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Oh no! Did you drop your iPod or iPhone in the toilet (aka an #iTurd)? Don't give up just yet. Many electronic devices can be rescued from water immersion if you act quickly. And with a little help from Katie Couric and a bag of rice, you might be able to save your iPod or iPhone afterall.
Did you get a green Google AdWords card with $100 in free advertising in the mail lately? Even though the cards are aimed at new AdWords customers, you can still apply a coupon code to your existing account if you haven't already before. We have a MethodShop.com tutorial that will walk you through the process if you want to check it out.
Attention Apple MacBook owners: Have you ever seen the "Service Battery" error before when going to check your battery percentage? Take it out ASAP before this happens.
A Solid State Drive (SSD) is a new form of computer hard drive. Let's talk about SSD hard drives and if you need one or not.
Bill Purkayastha owns a mini tank called The Donk. Besides harassing local drunks, here's what else he does with it.
He's everywhere and nowhere at the same time. He peeks at at every email subject at unreal time probing every sentence and all your punctuation. Got his nose in every colon and every situation... He's the Gmail Man!
An iPhone case of Steve Jobs encased in carbonite, like Han Solo from Star Wars, was an incredible idea. Sadly, it was taken off the shelves by Apple.
Jeffrey Powers talks about eye strain watching 3D movies and ways you can avoid it.
Is you iPod, iPad or iPhone frozen? Occasionally an Apple iOS device may freeze or fail to respond to your commands. This can happen for a number of reasons and does not necessarily indicate a serious problem. Sometimes Apple's mobile products just need a reboot much like the way your computer needs a reset once in awhile.
Until the last few decades, "truth in advertising" was a joke and for the most part companies just said whatever they wanted to in their advertisements. Although the 1930s (and earlier) were especially ridiculous, we've found some pretty outrageous ads all the way up to the 1970s.
Li-ion batteries in Apple devices provide reliable power and can be maximized by following the tips outlined in the tutorial, which also includes instructions on how to check the current battery capacity using the Terminal in Mac OS X.
Keeping your smartphone charged might be as easy as putting on a t-shirt. Orange Mobile is developing a 'Sound Charge T-Shirt' that uses sound waves to generate electric power.
This WordPress SEO hack will show you how to boost your WordPress SEO by adding HTML tag descriptions to your WordPress tags and archive pages.
Well, HP announced the TouchPad at HP Discover, which I attended this week. I put together a lot of video, but one demonstration in particular was the TouchPad. HP's tablet answer using the WebOS software.
Are you a True Blood fan (aka Trubie)? Today HBO launched an exclusive True Blood Season 4 interactive video app on Facebook. The app pulls data from your Facebook profile in mere seconds and generates a custom video starring you, your friends and True Blood characters.
At WWDC 2011 Steve Jobs announced several new Apple software products including a new service called iCloud, which allows consumers to store their files on "cloud" based servers on the Internet instead of on their own computer hard drives or mobile phones. Jobs showcased the service, as well as the company's new mobile operating system iOS 5 and Macintosh desktop operating system, Mac OS X Lion, in his 2011 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote in San Francisco.
A 17-year-old Chinese boy sold his kidney for an iPad 2 after seeing an online ad. An organ broker offered 20,000 yuan, which was enough for him to buy an iPhone and MacBook too. "I wanted to buy but couldn't afford," Zheng said.
