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Apple TV “Take 2″

Administrator — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:20:48 +0000

One of the less-than-successful products for Apple last year was the Apple TV. Apple did not release an updated version of the hardware at the recent Macworld show, but it did revamp the software (user interface) and made the Apple TV much more useful.

With the introduction of movie rentals via the iTunes Music Store, you can now buy or rent movies directly on your Apple TV device. Movies cost between $2 and $5 to rent. The more expensive movies are the new releases and movies in HD.

Apple also reduced the price of the Apple TV from $300 to $230.

The trouble with modern printers

Administrator — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:36:41 +0000

Do you have an inkjet or laser printer bought in the past few years? Chances are, you got them cheap. The printer industry has embraced the “give away the razor, sell the blades concept”. Inkjet and laser printer cartridges can end up to be quite expensive!

Not only that, with new models coming up all the time, it’s quite difficult to find the exact cartridge for your printer. Cartridge Finder can help, since they have a database of over 10,000 printer models. They also allow you to search for the lowest prices for the cartridges.

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Website Review : Printer Cartridge Finder

Administrator — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:05:44 +0000

The current prices of printers and faxes are cheaper than ever before. Unfortunately, the ink for those same printers often cost a bomb. There was a study done a couple of years back, where they found out that on a per-ounce basis, printer ink was more expensive than premium wines.

New printers mean new consumables, which are often incompatible between brands and sometimes even within the same brand. If you own more than one printer, you need to use a printer Cartridge Finder service.

CartridgeFinder.com has an easy to use interface that makes it simple to figure out which cartridges are required for more than 10,000 different models of printer, copier, and fax machines.

The site also checks PriceGrabber.com’s merchant listings to find you the best price on the product you need.

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Pink Zunes in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Administrator — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:36:13 +0000

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In a joint promotion by Ford and Microsoft, you will be able to purchase a limited edition Pink Zune 30GB media player. 100% of the proceeds of the Pink Zunes will go to Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.

This is a better deal than the various RED(tm) products, where I believe only around 10% is donated to charity. The Pink Zune sells for $250.

Hardware preview : duplex document scanner

Administrator — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:01:55 +0000

Remember the day when “going paperless” was in vogue? All the large technology companies promised a rosy future where you no longer drowned in paper, thanks to computers. Yet when I look around me, I see more paper than ever.

In my office, we do have an official “paperless” policy, but of course paper is kept as a backup. Once every few months we gather up all our paperwork and send it all for scanning. Then a few weeks later, we would get CDs with images of the documents, with the original documents stored safely elsewhere, most probably in an offsite storage facility.

If you want to have the same system for your home or small business, it’s good to invest in a scanner. You may wish to consider the ScanShell 3000DN duplex document scanner . This scanner is fast (6 pages per minute for black and white documents) and it can scans both sides of the scanned document simultaneously. This will definitely save you some time.

The ScanShell 3000DN is flexible enough to accept input of varying sizes (up to US legal size). For example, it can easily scan business cards, plastic ID cards and forms. Scanned documents are saved in a standard PDF (Portable Document Format) so you can open them on any computer.

Weighing only 1.3 pounds (less than 600 grams), the ScanShell 3000DN sports a USB 2.0 standard interface which also acts as a power supply.