TechRestore (a PowerPage sponsor) has begun offering a new overnight iPod battery upgrade service for 4th generation “click-wheel” iPods and all color screen iPod models. The service includes the replacement of the standard iPod battery with a TechRestore 1000mAh high capacity battery with over 50% more charging power than the original 4th generation iPod battery […]
Day: August 1, 2005
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The Laptop Bait and Switch
In a story for the Washington Post “It Takes a Discerning Eye to See Through Laptop Lingo” Rob Pegoraro explores the Dell and HP practice of shipping laptops “with batteries that will expire before you can finish watching a movie.” Read More…
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Notebook Computers With Financial Aid
“Laptop or beer?” should never be a decision that a student has to make. According to a story in the Chicago Tribune many higher education institutions (i.e. Northern Michigan University, Indiana State, Wake Forest, and New Jersey’s Seton Hall) are now requiring laptops for incoming freshman. While not surprising, the interesting wrinkle in this story […]
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Judge Blocks Cobb County iBook Plan
According to the Associated Press Judge S. Lark Ingram has blocked a laptop computer program in Cobb County because “school officials did not tell voters they what they wanted to do with a special sales tax approved by voters.” The original plan included US$76 million for technology and school officials estimated they would spend US$32 […]
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Podcast Tuner
Pariahware, Inc’s Podcast Tuner provides a different approach to listening to podcasts. Instead of making the user look for the content, Podcast Tuner brings the content to the user.