Chumby announced today that they will be holding a charity auction on eBay for Chumby media players personalized by celebrities such as Hayden Panettiere, Kim Kardashian, Jerri Manthey, Meredith Salenger, Carlos Alazraqui, Isabel Lucas, and bands Blind Melon and Duke Spirit. Fans of the Chumby and of these celebrities can begin bidding on the media players starting at 12pm PST today and for 10 days until 12pm PST on Monday November 3rd. Proceeds from the auction will go to the celebrities’ charities of choice which include The Whaleman Foundation and Dream Foundation.

Chumby will also be auctioning off eBay exclusive blue chumby bundles starting at 12:30pm PST. These bundles are available for the first time to the public and come with a large soft navy blue chumby tee and all 5 sets of chumby collectible charms. 30 bundles will be auctioned off on eBay.

Updated on Friday 10/24 with links to the auctions.

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Hope all of you had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. I sure had a nice relaxing time at home this weekend (these 3 day weekends are awesome but go by way too quickly if you ask me). Couple of notable things from this weekend:

• Watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and well.. it was OK. It wasn’t amazing and it wasn’t horrible.. but it was just OK. Now granted, I had lower expectations already going into the flick but somehow, the magic was gone in my opinion. I suppose it had something to do with the fact that I grew up with Indiana Jones (and with Star Wars etc), and now, it’s just not quite the same anymore (especially in light of how good Iron Man is). Oh well – here’s hoping we end the Indiana Jones movies for good… And please.. let’s not see Shia as a potential Harrison Ford replacement down the road.
• Continued to play with the Chumby over the weekend and it’s just a blast. I’m looking into how hard (or easy) it is to create a widget for the Chumby right now but overall – it’s a very cool (and cute) device. Can I recommend it for everyone out there? I want to say yes but at around $180, I’m not sure yet that I can. I only wish I had many more widgets to put on the darn thing! Stay tuned for a full review
• Finally, I took advantage of the Memorial Day sales this weekend and finally picked up an HP MediaSmart EX470 Windows Home Server box. I’ve been talking about picking one up for months now but finally got around to doing so yesterday. I also purchased a 1 TB drive to increase the default 500GB of space on the EX470. So far so good. I’ve been busy copying all of my files and multimedia content to the EX470 (it’s a lot of data) and also installing the Windows Home Server Connector software on my client Windows PC. My main work desktop was successfully backed up last night while I slept. Love it – that’s how backup should work – easily, quickly, and quickly.  Stay tuned for a review of this bad boy shortly too!
• I have a lot of other products to talk about over the next few weeks also. I’ve got a new HP Slimline box to review (it’s acting as our main Windows Media Center box now – it replaced the Apple box I had created a few months back), a new HP Pavilion notebook to review, and a couple of other odds and ends to talk about.

Have a wonderful week everyone!

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A Chumby has been sighted.

Yes.. a Chumby is here at Krunker.com and I’m absolutely loving it. I’ve created a virtual Chumby so you can see the widgets I’m viewing on my Chumby right now.

Stay tuned for a review of the Chumby – in the meantime, here are some early pics of the Chumby. Enjoy!

Find out more about the Chumby by visiting http://www.chumby.com

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