1,000,000,000

The App Store hit the billion download mark today!! I am pretty sure I did not win the contest to be the billionth download but I certainly tried. I downloaded a bunch of free apps today plus a few paid ones. I will post some reviews later this week for a couple of the apps.

Squidoo!!

Check out my profile page on Squidoo. I will be using Squidoo to post reviews and guides that appear on my two blogs. I figure that the visitors that Squidoo attracts do not want to scour blog posts for the information that they are looking for but instead just want to do a quick search in one place and find the info they want. I am hoping that this will also bring in more readers here as well.

Check out my profile on Squidoo! You will find my lenses at the bottom of my profile page.

Ceck out my newest lens!.

Did you ever want to know how many toilets were flushed today?

If you ever wanted to know the answer to that or dozens of other strange and interesting stats just hop on over to Worldometers. Not sure how legit these stats are but I have no reason not to believe them. If nothing else, it is just pretty cool.

Did you know there are only 15,568 days left until the world runs out of oil? YIKES!

Check out Worldometers here!.

Google brings 3D to your browser

Google released a plug in today for IE, Safari, Firefox and Chrome that brings 3D graphics to the web browser. There is not much out there yet but you can see some examples on how this can be used from the link below. It does look pretty cool and could lead to some great browser based games as well as other cool 3D interfaces.

More info on Google's new 3D plug-in.

Squidoo

I wrote my first "lens" on Squidoo tonight. I stumbled upon Squidoo this morning while reading through some blogs. Squidoo is a place where regular people like you and I can write overview pages called "lenses". These pages can literally be about anything that interests you. Squidoo monetizes these pages with Google Adsense and if your lens attracts a lot of views you can make some money. What is really cool is that Squidoo gives you the option of either collecting the money for yourself or donating it to charity or any combination that you choose.

My first lens is linked below so check it out and let me know what you think.

Check out my first lens on Squidoo!!!

Zune HD?

There have been a ton of stories on the rumored Zune HD. No one knows if it is real or fake and Microsoft is not saying a word. If this thing is real and it does what the rumors are saying it does this could easily be the best player out there. Microsoft is due for a really good piece of hardware and this could be it. Now they just need to fix the Zune marketplace because that thing is a mess!

Click here to read more about this story on CNET

Time Warner drops plan to cap internet use.

Time Warner has decided against its plans to cap their customers internet usage. This is great news for anyone who ever goes online. I do not think other internet companies can be successfull in light of Time Warner's failure. I use Comcast and have a 250 GB cap which is reasonable but should be eliminated. Maybe this will spur Comcast to drop their cap as well. Personally, I use a lot of bandwidth a month and all for LEGAL reasons. I have my Netflix subscription and I also subscribe to MLB.tv so I stream a huge amount of data every day. Let us just hope that this will be the last we here of usage caps.

Click here to read more about this story on MSNBC

My PSP

I listed my PSP, 16 games and 2 movies on Ebay last week and it closed with a respectable final bid of $265.00. Unfortunately, the winning bidder kimberly26205, refused to pay me because she was under the impression it was the PSP 3000. I clearly stated in my auction that is was the 2nd generation and even answered not one but two emails that she sent me asking me if it was the PSP 3000! She has a great feedback record so I thought things would have gone smooth but seeing that Ebay does not let sellers leave negative feedback that 100 percent positive may be misleading. She actually sent me a threatening email too stating that she was not going to pay AND she was reporting me to Ebay. Reporting me??? I told her that would be great as I am going to have to file with Ebay to get my seller fees back so the sooner they know that she broke the contract the better.

So, I plan on listing it again at the end of this weekend. I will post a link to my auction when I have set it up.

Dell rebrands the mini-9 to draw in business users

It looks like Dell is trying to get business users on the netbook bandwagon with their rebranded Mini 9. You can find Dell's latest netbook in the small business section of their site but they now call it the Vostro A90. Not sure if many people will bite on this one. I am a BIG fan of netbooks (I am typing this on my Asus 1000HE) but I do not think I would want to use one for my business.

Click here to learn more on the Vostro A90 on Dell's website