awesome I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me...
Going Paperless: How to Do Away With Dead Trees
I’m not a fan of paper: I avoid it at all costs, and tell anyone who listens how much I hate it. While paper is still a necessity in some areas of life, I’ve gone to great lengths to figure out how to do away with it where possible. Thanks to the Internet and...
WordPress 3.2 Released Into The Wild; Downloaded More Than 330K Times In 24 Hours
WordPress 3.1 was downloaded over 15 million times in less than 5 months. But time marches on, and so does the music. Yesterday, WordPress 3.2, also known as “Gershwin”, was released to the public, and in just 24 hours, the latest iteration of the website and blogging platform has been downloaded over 330,000 times....
Chris Sacca has an Inspiring Story to Tell.
Many of you may only know of Chris Sacca as an accomplished investor, advisor, speaker, tech celeb ex-Googler. His upbringing and career experience pre-Google however tells a very different story and an inspiring one at that. Take just a few minutes to watch Kevin Rose interview Sacca for Rose’s Foundation video podcast. If you’re...
Roundup: iPhone accessories to help you get a better night’s sleep
While many of us figuratively feel like we sleep with our iPhones, I’ve been literally doing just that for the past few months, testing a variety of sleep monitoring and maintenance tools. Here are some resulting recommendations for getting a better night’s sleep, thanks to some third-party hardware and software. Zeo Personal Sleep Coach $199...
Microsoft Gave Customer $250,000 To Choose Office 365 Over Google Apps
Image: AP See Also: Google Ready To Launch A New Travel Search Site Google+ Hangouts Will Be Hard For Facebook To Top There Will Be No More Private Google Profiles After July 31 — Here’s What That Means Here’s one way Microsoft can beat Google Apps: by buying customers. The University of Nebraska is...
HP Touchpad and Touchstone dock: first video look
After returning from a Vegas vacation, I found one last jackpot on my doorstep: An HP Touchpad and Touchstone wireless charging dock. Both are review units sent from HP, and the devices went on sale last week. This model is the 32 GB unit, which costs $599, while the optional Touchstone dock is an...
There Will Be No More Private Google Profiles After July 31 — Here’s What That Means (GOOG)
Image: Lance Neilson via Flickr See Also: Google Doesn’t Need Twitter Anymore, So It Just Let Their Deal Expire Guess Who Has The Most Followers On Google+ Google+ Hangouts Will Be Hard For Facebook To Top As part of Google’s push for its new social network, Google+, the company will no longer allow users...
Heroku Adds Support for Clojure
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Remember last week when we mentioned that Clojure may be the new hot...
Google Rebrands Blogger and Picasa to Make Way for Google Plus
It looks as though the efforts to bring together Google’s services under the “Plus” umbrella might involve rebranding two of Google’s longstanding products: Blogger and Picasa. Mashable’s Ben Parr reports that the Blogger and Picasa names – not the products – will go away, as early as the end of the month. That timing...