How to Create Google Calendar Events Straight from Gmail
If you use both Gmail and Google Calendar for your e-mail and planning needs, respectively, you can now create calendar events from directly within Gmail messages.
Doug Aamoth
Aamoth handles news, reviews, how-to's and videos as TIME's technology editor. He lives in Boston and has spent more than 15 years in the tech industry.
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What It’s Like to Quit the Internet for a Year
The Verge’s Paul Miller went offline for an entire year. The short version of his story: First it was good, then not so good. And now that he’s back, it’s good in a different way.
I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet [The Verge]
AT&T Is Offering $100 (or More) for Your Old Smartphone
Starting May 1 (and for a limited time), if you bring a smartphone that’s less than three years old and still in “good, working condition” into an AT&T store, you can get $100 or more to use toward the purchase of a new phone.
iFlask Looks Like an iPhone but Its Only App Is Booze
Just in time for Outdoor Drinking Season (capitalized because of its importance), here’s the iFlask.
Yay? Facebook-Connected Beer Glasses Let You Friend Randos with a Quick Clank
The Buddy Cup connects to your Facebook account, and when you clank it against someone else’s Buddy Cup, the two of you become friends on Facebook.
Finally, a $149 Batman Car Seat with Cup Holders and a Cape
What if I told you that for $149, you could eliminate every single challenge associated with parenthood?
Report: LivingSocial Hacked
AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher is reporting that popular daily deals site LivingSocial “has suffered a massive cyber-attack on its computer systems.”
Amazon Rumored to Be Prepping a TV Box for Streaming Video
Bloomberg reports “people with knowledge of the matter” as saying that Amazon is working on a TV box for streaming on-demand video. The rumored box will apparently be available later this year and looks to compete with the likes of Apple TV, Roku and similar streaming boxes.
Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video [Bloomberg]
Bluetooth Breathalyzer Lets You Share Your Drunkenness with the World
It’s a breathalyzer with a Bluetooth connection, so you can display your level of drunkenness on your cellphone. The fun doesn’t stop there, though.
Review Roundup: BlackBerry Q10 Puts the Keyboard Front and Center
Here’s a representative sampling of some of the various Q10 reviews that have been trickling out.
You Can FINALLY Order Pizza Hut Using Your Xbox 360
For those times when you’re lying on the couch and your cellphone, tablet, landline, laptop and desktop are just out of reach, but you happen to be playing Xbox 360, you can now order pizza from Pizza Hut.
Have a House Full of Streamers? Netflix Is Rolling Out a $12 Family Plan of Sorts
Netflix currently allows two simultaneous streams; a new plan coming soon will allow up to four.
