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"Shiftd is a simple tool for saving video worth watching. It lets you bookmark video on blogs or websites so you can watch them at a later time.

Why should I use Shiftd?

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The longer answer is that, more deeply, we believe the time we spend on the web negatively effects our ability to concentrate. That we become trained to take in information the way the web distributes it: as a swiftly moving stream of packets. Real-time and efficiency is placed above quality. When we do find quality, after only a few minutes of viewing, we've lost focus. We strongly believe the depth of our thoughts are tied directly to the intensity of our attentiveness and our ability to focus. These are the reasons we created Shiftd and use it ourselves."

I decided to directly quote Shiftd's "About Us" page because I believe they said it best. Their ToS and Privacy Policy are pretty good too.

T-mobile starts the week! June 30 2008

This short week started with T-Mobile coming out of the gates head strong with a great little rumor that they will be testing  G3 service in the Chicago region starting June 30th. Along with @Home, could be good incentive for T-mobile users to stick around even after the announcement of an increase in price per SMS from .15 to .20 effective August 29th. The increase to .20 isn't out of the ball park, most carriers charge the same price, but it could be a pain point for those folks without unlimited plans.

Speaking of SMS, Alltel adds messaging to My Circle June 30 2008

With so many offerings out there, Alltel has to be one of the most attractive with their My Circle plans. Now you can add messaging to these packages, thats right unlimited SMS and MMS to your circle**. With the new law in San Francisco against talking on your mobile phone in the car, this comes as a great relief, message away and keep those roads safe! Someone please improve voice to text. Please!

**wizard not included

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Ruined iPhone.com July 1 2008

If you live in Canada, you're probably not impressed with Rogers/Fido's offerings for the iPhone. If thats the case you can check out Ruined iPhone and sign the petition. Will it change anything? We'll see.

Are you ready for an open source phone? July 1 2008

Well if you can wait unitl July 4th you can order yourself a neo Freerunner. This phone is Linux based, so all you developers start drooling now. The shipped version of the phone will come in both 850Mhz and 900Mhz Tri-band GSM flavors with a 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen, WiFi, AGPS, GPRS 2.6G, Bluetooth 2.0, 128MB WSDRAM, and 256MB NAND flash. I won't speculate what this will mean to Android and  Symbian, last time I did that we all thought Android would take over the world... That has yet to be seen.

UPDATE: Wait no longer! OpenMoko started taking orders a day early, that would make it July 3rd, TODAY!

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Is there an iMac competitor out there? July 2 2008

Maybe. Check out the Eee Monitor. There isn't much information out there about WHAT Eee Monitor, but there are some specs you can check out. I have 2 thoughts on this.

1. I love that companies are making beautiful knock-offs, having only one brand to choose from when it comes to beautiful devices can be a bit depressing, so kudos.

2. Eee Monitor? Thats the best name you could come up with? Eee?... really... just *sigh*

Google take us home! July 3 2008

Ending this short week we have Google with lovely little things up their sleeves. Starting today you can try Google maps voice search for Blackberry Pearl. This feature uses the same  speech recognition engine as Goog-411. Comments on google mobile blog seem to imply it's not, how do you say this... working? But I'm sure those guys will have it figured out shortly. I'm a huge fan of voice to text, and hope these are first steps to improving voice services.