EclipseEmpire » Education http://eclipseempire.com Life of an :ubergeek: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:25:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Amazon Student http://eclipseempire.com/2010/amazon-student/ http://eclipseempire.com/2010/amazon-student/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:25:13 +0000 eclipseempire http://eclipseempire.com/?p=90 I recently came across an offer from Amazon.  They are now offering their Amazon Prime service for free to college students.  I not a huge fan of Amazon Prime because of the price.  If you are an active Amazon user you might find value in it, but I buy maybe 1 item a month from Amazon.  The usual price is $79 a year to get 2 day shipping on everything Amazon sells.  You can upgrade to next day shipping for #3.99 an item if you need your stuff faster.  If are a current college student and have a .edu email address,  you can go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info to sign up.  For the low price of FREE I believe it’s worth the price.

]]> http://eclipseempire.com/2010/amazon-student/feed/ 0 How to listen to TWiT Live on your iPhone for free http://eclipseempire.com/2008/how-to-listen-to-twit-live-on-your-iphone-for-free/ http://eclipseempire.com/2008/how-to-listen-to-twit-live-on-your-iphone-for-free/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:13:22 +0000 eclipseempire http://eclipseempire.com/?p=51 Leo Laporte has started streaming the audio from TWiT Live on the Internet.  Here is how you can use the free iPhone app FStream to listen live…First, download and install FStream.  Once installed, launch FStream:

Now press Favorites

Now Press Edit

Then press Add new webradio

Now input the following info:
Name: TWiT Live
UPDATE:
URL: http://twit.am/live

 

Now press Done

You will now see TWiT Live on your Play Screen

Press TWiT Live and you will then be connected

I have used FStream to listen to TWiT Live on WiFi and on AT&T’s EDGE network (I have an original iPhone 8GB) both worked very well.  Even on EDGE the connection didn’t drop out.   Now I can listen while driving or when shopping with the wife.  Good luck!

UPDATE: The URL has changed to : http://twit.am/live

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Link to the video

Some things I thought about:
1 – I have taken away a pocket knife from my son.
2 – I have denied request for my son to drive my car.
3 – I have thrown out old technology / appliances without taking them apart.
I think I will re-think some of these things. He does make a lot of sense.

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MBP Std

If you change to a glossy screen :

MBP Glossy

This only works if you keep the other options standard. Weird.

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