We just told you about Amazon's new Cloud Player music streaming service. To sweaten the deal Amazon is running a promotion. If you buy an MP3 album from the Amazon MP3 Store, you get 20 GB of stroage free for one year from the date of purchase. After one year is up, you will drop down to the free 5 GB plan, and you will never be charged.

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Simply upload your music to Amazon's servers and play them via the web or via Android. The new service dubbed Cloud Player works with the current Cloud Drive service which allows users to store any data up to 5 GB for free.

Google and Apple are rumored to be working on their own cloud-based players, but with the launch of Cloud Player, Amazon is ( Read more... )

Many people know O'Reilly produces some of the best computer books in the world. Even better, they sell DRM-free e-books in a multitude of formats supported by many different e-Book Readers.

Today only (March 22) the typical Deal of the Day isn't just 50% off a particular book, but rather 50% off the entire e-book catalog with some of the ( Read more... )

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Today I went on thesaurus.com and searched “ninjas”. The computer told me, “Ninjas cannot be found.” Well played, ninjas. Well played.”

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It's the sports situation every boy dreams about. You know, full-count in the bottom of the ninth or inbounding the ball down by two with 2.3 seconds left.

Imagine standing at the free-throw line in the last game of the season of your senior year with a chance to put your team up by one. Make the shot and play 3.3 seconds of defense to win the ( Read more... )

The following is an excerpt from an article written by James Bennett. It is a joke that should be in the preface of every LEAN book written. Read why we do things the way we've ALWAYS done things.

There’s an old joke, so old that I don’t even know for certain where it originated, that’s often used to explain why big corporations do things the ( Read more... )

I have a feeling some of the recommended cameras on Ken Rockwell's site may be changing soon, and that is good news for everyone. To go along with all the other announcements, Canon is giving consumers new pocket cameras.

• Canon PowerShot SX230 HS
• Canon ELPH 500 HS
• Canon ELPH 300 HS
• Canon ELPH 100HS

All four cameras get Canon's new HS ( Read more... )

Well, unless you have deep pockets these new lenses probably will not affect you, but feel free to go out and rent. The first two are improvements of super-telephoto lenses the EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM and the EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM. Both get improved elements for better images specifically reducing chromatic abrasion as well as newer and improved ( Read more... )

To accompany the new Rebels, Canon announced the all-new Speedlite 320EX and the updated Speedlite 270EX II. Neither are particularly impressive speedlite units as the 580EX II and 430EX II will continue to see most sales, but the "more-powerful-flash-in-budget-and-small-size" segment gains a small update.

The Speedlite 320EX might excite some ( Read more... )