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One of the things in this year’s tour that is really making an impression on me is riders choosing to make their bike heavier.  Normally, cyclists (or any endurance athletes) strive to have nothing extra.  No cost is too big, no weight savings too small.  So when you have more and more Tour riders choosing to put a Garmin GPS and a PowerTap hub, it deserves a closer look.

I had the chance to interview Jake Jacobson, Garmin’s Senior Media Relations Specialist, who was actually in France with the Tour riders, the lucky guy.  He was gracious enough to answer my questions despite moving from town to town in the French countryside.

I’ll point out here that saying Garmin’s hundreds of thousands of dollar investment in the Garmin-Chipotle team was a move into a niche market was probably not the wisest of moves for me.  Luckily, Jake didn’t hold against me and was gracious enough to answer anyway.

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Gadgetell exclusive: last night I was contacted by a couple of developers, each shut out of the beta program.  Both, I might add, have fantastic application ideas but Apple hadn’t even looked at thier app until yesterday.  Or so it seemed.

Both developers got notification they were accepted into the program.  Word is a couple of weeks and wham, bam, boom - they are in the App Store.

As I’ve said before, I found the launch of the App Store a little underwhelming but do believe it will snowball into some amazing Apps for us to enjoy.  How about you, got an app you can’t live without now?

I also got to thinking this morning, Apple just created a way for them to add productivity to current applications while getting us to pay for them.  Things like a video camera, MMS, copy and paste.  Things that we all think should just be in there, Apple can now collect revenue for.  Nice.  Well, for them anyway.

We are looking for a few new writers and figured that there may be no better place to look for gear-heads than on Gadgetell itself. With our recent rapid growth we are in need of additional writers to provide regular, high quality, content for the site. To make the cut you must:

• have a strong pulse on the consumer electronics/tech industry.
• possess unique/creative writing style.
• be a wizard in the English language (spelling, grammar, sentence structure).
• be able to contribute a minimum of 20 articles (200-400 words per article) per month.
• stay up to date on current news stories and have background knowledge on prior product launches.
• be willing to take an active role in the site including responding to comments and reacting to readers needs and hot topics.

Currently we are looking for writer to fill the following time slots (times in EST): weekends (top priority), weekdays 4am-12pm, and weekdays 12pm-8pm. We do not expect you to be on for the full shift, though you would be expect to submit 95% of your content during that time and that content should be timely.

To be considered contact us with “Gadgetell Blogger” in the subject at Jobs@Dabbledoo.com: please include 2-3 links to previous work (related to consumer electronics) as well as your resume – attachments will not be opened.

To keep up with the demand for content we are looking for additional writers who are interested in keeping our readers plugged into the tech world. If you have a passion for technology consider joining the team.

To make the cut you must:

• Have knowledge of the industry
• Possess a unique/creative writing style
• Be proficient in the English language (spelling, grammar, sentence structure)
• Be able to contribute a minimum of 20 articles (200-400 words per article) per month
• Stay up to date on current news stories

If interested send an email to jobs(at)dabbledoo(dot)com with your contact information, resume, and an appropriate writing sample (or links to past work). For more information visit our Gadgetell jobs page or our corporate Dabbledoo jobs page.

Ps. - We are also searching for additional contributors for Appletell and Gamertell.

Day two here in Vegas for CES. The team has been hard at work since early yesterday, pumping out posts. More to come throughout the entire week so stay tuned.

Check out the gallery: The Gadgetell Team @ CES

If you are reading this I expect that you have noticed the new look, here at Gadgetell. We have been working hard the past three months to roll out this new design right in time for 2008. Though we continue to face server issues, the design and some backend work are both helping to resolve the problem.

As part of the new look you will notice that we switched from a deep red/maroon shade to solid red. We also upgraded the background on the header from silver to gold. The browser/categories have been reworked a bit a as well and we will continue to optimize the listing across the top. Don’t think we forgot about the other categories, they can be accessed via the “More>>“ link on the navigation bar.

New additions include a “Featured Content” area as well as “Gadgetell Originals” in the second and third columns of the page. These will be two spots where you will find content that is 100% exclusive to Gadgetell, whether it be product reviews, unboxings/peep shows, interviews, podcasts, or analysis. Expect these to start populating as we move into CES mode.

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I just wanted to throw out that Gadgetell received its one millionth hit today, about 13 months after launch. Thanks for coming back and sharing the site with friends and family.

You didn’t think that we would hit this milestone without giving something away, now did you? How about we keep this one slightly under wraps? You wish us congrats in the comments below and we will randomly select three people to choose their prize. You have until Friday, December 22, at 11:59PM PST.

Let’s make two million come within the next four months! How’s that sound?

It’s an oldie but a goodie. Use the Gizoolge site to search as you would on regular ol’ Google and it will translate the site into Snoop Speak. Check out the translator’s new name for this site: “Gadgetell - The Tech Nizzews, Reviews, N Pimpin’ Sippin’ Blizzog.” Never have truer words been auto-generated.

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After being completely wiped out for most of yesterday and today, we’ve finally got Gadgetell back up.  We were unable to login or access our back-end, so we apologize for the lack of stories.  After backing up everything (which took what seems like an eternity), copying back over the files, and deleting the 7,000 comment spams we got yesterday, we’re back to blogging.  I think it’s safe to assume that caused quite a bit of strain on our servers.  Now that we back up, you have no excuse not to enter our Docupen giveaway!  We’ll write some stories, and you go do that.  Head over to the post to find out how!

I guess this was the big week for announcements. Though disappointing, the week was headlined by Apple’s ”Fun Ehhh New Products” event. Microsoft has been teasing Origami, Sony Ericsson dropped some sweet Cyber-shot, Walkman, and everyday phones, Blu-ray has a hardware and content launch date, SanDisk announced a whole slueh of new products, and TiVo announced KidZone. As always, we saw a bunch of gaming rumors including the PSP, DS, and Revolution. Finally, on Friday RIM finally settled their patent lawsuit, paying $612.5 million to NTP to keep their Blackberry’s up and running.

Here’s the rundown of the past week. In case you missed them be sure to checkout our Gadgetell Podcast 2: The day before “fun new products” (now on iTunes too!) as well as this weeks columns. Thanks again for your readership.

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• Up to the minute coverage of Apple’s Special Event


• Some quick wit from our resident comic


• WTFH: Kiosks change the music industry


• The Water Cooler: Will Rome fall again?


• Dave Rubin on Microsoft’s Origami Project

• Gadgetell Podcast 2: The day before “fun new products” 2/27/06

• TomTom GPS units highlight Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins locations along routes


• BenQ launches two new moniters


• Cellfan offers Star Wars skins


• Samsung 16X DVD+RW drive w/ LightScribe


• Printable glossy inkjet CDs and DVDs


• Logitech-Adobe NuLOOQ: graphic design tools at your fingertips


• Samsung uses iPod software designer for YP-Z5


• Sony Ericsson K800i


• Toshiba ships their 25 millionth 1.8? drive


• iRiver gaming


• Sony Ericsson’s first Cyber-shot phones


• Sony Ericsson W300


• Sony Ericsson’s entry level phones


• Google and Sony Ericsson team up


• MatrixStream: HD IPTV


• Nintendo Trauma Center


• Google payments


• Updated: 6 versions of Windows Vista


• DirecTV VOD: DirectFlix


• Sony’s first slider HDTV


• iPod Hi-Fi


• Apple updates their Mac mini


• PodZinger searches over 70,000 podcasts


• Pinnacle PCTV USB stick


• Plasma waterfalls


• The YapperMouse: a skype mouse


• CellStik now backs up Motorola, Samsung, and LG


• Multi-touch DS patent


• TiVo is giving away their boxes…again


• TiVo is hosting the Academy Awards


• Unlock your GSM phone now


• Sony, NEC to optical drive divisions


• SanDisk’s lineup of new memory cards


• Beware the Ides of March


• Blu-ray to launch 5/23


• TiVo olympics recap


• TiVo press event tomorrow


• Motorola patents mobile guitar phone interface


• Popular Science and their HOW 2’s


• Pink Motorola SLVR


• Craigslist, Google Base, now Windows Live Expo


• Updated: Microsoft’s Origami Project


• Series 3 TiVo no, KidZone yes


• ABC to offer ad-supported TV shows online for free


• Apple says Mac mini not PVR after all


• Sync your non-iPod media player with iTunes


• Blackberry FINALLY reaches a patent deal

• Updated: Apple rumor roundup


• Rumor: Touch-screen Nintendo Revolution controller


• Rumor: Google Calendar (CL2) revealed


• Will the real iPod video please stand up?