gadgets | Kris Smith has read these articles about "gadgets" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "gadgets" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpeBay Changes Fee Structure To Drive Growth- January 30, 2008 eBay yesterday announced a major shake up in its fee structure in an attempt to revitalize their core auction business. Amazon surpassed eBay in US traffic in December for the first time according to Nielsen, and growth rates on eBay have been either static or minimal over the last two to three years. Under the changes, eBay will slash listing fees by up to 50%, but in turn will increase its commission on items that do sell. Extras such as including photos with listing will now be offered for...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/225809473/ WordPress Boosts Free Storage to 3GB. Leaves Blogger, TypePad in the Dust.- January 22, 2008 In a move that will no doubt put pressure on competing blog platforms TypePad (from Six Apart) and Blogger (from Google), WordPress (from Automattic) is boosting free storage for all the blogs it hosts from 50 MB to 3 GB. Founder Matt Mullenweg notes that is three times as much free space as Blogger currently offers, and that you'd have to pay $300 a year to get as much storage on TypePad. The increase is made possible because WordPress uses Amazon's S3 storage service, and it is passing on...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/220621539/ How to subscribe to just my GoogleSEO posts- January 17, 2008 I've got some pent-up techiegadget blogging in me, and I know that not everyone wants to read that. I've mentioned before how to get just my GoogleSEO posts, but I'll repeat in case you didn't see it the first time. The short answer is to subscribe to http:www.mattcutts.comblogtypegoogleseofeed instead of my main blog feed at http:www.mattcutts.comblogfeed This trick works with any category, so you could (for example) subscribe to my MoviesVideos category by clicking on the MoviesVideos...http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-subscribe-to-just-my-googleseo-posts/ Will Apple Now Force Wired Magazine To Close Shop- January 16, 2008 Yesterday Steve Jobs unveiled Macbook Air - definitely the world's thinnest laptop computer. The announcement did generate lot of excitement but all this was old news for Wired readers because they had seen the Macbook Air exactly a day before the crowd at Macworld. Wired said - Steve Jobs is widely expected to reveal a new MacBook at Macworld on Tuesday morning, and with the rumored name being MacBook Air .. a super-thin, lightweight laptop that ships without an optical CDDVD drive. So they..http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/will-apple-sue-wired-over-macbook-air/2097/ Dreamhost Overbills Customers $7.5 Million; Uses Homer Simpson To Deliver Apology- January 16, 2008 There's a fine line between humor and condescension; more than a few customers felt that hosting provider Dreamhost crossed that line today. The company overbilled nearly every customer, by a total $7.5 million dollars. The mea culpa came in the form of a blog post that featured Homer Simpson and featured such quips as The joke is on you! along with an apology and explanation. Basically, their billing system added a year's worth of extra hosting charges to every single account (meaning, by the.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/217341253/ Bloggers Get Creative to Make Dough- January 15, 2008 In today's Enterprise column, I looked at the myriad new tools and services bloggers can use to earn money from traffic to their blogs, such as audio ads, video ads and widgets that let you customize how and where ads appear. Several programs, such as Amazon.com's affiliate-marketing program, and Chitika.com, now let blog publishers have more control over ads. I talked with several publishers making so much from their blog that they left their day jobs. One such blogger Rhett Butler, founder.http://feeds.wsjonline.com/~r/wsj/independentstreet/feed/~3/217174795/ How to dynamically adjust an iframe's height- January 14, 2008 Suppose you want to include a child iframe on your page. You'd like to resize the height of the child iframe so that it doesn't show a scrollbar. That is, you want something that looks like this: Here's one way you can do it. First, make the iframe that you want to include. I made a file child-frame.html that looks like this: <html> <head> <title>Child frame<title> <head> <body bgcolor=000000> <font color=ffffff> <p>Child...http://feeds.mattcutts.com/~r/mattcutts/uJBW/~3/216263462/ Is the Tesla Supercar Soon to be a Thing of Electric Car Fiction Tesla- January 13, 2008 We have brought you news about Tesla's great electric supercar development previously, but it seems the group is making moves to cease operation. According to the Tesla's Founders Blog, the company is silently dropping its key employees, one at a time. The Tesla electric supercar, which rockets the driver from 0-60mph in 4.0 seconds, does not look like it will see the light of day as the team has already lost key players, including Tom Colson (VP Manufacturing), Tristan Colson (Software...http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/215701109/is-the-tesla-supercar-soon-to-be-a-th... How the iPhone is Changing the Wireless Industry- January 10, 2008 Apple iPhone(click to enlarge) The latest issue of Wired Magazine has a great article on the iPhone: The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry. Very interesting behind the scenes details and analysis. Here's the summary: The hosannas greeting the iPhone were so overwhelming it was easy to ignore its imperfections. The initial price of $599 was too high (it has been lowered to $399). The phone runs on AT&T&39;s poky EDGE network. Users can&39;t perform email...http://www.windley.com/archives/2008/01/how_the_iphone_is_changing_the_wireless_industry.s... The techiest guy at CES--my cabbie- January 10, 2008 LAS VEGAS--It's not just inside the CES hotels and convention center that you find technology and tech enthusiasts here in Sin City. Vegas cabbie Daniel Habtewold has quite the collection of gadgets. Here he shows off a Casio watch that also acts as a TV remote control.(Credit: Ina ...Tags: cabbie vegas ces casio watchhttp://ces.cnet.com/8301-13855_1-9847247-67.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=CES2008 |