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Amazons Emmy Event

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2008-09-06 19:27:46 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks
In anticipation of the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards show (Sep 21), Amazon.com has built a special page highlighting all of the nominees and naturally links to buy the DVDs of those shows Hop over and browse the list of shows that you may not have been watching, but turned out to be better than you imagined they would be. Buy the DVDs and catch up...
 
Tags: primetime emmy awards, special page, dvds, browse, hop, anticipation, nominees, sep, bookmarke-mail
 
 
 
 
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Kevin Rose says New iPods Coming Soon

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2008-09-06 15:15:57 by methodshop in Gizmos for Geeks
Is Digg.com founder and Diggnation star Kevin Rose abusing his Apple contacts? This past weekend Kevin blogged about some new stuff being released by Apple next month including new iPods and an iTunes update According to Kevin, Apple will announce the following within the next few weeks the iPod nano will take on a slimmer, more rounded look the...
 
Tags: kevin, diggnation star kevin, apple contacts, apple, past weekend kevin, ipod nano, ipod touch, ipods, blu-ray support
 
 
 
 
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Samsung offering a recycling program in the US

2008-09-05 20:06:00 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks
 
Thank you Samsung for deciding to launch a recycling program in the 50 states. With the exception of appliances, you can drop off any Samsung consumer electronics at various drop-off points. Here is the Samsung Recycling Direct website If youre looking for more recycling resources, just do a search on our site as weve covered numerous recycling...
 
Tags: samsung, samsung consumer electronics, resources, drop-off, drop, program, direct website, appliances, launch
 
 
 
 
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Comcast to cap broadband users bandwidth

2008-09-04 18:00:00 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks
 
Ok, so 250 gigabytes of traffic is a pretty high limit, especially compared to some other providers, but why such a cap if they say that the average usage is 2 to 3 GB? Well, its their call, but if youre going to have a limit, you better make sure you give users a way to check their usage I can hear it now somewhere around the end of the month...
 
Tags: bandwidth limit, limit, average usage, usage, month, users, cap, honey, providers
 
 
 
 
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Charge your Mobile Phone by walking around

2008-09-04 07:59:41 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks
 
...gadget wont be built directly into a cell phone. At least not yet M2E Power looks like an interesting company as they also take the same idea and extend it to quite a few other environments, such as to soldiers that have to walk around with lots of batteries. Imagine if those batteries were being recharged at the same time they were moving...
 
Tags: cell phone andor, power, cell phone, m2e power, batteries, cell-phone charger, letdown, time, lots
 
 
 
 
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Best Buy charging $30 to remove bloatware from computers

2008-09-03 16:42:00 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks
 
Ive said it before and Ill say it again - computers are complicated, even for folks like me who are in the business. With that in mind, Best Buy has discovered another way to mint money - charging folks a small premium to remove the bloatware that the major computer makers install on their computers While some of the software can be considered...
 
Tags: remove bloatware, bloatware, remove, folks, computers, charges folks, additional hardware resources, always-on service, discover
 
 
 
 
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Google enters Web browser market with Chrome

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2008-09-03 04:58:12 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks
Google sure knows how to light up the news sites and blogosphere - release a brand new Web browser! Called Chrome, its Googles foray into a once-crowded market that is now dominated by just 2 players (at least on Windows) - Microsoft and Mozilla Everyone else has reported on and given their opinion, so why not another?! I did download and test...
 
Tags: chrome, google, web browser, browser, chrome heart, fast chrome, google maps, market, google product
 
 
 
 
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Photos of the HTC Dream running Android

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2008-09-02 07:05:00 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks
Engadget found a bunch of photos of the upcoming HTC Dream running the Google-supported Android Mobile OS on a Chinese forum, and the bottom line is that this phone is real and coming to T-Mobile in relatively short order. Not the best of photos but pretty exciting to see something that just maybe, could be called an iPhone killer in a few...
 
Tags: photos, htc dream, iphone killer, chinese forum, android mobile, bottom line, t-mobile, bunch, phone
 
 
 
 
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BeatThat.com - submit deals, make money

2008-09-01 07:05:00 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks
 
A new deals website pays you to submit deals on popular products (currently only in 6 electronics categories and 511 products). BeatThat.com also simply rates the vendors in 3 categories (green, yellow and red) based on their rankings at a few other big sites such as Amazon.com and Shopping.com No idea how much you get paid for submitting deals,...
 
Tags: deals, submit deals, deals website pays, electronics categories, popular products, products, categories, submit stuff, beatthat
 
 
 
 
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Fotoviewr - turn your Flickr photos into a slideshow

2008-08-31 05:47:35 by Chief Gadgeteer in Gizmos for Geeks