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The city of Grand Forks, N.D., recently got a popular Italian chain restaurant and a viral food columnist. Everyone on the Internet seems to be talking about Marilyn Hagerty's earnest review of the Olive Garden. So what's the fuss about?

The 85-year-old Grand Forks Herald columnist posted a review Wednesday detailing her experience at the first Olive Garden to open in Grand Forks. According to the Herald, the review received more than 230,000 views by Thursday evening. In comparison, the second most-read story got 5,500 page views.… Read more

HD music server maker Olive has launched a new product with a price tag that will undoubtedly shock some potential buyers.

Dubbed the O6HD, Olive calls device an "audiophile's dream" and has placed on it a $4,999 price tag--twice as much as Olive's previous top-level server, the O4HD.

The O6HD server includes 24-bit sound and a sample rate of up to 192KHz, giving users "more than 250 times the resolution of CDs," Olive said today in a statement. The server also comes with a sample rate converter that up-samples audio to 384KHz.

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Let me say this upfront: I haven't tried them myself. But the digital media servers from San Francisco-based Olive seem aimed at a weird niche between audiophile and technophobe.

A lot of home audio devices let you stream digital music from your computer to your stereo over a home network. Olive's digital servers also connect to your stereo, but let you rip CDs to digital formats right on the device--no computer required. (Or, if you're you're lazy and rich, the company will do the dirty work for you.) Then you can play the resulting digital files … Read more

Stuffed olives can make for a treat, provided you're prepared to sit and stuff them. The Olivator makes the process go much faster, though. With a press of the button on one end of the Olivator, you can stuff an olive with pimento, onion, jalapeno, garlic, cheese, or just about anything else. The olive does have to be pitted, but the Olivator cores the perfect size and shape of stuffing for your olives. Of course, you don't have to limit yourself to olives. The Olivator can just as easily stuff figs, cherries, strawberries, or any other soft fruit … Read more

If you look at the front of the Olive FrvrOn mobile phone from India, it appears to be like any other low-cost handset. But once the back battery cover is off, you'll notice it's special. Aside from a regular rechargeable cell, the FrvrOn has a slot for a AAA battery. Should you find yourself out of juice without your power adapter, just head over to a convenience store to pick up a pack of Energizers for extra talk time.

At about $37, it's also incredibly cheap. Its other specifications are listed in the image above. Most of … Read more

I read Geoffrey Morrison's review of the Olive 4HD music server on the Home Entertainment Web site with great interest, because I recently heard the 4HD at a friend's house. The review provides a lot of information that I'm not covering here.

It's a cool-looking device, and I really like that it can be used without being hooked up to a computer. It's more like a CD player with a built-in 2TB hard drive.

There's a Gigabit Ethernet port and a Wi-Fi module if you're into the home network thing, and a free … Read more

Christmas has come and gone, but it's not too late to think about giving yourself a post-holiday treat. And Olive is here to help. The company is offering a free copy of the Beatles Remastered CD collection to anyone who purchases an Olive 4 or Olive 4 HD digital music server. Yes, at $1,500 to $2,000, this is no impulse buy, but if you're in the market for a high-end digital music server, having the Beatles CDs (a $200 value) thrown in for free just might get you to take the plunge. (We liked the previous … Read more

So far, Amazon's Kindle has been in a safe position as one of the dominant electronic readers on the market. However, this may be changing because its rival, the Plastic Logic e-Reader, has been busy gaining prelaunch partners.

Plastic Logic, the start-up maker of the possible Kindle "killer" e-reader, announced Thursday that Olive Software will be a key service provider and partner for the Plastic Logic Publishers Program. The partnership means the two companies will develop content-publishing solutions for newspapers, magazines, and Web content providers, as well as other publishers that distribute their content via Plastic Logic'… Read more

Over the course of the summer, I eat pounds of cherries. That means that I wind up with pounds of cherry pits, as well, often wherever I wound up actually eating my snack. With a good cherry pitter, though, I can pop out the pits from a handful of cherries and be on my way with nothing to clean up after I've eaten. The Cherry and Olive Pitter is a great tool for eliminating pits from both your cherries and olives. You just place the fruit in the bowl of the pitter and squeeze, pushing the pit out of … Read more