Hasta La Gadget!

Retailers are giving the holiday shopping season one final push today with yet another retail holiday. It’s free shipping day. Some 1,500 stores across the country are participating in the event.

The event was created two years ago by Luke Knowles. It has more than double since last year, when 750 companies participated. According to a recent poll, 37 percent of shoppers plan to buy online today thanks to the holiday. A list of eligible stores can be found over at the easy-to-remember FreeShippingDay.com.

And while you’ve got shipping on the mind, keep in mind these cutoffs for getting those presents delivered by Christmas Day:

FedEx Ground: December 17

UPS 3-Day Select: December 21, Next Day Air: December 23

Priority Mail: December 21

Express Mail: December 22

We might still say we’re “taping” a TV show, but unless you’re my parents, who still watch old Star Trek: TNG episodes on VHS, then you will have thrown out your VCR years ago. But what if you want to record something, and you don’t have a TiVo?

Then you buy one of Panasonic’s Viera G3-series TVs, which lets you record direct to an SD card. The first set is the 42-inch TH-L42G3, and it will rip hi-def TV-shows to SD, SDHC or SDXC cards at up to 1920×1080 resolution at 24Mbps. A 64GB card will hold five hours’ worth of video.

Should $200 for a 64GB card be a little steep, there’s also a USB port so you can hook up a regular hard-drive — a less portable but probably more practical solution.

Otherwise, the TV sports all the usual modern niceties: two HDMI ports, Ethernet, an IPS, LED-backlit display for a wide viewing angle, and Panasonic’s own Viera-link, which lets you hook up compatible cameras to view slideshows and video directly.

The G3 TVs will ship to Japan February 18th 2011.

Oh, and if you are my parents, the Christmas parcel arrived, thanks. There had better be some chocolate in there, is all I’m saying.

Viera G3-series press release [Panasonic via Akihabara News]

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A blogger at Manmadediy.com decided to make his own copy of the Enchanted Woods iPhone dock, which is sold by Anthropologie.

Roland Heersink had a problem. He wanted to use his iPad in the kitchen, but his wife vetoed any and every space-hogging countertop stand. So Roland, smart Gadget Lab reader that he is, decided to make his own. And not only did he come up with the The Original Kitchen iPad Rack. he turned it into a business.

Roland’s rack takes up precisely zero space on the countertop, instead suspending the tablet from the overhanging kitchen cupboards. The rack comes in two pieces of clear acrylic. One attaches permanently, out of view, beneath the cupboard. The other hooks onto this mount and forms a sloping or vertical stand for the iPad, keeping it handy, but out of the way of spills. When you don’t need it, just toss it into the cupboard above.

The rack will cost you $30, and should you have a big kitchen, you can choose kits with two or three mounting brackets, at $5 extra per bracket. I think Roland’s idea is pretty ingenious and, if coupled with my own low-tech waterproof iPad case, would make for an almost indestructible kitchen iPad setup.

The Original Kitchen iPad Rack [Kitchen iPad Rack. Thanks, Roland!]

See Also:

• How-To Make a Waterproof, Kitchen-Proof iPad Case and Stand …
• Wooden iPad Stand Doubles as Kitchen Accessory
• Genius: FridgePad Turns iPad into Giant Fridge-Magnet
• Wireless Thermometer Uses iPhone for Readout

This article was written on February 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

Just a few days ago, Alexa added some noticeable improvements to their Traffic details page. This information is helpful to publishers, and gives them a better idea of who their traffic is, and where it’s coming from.

One of the first things you’ll notice is that you can see where traffic is coming from geographically.  For example, I pulled up the traffic rankings for CyberNet, and it shows that 38.8% of our traffic comes from the United States, 9% is coming from the UK, 5.5% comes from India, and the rest is broken down among several other countries.

Not only can you see where the users are coming from, but you can also see how your website ranks in other countries.  Today in the United States, we’re ranked 16,855, but in India we’re ranked 12,484, and in the United Kingdom, we’re ranked 19,281.  Now we have a better idea of how we stand both in the United States and else where.

Another major change is how Alexa expresses how many people have been reached.  Previously, it showed the reach per million. That number always confused a lot of people, so now it’s being shown as a percentage. For example, it shows that yesterday, we reached 0.004% of the people on the Internet. Another example is MySpace which is ranked 5 on Alexa, and yesterday they reached 4.74% of the people on the Internet.

All of this new information is helpful for both publishers, but also potential advertisers who are wanting to advertise on a site.  Advertisers like to know the demographics, and this is one way that they can get them. As a publisher, it’s always nice to know where traffic is coming from geographically, and now Alexa provides more detailed information specifically for this purpose.

Source: Alexa – Web Discovery Machine

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