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Scubaology is a sister site of Techlife, and today our Editor Dave Kaufman made a guest appearance over there. He helped them with an unboxing and review of the Living Marine Aquarium DVD. Read it over and let us know what you think.
As Friends of Line Rider continues here at Techlife, we bring you another in the series: Stunt Bike Draw. This game starts off pretty easy but gets more and more complex. It reminds me a lot of Snow Line, as it is very much a puzzle game with objectives for getting your Stunt Bike Rider to jump and land. To bad they didn’t up the ante and get Evel Knievel’s permission. Now that would have been cool. What do you think of this game?
Techlife=often focuses on how technology and life intersect.= Today a bit more on life, than tech.==A friend of the=site, Scubaology,=posted=about this frill shark,caught on film.= Thanks to the power of video we get to see a shark that very few, if any, people have ever seen alive due it’s choice of living 600m below the surface of the ocean.
We all know Amazon’s long standing “free super saving shipping” on orders of $25 or more. But what if you just are buying 1 or 2 items that don’t total the needed amount? Say the new DVD, Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest, listed for $21.99. Oooh, just $3.01 shy of FREE shipping.
Say hello to Spendfish’s Dealazon Amazon Filler by Pete Freitag. Pete has put together a great tool as part of Spendfish.com, which allows you to search Amazon for deals. As of this post’s publishing, Spendfish says: Currently indexing 8082 deals and saving you $377,149.54 with an average discount of 40.1458%
So how do you save? Easy. We need just $3.01 to get free shipping. Would you spend $5? Sure you would. So in the Filler tool we type in $3.01 as the “Min Price” and $5 as the “Max Price.” We are immediately delivered 50 items on page 1 that meet our needs. We could of course narrow by category or product type. But the best news is, these are all “deals”, with the first 5 items in the list being no less than 38% off some as high as 65%!
Let us know what items you filled in your cart with from Spendfish.
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Techlife was busy this month. People from around the world stopped by and added comments to many posts, sent in emails and provided some great useful tools. Thanks to everyone. Here are some favorites. As always visit the site for more articles, videos and to leave your comments for the world to read.
Wow, it’s always 9:41 in iPhone land. And, what is that? Electrical tape on the bottom? You could have at least made a paper model with a bottom. I guess I should go tape the paper model over the Moto Q like you guys appear to have done. Well, anyway…Keep on…Keepin’ it REALLY fake.
One of the best ways to understand society is to use a timeline. In Techlife’s case a metaphorical timeline with two points Past and Future. Following are two posts from the January online blog that cover each period of time.
Lombard Street in San Francisco is known as the most crooked street in the world. As someone who has driven down the street it is a unique and popular tourist attraction in a city with the likes of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and countless museums like the SFMOMA.
But maybe you can’t make it there anytime soon, let Flash Earth help. From flash guru Paul Neave’s comes the comparison tool of all things maps. It is the ultimate maps mashup. As the image shows you can see up to eight different views of a location. Not all locations have imagery for all eight views. Here are the visuals from Google Maps, Micrsoft Virtual Earth, and Ask.com comparing their view of Lombard Street all taken from the identical coordinates.
My un-named techidol friend just got his iPhone and was kind of enough to take a bunch of photos of the unboxing and email them to Techlife,exclusively!
He and I got our Sidekick’s on the same day; day 1. But he is an Apple fan, so I can understand his lust. (Why is there a windows PC in this shot I will never know?)
I was pretty shocked as Steve Jobs said they wouldn’t be out until June in the Keynote. But you VIPs tend to get them in advance.
Well it happened…Line Rider has gone corporate. From the official site…
Line Rider was originally created by Boštjan Cadež, a Slovenian university student, in September of 2006. It almost immediately gathered a cult following and became the seventh quickest gaining keyword in Google. Since that time, the ‘toy’ has generated over 16 million views. Fans quickly noticed that they could create tracks, set them to music, and share them over YouTube.com. Currently, there are over 11,000 shared videos with many more to come. inXile Entertainment is extremely excited to work with Boštjan in order to reach the full potential that we feel the Line Rider application can live up to.
Seen over at the new Official Line Rider site. It appears they are going to create a Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii Line Rider game…coming sometime in 2007. In the meantime, check out the new Beta 2 they have up. I think this video is from Beta 1, but the inXile folks liked it.
Thanks to Brian over at Fairly Useless, who has been commenting on Techlife, for the original link to Beta 2.
Back in November, Techlife shared Daily Lit with our inner circle, when I posted some beta testing comments for them. I continued using DailyLit. (More on that below the jump…)
First what is DailyLit? Their tagline sums it up best: “Too busy for books? Read them by e-mail.” What books you might ask? A lot. My last count was more than 250 titles. But here’s the smart thing, who wants “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy as a giant email attachment. It would be crazy! So Daily Lit breaks it down into manageable parts. Granted this literary work is broken down into 675 parts one of the largest but other books are quite a bit less.
The break down is your call. “Daily” is most common but you can accelerate that if you really like a book with a simple click.
The hipster PDA by Merlin Mann of 43folders.com fame dates back to September 2004. It has served many people very effectively but of course there is always room for improvement.
In August of 2006 Techlife’s column was about PocketMod. PocketMod is a single sheet of paper created easily online and printed on a single sheet of paper. It’s unique feature is the wealth of modules the author created.
Techlife reader Matt, recently has been commenting on how he uses the PocketMod and how he plans on using it. I thought it was interesting and others might find it useful. Feel free to join the discussion.
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Techlife was busy this month. People from around the world stopped by and added comments to many posts, sent in emails and provided some great useful tools. Thanks to everyone. Here are some favorites. As always visit the site for more articles, videos and to leave your comments for the world to read.
One of the best ways to understand society is to use a timeline. In Techlife’s case a metaphorical timeline with two points Past and Future. Following are two posts from the January online blog that cover each period of time.
Well it happened…Line Rider has gone corporate. From the official site…
Back in November, Techlife shared 
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