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Android Wear comes to iPhone

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Β  Google announced that as of Monday, Google’s Android Wear smart watches will now connect to Apple’s iPhones (iPhone 5 and up). This is big news for those of us who have iPhones, but who are fans of Google’s many useful tools, such as Google Calendar, Gmail, and my favorite, Google Now. While Google’s Android […]

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OpTech Smart Sling review

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Back when our belts were bristling like Batman’s utility belt and fanny packs were seen constantly, I read a humorous piece about how we male geeks carry our gear. The author was proposing that we have to have a popular, masculine person start using something before it becomes socially acceptable. No one really carried a

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Julie’s gadget diary – Should Apple be worried that Samsung Pay will win the mobile payment wars?

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Yesterday’s Samsung Unpacked event left me feeling disappointed about their new hardware announcements. However, their Samsung Pay announcement caught my attention.Β If you aren’t familiar with Samsung Pay, it’s Samsung’s mobile payment application. Like Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Android Pay (not availableΒ yet) and CurrentC (also not available yet),Β it’s a way to use your phone to pay

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The Google Translate app has been upgraded to improve the instant visual translation and voice conversation modes

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In the past, the Google Translate app would allow you to snap a picture of a sign and translate it in 36 languages. But since January 2015, Translate (iOS and Android) now allows you to tap on the camera icon within the app, point your phone at any sign, menu, instruction manual, etc. and instantly

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Notion home monitoring system is not your dad’s home security system

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As technology gets smarter and smarter so do our home security systems. One example of this that I have recently come across is the Notion system, formerly a successful Kickstarter project. Like most home security systems, Notion relies on sensors, but unlike most security systems, the Notion’s single sensor is built to do the job

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Wifi Analyzer Android app helps you identify optimal channels for your wireless router to improve speed

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I recently switched to T-mobile and upgraded our router to the T-mobile CellSpot (an ASUS dual-bandΒ TM-AC1900 router).Β When setting up this router, I didn’t want to use the default channels. I wanted to select the optimal channels that my wireless router would use on the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands (not all of our devices support the

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Logitech now offering a keyboard case for the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7

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I love the Samsung Galaxy S Tab 10.5 tablet that I bought earlier this year. I even took it with me on our last vacation to use instead of my Macbook Air. It worked pretty well except when I needed to type in a lot of text. For those times, I prefer an actual keyboard.

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Bodyguardz ScreenGuardz Pure The Crown screen protector review

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I am a huge advocate for the use of screen protectors. I have been a fan since the beginning; starting with those overpriced, thin sheets of plastics to the messy liquid applied protectors to tempered glass and now engineered systems to keep your smart device’s round-edged screen safe and protected. The engineers at Bodyguardz have

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Google Photos: the photo app to rule them all

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If you’re an Android user who takes a lot of photos, you’ll want to pay attention. Google just redesigned its photo app and there are some pretty significant changes. Photos provides a new way to organize your memories, it’s now able to organize by People, Places, or Things. You can pick a specific person, location,

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The Seyvr wallet keeps your phone charged

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They Seyvr wallet is made of high-quality reinforced premium leather and is only about 15mm thick. Β The trifold wallet has six card slots, a money clip for cash and receipts, and it has a 1400mAh lithium-polymer battery that can keep your phone charged. Β The wallet is available in two versions, one with a built-in Lightning

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Grab a 2000mAh Powerskin backup battery pack for just one cent

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If you complain about your iPhone or Android phone running out of battery at the most inopportune times, you need a backup battery. But which one do you buy? They come in all shapes, all sizes and all capacities. But the one thing the Powerskin PoP’n backup battery pack has going for it is the

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A smartlock that unlocks your door for you…There’s an app for that.

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No need to give a friend the key to your home so they can let your precious pets out anymore. The Danalock Bluetooth Smartlock can be programed to lock and unlock at any specified time to allow entry at your digression, AND it logs any entries and exits so you know when someone is coming

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