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If you’ve been waiting for SSD prices to drop to reasonable ranges — now may be the time to put the credit card down. Super Talent has begun selling its 128GB, 2.5-inch, SATA II “MasterDrive LX” for the shocking affordable price of $299, which works out to about $2.49 per gigabyte. If that still puts of pinch on your pocketbook (and what doesn’t right now?), then perhaps you can be enticed by the company’s 64GB offering, which clocks in at a fairly doable $179. With prices this low, you barely have a defense against purchase… unless, you know… you don’t have the money. Then we totally understand.

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iPhone/iPod touch users whose offices rely on Lotus Notes for email, calendar, and contacts can now access their information through a customized Safari Mobile interface created by IBM. CNET reports that IBM and Apple are working on a full-fledged Lotus Notes Traveler app or interface for true push access, but in the meantime, iNotes looks like a pretty graceful way to fit your Apple phone into an IBM network. Your network administrator needs to have installed Lotus Domino Web Access 8.0.2 to grant you iNotes access; Notes users who’ve tried out this webapp, let us know what you think in the comments.

Windows only: Rename the thousands of MP3 files in your digital music library and add or edit tags, lyrics, and album art in one fell swoop with free utility TagScanner. Not only can TagScanner clean up the artist, album, song title, and track number information for your digital music files, it can rename your songs based on a pattern you define (like %artist% - %title%), it can make music playlists, and search online databases like freedb and Amazon to automatically tag music missing information. It includes a built-in player as well so you can listen to tracks while you edit. We’ve recommended Media Monkey to whip your music’s metadata into shape, but TagScanner looks like a solid alternative. TagScanner is a free download for Windows only.

A Harvard sleep researcher finds that if you sleep on new ideas and information, you’re 33% more likely to make connections between distantly related points. Sleep helps you make tough decisions, and solve problems, too.

• would hate to have missed that free kick. #
• wishes he knew a cats fan. #

The University of Queensland has announced that its 38,000 university students will be moving to a hosted Microsoft email system.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed plans to visit Sydney later this year, speaking at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia on innovation and the digital Economy.

15k! My highest ever tetris score on the Jesus phone!

XBMC Atlantis in Beta 1

Originally uploaded by BradAurisch

This looks pretty cool, it might endup being everything AppleTV failed to
be. Multiplatform supporting windows, linuix and most importantly mac-os
and the xbox.
The coolest piece is that the mac version integrates with itunes and
iphoto, I can’t wait to play with this release. My underpowered macmini may
finally have a purpose!

This screenshot is from the Mediastream skin.

http://xbmc.org/blog/2008/09/18/xbmc-atlantis-beta-1-released-now-serving-all-common-platforms

The Stanford Engineering Everywhere program offers online access to full courses in the school’s engineering program—including classes in computer science and artificial intelligence. Courses include lecture videos, reading lists, handouts, quizzes, tests, and even a social network for fellow online students. Not quite your speed? Check out other ways you can get a free college education online.