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Amazon’s Kindle 2 was released today, If you pre-ordered it, it’ll show up in the next day or two.

What’s a Kindle, and why would you want one? It’s an electronic book reader, but it’s quite a bit more than that. The device has a built-in cell radio that let’s you download content no matter where you are. The key things about that feature are 1) You don’t have to pay monthly fees, so once you buy it, that’s it; 2) You can download new books, sometimes at a substantial discount from Amazon and have them go straight to your Kindle; 3) You can download more than just books – magazines, blogs and newspapers are also available!

If you’re interested, take a look at the Kindle Video to find out more.

by ·Comments Off on Pepsi and Mountain Dew made with sugar coming back!

Serious Eats is reporting that Pepsi and Mountain Dew made with sugar (instead of high fructose corn syrup) are going to be available starting on April 20th through June 13th. They’re going to be branded as “Throwback” – Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback.

This is huge – the only thing that could be better would be if they put it into glass bottles. I remember having Pepsi in glass bottles when I was a kid and in college… It was far superior than the blend they use now.

Be sure and grab it while you can!

by ·Comments Off on Palm Pre and Touchstone

The Palm Pre will have a wireless charger called “The Touchstone”. Little round gizmo that you just place the Pre on to charge it up. Very cool.

by ·Comments Off on Palm Pre Announced.

Palm announced today that they’ve developed the “Palm pre”, a new device with 802.11 b/g, GPS, touch screen, stereo, bluetooth, 8GB of storage, 3 megapixel camera, 3.1 inch multi-touch screen, usb, and a slide-out keyboard.

I’ll get a picture up when I get one.

update: Sprint will be the exclusive partner at launch.

update: A picture of the device:

There appears to be no way to run existing Palm applications on this device. If that’s incorrect, point me at the info that states this, and I’ll post it here.

by ·Comments Off on MacWorld 2009 Announcements – iLife 09 – GarageBand 09

GarageBand will add video instructions of how to play instruments, (piano and guitar demoed). Nine lessons included. Artist lessons will be available, including John Fogerty, Cobie, Sting, Sarah McLachlan, and more. The lessons are $4.99 per lesson.

by ·Comments Off on MacWorld 2009 Announcements – iLife 09 – iPhoto Faces and Places

iLife 09 is adding Faces and Places to iPhoto. Face Recognition technology to let you tag someone’s face and then find that person in all your pictures. Places will use GeoTagging in the photographs to show where pictures were taken. Support for tagging faces and geotagging on Flickr and Facebook too, including sharing of tagged names for your iPhoto.