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By now everyone on the planet it seems has gotten the hang of taking photographs and sending them through their email to other people. Everyone loves it! The grandparents see the new baby, etc, etc.

Almost every digital camera also comes with the ability to take short video clips. These are great things! Take a little clip of the baby crawling across the floor, or of the kids at the pool. You can hook up the little cable and show the video on tv even. Unload it to the computer like you do the rest of your photos … and what then?

What if you want to send that video to grandma? Hmmm…? Its too big for email! You don’t have a website, and you don’t want to put it on YouTube for the world to see.

So — what do you do? How do you solve this dilema? Keep reading and I’ll let you know! (more…)

Last.fm, if you haven’t heard, has recently announced that you can now stream entire tracks and entire albums for free (!) from their website! It’s legal. They’ll be paying the artists directly. So, there is no excuse not to head over find the artists you like, be it Jimmy Buffett, Britney Spears, Radiohead, Justin Timberlake, or maybe The Beatles you will find what you want to listen to there! They also have streaming videos you can watch.

And if you are an artist, you can have your music featured on their site. How cool is that?

Read the blog on Last.fm that tells about this new development!

(Also worth reading is a lifehacker post about how to get the absolute most out of last.fm. Worth the time to read definately!)

Wow! I must say I’m impressed. The new Apple MacBook Air is announced yesterday! It is an amazing machine to say the least. Very thin. Very Light. Very BIG screen (13″) for it’s size.

How thin? 0.76 inches (just over 3/4 inch!)

How light? How about under 3 lbs!

How big? 13.3″ screen 1200×800 resolution.

How wireless? Yep. You can wirelessly connect, WiFi built in. 802.11n.

How much room? How about an 80 gigabyte hard disk - or a 64 gigabyte solid state flash memory hard drive? Wow… noiseless that one, but the flash will cost you an extra $2000.

How about a full sized keyboard? Need one of those?

How about 5 hours of battery life and a built-in web camera?

Microsoft has decided that to make up for the poor performance of Xbox Live over the holiday season that they will give away a free game to Xbox 360 owners. Microsoft hasn’t announced yet what the game will be, but it will be coming from Xbox Live Arcade.

Marc Whitten, general manager of Xbox Live is quoted as saying that he was dissatisfied with the performance of Xbox Live while all the new owners were trying to register their systems, and caused the system to have “intermittent” problems. Xbox 360 has sold over 17 million units in a little over 2 years and recently had the much anticipated “Halo 3″ title released.

Read the story here.