Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Backstage Pass

From Olivia Cunning.

It’s been months since Brian Sinclair, lead guitarist for the famous rock band, Sinners, composed anything. Unable to write the music that once flowed so naturally, Brian is lost without his musical mojo. But when sexy psychology professor Myrna Evans comes on tour to study groupie mentality, Brian may have found the spark he needs to reignite his musical genius. When lust turns to love, will Brian be able to convince Myrna that what they have is more than just a fling, and that now that he’s found his heart’s muse, he doesn’t want to live without her?

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Vanessa Hudgens: One the Cover of 'Shape' and in the News

Vanessa Hudgens is on the cover of Shape for their April issue, but she still is in the news for more pictures of her that surfaced sans clothes.

The High School Musical star was embarrassed having to face the group of attorneys to discuss her latest nude photo scandal.

In a recent interview, she was asked if she feared that her parents would see the pictures. She replied, “the more embarrassing thing is talking to the lawyers and attorneys about it but, whatever, you deal.”

The actress who stars in the movie Sucker Punch, was said to be furious when more revealing images from her posing nude back in 2007 emerged online in March.

On getting in tremendous shape for Sucker Punch, Hudgens says, “I knew it was going to be hard but I didn’t know how hard. In the beginning I could dead lift 135 lbs. By the end, I lifted 180 lbs. I was a monster … Exercise is amazing from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.”

I'm not sure why you would want to, but you can buy her 2009 movie Bandslam here:

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Number Slide

Slowly but surely more apps and games come out for the Kindle.

Number Slide is a new take on the classic sliding number puzzle game.

In Number Slide, you are presented with a set of numbered tiles on a grid. One tile is removed and the remaining tiles are scrambled. The objective is to get all the tiles into proper numeric order by moving the tiles into the one open space and sliding them around until they are back where they belong.

Number Slide features hundreds of randomly generated game grids for you to enjoy. You can choose between a small (3x3), medium (4x4) or large (5x5) puzzle grid with larger grids being more difficult. You can also challenge yourself by trying to beat your best time on each puzzle.

Number Slide comes with instructions as well as tips to help you if you get stuck. You can choose if you wish to move tiles manually (where you select each move with the 5-way button first), or automatically (no need to press the 5-way button).

Enjoy this puzzle classic on Kindle today!

It's Free!

Twitter Ends Quickbar Experiment

Twitter has removed the QuickBar from its iPhone app, to the delight of a loud and passionate group of grumblers on the Web who bestowed it with another name that we can't publish here.

At the beginning of the month, Twitter updated its iPhone app so that its QuickBar, a small black strip across the top of a user's Twitter feed, would drop down and display what's trending on the microblogging service or show ads.

Well, the QuickBar totally never took hold. In fact, a lot of people were irritated by it giving the bar any number of nicknames across the Internet.

On Thursday, Twitter retreated from its QuickBar, removing it from the iPhone app and issuing a "mea culpa" of sorts to its users.

"The QuickBar was originally conceived to help users discover what's happening in the broader world beyond people they already follow," Twitter Creative Director Doug Bowman wrote in a blog post. "The bar was also seen as a potential means of in-app notifications for new @mentions, DMs, and other important activity."

We'll have to wait and see what Twitter comes up with next.

Uh-Oh, Someone at the University of Georgia Forgot to Renew the Website Domain

Visitors and Georgia Bulldog fans are currently unable to access their athletic department website as someone forgot to renew the domain.

Here was what GeorgiaDogs.com looked like this morning.

I'm sure some IT guy at the university go an early call this morning and is furiously working on the situation.  How much do you want to be some GA Tech grad is waiting for this domain name to come available for purchase.

Go Dawgs!