As a holiday gift to our customers, the Geek Bouteek is offering FREE Domestic Shipping on all orders through December 31st, 2010.  Simply choose the “Free Domestic Shipping” option at checkout.

As much as we would like to, we cannot make any guarantees as to delivery by Christmas, so order early (and often).  We will ship out any orders received ASAP, so the sooner you place your order the more likely it is that your order will arrive in time.

This offer is applicable to orders shipping within the United States only (sorry Canada).  Orders will be sent out via USPS First Class Mail (for packages weighing less than 13 ounces) or USPS Priority Mail (for packages weighing over 13 ounces).

Get excited for our w00t t-shirt, today’s Geek Bouteek shirt-of-the-day.

On sale for just $7.99, today only.

Don’t miss out on the Black Friday Sale at the Geek Bouteek!  Stock up on geeky tees for everyone on your holiday list!
Friday: 30% off all regularly-priced shirts
Saturday – Sunday: 20% off all regularly-priced shirts

Today’s shirt-of-the-day is our men’s Classic Arcade t-shirt.

Before PS3′s and Xbox 360′s, these things were where it was at for a “high def” video game experience.

As always, it’s available for only $7.99, just for today.

With email quickly replacing phones as the primary method of communication between more and more people, it can come in handy to know how to verify if the email address that cute girl just gave you is real or not.  Especially if, like most geeks, you are a bit obsessive and are wondering why she hasn’t yet responded to you, even if it’s only been six hours since your sent her a message.

Anyways, one of our favorite sites, Lifehacker, has a nifty little write-up here on how to check in that email address is phony or if she (or he) is just not that into you.

Sure beats calling a number and hanging up immediately when someone answers.

Today’s shirt-of-the-day is our Men’s WYSIWYG t-shirt.  In addition to being an homage to HTML editors everywhere, it also allows you to be as up-front with everyone as possible.

File this under scary things your company can do to your personal belongings:

When Your Company Kills Your iPhone

The short of it is that, if you receive your work email on you personal smartphone, and your company is using Microsoft Exchange mail server (as most do), then your company’s IT department has the ability to remotely take control of your phone or even wipe it out completely.  The justification being that once you put your company’s sensitive information on your device, you have essentially given them power-of-attorney over your device, whether you know it or not.

So what happens when an IT drone “accidentally” sends out the kill-code to your phone, turning it into a brick.  Probably not much, except a “my bad”, which is damn scary indeed.

Now, one possible solution to this is to route your email through a separate external mail provider, something like gmail, so that your smartphone is not directly connected to your corporate network, but rather downloading forwarded messages from the external email service instead.  Is this ideal?  Probably not, but it may be worth it for the peace of mind of knowing that your phone won’t be hijacked by your corporate masters.

Everyone likes to find a good deal on something, whether it’s a new house or a geeky t-shirt.  So in the spirit of the upcoming commercial orgy of Black Friday and the larger holiday season, the Geek Bouteek is introducing the “Geek Bouteek Shirt-Of-The-Day”.

Every day, Monday through Friday, we will be offering one of our shirts for only $7.99.  The Shirt-Of-The-Day will only be available at the sale price for approximately 24 hours, starting at around midnight EST.

And if a shirt you like is the Shirt-Of-The-Day, you better jump on it, because there’s no telling when it may be on sale again.

To start things off, we’ve got our tried-and-true GEEK shirt for men, available today for only $7.99:

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the national holiday known as Black Friday will soon be upon us.  In preparation of this momentous event, Amazon has released its week-long calendar of Black Friday deals (a week full of Fridays???) on TV shows and movies on DVD and Blu-ray.  You can see the full list here:

Amazon Black Friday TV & Movies Calendar

There are a whole bunch of things that geeks may have their eye on, including:

• The Simpsons Seasons 1-12 & 20
• Smallville Seasons 1-8
• Lost: The Complete Collection (DVD & Blu-ray)
• Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy
• Batman Begins and The Dark Knight

…plus many more.

Be aware that these deals are all lightning deals and are set to be available at specific times at limited quantities throughout the week, so if you snooze you’ll lose.

Good luck and happy shopping.

And with this blog post I am confirming that WordPress, Twitter and Facebook can indeed communicate with each other in a meaningful way.

As the online community streams buzzwords and catchphrases such as SEO and social media marketing, getting your name and brand into the web0sphere becomes a delicate balance of where to post, how to post and how often, etc.  When I started this social media marketing endeavor, I was a total noob.  Not that the notion of marketing was a foreign concept, but using inbound marketing approaches online with social media were total unknowns to me at the time.

We launched the Geek Bouteek site in 2007 and started a Blogger page.  It wasn’t second nature to write these short posts (or to self-promote), and the merit wasn’t totally clear to us at the time so the Blogger page kind of went by the wayside.  Not too long afterward, a little wiser in the social media arts, we started a WordPress site.  In reading other people’s blogs more and researching how to self market, things became more clear.  Then came the Twitter and Facebook.  Admittedly, Twitter didn’t come naturally either but it didn’t take long to see the appeal of being able to connect with so many like-minded people, even if it was in short snippets.

Now in addition to the Geek Bouteek website we have our WordPress blog, Twitter and Facebook, but sometimes managing all of these efforts separately is tedious.  We’d been toying around a bit with autoposting to WordPress, Twitter and Facebook with Posterous, which is a neat little tool all by itself, but I think it functions better if your only blog efforts stay on their site.  The trouble with Posterous is that the almighty Google can identify your autoposts within Posterous as duplicate content, which can adversely effect your search engine rankings.

So, this exercise here has been a test run of our newly installed WordPress plugins that eliminate the work that Posterous was doing.  We can now autopost from WordPress to our blog, Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Hooray for doing more with less effort!  Isn’t that the goal of every true Geek?