September 2008

Kindle Store has over 170,000 Books. Also, where to get free books

You can now get over 170,000 books on Amazon’s Kindle, the e-Book reader that Amazon has had a hard time keeping in stock. 170,000. That’s a lot of books! That # does not include all of the free content that you can pull down from the Internet onto your Kindle. It does not include the [...]

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GM’s Chevy Volt looks to be an evolution of the Prius

The Prius and other hybrids are just that – hybrids that use both electric and gasoline to greatly improve gas mileage. That means it uses gas to run as well. The Chevrolet Volt is a hybrid too, but a different one. It’s a Series Hybrid. While it also has a gasoline engine, that’s only called [...]

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Android-powered cell phone gets shown off Sep 23

T-Mobile, the (1st) chosen carrier, for the Google-supported Android platform, will show off the first phone running Android, Sep 23. It’s expected to be an HTC Dream. Nice to see HTC getting in the game in a bigger way. They’ve been producing some feature-rich gadgetlicious mobiles for a while now.

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No more Gates-Seinfeld Ads!

Aww, and it seemed like they were starting to get better. Bill Gates acting goofy is funny. Best thing he did was the bit showing his ‘last day’ at the MS office. via Valleywag Update: Hang on, maybe it’s not true after all. So says Gizmodo’s sources. Eh, perhaps we should all just stop checking [...]

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Hose and Nozzle Connectors – slide together (instead of screwing on)

This is a cheap, irresistible gadget requiring no batteries, and you can even get it wet! This pair of garden hose connectors slide together instead of screwing together. In no time, you can connect hoses or nozzles and get straight to the important business of washing your car, watering your plants or getting the slip [...]

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Best Buy snaps up Napster

Interesting. Best Buy is getting way deeper into the subscription/user services business, by buying Napster and its 700k paying members. Purchase price: $127M. At a minimum of $13/mo/user, they stand to make that money back in less than 2 years. Of course, being Best Buy, they’ll be able to promote Napster to a huge audience [...]

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Amazon Video on Demand

Amazon has updated their Amazon Unbox program. It’s now called Amazon Video on Demand and offers for a fee on-demand streaming of 40,000 TV shows and movies over the Net. You don’t need to purchase a subscription, but can view what you’d like ad-free, whenever you’d like for a small fee. Also, if you have [...]

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Get TiVo service free for 3 months

To celebrate the launch of the new Fall TV season, TiVo is now offering three months of service for free when purchasing one of its two most popular DVRs. You can choose between a TiVo 80-hour standard definition DVR or a TiVo HD DVR and receive no service fees for the first three months. Regularly [...]

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2nd Gates/Seinfeld Ad is funnier

Ok, no question, this is funnier than the 1st tv commercial which was hugely disappointing, but I’m hoping that ad #3 is even better.

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iPod nano 4G – back to tall and slim and now in 16GB size

Thank you Apple for bringing the iPod nano back in its very cool, tall, thin, original incarnation. Not only that, but for adding some bright, rad colors (9 total). Oh yes, it now comes in 8 and 16GB versions. So what else is new? For starters, it has a feature called Genius which auto-creates playlists [...]

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