Month: December 2010

The iTunes App Store offers downloads of several applications for Apple iPhone and iPod touch for free, as listed below. With a savings of up to $2, each is at the lowest price we’ve seen. Note that these apps are compatible with the iPad but will run at a significantly lower resolution. (Check the individual…

Online photo service Snapfish offers 50 4×6″ photo prints for free via coupon code “HPINK50″. Plus, the same code bags free shipping. Together, that’s $8 off and among the best such offers we’ve seen from Snapfish. (We saw 100 prints in October, but with added shipping costs.) Read the original post by dealmac.com

The iTunes App Store offers price drops on downloads of several Apple iPad applications, as listed below. The deals: HTML Edit for iPad for 99 cents ($6 off): HTML editor Blue Block for iPad for 99 cents ($1 off): Infuriating puzzle game Agents! for 99 cents ($1 off): Espionage puzzle adventure game Santas Slot for…

Miramax named Michael Lang as its new CEO, the company announced Thursday. Lang will work at the new Miramax headquarters in Santa Monica where he will oversee the film library. – (AHN) Read the original post by Whizkid

New details have emerged in the shooting death of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen. Authorities are now saying the gun used in the suicide of a person of interest in the case appears to have been the murder weapon. – (AHN) Read the original post by Whizkid

Today only, the Amazon MP3 Store offers downloads of Slash’s “Slash” for $3.99. That’s the lowest price we could find for this 14-track, DRM-free album, released in April 2010. (iTunes charges $9.99.) Amazon MP3 Downloader is required. Read the original post by dealmac.com

Lyle Fong is co-founder and chief executive officer of Lithium Technologies, which helps companies establish and maintain online social-networking communities. Read the original post by SFGate

The Senate impeached federal judge Thomas Porteous Wednesday, voting to remove someone from the bench for only the eighth time in United States history. – (AHN) Read the original post by Whizkid

Catnip, the plant that attracts and hypnotically intoxicates domestic cats, has proven extremely effective in repelling the blood-sucking flies that attack horses and cows. The tiny pests cost the cattle industry $2 billion annually, but seemingly the cat’s meow may be the cure. – (AHN) Read the original post by Whizkid

Portia De Rossi has declined to appear on the next season of “Dancing with the Stars.” The ABC show is not interested in same-sex couples partnering anymore now that Mrs. Ellen DeGeneres is out of the picture. – (AHN) Read the original post by Whizkid

Legislation settling decades-old discrimination cases against the government from black and Native American farmers was enacted late Wednesday. – (AHN) Read the original post by Whizkid

Augmented reality seems to be the future when it comes to disseminating information across various social layers, and it is interesting to see Sebastian Merchel come up with the AR-Tee that is actually a t-shirt that has been endowed with augmented reality capabilities. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

XEquals recently introduced an accessory and iPhone app known as blueSLR, where it will be plugged into your SLR camera, playing nice with iPhone courtesy of Bluetooth connectivity. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

Israel’s Innowattech had previously tested piezoelectric energy generators that can produce renewable energy from passing cars on the highway and now the company has moved to incorporate a similar product on trains. Read the original post by Ubergizmo

Wal-Mart Stores announced Wednesday that it will no longer pay its employees who work Sundays an additional $1 an hour. The new policy, however, would only cover workers hired after Jan. 1, 2011. – (AHN) Read the original post by Whizkid