Tag: PROPOSAL

A fellow drops on one knee, hands a girl an iPad 2 with a wedding proposal engraved on the back, and the rest is history. After all, you know what they say: diamonds may be forever, but fresh-off-the-assembly-line iPads are a girl's best friend. They do say that, don't they? This latest techy proposal may not be as rollicking as that iPhone one, or as supremely nerdy as the Pokemon question, ...

The FCC is looking to make changes to two telephone subsidy programs, with an eye toward providing greater broadband access to poor households. In 1985, the FCC launched its Lifeline Assistance and Link-Up America programs, which subsidize telephone service and installation expenses for low-income families. Yesterday, the Commission officially launched a notice of proposed rulemaking (or, a ...

Even our stone-cold hearts melted some when we watched this video of Bioware sound designer Joel Green's pixelated proposal to his girlfriend/co-worker, Heather Rabatich, in the world-building game of 'Minecraft.' Green placed signs along the virtual way, leading Rabatich's avatar to an aerial view of his digital monument to marriage: pools of orange lava spelling "Marry Me?" His overture also ...

Illinois Democratic Senator Richard Durbin wrote a letter to Mark Zuckerberg last week, asking the Facebook CEO to offer stronger online protection to political dissidents who use the social network for organizing protests. Citing the recent upheavals in Egypt and Tunisia, Durbin argued that Facebook should allow people to use fake names in order to avoid persecution from authoritarian regimes. ...

Share OK, now this is getting out of control. He took our cool, our precious YouTube time, and now, he's making our marriage proposals. As we reported earlier, the Old Spice guy has been going on a Twitter tear the past couple of days, sending out personalized, bite-sized thank-you-commercials to targeted celebrities, bloggers and plebeian followers. Throughout the campaign, he's received (and ...

We've seen some pretty nerdy marriage proposals before, but a Zynga employee might have just topped them all. According to Joystiq, Anders Howard and his friends created a video game, called 'Dinner Love and the Quest for Soup,' to help him propose to his beloved. Now, he's not the first gamer that has proposed in this manner. However, Howard set up a special event to go along with the game, which ...

Nothing warms our hearts more than a geeky marriage proposal here at Switched, but we get a bit bored of Twitter, Facebook, and even tweaked video game declarations of love. So kudos to Raleigh-Durham resident Alex Marsh, who took his girlfriend, Susan Wilkison, out to dinner at Raleigh Times Bar to propose, via Foursquare. Foursquare is a nifty little app that allows users to "check in" at ...

Between the hacked versions of 'Chrono Trigger,' the hidden messages in Google Street View, and the adorably lame Twitter messages, we figured the battle for geekiest marriage proposal would never end. But then we came across this video (after the jump) of Chris Herbert proposing to his girlfriend, Belle Starenchak... while at an anime convention... dressed as Pokémon. Check and mate. ...

When we finished watching this video (after the break) on Geek Sugar, we were a little surprised by our reactions. Sure, it's easy to make fun of this dude for: one, proposing to his girl in front of the living room TV (while she's playing 'Super Mario World,' no less); two, setting up a video camera to capture it; and, three, posting said video to YouTube. But the look in his eye, her immediate ...

We're beginning to feel a little inadequate here. We've got another elaborate geeky marriage proposal that has us hoping our significant others aren't reading our Web site. Bryan Haggerty, a user interface designer at professional social networking site LinkedIn, proposed to his girlfriend Jeannie Choe using a custom-built iPhone Web app. The app, called 'Romantech,' led Choe on a scavenger ...

The past few weeks have seen an explosion in super geeky marriage proposals. One IT supervisor from California went with an iPhone application, while Web geek Sean Bonner scored our favorite marriage request ever with a proposal via Twitter. The latest in the fad of dork-tacular marriage proposals comes in a close second to Bonner's, if only because of its sheer nerdiness. A YouTube user, who ...

A few months ago, we told about you told you about eight men who proposed using tech. Now, we can add yet another geek to the list. Dan Deeble, a 35-year-old IT supervisor from Antelope, CA, popped the question using Scribular, a free iPhone app that works with the phone's GPS to let users leave notes at specific locations. Once somebody gets to the location, they can read the note, which is how ...

We officially have a new favorite geeky marriage proposal. Sorry, 'Bejewed' guy. We've seen proposals via search engines, engraved iPods, and even a Dashboad Widget. But nothing, and we mean nothing, could possibly top the IM-esque Twitter proposal of Sean Bonner to Tara Brown. On Friday afternoon Bonner sent out a Tweet, for all the world to see, that read, "@tarabrown so, um... wanna get ...

In the "oh no they didn't" category or geekdom, computer programmer Bernie Peng married his bride-to-be Tammy Li in New Jersey over the weekend. What made it so special? Peng popped the question to his girlfriend in arguably the nerdiest way possible: He spent a month reprogramming Li's Sfavorite game, 'Bejeweled,' so that when she reached a certain score a ring and a marriage proposal ...

We have a new winner for geekiest marriage proposal ever. Proposing in 'Second Life' and 'World of Warcraft' is so 2007. Now you uber dorks will have to top Bernie, a Xanga user who wrote a version of 'Bejeweled' from scratch for his girlfriend's Nintendo DS. When his girlfriend, Tammy, reached a certain score, the screen cleared and ring made out of the game's namesake jewels lowered on to the ...