What do Mark Cuban and Jessica Simpson have in common? They both use MacBook Airs. That’s according to this web site I stumbled upon. Coolspotters is a web site/app that helps you discover what products are being used by your favorite personalities.

Macs and iPods are the in gadget these days and of course a lot of celebrities will be sporting them.

Mark Cuban, Jessica Simpson and John Mayer are some of the cool celebs using the MacBook Air. The 15 inch MacBook Pros count Nicole Richie, Hugh Laurie and Al Gore among its celeb users.

Try out Coolspotters and see who’s using what Mac!

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Google has a new app called Vidnik. It allows you to use your Macs built-in video camera to record videos and upload it to your YouTube account in a snap.

Vidnik is currently at version 0.13.0. I downloaded and tried it and it was fairly easy to use. It still needs a lot of polish. It doesn’t respond as quickly as it should.

This app is great for making quick videos for your blog. Diaries perhaps? Or just simply saying hello to friends. Download it here and give it a go.

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If you want the future, forget the past. That’s the hard lesson learned by Akimbo, a company that initially made set-top boxes to put online video on TV sets. They later tried to reinvent themselves as a turnkey solution for Big Media to control online video content.

Akimbo closed down yesterday. Hell, I had never even heard of them until they died. If you’re going inside online video, go full speed ahead and embrace its openness. Don’t tether yourself to the TV.

Tags: Akimbo, Television

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This compact device will store your favorite music for you to listen to whenever you feel like it. Don’t let this tiny shuffle fool you. Despite it’s size, it still manages to keep the maximum durability and memory size your looking for in an MP3 player. So don’t worry about dropping it a few times, it’s last, and it even has a 1 year warranty to assure you that it will.

The 1 GB capacity will give you the ability to store 250 songs in the player. That’s more than enough to keep all of your favorite songs with you at all times. Besides MP3, it can also play WAV, AAC and MP3 VBR files. You recharge the device by simple plugging it in to the computer, since it is rechargeable via USB cable. This will give it a life of 12 hours, when it is fully charged. The specifics are that it weighs under a single ounce, a width of one inch and three inches of height.

Source: gadgetaddict.com

Tough, exceptional, phenomenal…those are all synonyms of Canon’s EOS 40D digital camera. This camera is perfect for the amateur photographer. It provides the photographer with high quality

images and great features while still being an “easy-to-use” device. Furthermore, its lightweight and “feel” are precise for most users.

A few more detailed features of the camera include its 10.1 megapixels, a large 3 inches LCD display, a long lasting battery life, a 6.5 fps (frame per second) continuous shooting ability. In addition, the LCD display comes with Canon’s innovative Live View and enhanced color views. Overall: an astonishing camera, full of features for the advanced amateur.

Source: gadgetaddict.com

Eating only half an apple is easy, but eating half a banana isn’t. Well let me rephrase the statement. Preserving a left-over apple is easy, but preserving a left-over banana isn’t.

Which is why the NANA Saver Banana Holder seems like a good idea. The plastic banana holder can be clipped to the exposed end of a sliced banana to minimize air contact. So that the slice remains fresh for a longer duration – just don’t ask how long as it is not mentioned on the site. What the heck, it is definitely innovation at $2.98.

Via Random Good Stuff.

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CBS has agreed to acquire CNET Networks in a deal valued at $1.8 billion, the companies said Thursday.

The purchase price comes to $11.50 per share, representing a 44 percent premium over Wednesday’s closing price of $7.95.

The acquisition will make CBS one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States, with a combined 54 million unique users per month, and about 200 million users worldwide, the companies said.

The deal is expected to close in the third quarter. CNET’s board has unanimously approved the deal, the company said.

Based in San Francisco, CNET Networks-owned sites include CNET, ZDNet, GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com, CNET News.com, UrbanBaby, CHOW, Search.com, BNET, MySimon, and TechRepublic.

CNET Networks, News.com’s publisher, recently announced a partnership with Yahoo to provide technology news and reviews to the search company. The companies also agreed to allow Yahoo to sell display ads on CNET properties and for CNET to sell ads alongside the content it provides on Yahoo sites.

CNET has been involved in a fight over control of its board with Jana Partners.

Source: news.com