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We’re a couple hours from WWDC keynote, and it’ no secret that Apple will be announcing a new version of the Apple TV – one that includes the Television. Which means that Apple is going after your home entertainment center. But will you pay 3 times the price for an Apple TV, or will it …
Instead of burying his dead cat, this guy decided to make a DIY dead cat drone.
UPDATE: There’s a happy ending here. Disney bought Katy a new iPhone. Here’s Katy’s blog post about it. A woman named Katy McCaffrey alleges that her iPhone was stolen on a Disney Cruise ship by a Disney employee named Nelson The alleged iPhone thief accidentally started uploading photos to Katy’s iCloud account Katy is sharing …
So, you haul your old DV cam to shoot your kid’s school production of The Princess and the Pea. You’re so busy fussing with the buttons, checking the charge of the battery and rewinding the tape, you miss her stage entrance! Then you get the tape home, hook it up to the computer, need to …
La Quinta's new LQ-Instant Hold service allows guests to hold a room with just their mobile number for up to four hours.
Planning a Kickstarter project? Here are 5 things you should consider when you put your project together.
Yuck! According to this infographic, 16% of all smartphones have poop on them. Although shocking, it might not be all that surprising… especially if you frequently hear coworkers playing Angry Birds inside a bathroom stall at work. And unfortunately, it’s not just your coworker’s phones that you have to worry about. Everything from the remote …
One of the only places that QR codes really make sense is in magazines and newspapers. People can just scan away at their leisure when the QR code is right in their hands. So you'd think a big company like Absolut Vodka would know how to properly use a QR code in a magazine ad. Apparently not. In the May 2012 issue of SPIN Magazine, Absolut included a QR code that was smaller than a penny. We tried scanning it using several phones and QR code scanner apps... no luck. it's too small to scan. Smartphone cameras just can't scan it.
This guy was too involved in his phone to notice a GIANT BEAR in front of him. It's one of the most ridiculous texting and walking fails of all time.
Now that the new iPad was released, we can all get back to speculating about the next generation iPhone. Several websites, including iMore, are citing sources that claim the next version iPhone will have everything from 4G LTE to an October 2012 release date. Here’s a round-up of the iPhone 5 rumors and where we think …
Just before the new iPad was announced this month, AYTM released this inforgraphic called “iPad 3: Who Will Buy One, and Why?” Although they got the name of the new iPad wrong (it’s just iPad, not iPad 3), AYTM had some great insights on who would upgrade or buy their first iPad and why. And they …
Here are some useful things that you can do with your old first generation iPad, that will either make you some extra cash or help justify your purchase of a new one.
How Twitter reacted to the iPad 3 announcement.
If you’re an active social media user, then you’ve probably at least heard of Klout by now. If not, Klout is an influence metric service that uses a variety of secret algorithms to determine your influence and reach in the socialsphere around specific topics. This information is combined into a single number between 1-100. This …
If you’ve owned more than one computer during your lifetime, then chances are you have a few “orphan” hard drives lying around (hopefully in static proof bags). Whether you’ve upgraded or replaced your current computer’s hard drive or just removed your hard drive before throwing out your old computer, these extra hard drives start to …
By now you’ve probably heard all the rumors about the iPad 3 coming out in a couple of weeks. According to top sources like John Paczkowski at All Things D, Apple picked “the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2.” Is Apple Releasing An iPad Mini? But the new news …
I've been to CES more than 15 times and have learned every lesson the hard way. Here are some tips on how to get the most out of your CES experience.
