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Android phone manufacturers just don’t get it
28 Mar 2012 by Craig Lloyd / 8 Comments
You might have heard of a little term known as Android “fragmentation.” This is a term that, in this case, means there are many kinds of hardware surrounding the Android operating system, as well as the many different software versions floating around on all of these devices, including custom versions exclusive to some manufacturers (HTC’s Sense, Samsung’s TouchWiz, Motorola’...
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Draw Something, the fastest-growing social game ever
27 Mar 2012 by Craig Lloyd
Since its release in February, Draw Something has been nothing but a social-gaming sensation. In the first five weeks of availability, the game saw over 20 million downloads and currently has well over 35 million downloads. To give you an idea of just how many downloads that is, Instagram has around 27 million users and Foursquare has just over 15 million (which took three years to get). Over one...
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4 Reasons Why We are NOT in a Post-PC Age
26 Mar 2012 by Benny Taylor / 7 Comments
Sales of desktop PCs and laptops are falling. It’s impossible to read any technical media without hearing about the “death of the PC.” And both Apple and Microsoft are soon to release operating systems that seek to merge the features of the computer operating system with those available on tablet devices. All this evidence mounts up to suggest that the Steve Jobs-coined “post PC era” is ...
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Would you trade in your social media passwords for a job?
22 Mar 2012 by Craig Lloyd / 10 Comments
The practice of employers looking up social media profiles of prospective employees is nothing new. It’s a great way to learn a lot about a person from the things that they choose to broadcast to the public. However, there comes a point where this all may go a little too far — specifically when a potential employee’s profile is set to private. Associated Press reports that some j...
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Review: Eye-Fi Mobile X2 wireless memory card
20 Mar 2012 by Craig Lloyd
If you’ve ever wanted your photos from your digital camera to be automatically uploaded to your computer right after you taken them, Eye-Fi’s line of products aim to do just that. I was able to get a hold of the Eye-Fi Mobile X2 model, which advertises the ability to not only upload photos directly to your computer, but also directly to your mobile devices. Let’s take a look! Th...
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6 myths about the PC vs. Mac debate
15 Mar 2012 by Craig Lloyd / 10 Comments
The PC vs. Mac wars just need to die. They’re stupid and pointless. They accomplish absolutely nothing but just more back-and-forth shouting, and the same exact arguments come up every time, making the PC vs. Mac flamewar one giant cliche. Here are six arguments that come up in every PC vs. Mac debate that are complete myth and have absolutely no merit. “Macs can’t play games!&...
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iPad 2 price drops to $399, thanks to the new iPad
07 Mar 2012 by Craig Lloyd
If you happened to be online at all on March 7th, then it was inevitable that you learned about Apple’s new iPad. Yes, it’s called “the new iPad” (not iPad 3 or iPad HD). It comes with some great features: Retina Display, the new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, 4G LTE capability, and a new 5-megapixel camera. It’s also priced at the same $499 that the two previous i...
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The New iPad: Everything You Need to Know
07 Mar 2012 by Andrew Kalinchuk / 1 Comment
Most of the rumors posted in our recent iPad 3 post came true today when the new iPad was unveiled. Of course, there were a few things we all got wrong. Like the name for instance. But we all had it right where it counted. Welcome to the future of iPad. Dropping the Number System Despite numerous guesses at the name for the newest Apple tablet (the 2S, 3, or HD), they decided to simplify the namin...
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Becoming a daring beer explorer with BrewGene for iOS and Android
07 Mar 2012 by Derek Johnson
Have you ever felt overwhelmed at a liquor store when you’re faced with literally an entire wall of beer? On one hand, you can grab the old standby you’ve grabbed 100 times before and know you’ll like it. But on the other, there are 20 or 30 other kinds you have yet to try that could easily become the new standby. On top of that, there are plenty that you’ve tried before, but you can’t ...
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Rumor Mill: 8 Upcoming Features of the New iPad 3
06 Mar 2012 by Andrew Kalinchuk / 1 Comment
With the iPad 3 event slated for March 7, the rumor mill is churning out a whole slew of changes to the original formula that may or may not appear on launch day. Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves from joining the fold and rounding out the best rumors out there. Oh, if only they would all come true… Too bad the iPhone 4S taught us that tech dreams are not meant to come true. Thanks...
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