Tech and Gadgets

Goggle map: http://maps.google.com It's been out for a while. Goggle obviously spent their recent fortune from IPO wisely in developing nice application like this. I am very impressed by its look and usability. It's much more beautiful than yahoo map and mapquest, at the same time give user a lot of handling flexibilities. You can drag-and-drop the map area to move it around, type in a few keyword will highlight all addresses related to the keywords. It's amazing how powerful JavaScript can be these days, although I would be doomed if I were the person who's gona maintain this piece of code :) Some of the very few things I would like to see it improve, it would be ultimately useful if I can right click a point on the map and get its location (and I imagine it would not be that hard to do), the print version of the map is not as nice as it looked on screen, it loads slow even on my dsl connection.

AllofMp3.com: http://www.allofmp3.com is offering $5/250Mb LICENSED mp3 download at ANY encoding method and bitrate! That's at least 2 full albums for just 5 bucks at considerably high resolution. Even walmart's 80c/song offer sucks compared to this. This Russian site takes a loophole in Russian intellectual law and made all songs you can think of so cheap to western customers. The only concern would be that my credit card number could fall into the hand of Russian Mafia. Nevertheless, I am stopping buying any CDs or mp3 from any other places!

Woot! : http://www.woot.com I recently found out this site, which offers tech stuff at a bargain price from time to time. I bought their "Rockford Car/Home wireless audio bundle" a few days ago for a bargain at $200 bucks. It's not cutting edge technology but good enough to make it worthy. I am anxiously waiting for its arrival to hook it up on my car and load it up with thousands of mp3s.