I recently grew a love for ebook readers. I use my iPhone with the Stanza app, which allows me to read ebooks, purchase and download ebooks wirelessly via my phones internet connection, and access the full project Gutenberg library (my personal favorite). I enjoy it immensely, as it lets me bring my books with me [...]
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Clever use of Twitter!
http://twitter.com/newlywedsontjob
This is a hilarious use of twitter, this guy is his friends Best Man in the wedding, and swears not to prank them until AFTER the wedding. So while they’re on honeymoon, he installs a pressure sensitive pad in his friends bed which automatically tweets when it detects action on the bed. It reports back [...]
When dealing with PETABYTES of storage…
A friend sent me a link to a blog post over at backblaze about how to build cheap storage. I was just amazed! 45 drives crammed into a 4U chassis to provide a total of 67 terabytes of usable storage space. Stack 20 or so of those pods together and you have a petabyte of [...]
AT&T Navigator for iPhone
I just got an email from AT&T letting me know about the new AT&T Navigator app for my iPhone 3g. I love my iPhone and one of my biggest gripes was how much of a pain it was to navigate anywhere while on the road. Google maps was funcitonal, and since I can read a [...]
Windows 7 Pricing announced
ars technica lists the new windows 7 announced pricing structure. I’m intrigued, as I’m still running Windows XP on my home computer, and within Parallels on my Macbook and my iMac at work. Windows 7 might be the first Microsoft [software] product I’ll purchase in almost 8 years, ever since I bought Windows XP.
From everything [...]