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Folks living in Germany have it easy where the iPhone is concerned, thanks to T-Mobile who are offering the 8GB iPhone for a mere €99, as long as you purchase it with a 24-month contract. Granted, there are plenty of rumors floating around about a 3G iPhone being released sometime this year, but I’m sure the iPhone will still look good a couple of years down the road. Folks rocking to the monthly €89 Complete XL plan will benefit from 1,000 minutes, 300 SMS messages, and unlimited data. Does this news make you want to move to Germany? I’d prefer to go there during October for Oktoberfest while talking nonsense with my friends on the iphone in a drunken stupor.

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In case you missed it, Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been released and features numerous fixes and performance optimizations. From my point of view, much higher performance and dramatically smaller memory footprint are the most important points. Firefox 2 became a memory hog and if it wasn’t for the few plug-ins that I love, I would have switched. I was even using IE to browse my feeds with Google Reader.

Now I’m waiting for the plug-ins to catch up. Most still don’t work with version 3.0

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Here's a subject with which I personally am unacquainted but it is quite popular so I though I'd check out the subject of taking pictures of pregnant women.

I didn't realize that it was possible to take creative, that is, "artsy" types of photos of pregnant women, that still retain the essence of what is being conveyed; but it can be done.

Here are some impressive and tasteful shots of pregnant women taken with a digital camera.

Take a camera with you whenever possible, and look around, you'll find a picture somewhere.

Source:www.freepregnantsex.info

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Amazon.com launched a new service that lets you search for, and buy products that they sell … using text messaging. It’s called TextBuyIt. Oh yes, I can see it now… drunk text shopping.

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Leave it to those crazy Dutch to create a motorized monocycle that isn’t even street legal! This wheel operates by using a centrifugal clutch on the inner steel frame to engage the 67″ diameter outer flywheel which makes contact with the ground using a rubber tire. A single rider can achieve speeds of 25MPH as the monocycle is powered by a 31cc, four-stroke 1 1/2-hp engine and steered by the passenger leaning to one side or the other. The frame is made of fiberglass which encloses the engine, drive train and fuel tank and provides a cushioned seat for riders up to 275 lbs.

This crazy gadget can run up to 2 hours on a full tank (1/2 gallon) of gas but to own this ultimate single wheeled vehicle you’ll have to pull out your credit card with a high credit limit as this impractical, albeit cool, vehicle is more expensive than Hyundai Accent which comes with a different kind of tilt steering wheel, seat-mounted and side-impact airbags, heating and air and a roof.

Gimmie!

Suggested Price: $12999 + $800 shipping

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Mood Toast Stamp

Toast is a great snack and a favourite breakfast food. Why not make it more interesting by writing a message on your toast?You might think that it can’t be done without ink poisoning but it is simple really. All you have to do is press one of the mood toast stamps onto your piece of bread.  Then put your bread in the toaster like you would do normally. When the toast pops up, the message will be clear to read.Perhaps you want to cheer up a housemate or family member who has been down in the dumps making them breakfast in bed with “Good Morning” in their toast is sure to put a smile back on their face.  Or tell your better half how you feel with the “I Love You” stamp. After all, it is the little romantic gestures like this that make all the difference. Specifications: Two stamps in one pack, one saying “I Love You” and the other reading “Good Morning” Press the mood toast stamp into the bread and after it is toasted, the chosen message will appear

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A cell phone is but a communications device at heart, capable of doing a little bit extra such as surfing the Internet, running IM programs, checking your mail, capturing your favorite memories in a digital photo and playing video and audio files when you’re bored, right? Well props to online shopping pioneer Amazon.com who clearly aims to pile on the pressure (and potentially, misery) upon its brick-and-mortar rivals by offering a new online shopping service known as TextBuyIt, letting Amazon account holders to just about search virtually all products on Amazon’s website with the option to purchase whatever captures their fancy.

According to Howard Gefen, director of Amazon Mobile Payments, “With today’s launch of TextBuyIt, any Amazon.com customer can now use any mobile device to shop and buy from Amazon.com, at anytime, anywhere they are. With TextBuyIt, if you’re walking out of a concert and want to buy a CD from the artist you just saw, or if you’re at dinner and a friend tells you about a great book you should read, all you have to do is get out your mobile device, send a text message to Amazon, reply to the response, confirm your order, and your item will be on its way.”

Amazon claims that it takes less than a minute for you to find a product you want, followed by a simple purchase procedure. Sounds pretty neat, especially if you already know what you want, but if you’re someone who loves window shopping (whether virtual or otherwise), I’d strongly suggest sitting down in front of a computer and take your time to browse through Amazon’s millions of items. After all, TextBuyIt is relatively lightweight in terms of text, which means plenty of contextual information apart from items and prices could lead to a potentially wrong purchase if you don’t know what you want. Do you think this service will take off in a big way?

Source: Information Week

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By and large, almost all the latest cellphones carry a touchscreen display and some kind of ho-hum touch-based UI with them these days. Don’t these trying-hard companies see that they are only strengthening the brand they are attacking with their half-baked jabs at innovation? Or is it imitation? It seems like everybody’s trying their best to make an iPhone killer, and miserably fails, each and every time. But ‘ole Samsung’s latest offering begs for a second look, a chance to impress. Samsung introduced a new phone, called the Samsung Instinct, to be made available for a still undisclosed price.

As you can see, the Samsung Instinct has a large, touch-sensitive display and it runs on a custom UI made by Samsung from the ground up taking data convergence into focus. It will also offer local haptic feedback, built-in GPS and Sprint TV. This is Samsung’s first direct strike at Apple’s iphone, as well as against a lot of other touchscreen-based devices that have been popping up lately. I’m sure Samsung hopes that the Instinct won’t stink but will it have what it takes to be a real iPhone killer when it’s finally released? We will see.

Via [I4U News] Via [Crunchgear]

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Built to take advantage of Sprint’s Push-to-talk over cellular technology or PTT, here comes a duo of new phones, the Sanyo Pro-200 and Sanyo Pro-700. Both are going to have a clamshell form factor, and offer standard cellphone features such as text messaging, mobile email and Bluetooth connectivity. And while both phones support Qualcomm’s QChat technology, Group Connect, and remote contact information management via the Sprint Mobile Sync online tool, there are still a few little differences that distinguish these phones from each other.

For example, the Sanyo Pro-200 will be slimmer than its sibling and coated in silver, available for only $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and 2-year service agreement. And the Sanyo Pro-700, on the other hand, should be good for rough riders who need a phone that’s as tough as it gets. This one sells for $69.99 after rebate and a 2-year service agreement.

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Amazon unveils shopping via SMS

The big e-commerce company of the US, also known as Amazon, has recently presented a new service that offers a new way to shop around the huge store. The service is related to text-messages, and its codename is TextBuyIt.

As you can imagine by now, we’re talking about cellphones and sending SMS to the Amazon service. The procedure to get it working is pretty simple: just send a text message to 262966, with the description of the product you’re interested in buying. Afterwards, you receive a text message with two results related to your search, which you can instantly buy, or if you’re looking for something else, ask for more search results.

Everything is automatic in this new Amazon service, even the registration that includes providing an email and zip code, listening to an automated voice system, and receiving the confirmation via e-mail and SMS.

Radiohead lets fans remix a song

In case you don’t remember, Radiohead already made some innovative actions on the internet, one of them was releasing the latest album “In Rainbows” on their website, and allowing users to download it for a price that seems fair. This means the album could be downloaded for free, and I bet many people did just that, but on the other hand, the true fans must have spent some money on the album, which is very good by the way…

Anyhow, right now Radiohead wants fans to remix the single named “Nude”. To achieve that task, users only need to buy 5 tracks of the song at iTunes Plus, more specifically the bass, voice, guitar, drums, and effects. The next step is to receive the access code, use GarageBand or Logic software to remix the single, and finally upload it to Radioheadremix.com.

Voting of each remix occurs until the 1st of May.

Source: Reuters

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