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http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/17278
Script Summary: Adds 2 buttons to the Amazon Wishlist page: 1 for a printable version of the page, and another for CSV export.
Here's how to install userscripts.
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You get 750 free hours of Linux micro instance time per month for one year after signing up for your AWS account.
It's up to you how you use it: you can run one instance for the whole year, or you can run multiple instances for shorter periods. It's completely OK to stop and start instances.
See http://aws.amazon.com/free/ for details.
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You get a year of running the equivalent of 1 micro instance for 1 years with moderate bandwidth. It used to be pretty easy to breach the limits on the EBS, but they seem to have raised that now.
After 12 months you have to pay for what you are using, but remember there's more than just turning off any instances, you have to remember to delete everything in ...
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Do you any extensions (FasterFox for example) or plugins installed that could be pre-fetching the links on the google search page, this would cause what you're observing as the browser (along with your amazon cookies) would still be hitting those pages.
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As of now, no. However, the only way other people will see it is if they specifically search for you using your name or email address - If you want it to be private, just change your name to something else, and link only the friends you want to see it using share, and let them know the reasoning behind changing your name so they don't think you're insane. ...
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Navigate to:
Amazon Web Services > Account > Account Activity
Expand the entry under Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
That will show the full breakdown of the hours used and the cost to you. Simply divide to find your hourly cost.
If you want to be more granular, you can download your Usage Report:
Amazon Web Services > Account > Usage Reports
...
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The easiest method was to use Gladinet to mount my Amazon Cloud Drive in Windows, which allowed me to Ctrl-A and drag-and-drop from File Explorer. The starter edition (free) of Gladinet limits you to "1000 items per task" (I think that means copying 1000 items at a time).
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This information is a little buried on the Amazon website, but does come up on the Pricing tab on the Sell on Amazon page. Near the end of the checklists you'll find the following:
So with the free account you can only sell products already listed on Amazon, to list something new you'll need a £25 a month Pro account.
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According to a post in a Amazon support forum, Amazon customer support mentioned that this feature was removed:
Unfortunately, the option "I own it" checkbox on the product pages is
no longer available on our website.
Another poster mentioned that it is possible to search for items and mark them as owned with this link: ...
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This is not possible.
You can only view reviews all of the same rating or all of them together. You can't have it group reviews with four stars (★★★★☆) and five stars (★★★★★) together.
On top of this, Amazon only allows you to rate based on whole stars. Therefore you cannot filter by half stars, like 3.5 (★★★♦☆), which are non-existent as an option when ...
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I finally found a good solution today:
Put the product on your wishlist, then go to the wishlist page and delete it, it will basically ask you why you deleted it, and you can can basically say, "because I own it"
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On the Amazon Betterizer you can select 'not intersted' and/or 'i own it' by hovering over the item, like this:
Also, on recommendations, the same options are shown:
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Amazon Cloud Reader is not updating the book because it is being cached by Firefox. Clearing the cache will force Firefox to redownload the book.
First, in Firefox select Options.
Then under the Advanced > Network tab, there is a section for Offline Web Content and User Data. You should see read.amazon.com in the list of websites allowed to store data ...
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You can actually add things to your Amazon wishlists that are not available on the site using a bookmarklet by using use their universal wish-list service
http://www.amazon.co.uk/wishlist/universal/ref=wl_eywl_uwl
Based on your description "I love Amazon's wishlist" I would say this would be a good option for you
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Amazon accounts can receive Donations but there are a few caveats. (Taken from this article)
Who can use Amazon Simple Pay Donations?
Amazon Simple Pay
Donations can be used by U.S.-based,
IRS-certified 501(c)3 Non-Profit
Organizations to collect donations.
Follow a few quick and easy
instructions to set up your Amazon
Payments Business ...
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Install FireBug Lite (a bookmarklet).
Open up the cover of the page you want to view in Amazon.
Press the bookmarklet.
Press Inspect (top left of the bookmarklet)
Press on the image.
Underneath the highlighted line, you will see an img with a source attribute that starts with //sitb-images.amazon.com/
Navigate to the http:// version of this url (e.g. ...
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Go to the Amazon Associate login page
Login into the site with your Amazon account
The sidebar on the right displays your Earning summary. Select a date range, e.g. Quarter to Date, then click of view full reports
You can choose among different report types to detect which items have been purchased and your commission.
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You could choose to order locally and deliver internationally. Generally, you can just change the web site from their country to yours.
For example, if you wanted to buy this book set. Click on the item, you will have the following URL with loads of rubbish after it:
http://www.amazon.com/Song-Ice-Fire-4v-Thrones/dp/034552905
Change the web site like ...
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No. For that particular feature you might want to consider Dropbox.
Take a look at this comparison: http://techsplurge.com/3485/dropbox-amazon-cloud-drive-detailed-comparison/
To share your files:
Go to Your Cloud Drive.
Select the check box next to the file you want to share.
Click Share from the More Actions drop-down menu, and then copy the URL. You ...
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That's strange, I recently added S3 to my account but didn't get all the other stuff lumped in.
AWS stuff is pay-as-you-go, so just having them activated in your account doesn't mean you're going to pay for them.
You can also remove 'activated' services from your account on that same page, if you just don't want them activated.
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See Amazon.com: Your Media Library at http://www.amazon.com/gp/ays
You can mark many different items as part of your library, regardless of whether you purchased them through Amazon or not. There is also an import feature to transfer lists from other services (e.g., LibraryThing).
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When you visit Amazon, you can check the promotional credit by clicking into any MP3 details page (for example).
Under the shopping buttons there is a link that says Redeem a gift card or promotion code & view balance.
Your promotional balance and any gift card balance you have will be displayed separately in the resulting window.
Another thing to ...
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Well, turns out it can be done very easily at http://www.shelfari.com/addbooks where there's an option Import Your LinkedIn Reading List. Clicking "Import" will bring you to an import view like this:
There's a FAQ item about this too: Reading List (LinkedIn) Import.
I just tried it and my books and reviews got imported just fine.
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As mentioned in comments, it would seem that the only difference is the date of publication. In this instance, the more expensive "format" has a marginally earlier publish date (14 July, as opposed to 16 July) so maybe these are the first prints hot off the press? Consequently you should probably expect to get it a little bit sooner and have the satisfaction ...
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Ah, I just figured it out. It's not just that Add-ons get free shipping on orders over $25, but they get no shipping at all on orders under $25:
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This isn't possible for the following reasons:
Amazon only allows sorting when you have selected a Department
The only review based sorting option available is by Avg. Customer Review
There are a few Amazon community threads that have specifically asked for this search ability due to it being available on other sites, but so far no action taken.
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The storage services I know that use S3 are:
JungleDisk can use either Amazon S3 or RackSpace Cloudfiles as its backing store.
smugmug (a photo-hosting service) has an optional Smugvault feature that allows you to store non-image files, and it's backed by S3.
Amazon Cloud Drive - 20 GB is $20/year, the first 5 GB is free, though I don't think there are ...
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I've been filtering my book searches by Kindle Edition and Prime Eligible and, so far, the search results have all been available in lending library.
The filters appear on the left sidebar after you search in the Books department.
For example, to see the filters, select Books under All Departments in the Search drop-down list at the top of the Amazon ...
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Do it from the VM. You have to download a private key and certificate from the Amazon page and copy it somewhere in your VM, and use those to do ec2-authorize.
To download, you can go to the Amazon console and click the upper right dropdown where it says your name. You will find there something like "security settings" or something, click that. Go to the ...
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On my Blackberry browser, at the bottom of every mobile page is a link to the full version.
It looks like it just appends &force-full-site=1 to the end of the URL.
ex. http://www.amazon.com/?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1
If you're looking for a way to completely disable the mobile version you would have to set your mobile browser to identify itself as ...
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