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I really wished I had purchased my vinyl from Amazon, because today, Amazon expanded its AutoRip service to vinyl records purchased since 1998. AutoRip automatically adds MP3 versions of songs to your Amazon Cloud Player Account. When Amazon released the AutoRip service, they backdated any eligible CDs purchased from Amazon, and they have now...
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It is time for some housecleaning. There is a new layout to the site. Feel free to provide comment on this post of what you think We have a weekly newsletter, which will send you the posts if you prefer that to other means of subscription. This replaces the previous Feedburner Email service with...
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To All RSS Subscribers: Due to the recent uncertainty regarding the future of Feedburner, we are removing all redirects to Feedburner. All links on the site will now use local feeds. If possible, please update your subscriptions. If not, the Feedburner feeds will continue to be maintained for as long as Google continues to...
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Sometimes, it is time to make a change. We’ve been writing stories for nearly six years now, under the tagline Guide to a Tech Savvy Lifestyle without Emptying Your Wallet. Today, we’re changing things a bit. We’ll be changing the tagline to, Living a Tech-Filled Lifestyle without Emptying Your Wallet. This may just be rearranging...
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In December of 2010, we mourned the loss of Kodachrome, the iconic film. Now Kodak, amidst its financial woes, is discontinuing slide film. This leaves Fujifilm as the only provider in this area. The remaining stock of Ektachrome E100G, E100VS, and Elite Chrome Extra Color should last six to nine months. This comes at...
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The Commodore 64 is still a computer that has a special place in our hearts. The original 64 launched at CES thirty years ago this week in 1982 and was the successor to the VIC-20. This was the machine we used to first play with programming, using BASIC and classic sprite graphics. It lasted...
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Here at Gadget Wisdom, and at our sister blog, Flight Wisdom, we are testing distributing full text of our posts over RSS. This will be available to you in your feed reader. Every so often, we spend some time doing a redesign of sites to see if they can be any better. None of...
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Last week, we were complaining that traditional print media is missing the opportunities of putting a good quality version of their content online. If the electronic version of the New York Times is better than the Kindle version, and the electronic version is free, than the paper is missing its opportunity to get our...
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Rest in Peace, Kodachrome - 1935-2010 - Paul Simon Sang About It, a State Park was named after It, National Geographic Shot Their Most Famous Photos On It, and now they have taken our Kodachrome away.
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The title says it all. LastPass, which is a cross-platform password manager, has acquired Xmarks, a cross platform bookmark, tab, history, and password sync. It seems a match made in heaven. The two businesses seem to align perfectly.
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