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Sick of the Pandora Limit? Use Grooveshark instead

Thanks to Wendy for showing me this a few weekends ago!
Ever since Pandora put up its 40 hour listening limit, people have been searching for the next best thing in music streaming.
Grooveshark lets you pick songs to add to your own playlist so that you can listen to the songs you want without worrying about [...]

Online TV streaming with Channelsurfing.net

I’ve gone without having a TV in my place for a year now, and I must say that it is quite the money saver. I think that at my old place, I used to pay 30-40 dollars a month for the cable that we shared between 3 people. I watch most of my tv shows [...]

New Paypal App — an iPhone app to check out

I recently updated the Paypal app on my iPhone, which had allowed me to look up customer’s shipping addresses at the post-office or send money via my iPhone, and I must say that I am definitely impressed by the new makeover. The previous application was a kindergartener’s Paypal app, which I was very disappointed with [...]

Download YouTube Vids using Safari = SO EASY!

So in a few days I’m off again on yet another business trip to Asia. This time it’s Shanghai, but then after Shanghai, I’m flying to Taiwan to meet my parents there to visit my sister who is there studying abroad. By the way, check out her and her roommate’s blog ( Stephanie and Christina’s [...]

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

My dad just showed me this video of a talk on TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) that has wowed me into disbelief.
As described on their YouTube page:
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in [...]

YouTube is costing Google $1.5 million a day

This may be old news to some, but I just finished reading an article in an old Newsweek which says that due to the size of YouTube and the number of uploads it has to handle each day, it is losing approximately $1.5 million a day.
According to the article, Google is trying to decrease the [...]

Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys

I downloaded a free app called Cool Facts for my phone last night, and it actually has indeed been providing me with some down right “cool facts.”
Of course, I haven’t gone through and checked to see how legitimate each fact is, but I guess I’m just going to trust it.
Here are 20 good ones:

Even a [...]

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