Watch it on Apple.
Price starts at $499. Cheap.
Most people will pay $30 / month for internet access.
Is it a good book reader?
On first impression, I thought kindle had nothing to worry about. But Mashable disagrees:
… given that iPad starts at $499 and iBooks offers such an impressive ebook experience, we have to wonder what Amazon could do at this point to stay competitive.
Yup.
They went with that name. …
Here is the first reveal:
Watched live blogging with photos on gdgt. While listening to live audio on ustream.tv.
I’m quite happily impressed with the first version. It’s enough for me. I’ll be buying one sometime in future. No rush, though. There’s nothing it does that my MacBook doesn’t.
Finally getting on the vehicle search.
Looking first at my favourite vehicle, used, for less than $2000. … Something like this:
Anne tells me to buy in Canada so I can get it quickly licensed and insured. For a vehicle this long in the tooth, I’ll need to test drive in Calgary.
After seeing the hilarious trailer for that new TV comedy – Modern Family, I watched every episode online.
Brilliant. See it.
I’m thinking of signing up for this radical new service called Google Xistence.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I can take off hiking for weeks. Google will update all my blogs for me.
(via Mashable)
by site editor Rick McCharles
On this site I try to give you a choice between watching videos on the same page. Or by jumping to YouTube or another site.
It’s faster to watch the embedded video. AND embedded YouTube videos normally do not have those annoying overlay ads.
If you’re in a hurry, just watch the embedded video.
But when you jump over to YouTube you have the option of watching a higher resolution version. You can comment. Rate videos. And see more links to related videos.
It’s nice to have a choice.
The future looks bright. YouTube and Vimeo have begun replacing “memory hog” Adobe Flash format videos with the new HTML5 standard.
The sooner that happens for you, the better.
My buddy Andy routinely ships his mountain bike box by FedEx. He was astonished how much easier and cost effective it was than trying to send it as luggage.
… Consider: a single 25-pound suitcase or shipment from Boston to San Francisco by FedEx Ground costs about $31 vs. $23-$25 on Delta or nothing on Southwest.
But once that suitcase weighs over 50 pounds, excess charges kick in on the airlines, even on Southwest: you’d pay $56 for a 55-lb. bag using USPS on that same Boston-San Francisco trip, but twice that on Delta, which adds an extra $90 fee each way for bags weighing over 50 pounds. Even Southwest will charge you $50 each way.
And if your bag is both heavy and oversized (larger than 61-62 linear inches), you’ll get hit with triple jeopardy on some airlines: a fee for the first bag, plus an overweight fee, plus an oversized fee. Such a bag might cost nearly $300 on Delta on a trip from Los Angeles to Seattle vs. under $40 via FedEx Ground. …
airfarewatchdog – Airline baggage fees chart, updated
more – Trick, repack and rethink your way around the new luggage fees
=== UPDATE from Dana:
When I came back to Vegas after 4.5 months in Canada, I used Canada post to send my extra bags. It cost me $170 CAD. Had I flown with the bags (5 extra) it would have cost me $725 on ScAir Canada/United. They also charged me an extra $10 per bag that I was traveling with, because I didn’t check in on line. Which you are not able to do when traveling with an infant. What a crock.
ps – my bags arrived in 8 days
I love Facebook, but some of their redesign decisions SUCK.
Recently I’ve noticed that some of my friends updates were not appearing in my Feed.
Why is that?
Turns out that Facebook decided to show me only 250 of my 500+ friends. Somehow they were choosing what 250 I’d want to see. Those who post most often, I assume.
That’s LAME, Facebook. LAME.
There’s a fix explained in this blog.
=== UPDATE:
Only those who get a really high volume of posts in their stream can use the fix that worked for me. (see below) Most people get all their friends posts and won’t see the box below.
… you can quickly restore all your friends by scrolling to the bottom of the home page -> click on EDIT OPTIONS -> and change the number of friends from the default (250 in my case) to a number greater than your total number of friends.
My pick.
… Black Eyed Peas was ranked 12th at the Billboard’s Decade-End Chart Artist of the Decade. They were ranked 7th in Hot 100 Artists of the Decade.
Click PLAY or watch Boom Boom Pow on YouTube.
The best selling band, as ranked by Billboard, of the last decade was Alberta’s Nickelback.
… Was this the worst decade for popular music? Worse than the 1980s?
Leave a comment if you’ve a different favourite over the last 10yrs.
By coincidence, there happens to be a surplus of young women looking for my demographic …
These girls are so hard up, they have to advertise on Facebook.
I’ve tried clicking the X. They simply feed me new dubious ads.
I’ve tried using internet tools like Readability to take out those unwanted ads. … It doesn’t work on Facebook.
Leave a comment if you know a way I can avoid them. The only solution I’ve found, so far, is to read new posts in Seesmic Desktop. But the features in that Twitter client are really limited.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Facebook. But they allow deceptive ads from scumbag bottom feeders.
Rick McCharles 