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Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Good

December 9th, 2009
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Gizmodo has posted a good article discussing Barnes & Noble’s latest entry into the ebook reader market, the Nook. Plenty of comparisons to Amazon’s Kindle to be found.

Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Good

(Via Gizmodo: Top.)

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A Romance Flowchart: When Is It Inappropriate to Use Your iPhone?

December 7th, 2009
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Awesome. But am I allowed to bust out this chart to justify phone usage?


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Based in New York City, Shane Snow is a graduate student in Digital Media at Columbia University and founder of Scordit.com. He’s fascinated with all things geeky, particularly social media and shiny gadgets he’ll never afford.

(Via Gizmodo.)

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Motor Trend Car Of The Year: 2010 Ford Fusion

November 19th, 2009
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The newly-refreshed 2010 Ford Fusion was just named MotorTrend’s Car Of The Year for 2010. Not a bad choice in our opinion as Ford’s got the most money to spend on marketing. Also, the car’s damn good.

(Via Jalopnik: Top.)

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LCD on the Wall, Which Netbook Battery Lasts the Longest of Them All?

April 11th, 2009
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On the hunt for a travel netbook? After testing out early models with squished keyboards I decided to wait for a model with useable size and 10″ seems to be about perfect. I originally thought I wanted a fully loaded netbook until I realized that wasn’t the point. Netbooks are not intended to replace laptops. They are intended to be ultra portable with prices making them nearly disposable. Netbooks are perfect travel companions for photographers who need to dump the days pictures onto a backup external hard drive and review images on a screen larger than the thumbnail preview on the back of their camera.

Since a unit’s size is an important feature, how much juice can you realistically expect from the form factor? Find the list of which models last the longest after the jump.

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Dell Mini 10 – My Next Toy Purchase

January 15th, 2009
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Dell Mini 10 - Thanks Engadget!

Dell Mini 10 - Thanks Engadget!

Specs:

  • 1280×720 glass screen
  • Z530 1.6 GHz Atom
  • 3G
  • GPS
  • 802.11n
  • multitouch/gesture trackpad
  • A decent sized netbook keyboard

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