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Free Amazon Prime Two Day Shipping

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

I recently signed up for the free trial of Amazon Prime’s Two Day Shipping. This allows you to get all your items from Amazon.com, shipping from their warehouse in two days for just one fee. Shipping in two days for free? With the free one month trial it’s possible.

I recently ordered the eee PC 1000he which is due to arrive any minute. I ordered it on Tuesday and here it is on Thursday. It seems almost better than driving to the store, plus no taxes (at least that’s how it works in the USA).
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Amazon.com is located over in the city of Fernley, NV, right outside Reno where they do all their shipping. I’m sure if you live in Fernley, same day shipping is a reality, but for those of us out in the outer reaches of the United States, 2 day shipping is all but ideal. Want one day shipping? Pay just 3.99.

At some point maybe we won’t be even leaving our house. It’s getting to that point where I order almost everything from computer, whether it’s delivered pizza, my groceries, or just that new laptop computer. Going out shopping is more of a window shopping, social activity for me more than anything else.

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Release of ASUS Eee PC 1000HE 10.2″ Netbook

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Asus has now released the Eee Pc, the 1000HE netbook with a 10.2″ screen that can last up to 9.5 hours on a single charge.  Of course you can’t be running wifi or the camera to get your 1000HE netbook to last nearly 10 hours, but still, anyone flying long distances via plane or taking extended train and bus rides will appreciate being able to use their netbook for almost the entire journey.

Other significant improvements to the 1000 series Eee Pc includes a better keyboard layout by improving the placement of the shift key and better spacing out the keys.

Complete Features of the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE
-10 LED Backlight screen with ZBD
-Intel N280 CPU (1.66 GHz, FSB: 667MHz)
-170GB Storage (160GB HDD and 10GB Online Storage)
-8700mAH battery with up to 9.5 hours of run time
-802.11b/g/n
-Bluetooth
-1.3MP Camera
-92% Chiclet Keyboard
-Wide Multi-Touchpad

asus eee pc 1000he

Time to buy a netbook?  I’d been seriously considering an ASUS Eee Pc for quite sometime now, but the biggest factor that kept me from making the leap is the lack of graphics, meaning running anything close to blueray would be next to impossible.

Consider waiting for the new NVIDIA Ion graphics chip set to release in the first half of this year.   Nvidia claims its one chipset paired with Intel’s Atom laptop chip delivers 10 times the speed of current Intel-only netbooks.  This means being able to run a bit more graphics intensive programs.

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What Google Thinks, Opinions According to Google

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Google can tell you a lot. Have you ever just looked at the auto search to see just what Google suggests?  It can tell you quite a bit.  According to Google Search.  Nick is: a) so cute b) mean c) already in use d) gross.

Opinions according to Google, aka using the Search future also works well for religion:
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Hologram Interview CNN, Holograms A Reality for Interviewing?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Recently Jessica Yellin was interviewed on CNN showing that Holograms can be theew reality for creating an article precesence.  With Holograms anyone can appear to be in a room even if they are say on the other side of the globe.  With faster internet connections, and cheaper high def cameras, holograms maybe become more and more common place.  Perhaps a teacher who teaches via Hologram?

The CNN Hologram Video

This is only the beginning and we have this will allow many more people to telecommute and for people to appear to be in a location without being there. May we one day see virtual hologram tourists walking down the road?

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