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Reviews

Amazon Kindle Reader for the iPhone

I wish I was posting this as a follow-up to an announcement, but actually, it’s a suggestion to Amazon on how they can make more money, sell more Kindle books, and make more people happy. For those of you who don’t already know, the Amazon Kindle is an ebook reader that uses E-Ink technology to...

4 minute read.
Technology

Google Chrome will probably support Firefox Extensions! - UPDATED

Well I feel like an idiot, as the commenter below pointed out, the link I mentioned was a bookmark itself, not a “get bookmark plugins” link, but it was showing up in my list of bookmarks, which means that, as the commenter said, this bookmark had been imported from Firefox, and was not actually...

3 minute read.
Reviews

All Primed Up: Amazon is Brilliant

I’ve been a member of Amazon Prime for over about 2 years now, and I was just thinking today what brilliant marketing it is. By paying a nominal yearly fee, I get free two day shipping, or really cheap next day shipping on everything I buy from them, but does it save me any money? See before I...

2 minute read.
Event Review

Vegas Vacation

I’m mere hours away from taking a little vacation to Las Vegas along with my wife, and my roommate. Tomorrow morning I will board a Virgin America flight (I’m much looking forward to trying them out), for Las Vegas. I’ve got a lot of fun planned, including one last trip to the Star Trek...

2 minute read.
Technology

GMail Down

In the latest in my ongoing series of Major websites experiencing outages, GMail has been down for at least the last hour. Google’s Mail service is excellent and over all I’ve always been pleased with it. Their servers are redundant, I don’t have problems with lost email messages, and the spam...

2 minute read.
Technology

Blogging on the iPhone

I’ve blogged from my iPhone before so this isn’t exactly new, but this post was written using the new WordPress iPhone native app just released in the app store today. I like it! As an update, I still haven’t acquired a new iPhone 3G, but JMac seems to have finally joined the iPhone revolution...

1 minute read.
Technology

iPhone 3G: Um, guess I'm gonna wait...

Went down to the apple store with Tim to check out the new iPhone 3G that was released today. But even at 6:30 p.m. (the phone had already been on sale for 10 and a half hours), the line was still stretched all the way around the Apple Store. I’m going to wait and hopefully pick one up next week...

1 minute read.
Technology

Facebook - whoops there goes another major site!

Two weeks ago I posted about Amazon.com being down for hours , tonight, another major website has gone down without warning, and has a very ugly error message, just like Amazon did. At this time the error message (shown on the right) has been up for at least 20 minutes with no sign of repair, in...

1 minute read.