Here’s a great coupon for you.  Chris Pirillo posted up on his blog some great discounts on the phenominal InvisibleSheild.  You might remember my blogging about this product a little ways back.  If you were waiting for that ‘right’ time to purchase, I don’t see anything wrong with you taking the plunge now

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You have one day left to let your voice be heard.  Vote today and schedule some time to cast your vote again tomorrow   There are three flavors in comeptition for a spot on the Moutain Dew flavor list at your local vending machine.  You can track the voting by state and of course the overall total when you first enter the site. Even though there is only one day left, you can still make a difference.  Support your favorite flavor or at the very least…mine

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I was catching up on some blogs today now that I have some time and came across something that just struck me as being very entertaining over at BoingBoing. Someone took a few WowWee robots and recreated a very memorable scene from "The Shining".

Fun

I was tipped off to this link from Twitter the other day and wanted to share it with you.  It’s a simple web page with the sole purpose of turning your text upside down like sıɥʇ.

You simply type what you want to flip in a text box, click on ‘flip’ and below you have text you can then copy into any application you want.  I use it confuse my friends in emails and on Twitter.

Have fun but don’t get too crazy with it

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Have you ever wished you had your own guru or "expert" to show you how to do something?  Sure there are plenty of ‘How to’ sites that range from general over view to detailed pictures in a step-by-step process.  Sometimes we all need a little more instruction and with video being used more commonly on the net you now have a new resource.  Howdini provides you that personal guru on a variety of topics from home & garden to green living.

Howdini is life’s little instruction manual, in HD. We’re all about bringing together the top, most respected experts in their fields to help us be the best we can be at all of the little and not-so-little challenges of our complicated lives. Howdini is the place to be for the know-how you want, when you need it. Or maybe it’s the know-how you need, when you want it. Whatever. We’re here to help. So come in and look around, won’t you?

We think you’ll love finding everything you want to learn about in one convenient place, and as we grow and add more categories and more Howdinis, you’ll be doing less surfing and more learning right here. And unlike television, Howdinis aren’t limited by time—we don’t have to break for commercials, and we’re always on.

Howdini brings experts in their fields to provide the information on the many available topics.  Short video clips present you with concise and easy to follow instruction and demonstration when needed (especially helpful in the cooking and fitness sections.  The site is simply laid out and easy to navigate.  So if you were looking for that personal touch, head on over

So I talked about this back when there was a lot of whispering going on about the 3G iPhone and AT&T taking over Starbucks WiFI service.  At the time it was rumored that iPhone users and ATT wireless subscribers would be able to get 2 hours of free WiFi access at all Starbuck locations.  At some point between then and now, the service did roll out but was dropped within a couple days.  That was the last I had heard about this until I just happened to be going through the Starbucks web site looking for free samples (who doesn’t want a coupon for a free sample?)

It looks like ATT made good on what it promised and even expanded the offering to included any Starbucks customer.  The only caveat is you must have one of those Starbucks cards (big deal, they’re free) and have had to of used it in the past 30 days.

OK, so maybe this isn’t news to you but it might be to someone you know so pass the word.  I certainly didn’t know, so now I have to head on out to my Starbucks and contemplate the possibility of universal WiFI in my community

Wordpress 2.6 was released the other day. Judging from the chatter in the tubes, some have had an easy time upgrading while others have found that some plug-ins don’t work with the new version, wreaking havoc with their blogs. What’s you experience been? Watch the video for a tour of the newest version of Wordpress.

Apple well known for its elite marketing and huge product launches has somehow missed the target on all fronts today.  We had the official release of the 2.0 iPhone firmware, the 3G Iphone release and MobileMe.  All of which have had issues getting out.  MobileMe took 2 days to finally get up and running albeit still a bit sluggish, the firmware update was pretty smooth until the country started to try and activate new 3G iPhones and no one could update or activate for a few hours (some iPhones getting bricked in the process).

The failPhone courtesy of SeanOsteen

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Dot.Mac went down for maintenance last night. Apple stated that it was for the launch of MobileMe, Apple’s new “Exchange for everyone else”. I figured that this was going to be the first in the series of launches from Apple this week.  The thought of push email, contacts and calendar are some great featrues I’ve been missing since I shut off my Blackberry.  Of course, I’m still unsure as to why Apple still refuses to put a ToDo app or include the ToDo lists from iCal on the iPhone. All these services are a plus for me as my family is spread over seeveral different services.  The dot.mac service went down as promised and this morning full of anticipation, I woke up and turned on the computer.  I was greeted by the new login screen…

I logged in, got the perpetutal spinner as i ttried to load some data and the web 2.0 icons at the top of the screen.  Of course, that’s were the experience ended.  I logged out and then tried to get back but only was able to get to the MobileMe coming soon splash screen that’s been up for the past month.  Looks like there are still couple bugs in the release. 

Well, at least I have the new App store to play around with while I wait

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