Randall

Randall Bennett is a former Netscape Anchor. After enduring the most turbulent time in his life, Randall left the site to concentrate on family issues. While he might have worked for traditional media bigwigs like ESPN, some of his favorite moments come from the Weblogs, Inc. network where he worked as lead blogger for DV Guru, podcast producer for Engadget, and "Preditor" (consultant/editor/producer)for the network.

Status | Member Since: April 19, 2006

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850,000 brits lose their cellphone down the crapper annually
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850,000 brits lose their cellphone down the crapper annually

Gadgets & Tech – A mobile phone company says brits drop 850,000 phones down the toilet, while only leaving 810,000 at pubs. Um... seriously brits, you should really think about investing in a bluetooth headset.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 05, 2007 08:47am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 45 votes / No sinks

Conservapedia; The Conservative version of wikipedia

Politics – On today's Tech CHeck Daily, we talk about Conservapedia, the conservative counterpart to wikipedia.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 05, 2007 02:54pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 42 votes / 1 sink

Tech Check Daily for Tuesday, February 27th

Gadgets & Tech – Estonia holds first national elections allowing internet voting... YouTube's CBS deal falls through, plus pundits weigh in on YouTube's future post content filtering... and Skype lobbies the FCC to open cell carrier networks ala wired networks, but is it really good for consumers?

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Submitted and Voted for on February 27, 2007 10:28am

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Non-superbowl ads [VIDEO]

Gadgets & Tech – Tech Check Daily breaks down some of the Web2.0 commercials you wont see on the superbowl. Finally, someone learned something from the dot-com bust and aren't wating as much money on advertising and marketing.

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Submitted and Voted for on February 06, 2007 10:52am

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PDF to become standard - techCHECKdaily

Gadgets & Tech – Adobe's PDF format has long been consdiered the standard for moving print-quality documents around the interwebs... and now it looks like the successor to the Fax machine will be heading away from Adobe's stable, and will become a standardized format.

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Submitted and Voted for on January 30, 2007 08:30am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 27 votes / No sinks

Downloadable Coffee

Gadgets & Tech – Both coffee drinkers and non-coffee drinkers have something to celebrate on this Tech Check Daily. For non-coffee peeps, a sound that'll allegedly wake you up like a cup-o-joe would. Coffee Drinkers, we didn't leave you out either, how bout a coffee mug that doubles as a mouse? All up on today's tech check daily.

View Story Discuss (0) (techcheckdaily.com) 540 days ago by Randall

Submitted and Voted for on January 29, 2007 02:18pm

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Tech Check Daily: New videoblog
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Tech Check Daily: New videoblog

Gadgets & Tech – Tech Check Daily is a daily videoblog covering various aspects of technology. The site aims to please not only uber geeks, but for people who enjoy technology, but might not have all the acronyms down. Today's show: Smash my PS3 and Smash my Wii. Former Netscape Anchor, Randall Bennett, helms the project.

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Submitted and Voted for on November 20, 2006 10:27am

Ten reasons to go to film school
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Ten reasons to go to film school

Gadgets & Tech – When columnist Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo proposed that aspiring filmmakers skip school and start making movies, we had lots of feedback from people agreeing and disagreeing. Now, he's published some reasons why film school isn't all bad.

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Submitted and Voted for on October 20, 2006 10:14am

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Plane crashes into highrise apartment on New York's Upper East Side

News – Breaking news, at this moment, but a small (potentially twin engine) plane crashed into an apartment high-rise near 72nd street.

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Submitted and Voted for on October 11, 2006 03:09pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 22 votes / No sinks

The counter-telemarketing script

Do No Evil – Turn the tables on those annoying telemarketers with this telemarketing counter-script. If it's their right to call you, as the direct marketing association claims, its your right to respond with an awesome counter script.

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Submitted and Voted for on August 30, 2006 05:30am

Kevin Smith's Q & A-slash-comedy routine
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Video Kevin Smith's Q & A-slash-comedy routine

Movies – Kevin Smith meets his fans and comic-book critics at Comic-Con after a delayed panel. Watch Kevin dish on his company, his latest movie and his current spat with movie critic Joel Siegel.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 23, 2006 06:50pm

Kevin Smith misses panel, but calls in anyway
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Video Kevin Smith misses panel, but calls in anyway

Movies – Kevin Smith was supposed to be done with his panel earlier today at around noon, but the director of Clerks 2 was stuck in that legendary California traffic, and didn't make it in time for his panel. Don't worry, he rescheduled, and we'll have the Q&A for you soon, but in the meantime check out Kevin via Clerks 2 starlet Rosario Dawson's phone.

Discuss (5) 731 days ago by Randall Watch Video!

Submitted and Voted for on July 22, 2006 11:41pm

YouTube rescues TV pilot
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YouTube rescues TV pilot

Television – Nobody's Watching, an ironic title, didn't have much of a chance of being watched... by anyone... but fortunately for the writers and actors, the pilot was leaked on YouTube. Now, NBC says its developing the show with hopes of airing the post-modern sitcom.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 22, 2006 11:32am

Transformers comic book creators panel
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Transformers comic book creators panel

Art & Design – The big deal at this year's ComicCon is definitely Hasbro's Transformers. With the anticipation of next year's movie, Transformers action is all at a fever pitch. IDW, the current kings of the Transformers Comic universe, held a really well-attended panel, and we've got some highlights from it below.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 22, 2006 02:59am

Netscape @ Comicon: Welcome!
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Video Netscape @ Comicon: Welcome!

Popular Videos – We've just begun our coverage of the world's biggest comic book expo / geekfest. Check out some of our video highlights from the show floor.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 21, 2006 11:06am

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