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I’ve had the pleasure of using an International Edition Amazon Kindle for a bit over a week now. Yes, there’s a writeup coming soon, but in the meantime the obvious gadget envy that occurs immediately after the packaging of a purchased device has been torn open has already begun: Barnes & Noble is selling the Nook. Everyone is waiting for the Apple Slate or Tablet or whatever that’ll be called. And now, some pictures of a very attractive Android device have surfaced. This Android is named Alex and is described in more detail on the MaximumPC site.

The images on that site show a slim device with an e-ink top screen and full colour bottom screen.

The controls in the bottom part of the screen are for easy navigation through content displayed in the larger top screen. Otherwise, the colour display shows photos, videos and is able to run applications in a touch-screen environment. There’s a 3G modem and wireless LAN adapter to grab content, whilst the screen is able to display 3fps animation. That’s certainly a cut above the Kindle which takes about 2 seconds to refresh its screen. Web browsing will be possible on this device. The good news is that Alex could be on sale within the next two months and will add to the frenzy that has become the electronic reader market.

My DVD is here.

Now to plan for a rip and replace of the RC build 7100…

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Google has quietly launched an interesting website related to all the services it provides. The Google dashboard shows a quick overview of all data associated with a Google account, all the way from GMail to the Google Calendar and including such services as Picasa. Basically, the dashboard is a springboard to all Google services you’re already using (and some you may have forgotten you signed up for). Summary information is displayed for the content those services contain and links are provided to quickly access the relevant information.

The page shows all of your data that Google is the custodian of. Scared yet? Time for a backup and a plan to fail-over to some other solutions in case Google ever goes pop, methinks…