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Archive for September, 2009

Sony ramps up e-book self-publishing options

After watching Amazon make huge headway in the e-book self-publishing game with its Digital Text Platform, Sony is finally making a real push into this area with a new Publisher Portal and partnerships with self-publishing companies Smashwords and Author Solutions.

While Sony stressed that the portal was for large and …

Sharp releases AQUOS LX series, prepares for the tenth anniversary

Sharp is approaching to the tenth anniversary of its AQUOS LCD flat panels. To give it a proper pump, they have prepared a new line-up for AQUOS series. The LX series is coming November 10 in Japan and only then it will spread to other markets. Sharp engineers have done a good job improving AQUOS over the years, and with the latest LX series they haven’t changed their habits. As usually, there is a choice between four models with different screen sizes and other features.

Lite-On - iHAS324

DVD writer that promises to securely delete sensitive data: DVD drives have been at rock-bottom prices for a fair while now, with models available for as little as 15. The new iHAS324 from Lite-On isn’t quite that cheap, but at just 20 it’s still very…

iPhone - Shakespeare, Earth vs Moon, Kayak, Put Things Off, Fourtrack, Epicurious

this month’s round-up of iPhone apps: This month there’s a shoot ‘em up, the complete Shakespeare, travel planning and task management, a recording studio and a recipe book: all available on an iPhone near you. First stop is Earth Vs Moon (1.19)…

Activision - Wolfenstein

an old name revived, but the greatness has gone: With characters talking as if they’ve just walked out of an episode of Allo Allo, and cut scenes that you want to skip pretty much as soon as they’ve started, the latest revival of the grand-daddy…

September price drop part 3: Palm Pre for 99.99 USD

Palm Pre has fallen in preice to the point, where its hard to imagine someone will walk right pass it and go to find a better deal. I mean if you are in market for a smartphone, not a phone monster or a semi-PMP but a day-to-day smartphone that will organize your appointments, frends, colegues and applications into one, Pre for 99.99 is a bargain of the century. Details follow.

September price drop part 2: Nintendo Wii for 199.99 USD

Unlike Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii suffers smaller impact from Sony PlayStation 3 Slim arrival. But as it appeared they also decided to price for their bundle a bit. Why? Well, our idea is that Wii has been around for quite a while now and the new one is coming. In fact come to think of it, Wii is the oldest of the three. But still the same fun as it was two years back, I’m I right? This is the thing about gaming consoles - they depreciate slower that desktop PCs or smartphones. Back to Amazon now.

September price drop part 1: Xbox 360 Pro 60GB for 249.99 USD

Was it the PlayStation 3 Slim that has made major gaming consoles buzz about themselves more than they got used to, but this month we had a lot really. Anyway, the Xbox 360 was the first one to start the September price drop, as we like to call it.

PicJoke - online photo editing made easy and funny

Hold to your bellies everyone, I mean that is what I do, because all of a sudden I remembered how much of a laugh the Internet can be. I have run against one of those online photoshop sites and it has stolen good hour of my evening leisure. PicJoke.com is the place. You might have heard about its lookalikes, where you upload one of your or your friend’s picture, choose an effect and download an automatically remastered image. No need to have photo editing software and editing skills. By the way, PicJoke.com adds a new photo effect every day, so there are plenty of them.

LG Chocolate BL20 slider, 5MP camera is best in it

LG Chocolate BL40 has been launched in early September. And now, right this Monday, 28 they have announced new Chocolate series BL20 slider. Is it much like Palm with its Pre and less well equipped Pixi sitting in the pipeline. Only that since Pre has gone cheaper, prices are on the different level. I?ve brought Palm example because it?s the freshest of the case, all manufacturers do the same at some degree. Since LG Chocolate BL20 is not that much of a pump like Pixi, we?ll just have a short specs walkthrough. Release of the BL20 is going to happen in Q4 in UK at O2.