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We all know there ain’t no party like a Super Walmart party, ’cause the Super Walmart party don’t stop. Aiding its cause in being the go-to place for night owls and bargain hunting insomniacs is the fact that it’s apparently selling T-Mobile’s newest BlackBerry ahead of the August 5th street date. Don’t believe us? Jump on past the break for an unboxing video, and afterwards, feel free to call your nearest five Wally Worlds until you find one ready and willing to take your $48.88 (on contract).

[Thanks, Alex]

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Video: T-Mobile BlackBerry 8520 sold and unboxed early originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC’s been on somewhat of a hot streak here lately, but word on the street has it that the aforesaid outfit may not be able to ship all of its forthcoming handsets on time. A new Wall Street Journal report on falling revenue in the HTC camp notes that an undisclosed amount of delays, a larger-than-anticipated drop in contract orders and lower-than-expected sales in China could lead to drooping income in the short term, and some analysts are pointing out that the company’s average selling price per phone is sliding due to looming Android competition from the likes of Motorola and Sony Ericsson. Aside from the Touch Pro2 that’ll probably never, ever land on Sprint, HTC has about a gazillion other rumored handsets on the horizon, but it’s hard to know for sure which “product launches” are expected to be stalled. So, is HTC secretly retooling a smattering of its handsets in order to stay one step ahead of SE and Moto? Or are old fashioned supply chain inefficiencies to blame?

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HTC sees revenue falling due to “delays in product launches” originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung sure has been milking this whole “teaser” thing for all it’s worth of late, with the newest mystery coming to us in the form of its fresh ‘Tap and Take’ campaign. From now until August 12th, users can give the read link a visit in order to ingest clues about the outfit’s upcoming line of Smart Cameras. These wildly intelligent shooters will purportedly “transform the way consumers take pictures,” and they just might provide each and every American with free health care, solve world hunger and put the mighty Hubble to shame. The whole thing will be revealed in full on August 13th, but for now, why not drop a comment below as to what you think will be so revolutionary about the forthcoming point-and-shoot range?

[Via Korea Newswire]

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Samsung’s ‘Tap and Take’ teaser hints at revolutionary, unicorn-approved Smart Cameras originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on June 21, 2007 by CyberNet.

To-do lists are something that help me get through my daily life. Having tried many different to-do list solutions, I began wondering what everyone else is using. For a little while I tinkered with Todoist, which is a really nice online service. The best part about it is that you can deeply nest tasks, and create an easy-to-follow hierarchy.

With some inspiration from all of Lifehacker’s to-do list posts, I decided to move away from Todoist and began using a simple text editor to keep up with the things I needed to get done. Notepad just didn’t do enough for me so now I’m actually using Microsoft Word.  I like it because I can create bulleted lists and highlight things that I have either completed or need to assign a high priority. As you can see, my list to the right is quite colorful thanks to the highlighting capabilities that most word processors have.

One of Lifehacker’s most recent posts also goes through some of the things to keep your to-do list “fresh” and organized. My to-do list is normally pretty long, which they say is a big no-no since you’ll never get around to all of the stuff. I, however, separate out the things I need to do by putting them on separate pages, with the first page being the most important and the last page being things that I just don’t want to forget about. I guess you could say that it has even turned into my “idea catcher” since I pretty much throw everything into this file.

So how do you manage your to-do list? Do you use an online service, a text file, or do you just keep it all in your head?

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Details are a bit light on this one, but thanks to a tipster and some chatter we picked up on the interblogs, it looks like Radio Shack may be about to undergo a pretty noticeable rebranding. The above image was taken from a terminal within a store, and while it’s not completely clear if this is a short-term promotional push or long-term strategy (apparently the company will remain Radio Shack on the corporate side), our tipster says that in-store signs will reflect the change this week, and storefront signage will begin to be reworked as “The Shack” sometime later this year. When you think about it, it makes perfect sense — radios aren’t exactly considered cutting edge these days, and from the sounds of things, the store is about to launch a full assault on the mobile space, bringing T-Mobile into the fold this month, and attempting to cover the gamut on cellphone reselling. Still, we’re not sure “The Shack” is the right direction… unless they wanted us to immediately picture a remote location where very, very bad things happen.

Update: Apparently we’re not the only ones talking about this — someone has added detailed info on the rebranding to the company’s Wikipedia page. According to the writeup, the switch will kick off with celebrations “in San Francisco and New York featuring ’14 foot tall laptops’ streaming the images from their webcams from one city to the other, live music in both locations, as well as television coverage of the event.” Uh, okay!

Update 2: Guess they weren’t kidding. Here’s the promo page on Radio Shack’s site. Thanks Ellis D.!

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Radio Shack rebranding to “The Shack”? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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