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Circuit City Liquidation notice on the Website

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I put the whole thing here in case it gets taken down. 

http://www.circuitcity.com/closed.html

Title of some sort?

Circuit City would like to thank all of the customers who have shopped with us over the past 60 years. Unfortunately, we announced on January 16, 2009, that we are going out of business.

Pandora on the Sprint Samsung Instinct goes Free!

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This just in… Pandora will no longer be a $2.99  charge for Sprint users. I was gladly paying for it before but I’ll use it for free also! Thanks Tim Westergren!  (Pandora Founder)

Pandora and Sprint TV Volume Hacks for Samsung Instinct

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So if you use Pandora on the Instinct, you have noticed that the sound is very low in the headphone setting.

There is an actual hack in the phone to change the maximum volume setting, which requires messing with the programming in your phone. Not many people want to go through this. If you do here you go – This is an excerpt from a post on Buzz About Wireless.

Check out the new Live Bloomberg Widget —->

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Ha! Live Bloomberg on my site! Widgets are so cool. CoolStreaming lets you embed a live channel on your site.

Just in case you were wondering about the new theme.

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If this template had a model number it would be JN3C. Journalist 3 Column. I used Lucian Marin’s 2 Column Journalist theme as a template, which was super sweet and had it modded for 3 columns. I could have toyed around with it all day but it made much more sense to outsource it on craigsliss to Jonathan. I posted about it earlier, got it worked on, and it was done by the end of the day. Tell me how you like it. 

Beautiful. So Beautiful. Opera Mini 4.2 mobile internet browser on the instinct (With Functional Keyboard)..

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Of course you’ll need the Instinct MR-4 update, and to download opera mini from Opera’s website, but after that you can now experience:

-Better Browsing from the Opera’s smart browsing. Instead of scrolling side to side it shrinks it to size.

2:30PM 11-19-08 Instinct Update MR-4 goes Live. Get it while its hot. Opera mini works now!

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Instinct update just went live. Read about the details on it here:

What I’m looking for:

-Opera Mini 4.2 support (YES! The keyboard Shows Up!) They added a button!

-Standard Document support

 

Taken from BAW (Buzz About Wireless):