May the iPhorce be with you! Or May the fourth be past you? (Ooh yes, that was terrible!) Add some geektastic fun to your iPhone 4/4S or 5 by covering it with one of these Star Wars limited edition cases. You can choose from C-3PO, Chewbacca (even has fur on it), Darth Vader, or R2-D2. They [...]
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Cases and covers,
iPhone 4/4S,
iPhone 5,
Star Wars
If you are one of the many users that were upset by hearing that Google Reader was being retired, then take a look at Ino Reader. It’s a free, browser-based RSS reader that has a simple and easy to use interface. You can sign in with Google, Facebook, or create a new login with email. You can [...]
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Google Reader,
rss
Most of us have alarms to make us feel protected in our house, our cars, and we have seen or heard them in public places, such as a mall or store. What about the times that you are walking in a new area that is unfamiliar? Or have a child that is walking to and [...]
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Backpack
HP has just released its 7″ Android tablet in the US – the Slate 7. It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and features an ARM Cortex-A9 Dual-Core (1.6 GHz) processor, 8GB internal memory, 1GB DDR3 SDRAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 1024 x 600 screen. It has a front-facing (VGA) webcam and a 3MP rear-facing webcam. A microSD [...]
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Android,
Tablet
There is news that Twitter will launch a new music service, but it appears to be invite only. If you take a peak at music.twitter.com, there is a holding page with the hashtag #music and the words “coming soon”. There is also a button to sign in – but when you do so, it doesn’t [...]
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Apps,
Music,
Twitter
The latest buzz from Google is a new app called Keep. It is a note-taking application that mimics features from popular products such as Evernote and Springpad and lets you “keep” text notes, images, check lists, and voice notes. It’s available on the Google Play store for Android devices at the above link. I’ve installed it on [...]
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Apps,
Google,
Notes
I’ve always wanted a small docking station either for my iPhone or Nexus 7/Kindle Touch tablet. I then got my hands on the i18-USB PowerStation from i18 Technology. The USB PowerStation is a microUSB smartphone and tablet wall charger and dock. It’s made of plastic (color choices are in white, black, or pink) and has a small green [...]
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Charger,
Dock,
microUSB
As I opened my favorite RSS reader this morning – Google Reader, I received a pop-up that it will be retired on July 1, 2013. News from Google’s official blog states: “We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. [...]
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Google,
rss,
Websites
Kimdecent has released the MK806 Android TV stick. This is a small PC that runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and has a Cortex-A9 dual core chipset, 1GB of DDR3 memory, 4GB of storage, and a microSD card slot for expandable storage. This also has Bluetooth 2.0, which is a new feature from its previous model [...]
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Android,
Android TV,
mini pc
Google has released its Chromebook Pixel, which looks like the nicest in the Chromebook series yet! It has a 12.85″ display with a 3:2 aspect ratio and super high pixel density – about 239 pixels/inch. They say this is more than the average 118 pixel/inch on other leading laptops, which will give us an ultra [...]
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Chromebook,
Google Chrome OS
Hooray! Valve has finally released the popular gaming platform, Steam, for Linux users. Right now it’s only supported under Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, using the Unity, Gnome or KDE desktop environments. Steams says that more Linux distributions will be fully supported if/when time permits. Perhaps they will include other popular distributions such as LinuxMint (a fork of [...]
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Gaming,
Linux
American Express recently announced that consumers who use Twitter will be able to pay for items using a special hashtag for certain products and websites. After tweeting them what you want, you get a confirmation hashtag. You then need to tweet back the confirmation hashtag, an email will be sent to you, then you need to confirm [...]
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Social Networking,
Twitter
Do you like to always stay connected, but your phone is always in your jacket or bag? Then take a look at the COOKOO watch – a project originally funded on Kickstarter by Peter Hauser. The COOKOO watch is a smart looking and useful watch that always stays connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth 4.0, [...]
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Bluetooth Gear,
Watch
