Consumer news and opinion

“Consumer Bits” on Brusimm.com are articles designed to share the author’s consumer experiences with the reader. The articles can include experiences with products or services offered by various business entities.

See, We Don’t Trust Facebook or Twitter!

March 22, 2012

When an eCommerce site has a Facebook “like” button placed next to products that might be deemed embarrassing or personal, customers shy away from the products.

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Internet Code of Conduct And The Sourcing Issues

March 19, 2012

When you visit a website do you even care where they got their article from or if they even properly credited their source? For web surfers, I bet most…

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‘MM9′ Book Review: A Fun Tale of Kaiju

March 17, 2012

MM9 is a book for the giant monster fan in all of us. We are taken to a world where giant monsters exist and are are treated like weather phenomenon or earthquakes.

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Lost Your Tags and Categories? Beware of Your WordPress DOT com Account!!!

March 14, 2012

I learned that when you install a Wordpress.com (WPC) plugin that needs an API and access to your wordpress.org (WPO) self-hosted blog, you might be in for a world of trouble.

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A Breast Cancer Vaccine? Maybe!

March 14, 2012

Right now it looks like there are some tests going on that involve a potential vaccine against cancer… specifically, in this example, the test…

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’123 Greetings’ Spam Their Users, Just Like Dish Network Does

March 12, 2012

I don’t know about you, but if, what looks like a reputable organization sends out some wild spam or has their staff spam website comment fields, I’d think twice

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Are You Buying The Right Pink Ribbon Products

March 8, 2012

When you buy merchandise with the pink ribbon logo, are you sure your money is headed to the right breast cancer cause? It may very well be that your money…

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WordPress.com, WordPress.org… What About Google Blogger?

March 4, 2012

Here’s an interesting, basic look at WordPress.COM vs WordPress.ORG vs Google BLOGGER… at least one man’s take…

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Fear Losing Your Camera? Attach Contact Info To Your Camera

March 1, 2012

If you’ve ever lost or worried about losing your camera, I have few helpful hints on how to make it easier for someone to return your camera to you…

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How To (Maybe) Capture More Twitter Followers

February 28, 2012

I just caught a piece on how to get more Twitter followers and they point to a study that involved 40k+ tweets with 1.4k+ users to determine WHAT NOT TO TWEET and…

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Starbucks Via Coffee Packs, In Stores and Kiosks

February 22, 2012

Starbucks Via Instant Coffee: I like the easy, quick way one can create their own coffee drink from these little packs by just pouring it into a cup and…

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Is Your Personal Data Truly Safe on Your Smartphone?

February 20, 2012

I’m sure you’re aware, but if you’re not, today I chat about some smartphone apps uploading personal data, evil QR code or financial apps with tiny flaws…

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What Was That ‘RMT Alert’ On My Cell Phone?

February 18, 2012

So what was that big red square with a white X on your smartphone? Turns out that it’s OK, the FCC knows all about these RMT’s on your cell phone…

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Global Warming: You Can Judge For Yourself

February 16, 2012

When Al Gore showed the world charts of mean global temperatures on the rise, no one believed in global warming. When we’ve seen imagery of…

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McDonald’s Chicken McBites Product Review – Not Impressive [Consumer]

February 10, 2012

Normally when a fast food chain puts out a new product, they put their best foot forward at first. Usually. In this case, if this is McDonald’s best foot….

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A Cool Redirect for Scraped Image Content: Stop Hotlinking

February 9, 2012

I got tired of sites hotlinking to my images and killing my bandwidth. So I blocked the hotlinkers! Find out what I did…

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Product Recall: Tassimo Coffee Makers

February 9, 2012

BSH Home Appliances has issued a consumer product recall for their Tassimo Single-Cup Coffee Makers. It’s a voluntary recall by the company for its Single-Cup brewers.

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Silk Has a Hit with Their “Fruit & Protein” Drink! [Consumer]

February 7, 2012

The other day I tried a new product called SILK Fruit & Protein drink and wow, I think I found my new breakfast drink!

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