emoticons

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Random Stuff

Revision. Emoticon History 101 :)

11:00AM Chris Oaten | An email came in the other day from the ninemsn people about emoticonworld.com.au and I kinda brushed it off. Yeah, yeah… emoticons. 10th anniversary of Windows Live… yada, yada. But then last night’s item about emo the meatspace emoticon surfaced and I thought to myself: “Self, a history lesson is in order”. More »
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Gadgets

Emo The Emoticon Brings Annoying Animated Gifs Into Meatspace

1:40AM Adam Frucci | Emoticons are already pretty annoying, but making a physical emoticon that changes expressions based on emoticons in Windows Live Messenger? That’s really, really annoying. Keep this thing the hell away from me. [Megagadgets via Random Good Stuff]
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Software

Apple Purging App Store Of Every Last Emoticon Enabler

9:11PM John Herrman | Developers who’ve either made a dedicated emoji-enabler or included the functionality as a feature in their apps have received notification that they need to stop with this Japanese smiley stuff, like, now. More »
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Phones

How to Get Emoji iPhone Emoticons For Free Without Jailbreaking

8:00AM Jason Chen | Jailbreak iPhone users have been able to get Emoji, the Japanese emoticons, on their phones for a while now, but you can now get it even without jailbreaking—albeit a slightly gimped version. More »
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Random Stuff

Russian Moron Trademarks Emoticons

3:00AM Jesus Diaz | For some reason, Russian entrepreneur and famed sequins underpants collector Oleg Teterin, thinks that he has the right to trademark emoticons. But don’t fret: this brilliant genius will let individuals use :-) for free. More »
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Toys

Squeeze Emoticon Stress Balls, Get Happy Ending

6:00AM Jesus Diaz | In theory, anti-stress balls help you when you are a bit :-| or XO, because squeezing them helps you release some inner anger and make you bit more :-D. Whatever. I hate these things. More »
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Peripherals

Bajca Emoticon Keyboard Doesn’t Come With a Hammer, Sadly

11:45PM Jesus Diaz | I see this dumbtastic egg-case-style Bajca emoticon keyboard and the only thing I wish is that somebody actually brings it to market, sends it to me to test, and then I get a hammer to smash all those stupid emoticons like it was a Whac-a-Mole game. Maybe it’s just me and you will love its design–which admittedly is pretty but not very useful. That’s until they tell you you can turn the emoticons into jewellery beads. More »
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