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Audible.com – Review

Today, 40Tech is pleased to present a guest post by Larry Behrens from PoorDadTech.Com.

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It started with a Facebook ad, of all things. Those ads that are over there to the right of the page promising you free gadgets, free girls or fake farms. This one offered me a free audio book of an autobiography I was debating over. I resolved to deal with only one page of spam and clicked on it. Months later what I have found is if you really buy a lot of books, this could be a way to get more for a little less. 

I’m talking about Audible.Com. Before you click away thinking I’m a hack for their company I’d like to throw two numbers at you: 15 and 3.  The 15 is the current number of books in my library on Audible.com, 3 is the average price (in dollars) that I paid per book. That’s it right there.  Read more


Opera Mini for iPhone: First Impressions

Opera Mini for iPhone | First Impressions | 40Tech When I heard, yesterday, that Apple had approved the Opera Mini browser for iPhone, I was a bit more than surprised — I was shocked. Apple’s track record in rejecting any app that might interfere with their business plans or control over their userbase seemed to scream that there was absolutely no way they would let a competitor browser into their little empire. It was an exciting prospect: a blazingly fast, low data-impact, full-featured browser? With features that Mobile Safari is painfully lacking like on-page search? Oh I had to see this for myself! In my testing, I discovered a lot of cool features — unfortunately, though, I came away from my first few runs of Opera Mini more than a bit disappointed.

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Shelfster vs Evernote — Well, Sort Of

Shelfster vs Evernote | Online, Offline Note Taking, Note Sharing We are obvious Evernote fans here at 40Tech – but that doesn’t mean we aren’t open to other options! Recently we were contacted by the good folks at Shelfster, and asked if we might be interested in doing a review on their “application which allows you to easily organise and share with others your favorite information from the web, offline documents or real world”. They even provided us with 10 invitations to their private beta for our readers! We took their app for a spin, and found that Shelfster is pretty cool, overall. Have a read through and let us know what you think in the comments.

The first 10 comments with a raised hand will get the invite link.

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Threadsy: Facebook, Twitter and Email All in One Happy Place

Threadsy | Facebook, Twitter and Email all in one placeRemember, back in the day, when email was one-dimensional? The good ol’ days when all you had to do was remember one contact list and deal with one inbox? Well, those days are long gone, buddy. Today, we are in a world of social media: connecting and sharing with the planet at large in as many ways and as quickly as possible. Workplaces everywhere are banning social media because people are addicted to it and they just ain’t gettin’ nuthin done. Nuthin’. Yep. We are also in a world of the high speed degradation of da englich langage, loosing it fastr den wat wuz expected — but that’s another post (ohh that pained me!). Threadsy can’t help you with that last bit or the work bans — you’ll need to look to yourself, your conscience, and your pocket computery phone for that — but Threadsy can help you out with the constant jumping from webpage to webpage or tool to tool to deal with your three main inboxes: Email, Facebook and Twitter.

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Backupify: 2 Weeks Left to Get a Free, Unlimited, Account for Life

We’ve written extensively about backup solutions for your computer here on 40Tech — well, Evan has written extensively about it — but what about backing up your online life? With cloud services beginning to dominate our computer use, we continue to sign up for more and more services in which to post our photos, share our ideas, and share or store other things of a personal or otherwise important nature. This begs the question: What if the super-awesome new service I just signed up for goes the way of the forgotten dodo? What happens to all my stuff? Backupify does a great job of, well, backupifying your online life — and until January 31st, 2010, you can sign up for free — unlimited and for life. Read more