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Its thrilling selling that old Apple IIgs sitting in the basement on eBay for a cool $250 dollars so you can buy your new iPhone. However when it comes time to get paid you suddenly feel a little ripped off. You see not only do you get to pay eBay’s fees but you also get to pay a PayPal fee. Now you can take out the guesswork with the PayPal calc. Just insert the money you plan to get and PayPal Calc will tell you what you really will get. A simple way to save the paypal fees is to tell your customer that they pay the paypal fees in the auction. Send them to this calculator to find out what they really should pay. Chances are most people will bid before checking thinking its a small amount, but that small amount can add up if you sell many items on eBay. So save those extra dollars with PayPal Calculator.
Virtually Smudge up your Virtual iPhone
This one is not really useful but if you want to virtually own a iPhone here’s your chance. Its called the My iSmudginator and lets you virtually smudge up a brand new iPhone. When will all of this craziness end, and how do I ever look at my Treo and think its cool again? Oh I know, realize I have an extra $300 more in the bank.
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Thats Hot, Paris Hilton’s assistant waiting in line for iPhone
That’s Hot, Well it seems hype needs more hype. Paris Hilton’s assistant was seen in line today waiting in line to get her recently incarcerated and released hands on the latest greatest Apple phenomenon the iPhone. Seems even the great Hilton Heiress’ pull is not enough to get her an early iPhone peek. Of course Apple is probably not bending over backwards for ex-convicts. But who else is waiting in line?
Google adds Dictionary is there more up their sleeve?
Google Translate has a made little noticed yet important change, introducing a dictionary. Now when you translate something you can use their dictionary to look up how a foreign language’s word translates as well as its meaning in their language. They also go on to use the word in a few translated sentences so that you get the complete meaning of the word.
New Google Powered .Mac or will it be Yahoo?
Apple has been on fire in so many arenas recently that its hard to believe that anything related to Apple is struggling, but struggle .mac has. With subscriptions in steep decline Apple is planning on partnering with its ally Google to “Google Power” their web applications and maybe get a renewed boost. The new iPhone being released in a couple of days, featuring browser based applications Apple has a great opportunity to upsell iPhone customers into the new and improved .mac. While Google stands to share in .mac subscription fees, marketshare, and branding, Apple just has too many balls in the air lately. Merging their .Mac development with Google will allow them to focus on other key products while maintaining brand control.
Create your favicons the old school way with Web 2.0
Want to create a favicon for your website, take a stop by favicon.cc to find a simple bit by bit editor. This editor takes care of your favicon the old school way no importing just bit by bit editing like the old days of ResEdit on the Mac. Its still a feat that you can do this live on the web instead in a separate application.
Backup your Blog the easy way with BlogBackupOnline
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Fileswap like a StumbleUpon for files, or a slot machine for content.
This one is hardly useful but there is something entirely addicting about fileswap. Its really simple, you upload a file, and you get one completely random file back. Almost like a StumbleUpon for files, or a slot machine for content. You have the ability to vote on the content you receive, this keeps the music or pictures fresh and high quality.
Get back to your roots with Etchy the Web 2.0 Etch-A-Sketch
Long for simpler days, no Adobe PhotoShop just a couple of white wheels and your ability to take straight lines and make them into something? Its hard to imagine but some of the concepts involving modern computer graphics came from plotters which a Etch-A-Sketch is based off of. Well now you can play with a virtual Etch-A-Sketch online. For more fun check out this hack a day hack that allows a mouse to draw on a Etch-A-Sketch.
Resurrect your PS2, XBOX, or PC DVD or CD drives
DVD, DVD-R, CD-R, and CD Drives will fail its only a matter of time, each drive has a predetermined amount of reads and writes engineered by the manufacturer. Whether it is a Playstation (PS1, PS2, or PS3), an XBox 360 or regular XBox, your PC’s DVD drive, your DVD Player, or even car stereo CD player each one of these devices will eventually error out and stop working. There are several reasons from weak lasers to laser tracking being off for a optical drive to fail. Many burners and Playstations have been tossed for not working because the drive appears to go bad.
