Gazelle

As seen on live.twit.tv check out http://www.gazelle.com/ to recycle your unwanted electronics. and get cash back....

What We Do

Gazelle wants to change the world – one cell phone, one laptop, one iPod at a time.

It is our purpose – and our promise – to provide a practical, rewarding way for people to finally rid themselves of all those old cell phones, digital cameras, and gaming systems that they no longer use, but can't seem to find a way to let go of.

Too often when people think of recycling, they rush straight to smashing things into bits for parts. We believe that reuse should always come first. If your GPS unit still works, why not keep it in circulation AND get paid for it? If reusing isn't in the cards, then let us recycle that vintage camcorder. We think of it as ReCommerce.

Yeah, we're green.
Green for you with dollars in your pocket. Green for the environment with fewer electronics being trashed.

It's good to Gazelle. That's our promise.

Flipsync

FlipSync Charges and Syncs Your USB Device, Fits on Your Keychain

Charged and synced portable devices keep us connected and get us through the day, so it's extremely annoying when you need to connect but don't have the right cord nearby. FlipSync puts one on your keychain for iPhones and generic USB devices.

There's not much else to know about these keychain-friendly gadgets. They're about the size of a key fob, and they come in two versions—one with micro and mini-USB connectors that'll work with most USB devices, the other with an iPhone/iPod connector.

A FlipSync will set you back $20, which isn't cheap, but you're paying for the idea and convenience on this one.

flipSYNC - USB 2.0 Charge and Sync Cable for iPod & iPhone [Schosche via Gizmodo]
flipSYNC - Micro & Mini USB 2.0 Charge and Sync Cable [Scosche]

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s Google Buzz a hit or just another flick

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Well we are talking about the new social feature launched by google – Buzz

A week or 2, back there were rumors going on web about a new service (social service) to be launched by google and a few days ago they launched it. Exciting new service, available both for computers and mobile, intergrated with inbox, launched by a company known for its featured products, easily reaching millions of users. These were some of the Pros for the Google (GOOG) to launch their new social networking featured product known as Buzz.

Below is the Launch video of the Google Buzz. No doubt well presented, audience full of excitement, live covered, excellent media coverage

Here is a Quick intro to the product

As explained in the video in todays world people share alot and most of the sharing take place on the net wioth friends, family, business people, academic sharing etc and these sharig are mostly done on Social sites like facebook, twitter, myspace, bebo, tagged etc and IMs. So in a world which is already dominated by these social services why would google will be interested to looking around and finding a place. May be this can be explained by Google newest acquisition confirmation of Aardvark reported by Techcrunch . Google is making its way to become next big social thing by launching Buzz and Aardvark acquisition and some tech already in place like Android mobile platform and its mobile browser and recent report saying Google paying Apple more than $100 million for search deal reported by Businessinsider.com

But rather than such a great plan Google can have a back slashed down turn because of the Missing feature reported in Buzz and also the Privacy concerns with the openness of the buzz to the whole world.

Some of the features reported missing were filters, lists, third parts support, speed up services, etc these can be read at ReadWriteWeb

And Privacy has been one of the most dicussed topic on the web soon after the privact setting chnages by Facebook and Traking of user’s web activity by google and Buzz can be a Fuzz ith its privacy flaw. The wrong thing with the Buzz is that it automaticaly add the people in your contacts as following and same happend with you that you will be followed by a person who has added you as a contact in his/her gmail contact list or has email you very often. And the other thing is that The information relating our network web on Buzz in freely available and anyone can see it without you having any clue.

These Privacy Flaw can be read at Businessinsider.com

To become a social platform google has to overcome this problem may be by resetting its privact feature and by launching a new platform on different website to be accessible by inbox only can sove the Missing Feature problem.

LastPass

This is the only password manager you will need. I have been using this product now for several months and love it. I have recommended it to several of my friends and they love it also so simple to use and will work on a thumb drive as well. Pc mag says "

LastPass 1.50 won PC Magazine's EDITORS' CHOICE award and was rated as one of the best tech products of 2009."

PC WORLD SAY "

The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009

Here is the cream of the crop, the 100 best of 2009...automatically fills in saved log-ins and forms with the click of a button. This handy Web freebie and browser plug-in also syncs your data to any computer that you use regularly. You always knew that someday you'd find a more reliable password manager than your yellow Post-its."

AND ZDNET says "

LastPass will make you more secure online, period.

Last year, when I put together a list of my 10 favorite Windows programs of all time, one of the superstars on that list was RoboForm. Since then, I've found a replacement that does everything RoboForm can do and more - and it's completely free."

so what are you waiting for go get yours today......

BUCKYBALLS

I came across this a while ago but its so much fun just to pass time when your at work sitting at your desk or at home in between surfing the net. Check it out loads of fun.

Google buzz

Are you tired of farmville,fishville all the dam villes?, then google buzz maybe for you.

Introducing Google Buzz

We've blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we've taken to add social features to our products, and efforts like OpenSocial that propose common tools for building social apps. With more and more communication happening online, the social web has exploded as the primary way to share interesting stuff, tell the world what you're up to in real-time and stay more connected to more people. In today's world of status messages, tweets and update streams, it's increasingly tough to sort through it all, much less engage in meaningful conversations.

Our belief is that organizing the social information on the web — finding relevance in the noise — has become a large-scale challenge, one that Google's experience in organizing information can help solve. We've recently launched innovations like real-time search and Social Search, and today we're taking another big step with the introduction of a new product, Google Buzz.

Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It's built right into Gmail, so you don't have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there's always been a big social network underlying Gmail. Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most. We focused on building an easy-to-use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately (so you don't have to use different tools to share with different audiences). Plus, Buzz integrates tightly with your existing Gmail inbox, so you're sure to see the stuff that matters most as it happens in real time.

Google fiber

Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.

apple i pad

Apple and Amazon could be the best of enemies. Look at their entirely complimentary business strategies. Amazon sells content. The company went into the hardware business to spur more e-book sales. It intends to make a killing selling e-textbooks for the new Kindle DX. Yeah, sure, Amazon makes money on the Kindle, but its heart is in the books. Apple sells hardware. Apple became the world's leading online media store so it could sell more iPods. Its heart is in the iPods.

Enter the iPad. The Apple people usually complain about how much they hate a product category just before they enter it. Recently, Apple's COO Tim Cook said that he thinks netbooks are pretty useless, and that the iPod touch is Apple's netbook. This feeds into BusinessWeek's rumor about the "iPad"—a $699 tablet that would look like a bigger iPod touch

Apple hates netbooks because netbooks cannibalize notebooks. But the company would love to sell another Apple device into homes. The iPad doesn't replace anything Apple currently sells. You type on your laptop at your desk. You surf with your iPhone while on the go. But you'd relax with an iPad on the couch, prop it up by your bed, or rest it on the airplane tray table. That's all stuff you do with existing devices, of course, but an iPad would make it more natural, just as a Kindle does.

The Kindle's success doesn't come from its brilliant hardware. Yes, the new Kindles are much prettier and slimmer than the original Kindle, but they're compelling because of their 3G networking and their tight integration with Amazon's store. Apple has that integration, too, via the iPhone Kindle app, and it has a much deeper legacy of building multipurpose hardware than Amazon does.

The Kindle DX seems to have three primary markets: textbooks, newspapers, and magazines. Other companies, including Hearst and News Corp., are said to be going into the media pad space to save their magazine subscription dollars. They're doomed. In exchange for your monthly contract, the iPad will give you the whole Internet, and 35,000 iPod touch applications, including—get this!—the Amazon Kindle application.

Amazon won't stress out about this too much. It will still be selling e-books, and now it will be selling e-textbooks, too. The big losers will be newspapers and magazines that hope to sell Kindle subscriptions. They'll be forced to put their free Web sites behind a pay wall or find some other way of making money. Textbook companies and traditional book publishers aren't in so much danger, because they've never offered all of their content online free.

The iPad also won't just be an e-book/Internet reader. It's sure to be a terrific media player—a sort of widescreen iPod, the perfect thing for watching a movie in bed or on the plane. Apple won't position it as a general-purpose computer, as the company doesn't want to cannibalize its MacBook business.

Don't worry too much about the iPad's $699 price. Apple has been open to carrier subsidies, which typically shave $200 or more off the price of a device in exchange for locking you into a contract. That business model has been tremendously successful—so successful that unlocked phones, while available in the U.S., have never been able to take off. Apple has also always had strong relationships with colleges and universities, so we're sure to see educational discounts to promote the iPad as a virtual textbook.

The iPad's monthly fee will be a sticking point, of course, but it's not an insurmountable one. Verizon's new Open Development Initiative has been letting makers of non-voice devices roll their own service plans. The ODI hasn't been used for a big consumer device yet, but it could let Apple roll out an iPad with bucket plans for data at various tiers; an on-device data meter could tell people when it's time to buy more. So far, the ODI hasn't been compatible with subsidies, but Verizon seems to be very enthusiastic about working with Apple; maybe together they could make this work.

The big question is whether Apple will release an iPad at its next big press event on June 8, or whether it will decide to wait. Typically, Apple announces products in June, September-ish and January-ish. It will announce the iPad when it's ready, whenever that is. But Amazon and the magazine companies shouldn't just be preparing competing devices: They should be preparing new business models for the new world where anyone can access Web content on a large-format pad, anywhere, at any time.
this articale written by Sascha Segan
which you can find at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346545,00.asp