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Best Buy’s Geek Squad® Offers Re-Gifting Tips for Last-Minute Giving
“Geekonomical” tips save money this holiday season by helping to get more from the technology you may already own MINNEAPOLIS – Dec. 20, 2011 – In a recent study by CouponCabin.com , 41 percent … (read the story…) Related items Geek Music Video: Jedi & Sith Battle in Cello Wars…
UPDATE 1-HMV faces make or break Xmas as losses widen
* Says doubt on company’s ability to trade in future * H1 underlying pretax loss 36.4 mln stg vs loss 27.4 mlnstg * H1 sales 364.9 mln stg, down 17.6 pct * 7 weeks to Dec. 17 like-for-like sales down 13.2 … (read the story…) Related items Optimus 3D Gingerbread…
Apple’s TV Takeover: Um, Not With Any Of These Ideas
This did not take over. The headlines this morning were breathtaking. The Daily Beast’s “Apple Preps TV Takeover” aggregated the WSJ article: “Apple Plots Its TV Assault.” Having spent the past year temple-deep in the subject of future TV, I was of course intrigued by what Apple had in mind,…
Fire in the Library
Once, we stored our photos and other mementos in shoeboxes in the attic; now we keep them online. That puts our stuff at the mercy of companies that could decide to throw it away—unless Jason Scott and the Archive Team can get there first. Until a few months ago, Poetry.com…
First Aid for the Ailing House: Foul smell may be a drain-line issue
When water is drained from the upstairs bathroom, it can create a siphon that drains the water out of the basement shower trap, allowing sewer gases to enter the house. (read the story…) Related items Music industry declines because of copyright laws TECHNOLOGY: Why Neil Young Hates MP3 a€' and…
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Verizon Wireless)
Editor’s Rating: User Rating: Good: The Samsung Galaxy Nexus marries the power of the Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS with the speed of Verizon’s LTE network. The phone’s beautiful screen and internal performance are top-notch. Bad: The Galaxy Nexus lacks a slot for expandable memory, and the 5-megapixel camera isn’t…
New ACD Products Enable Easy Viewing and Sharing of Any Content on Any Device and the Ability to Find Any File Faster
SEATTLE & VICTORIA, Canada–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ACD Systems International Inc. today announced the release of two new product offerings, acdVIDEO Converter and ACDSee Duplicate Finder. Both products are designed to help users better manage and share their growing stores of photo, video and other digital assets. acdVIDEO Converter converts video files for…
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You will probably kick yourself after reading this article wondering why you didn’t think about it earlier and enjoy yourself a few minutes of fame. Developer Yifan Lu has managed to jailbreak the Amazon Kindle Touch and he has done so in the simplest of ways, by playing an MP3…
Yifan Lu jailbreaks Kindle Touch, uses a special MP3 file to do so (video)
We’ve seen a fair share of Kindle Jailbreaks over the past few years, but Yifan Lu’s (evidently the first) for the Kindle Touch is certainly novel in its approach. As The Digital Reader points out, a sizeable chunk of the Touch’s software is essentially a string of pseudo HTML5 and…
Amazon: Kindle Fire Performance Update Coming This Month
According to Amazon.com, the Kindle Fire is the most successful product it has ever introduced. (read the story…) Related items Praise with Songview Can an MP3 sound better than a Blu-ray? Neil Young: MP3 sound is 'worst ever' Off to a ripping start Still shopping? Amazon launches Best of Digital…
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