robotic voice just to get to customer service makes you want to tear your hair out. Companies want these automatons to handle everything from catalog orders to complex billing questions.
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InventHelp’s Invention Girl didn’t grow up in a very tech-savvy home. I used a rotary phone (yes, the kind with the big, plastic circle with cut-outs for each number) until I was well into my teens. We didn’t have touch-tone dialing or call waiting until I was a senior in high school.
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