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This article was written on January 12, 2008 by CyberNet.

One of the questions we get asked most frequently in emails from our readers is, “what is your schedule usually like working on the site full-time?” Apparently some of you are curious what we spend our time doing, so today we thought that just for fun, we’d share what a typical day for us is like. Some people think bloggers work in their pajamas all day long while watching TV and writing at the same time.  For serious full-time bloggers like ourselves, we can tell you that’s definitely not the case!

• 6:00 AM – The alarm goes off and like some of you, on occasion, the snooze button does get pressed once or twice. Especially on the bitterly cold days that we’ve been experiencing lately!
• 6:20 AM – Walk across the street to the gym (yes, it’s rather convenient) for a workout.
• 7:15 AM – Come home from the gym, shower, and begin working

Usually we spend the first two hours of the day searching through about 500 different feeds and around 10,000-20,000 feed items looking for what we feel is the best news, or the news that would appeal to our readers the most. Surprisingly, there are many days that after going through all of the news, we find little to nothing that catches our attention that’s worth writing about.

• 9:00 AM- Around this time we start the actual writing. Ryan starts with the Daily Download article (which he manually puts together every day) while I usually start with the first “news” article.
• 10:00 AM – Our first article usually posts around this time, and then we go back to the feeds or our email to check for breaking news. From this time until around noon, we continue working on the daily articles.
• 12:00 PM – Lunch! We got into the bad habit of working while we eat lunch, so it’s no real break here.
• Until 3:00 PM – this is usually the time we’re done writing the daily articles for the site, but our day isn’t over quite yet!

Depending on the day, different things happen at 3:00:

• Mondays: we perform general maintenance to the site, go over advertising opportunities, catch up with email, etc.
• Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays: This is the time that we write our CyberNotes Articles for the following week. On Tuesdays Ryan does his Time-Saving Tuesday article for the following week while I work on the Fun Friday Article.  On Wednesday’s Ryan works on the Web-Browser Wednesday article (again, for the following week) while I work on the Weekend Website article.  On Thursdays, Ryan completes the Tutorial Thursday article while I work on the Microsoft Monday article.
• Fridays: This is the day that we write the extra articles that are posted on the weekend so that we can have weekends mainly off.

We’re usually done with those tasks from anywhere between 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM. At this point we stop working, eat dinner, and relax for an hour or two, and then around 9 or 10 PM right before we go to bed, we’ll go back and reply to comments that readers have left on the site and in the forum, and visit and comment on other sites as well. Some days we get done earlier than others, it just depends on what’s going on in the news that day and how long our CyberNote’s articles take us.

So there you have it, a typical CyberNet workday.  It’s fun, challenging, and busy, but we are enjoying it!

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Looks like Sony will be dishing out a new software update to Dash owners shortly. The first over-the-air update for Sony’s Personal Internet Viewer is expected to arrive at the end of the month carrying a number of usability and feature enhancements according to a Sony email sent to Dash owners. These include MP3 playback and picture viewing off USB, a full-screen app theme, and enhanced alarm functionality like adjustable snooze duration and one-touch alarm dismissal. Sony’s also promising new themes and additional internet radio options in a June update. Too bad Sony can’t deliver the device a battery and faster processor OTA but hey, free software is free. See the full contents of the Sony email after the break.

[Thanks Doug S.]

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Sony Dash software update adds USB playback by month’s end originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 03:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Liked the lop-eared design and low-light sensitivity of Canon’s latest point and shoot, but wanted to be sure you’d get $350 worth of camera for the asking price? You’re in luck: the PowerShot SD4000 IS, aka IXUS 300 HS, has just received its first painstakingly detailed review. Photography Blog found the back-illuminated 10 megapixel CMOS sensor snapped excellent low-noise shots in a variety of tests, though the camera’s highly-touted HS System features — a 240fps movie mode and 8.4fps burst speed — took pictures too low-res to impress. The publication also took issue with the lack of dedicated physical controls, as it apparently took six clicks to delete a single picture, but overall thought the SD4000 a good choice for casual and experienced photographers alike albeit at a somewhat inflated price. If portraits of Ben Franklin are burning a hole in your pocket, however, you’ll find it on sale today at usual suspects B&H, J&R and Adorama Camera.

Canon PowerShot SD4000 IS reviewed: great shots but no cigar originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 01:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Those patiently awaiting the release of Barnes Noble’s eReader app can now download it for free from the Apple App store. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-20006074-243.html” class=”origPostedBlog”iPad Atlas/a/p

Barnes & Noble might be pushing the Nook as hard as it can, but the retailer has always said it wants to build a reading platform across devices, and it’s making a big step in that direction with the launch of its eReader for iPad app today. The app allows Nook users to download most of their content to the iPad — the books all work, but some periodicals like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal aren’t available yet — and there’s a nice bookshelf view with jacket art and a library search function, which the Kindle app and iBooks don’t have. As with the Nook and other B&N clients, the iPad client supports LendMe for certain titles, but there’s no in-app purchasing — selecting “add books” from the bookshelf view kicks you out to the browser, just like the Kindle app. We’re not sure if this is an Apple restriction or a design decision, but we were told B&N is looking into adding in-app purchasing in a future release.

As for reading, eReader is actually quite flexible — you can customize the page, text, highlight, and link colors any which way you want (we made some hideous combinations), and there are some nice presets themes as well, ranging from “The Printed Page” to an inverted setting called “Night Light.” You can also set books to display using the publisher’s settings, and there are the usual line spacing and justification options as well. The only issues we had were with page turns and rendering — flipping from portrait to landscape too fast would result in some brief wonkiness, and flipping pages too quickly would eventually stall the app and lead to a brief load time. Neither was a deal breaker, but there’s clearly some room for polish here — we’re sure B&N is planning to iterate this rapidly, so we’ll see what happens. All in all, though the eReader app is a worthy competitor for your iPad ebook dollar — as long as iBooks has the only in-app store it’ll remain our favorite iPad reader, but if you’ve already purchased Nook content this is a solid free addition to the ecosystem.

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Barnes & Noble launches eReader for iPad app, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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