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Love the location sharing and meetup concept behind apps like Foursquare and Swam, but don’t necessarily want to forge permanent friendships? Sobrr is a new location-based mobile app that forces you to live you live like there’s no tomorrow because everyone you friend and everything you post expires in 24 hours. Anyone who has ever …
Forget “brain games.” If you really want to get your mind warmed up, then grab a gun and start fragging. According to this cognitive science study by the University of Rochester, first-person shooter games, like Call of Duty, can help you focus and make decisions faster. As a result, video games could provide a valuable training regimen for speeding up …
Have you hit Twitter's "Follow Limits"? Just want to do some account scrubbing? Here's how to bulk unfollow Twitter accounts with ManageFlitter.
Need to test how fast your computer’s connection to a website? Running both a Ping and Traceroute test can help you determine if there’s a connection issue and where in the connection the issue is taking place. This tutorial will show you how to run both a Ping and Traceroute test using Mac, Windows and several …
Can't get your HP printer to work right on your computer? Maybe this HP Utility Mac Download Tutorial will help.
Are the date and time settings out of sync on your Mac? Here's an easy to follow tutorial: How to enable location services Mac OS X.
Do you have a file that you need to convert EPS to PDF? This simple tutorial will walk you through the convert to PDF process for any AI, EPS, or other file types compatible with Adobe Illustrator.
Do your photos not sparkle enough? Are you always forgetting to pick up your dry cleaning? Whether you need to unleash your inner Picasso or simply re-organize your life, here are some useful apps to give your iPad a bit more ‘je ne sais quoi’ and, simply, help you get things done. 01) Camera+ Give …
If you were to ask the average iPhone user to name their favorite games, Angry Birds (Rio, Space, Star Wars, etc.), Draw Something or Zynga Poker are all probably on their list. But if you only play the top 10 games from the App Store’s charts, then you’re sure to miss out on some of the …
Why has watching TV turned into an Olympic sport of remote hand-offs, app juggling and extension cord jumping? By the time I figure out the correct remote, toggle to the appropriate source and figure out which device and platform I need to be on, the precious time I took to veg out has escaped. No …
Thanks to Apple's new "Do Not Disturb" feature for the iPhone 5, you can now dream about the Williams Sisters and not be disturbed.
Still holding out on upgrading to an iPhone 5 or iOS 6 because of the lack of the Google Maps app? Your wait is over. The Google Maps app for iOS is now now available in the Apple App Store. Google and Apple have had a strained relationship ever since Google started competing against the iPhone with their Android …
The TimeLapse app lets any iOS device with a camera easily create their own time-lapse photo sequence.
Microsoft famously sent the Firefox 3 development team in 2008. Now Firefox is returning the favor with a giant Firefox cake.
Facebook has more users than Twitter... but are teens leaving Facebook for Twitter? Several indicators say yes.
One of my favorite new apps that use the Foursquare API is Fourstalgia. It’s a very cool hack project built by Jon Hoffman @hoffrocket, an engineer at Foursquare. After you connect the Fourstalgia app to your Foursquare account, each time you check-in, you’ll get to see local historical photos via SepiaTown, a crowdsourced database of historical photos. A …
Poor Tim Cook. The iPhone 5 is a fantastic product that has even impressed hardcore Android fanboys. But the Apple Maps debacle will take some time for everyone to get past. Case in point, here’s a picture of a “mapping car” that crashed. Is it actually an Apple Maps car? Who knows. But we bet you laughed …
