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If it doesn’t exist why not build it? One of our readers did just that. Searching for a replacement hard drive for his old school iRiver H300, abi reader Andrew, decided to go with an SSD drive to avoid future hard drive failures. He was unable to find the proper SSD drive to replace the H300s so he looked for a broken hard drive player to marry with an SSD drive. Not wanting to pay $300 for a new flash player, he wanted to go cheap and hack something cool together.

Often, hardware designers include nonfunctional additions into designs to make them feel more personal. Commonly known as easter eggs , these additions can often go unnoticed by the public for years. While taking apart an Atari San Francisco Rush: The Rock sound board, reader [Jason] noticed a hidden message on the PCB (see above). Other more recent hardware easter eggs include the inside of the Zune HD, which has the inscription “For our Princess” to commemorate a development team member who passed away, or the Amiga 1000 which features the signatures of the design team on the inside if the case (Pictures after the break).

Attention Zune lovers, here is a great deal to start off your Monday. You can buy a 8GB Blue Zune MP3 Player with Zune car pack, which includes a FM transmitter, magnetic storage clip, dashboard grip pad and a leather case for only $79 . The 8GB Zune MP3 Player can hold up-to 2000 songs, 25,000 pictures or 25 hours of video. The product will ship for free, however the deal is a daily deal, so don’t expect it to last till tomorrow. Have fun listening to music on your new Zune player .

One of the biggest selling points for the Zune HD has been Microsoft’s Zune Pass subscription system. Well, it seems that even though the UK hasn’t got the Zune HD yet, they are getting a Zune Pass-like service from Satellite broadcaster Sky. The new service is going to be called Sky Songs and customers will be able download and keep up to 1 album, or 10 assorted songs for a £6.49 a month subscription fee. Any song to keep beyond that will cost 65p a track.

Think the CTIA is only good for swank trade shows ? Think again! It’s actually a trade group created to fight for your interests — or at least those interests of your duly elected wireless providers — and apparently top among those lists of interests is plug standardization. Yes, we’re not the only ones sick of still having a sprawling mess of a gadget charging station, so CTIA is saying that micro-USB will be the power standard for all handsets and mobile devices.

Here’s your chance to grab one of this Zune 8GB Digital Media Player for as low as $91.99 shipped (original price $199) at Amazon. This slim player is packed with a 1.8-inch color LCD with 320 x 240 resolution, an 8GB storage, an FM radio, games, wireless sync, Zune-to-Zune wireless sharing and much more.

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Wanna rip blu-ray videos so you can share them or make a duplicate copy for your video collection? With Xilisoft Blu Ray Ripper, now you can convert blu-ray videos (M2TS format) to High-Definition formats (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, AVCHD Video (*.m2ts, *.mts), Apple TV h.264 720P, HD WMV, MPEG-2/MPEG-4 TS HD Video) with excellent and unmatchable ripping-converting speed while preserving HD quality. Apart from converting to HD format, it can also convert to popular common-format videos, such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, and FLV.

We’ve seen NES mods that incorporate a screen and controls into a cartridge in the past, but this example from Airz in BenHeck’s forums is just so clean and well-polished that we had to give it some love. Inside Airz says it’s just a generic Chinese media player that can play NES, Gameboy, and Gameboy Color ROMs, along with the relevant controller bits, a 2.8-inch LCD, 4GB of storage, and a rechargeable battery. Oh, and if you’re feeling particularly retro, you can hook it up over TV-out and play on the big screen.

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I mentioned yesterday that there were rumors flying that AT&T could be ready to allow VoIP over its 3G network with apps like Google Voice and Skype. Previously VoIP apps on the iPhone were only working over Wi-Fi connections. AT&T officially informed Apple and the FCC yesterday that it would allow 3G VoIP service. “iPhone is an innovative device that dramatically changed the game in wireless when it was introduced just two years ago,” said Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO, AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets.

One of the things that has been lacking form the iPhone since the device first hit the market was full support for Flash. This has been one of the most requested features for the iPhone and Adobe says that it developed the tools that allow developers to write Flash apps for the iPhone without help from Apple. Adobe says that Apple didn’t help with development, but hopes it will appreciate the effort Adobe put in.

When Apple denied the Google Voice app it set off a storm of controversy in the industry. Rumors circulating now claim that tomorrow AT&T could announce that it will allow Skype and Google Voice on its network via the iPhone reports the Washington Post . One source claiming to be close to the subject with AT&T said that the company has been deliberating on the decision for weeks and that top brass were close to accepting VoIP on AT&T phones including the iPhone.

http://www.winsupersite.com/zune/zunehd_fini.asp ” But the Zune HD soldiers on with the same weird limitations as its predecessors and as Apple expands and enhances the iPod lineup and its surrounding hardware, software, and services ecosystem, the gap only widens. Today, the Zune HD is offered in only one country worldwide, the United States, and when I asked Microsoft about this, I was met with a cooler-than-usual response that offered little to no hope that the company took this product seriously enough to offer it outside its own locale.

http://www.winsupersite.com/zune/zunehd_fini.asp ” But the Zune HD soldiers on with the same weird limitations as its predecessors and as Apple expands and enhances the iPod lineup and its surrounding hardware, software, and services ecosystem, the gap only widens. Today, the Zune HD is offered in only one country worldwide, the United States, and when I asked Microsoft about this, I was met with a cooler-than-usual response that offered little to no hope that the company took this product seriously enough to offer it outside its own locale.

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