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Here’s some good news if you live in Canada and you’ve been waiting for Amazon to release their terrific Kindle e-book reader in a Canadian version: your wait is over. In addition to having full access to more than 300,000 titles in the Amazon store, Amazon announced that Canadian newspapers ...
The curvaceous top of the mouse is a multi-touch surface.Apple’s new Magic Mouse is a very nice mousie indeed. No obvious buttons, no scroll wheel, just a sleek multi-touch surface and some groovy new software that lets you scroll with momentum — similar to the way scrolling works on an ...
Review, Computers, Mouse, Magic Mouse, Amazon, Snow Leopard, Software, mac os x, Apple, Gross Finger Oil
You may have heard that Microsoft’s new version of Windows (Windows 7) has been officially released, with features such as Jump Lists, Aero Shake, Snap, new Device Stage Management, as well as new levels of home group network interaction. There’s a lot of talk about it on the PC websites; ...
Amazon’s Kindle is about to have serious competition, with the new Barnes and Noble Nook E-Book Reader. The Nook uses a similar E Ink display, but has some interesting improvements over the Kindle too, including the ability to connect to the Barnes and Noble store through Wi-Fi (in addition to ...
Amazon, Kindle, E-Reader, Books, Gadgets, Barnes and Noble, Nook
If you have kids and they’re excited by the approaching spookiness of Halloween, Amazon has some great deals that you might want to take advantage of: Amazon’s Halloween Store (Costumes, candy, accessories, and décor) Amazon Halloween Candy Deals If you don’t have kids, there are some excellent deals available ...
Amazon, Store, Deal Alert, Kids, Halloween, Electronics, Movies, TV
Three newly released recordings that I highly recommend, in three very different genres. If you like what you hear, click through to Amazon to buy these albums in CD or downloadable MP3 format, and you’ll help support LGF by doing so. [Video]
Amazon announced today that they’ve dropped the price on their terrific Kindle e-book reader by another $30, putting the new price at just $259. As I’ve written several times, this is one of my absolute favorite gadgets and I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read. It’s like ...
The latest books I’m reading on my Kindle, with short reviews.
Amazon, Kindle, E-Reader, Books, Charlie Huston, Victor Gischler
Do your kids need jeans to wear to school? Amazon has a pretty good bargain for you: Free Shipping & $10 Off Orders over $50 of Select Denim.
Took the plunge and installed the latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, and it went off without a hitch. I had to upgrade three utilities to the latest versions: Snapz Pro X, Default Folder X, and Little Snitch. Apart from that, everything seems to be working beautifully. Yes, ...
TidBITS has a couple of good articles on the new features — some of them hidden — in the latest version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard: What’s New in Snow Leopard More Hidden Refinements in Snow Leopard
The latest version of Mac OS X (10.6), Snow Leopard, was released into the wild today as announced earlier this week. My copy is scheduled to arrive Monday so I can’t give you a review yet, but here’s a MacWorld video showing some new features that may not be obvious ...
Apple’s latest performance-oriented version of OS X (10.6), Snow Leopard, will be released ahead of schedule this Friday, August 28, 2009. I’ve already pre-ordered mine, after getting enthusiastic thumbs-up reviews from developer pals with pre-release versions: Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Here’s one of those impulse buys I thought I might regret — that turned out to be a very useful new technological approach to a very old problem: iRobot 560 Roomba Vacuuming Robot. I’ve had mine for about three months and use it two or three times a week, and ...
Video, Lifestyle, Amazon, Roomba, Vacuum, Gadget of the Day, Review
Amazon now has Mac OS X Snow Leopard available for pre-order; the upgrade price if you’re already using Leopard is a very reasonable $29. Apple has announced it will be available sometime in September. Snow Leopard doesn’t add a lot of new features; the emphasis with this new version of ...
David Pogue, author of Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual (a book I highly recommend even if you think you’re already a Mac expert) has a good comparison of Amazon’s Kindle with the new Barnes and Noble eBook offerings: State of the Art - Amazon’s E-Book Rival, Barnes and ...
Amazon, Kindle, E-Reader, Books, Kindle, Barnes and Noble, eBooks
The director’s cut of the incredible film Watchmen is now available at Amazon’s Video on Demand, to watch immediately over the web. Friends told me about the Watchmen graphic novel years ago; I bought it and started to read, but for some reason never got drawn in enough to finish ...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has personally apologized for their misguided deletion of two George Orwell novels from customers’ Kindles: An Apology from Amazon - kindle Discussion Forum. This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our “solution” ...
Amazon, Kindle, E-Reader, Books, George Orwell, Copyright, DRM
Glenn Fleishman has a good article at TidBITS on the controversy over Amazon’s apparently Orwellian deletion of two George Orwell books from customers’ Kindles: Double Plus Ungoods: Amazon Unpublishes Orwell. Note: it doesn’t seem to have been publicized much, but Amazon has admitted they made a mistake with this move, ...
Amazon, Kindle, E-Reader, Books, George Orwell, Copyright, DRM
You probably heard the reports that Amazon had unceremoniously deleted Kindle versions of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 from customers’ devices. But it turns out there’s a little more to the story: the company who sold the books through the Kindle store did not have the rights to publish ...
When I’ve posted my rave reviews of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader (a device I use nearly as much as my computer), LGF readers in other countries have plaintively complained that it isn’t available outside the US — especially, in Canada and Britain. Well, there’s no word on Canadian availability yet, ...
If you were intrigued by Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader but thought it was a bit expensive, there’s good news today as Amazon drops the price by $60 on the Kindle 2, to below $300. Amazon says it’s because they’re manufacturing a larger volume of the devices, decreasing the cost. The ...
Little Green Footballs now has its very own, shiny new Amazon Associate Store, with a button at the top right of the page that takes you directly to the Shopping Zone. This is one of the tools Amazon makes available to members of their associates program; it creates a ...
Some of the reviewers at Amazon seem to think Regina Spektor’s new album Far is “over-produced” — no way. This is a little gem of idiosyncratic pop music. Sparse instrumentation, and just enough production to make it right. Amazon.com Widgets I bought the album at Amazon MP3, where it’s ...
Amazon has some great deals on computers and accessories, including hard drives (1TB drives for $99 — I picked one up for myself), webcams, video cards, mice, speaker systems, laptop cases, etc. And don’t forget Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday, June 21st. UPDATE at 6/18/09 5:08:12 pm: Since ...