With this disk I’ll be able to use the Wii instead of a Roku box to watch movies.
Subject: For Fri: Instant Streaming Disc for Wii
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NETFLIX – Wii Disc Ship Confirmation
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Dear Douglas,
Your free instant streaming disc for Wii should arrive by Friday, Mar 26, 2010.…
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I don’t think they actually want us to contact the administrator. Can you imaging that email inbox?
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Flying standby is a nice way to get home a bit early from that weeklong business trip. You get to the airport and hop on the next flight heading in the right direction. Since February American Airlines has been charging $50 to travelers who want to take advantage of that service.…
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My car was covered in bird crap after using the visitors parking in the shade. Next time I know to park in the sun. To make matter worse, my windshield wiper fluid is broken.
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Why is the asian guy talking about yellow? That seems wrong for some reason.
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iTunes Store Terms and Conditions have changed
Summary of Important Changes
The changes we have made to the terms and conditions include the following:
• The “Gifts” section of the iTunes Store Terms of Sale have been changed to clarify that Gifts may not be used for in-app purchases, in-app subscriptions, upgrades, or the iPod touch OS, and to explain that some gifts require compatible hardware and parental control settings so they can be redeemed.…
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Amazon has announced that they are working on applications to allow users to read books on several platforms including the iPad. Like the Kindle app for Mac and iPhone, it does not appear that Amazon will allow Newspaper and Magazine subscriptions to be usable on these new platforms.…
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I’m hoping that the iPad supports storing PDF files on its file system . I created a smart play list in iTunes to find that I had 34 PDF files in my library. It would be great if the iPad supported loading and storing those.…
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I’m wondering if I should renew my Flickr account. Is it really worth $2 per month? It is certainly worth it for people who make a living from their photography.
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A genericized trademark is a brand that has become synonymous with the class of product being sold like Dumpster, Kleenex, Q-Tip, Band-Aid, Jell-O, Styrofoam, and so on. Today in the tech world most consumers have a hard time telling the difference between the company and the product they sell.…
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I recently found myself under my wife’s car trying to figure out how to get into the fog lamp housing that was full of water without messing up the alignment or dumping all the water on myself. I found it very difficult to hold the flashlight and the screwdriver to see what I was doing.…
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There’s a new wave of spam hitting our shores from over seas in the form of solicitations for SEO services. You can spot these foreign invaders by their bad grammar and spelling. Now they are invading the contact forms on your favorite web sites which means you are probably talking about a human taking the time to fill out the form and defeat the CAPTCHA and not just a robot filling out a form.…
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I had the opportunity to attend the world premier of an independent documentary called
Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission while at SXSW this year. All I knew about this films going in to it was that it was about the son of an astronaut who go to go into space.…
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