Okay all you Blu-ray holdouts — your excuses for not jumping into the crispiest, cleanest, best-sounding video format yet are wearing thin. Here’s the cheapest Blu-ray player we’ve seen short of Black Friday insanity and refurbished models: the Curtis Mathes CMMBX72 is on sale at Target, fetching a mere $170. Sure beats the thousands of dollars they were selling for a couple of years ago. And this one’s still packing the goods, with Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, remote volume control, HDMI, and that sweet, sweet 1080p-ness that drives the gals wild. Hot stuff. Be careful, though, recession bargain hunters — this Curtis Mathes guy sounds like somebody’s girlfriend’s brother. Make sure you can return it for a refund — this low price is making us suspicious. But pretty soon, they’ll start giving the players away, as long as they can keep gouging us for $25 per Blu-ray disc. Target and Amazon , via Gearlog

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Similar to the Asus model we just reviewed, Shuttle’s X50 is another nettop all-in-one. It too has a touchscreen 15.6″ display with a 1366×768 screen resolution, 1 GB of RAM and an Atom CPU from Intel. I has a 160GB hard drive, a webcam, gigabit ethernet and WiFi, and is sold with Windows XP. There are 5 USB ports and a memory card reader. How, then, does it differ? Where the Eee is round, the X50 is square. And it has a handle. Shuttle x50 [Slashgear]

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Remember that time you hit the “Send” button, and suddenly changed your mind, frantically clicking and closing stuff on your desktop in a futile attempt to stop your fiery diatribe? Funny how clicking one final button focuses the mind, after it’s too late. Now those clever Gmail programmers have a little routine that fixes that, giving us “Undo Send,” a Google Labs setting that lets you call back your emails. We’ve loaded it and tried it out for you. After a quick enabling of the feature on the Gmail Labs Settings page, there it appears just after you send a message: Undo. And hey, it works perfectly. There’s a catch, though — you can only recall an email for about five seconds. But this is a whole lot better than nothing. Thanks, Google! Now go figure out how to recall email messages 24 hours later and erase all memory of them. Gmail users, find the experimental feature here , almost at the bottom of the page, and don’t forget to click “Save Changes.” Via Lifehacker and Obsessable

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