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Kindle 3rd gen WiFi

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

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Kindle 3rd gen WiFiAmazon.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 in exchange for having to see/watch ads, but at a mere difference of $25 (about an 18% discount), it doesn’t seem worth it. And we don’t even know how intrusive the ads would be.
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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 Cloud Drive

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

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Amazon Cloud DriveAmazon.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, because this is big business. Just ask Apple (re: iTunes).

First an overview. Cloud Drive is the linchpin in this whole deal. It’s where you store your well… anything. It can be music and everyone seems to be fixated on that, but it can be photos, videos, documents – so your own personal hard drive, but stored on Amazon’s S3 servers.
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My New iPad A User's Guide Best iPad Apps

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

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My New iPad A User's Guide Best iPad Apps 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 Guide” for this review.

“My New iPad: A User’s Guide” includes seven chapters including: basic training; customizing your iPad; getting on the Internet; sharing data with your iPad; video, music, and eBooks; organizing yourself and additional tips. Each chapter is small and comes in easily consumable chunks of information that can instantly help new users complete a certain task with easy to follow step by step instructions.

The first chapter called “Basic Training” teaches you how to turn on and off the iPad, what the various buttons and slides perform and how to use and customize the virtual keyboard. Apple changed the Screen Location Lock since the book was published so information has changed since the publish date resulting in incorrect information.
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Star Wars Wall Art Mural

Star Wars Wall Poster Transforms Your Room for $150

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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 in warm water and slap it on your wall and adore the retro stylings of George Lucas. Oh, and it costs about $150…

Buy now!
Price: $148.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Blog2print Print your Blog as a Book

Awesome Website That Allows you to Print Blog Into a Book

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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 to a website that can turn your blog into a professionally printed book.

Check out Blog2Print to create your own blog book. You can pick a cover, add images, choose how many posts you want to include in your book and decide whether or not you want to include comments. Blog2Print has posted a sample blog book so you can see.

A 20-page softcover blog book is $14.95, a 20-page hardcover blog book is $24.95 and extra pages are just $.35 a piece.

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.

1. Hanvons – 5 inch display

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Hanvon has been hammering the penny-pincher market for over a year now. It must have been fruitful, because now they’re rolling out four new low-cost models with screens ranging from 5 inches to 9.7″. The new models will even include touchscreens, allowing note-making via the included stylus. And, as always, expect to see Wifi/3G connectivity included and a price point that’ll make you blush.

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Kindle eBooks Now Outstrip Paperback Sales on Amazon.com

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Kindle 3rd gen WiFiAmazon.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 if this convinces you that it’s about time to buy an eReader, but you’re not sure if the Kindle is the right one for you, download our free eReader comparison report to find out which one is the best suited for you.

Win the Top 10 Books of 2010 from Amazon.com

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Amazon.com is running a simple giveaway until Feb 10, 2011 that gives you a chance to win the top 10 best-selling books of 2010. All you need to do is sign up for their e-mail mailing list.

The books include Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, and Michael Lewis’ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine and 7 others. All together, the 10 books are worth $260. So not a bad return for signing up for an e-mail list.

When you visit the info & rules page at amazon.com/booksdelivers, the sign up  button is the GO button underneath the initial banner.

Contest ends February 10th at midnight PT.

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