Books, Music and Movies

New Upcoming Kindle Feature: Borrow Library Books

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If you have a Kindle or Kindle app, you’ll soon be able to borrow e-books from over 11,000 public libraries in the United States. One really nice added-value feature will be the ability to take notes in the margins, and have those notes persist if you borrow the book again and/or buy it.

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Wi-Fi Only Kindle with Ads Will Be $25 Cheaper

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Amazon.com has just announced that they will begin selling a slightly cheaper version of the Wi-Fi only Kindle that will include special offers (aka advertisements) and sponsored screensavers. The new version which goes on sale May 3, 2011 will cost $114. The regular, non-ad version is $139. I can see the trade-off of paying less [...]

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Plug-In Compact iPhone/iPod Speaker Dock

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Similar to Quirky, Kickstarter is another website that helps back designer’s innovative ideas, as long as enough money is pledged to the product. The idea we’re featuring today is the WALdok – a iPhone/iPod plug-in speaker, and has already met its funding pledge so will go into production on the 9th of April this year.

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Amazon Races Ahead of Google, Apple with Digital Locker Called Cloud Drive

Amazon Cloud Drive

Amazon.com just rolled out a number of related products revolving around storing your music, movies, photos or whatever in the cloud, Amazon’s cloud to be specific. Amazon just got a huge jump on Google, Apple, Microsoft and anyone else that wanted to get into this ‘digital locker’ game. And I use the word ‘game’ facetiously, [...]

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Review: My New iPad: A User’s Guide – No Starch Press

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Wallace Wang, best seller of My New Mac and My New iPhone for the No Starch Press publisher has written a new book detailing everything you need to know about the iPad in a book called “My New iPad: A User’s Guide.” No Starch Press provided a reviewer’s copy of “My New iPad: A User’s [...]

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Star Wars Wall Poster Transforms Your Room for $150

Star Wars Wall Art Mural

If you’re looking for a new way to brighten up your study, workshop, or anywhere else that you want to keep your wife out of, this Star Wars mural might be for you. Measuring in at 6 feet tall and 10.5 feet wide, it marks the ultimate dedication for Star Wars fans. To use, soak [...]

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Awesome Website That Allows you to Print Blog Into a Book

Blog2print Print your Blog as a Book

Do you have a personal blog that you would like to save forever? Do you ever worry that your online blog might just go “poof” and be gone one day? I have a personal blog that I have written on for many years and those thoughts definitely crossed my mind. A friend introduced me recently [...]

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10 Alternative eReader Products

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The eBook/eReader market is obviously hot, what with Kindle eBooks outstripping the sales of paperbacks on Amazon.com. So it’s no surprise that there are so many competitors out there. Even ignoring the top 5 market-leading vendors that we compared in our eReader Comparison Report, here are 10 alternative eReader products of easily dozens currently available. [...]

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Kindle eBooks Now Outstrip Paperback Sales on Amazon.com

Amazon.com recently released their latest financial results that showed yet again how well they’re doing. Remember when everyone wondered when Amazon would become profitable, if at all? Well notable in those results is that fact that sales of Kindle books now exceeds that of paperback books, which makes it the #1 format on Amazon.com. So [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg meets Jesse Eisenberg on SNL

Last night’s SNL provided a treat for Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg fans as, for the first time, Mark met Jesse Eisenberg who portrayed Mark in the movie The Social Network. Mark’s performance was a little stiff and “Awkberg”…

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