Here’s a video to make you laugh on your way out the door this holiday weekend.

The makes of Fruit Ninja have recently started working on a cat version. They posted this video of one of their cats playing the game. This cat is fairly good, and he achieved a score of 128. That’s actually higher than I can do.

The video is after the break. I’ve watched it again, and I really think the cat knows what he’s doing. Well, perhaps not the slicing, but the cat is trying to attack the flying fruit.

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If your credit cards haven’t melted yet then I have a deal for you.

1SaleADay has Toshiba’s 10″ Android tablet on sale today. This is a powerful premium tablet running the latest version of Android on a dual core Tegra2 CPU. It comes with 32GB Flash storage, an SD card slot, Wifi/BT/GPS. It even has a pair of cameras (5MP and 2MP) as well as a microphone and it can even record 720p video.

This is a refurbished unit, not new, but it comes with the manufacturer’s warranty. This tablet sells for $480 on Amazon, so today’s deal is a good one. It’s even better than the price asked for the Thrive when it showed up on Ebay earlier this week.

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Today’s free app of the day is Times Square Official New Year’s Eve Ball App 2012.

The app will help you ring includes live coverage of Times Square on New Year’s Eve as well as a countdown clock. It also lets you share photos and ecards with friends.

iTunes has more: “Join millions of revelers around the world to celebrate New Year’s Eve LIVE. The Official Times Square Ball App is your exclusive access to be part of the activities in Times Square as you watch the LIVE co-hosted official show featuring opening ceremonies, musical performances, celebrity appearances, hourly countdowns and the midnight Ball Drop!”

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HarperCollins’ Collins Language dictionary is going digital. The company has created an ad-supported website at collinsdictionary.com to let Internet users check English language definitions for free.

The library which has about 120,000 words available is in the process of upping its content and will have almost double that number of words by March.

Scotsman.com has more: “It is the first traditional publisher in the UK to offer such a detailed variety of scholarly content without a subscription on the internet, pitting its product against other free-to-access online dictionaries such as dictionary.com and thefreedictionary.com. Alex Brown, head of digital at Collins Language, said he believed the traditional dictionary remained relevant in the internet age.”

CES is just over a week away, and the last minute minute press releases are piling up. Improv Electronics, makers of the Boogie Board digital writing slates, told me earlier this week that they will be exhibiting at CES in January.

This is this their first trip to CES, and they plan to have both their old and new Boogie Board tablets on display. The Boogie Board RIP, which was only released a few months ago, will be the focal point of the booth.

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Amazon released its bestselling products of 2011 lists today and interestingly the most gifted Kindle eBook of the season was Walter Isaacson‘s biography Steve Jobs. (It was also the most gifted print book on Amazon’s list as well).

The “Most Wished For” Kindle book this season was Kathryn Stockett‘s The Help.The book was also Amazon’s bestselling Kindle book on Amazon.com 2011 list. The film adaptation of The Help was Amazon’s bestselling instant video of 2011.

Angry Birds Rio was the bestselling app in the Amazon Appstore for Android in 2011. It was also the most wished for.

The Kindle Fire was the bestselling, most wished for, most gifted and most loved product for Amazon in 2011.

It looks like everyone had a record number of eBook downloads on Christmas day. HarperCollins reported yesterday that their servers are just beginning to recover from the many new customers who downloaded eBooks this weekend.

Over 100,000 eBooks published by HarperCollins UK were downloaded on that single day. This was both a record high as well as over  times as high as the average daily downloads during December 2011.

This figure excludes the US market, but it includes downloads for the UK, New Zealand, and other markets around the world. The most popular titles downloaded were George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones, Sanctus by Simon Toyne, Confessions of a GP by Dr Benjamin Daniels, and Twelve Days of Christmas by romantic comedy novelist Trisha Ashley.

Amazon was pleased to announce today that they’ve sold millions of Kindles this holiday season. Only, they were less than specific about how many they sold.

Without actual numbers, it’s difficult to say what the rest of Amazon’s news really means. But Amazon did also tell us that they sold over a million Kindles a week in December, and that the Kindles held the top 3 spots on the sales charts: Kindle Fire, Touch, and K4, in that order.

Kindle eBook downloads set a new record on Christmas day, and gifting of Kindle eBooks was up 175% over last holiday season.  And Amazon’s good news extends to their other sites, as well. The Kindle is also the best-selling product on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es and Amazon.it this holiday season.

Law enforcement in California keep making headlines with their relationships to iPads. Yesterday, we heard a story about how an iPad owner and police used an app to locate some stolen Christmas gifts.

Now we hear that a California prison guard has been accused of accepting an iPad as a bribe for favors given to inmates. The guard has pleaded not guilty to the allegations.

The Sacramento Bee has more: “A Seal Beach city jail guard has pleaded not guilty to accepting an iPad and other items from inmates in exchange for favors.Orange County prosecutors say 32-year-old Jose Alday entered not guilty pleas Tuesday to felony charges of receiving bribes and possession for sale of a controlled substance. He also pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.”

Along with any new technology comes new diseases and afflictions. This is true even for the iPad.

The video embedded after the break shows the tragic case of a marketing exec by the name of Miranda. This poor soul is so dependent on her iPad that she has forgotten how to interface with the rest of the world.

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