A couple of weeks ago, we learned how to setup a safe and secure Facebook account, and boy does it take a lot. Social networks can be wonderful tools and resources to the educated user, and the good news is that Twitter is, on the […]
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2010 will be remembered by some as the year of the Great Patent Wars. After it became clear that Android had really taken off and was making serious money for companies like Google, Motorola, Samsung, and HTC, Apple chose to fight back. Litigiously. From
When I was ready to buy my first smartphone, I chose the Motorola Droid over the iPhone, mostly because the Droid featured a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. I had gotten used to having a full keypad after owning three feature phones that either slid-out or flipped-open
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I wanted to give you guys an update on the wonderful looking desktops and laptops that Vizio announced at CES this year. I read today on Gizmodo that Vizio had confirmed a June launch for the vizio computers. The biggest vizio Laptop should be available
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Social networking has a lot of risks–we’ve been through this—but if you take some care to know what you’re getting yourself into you can avoid many of the pitfalls associated with sharing your self/work/life/etc. online. Maybe you’re about to setup your first Facebook account. Maybe
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The music industry loves to tell us all how piracy has destroyed their business. They often equate downloading a song to stealing a car, or other absurdly exaggerated metaphors. While it may be true that physical cd sales have gone down significantly over the last
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Unless you’re living in North Korea, it’s more than obvious that social media has taken over the internet. Facebook is predicted to reach 1 billion users by August. Sites you once knew and love are now asking their users to get “social” by interacting
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Once again, it’s time for Android’s top manufacturers to refresh their flagship handsets and give customers a couple more reasons to drop $200 and extend their contracts by two long years. While new Android phones and tablets are announced what seems like twice daily, Samsung
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So you’ve totally got this really awesome, super-new idea that no one has ever had before: sweet. And now you want to share it with everyone on all of your sites and networks: totally. Tweet it. Facebook it. Press it into a word. Drop it
A few months ago, I wrote a post about my impressions with the Android version of the wonderful cross-platform productivity suite SpringPad. The App and corresponding website have gone through many changes since then, both in design and function. The new SpringPad still aims to
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30 million. 5 million. 1 billion. 18. These are the big numbers circulating around the net’s news sources discussions of Instagram this past week.With a long-awaited, and hotly-debated roll out on Android devices last week, and the announcement yesterday that Facebook plans to buy Instagram
As a geek with a strong affinity toward the latest phone technology, I’ve always dreamed of being a beta tester for the mobile phone segment. Even before Apple and Google threw their hats into the ring, Palm, Blackberry, and WinMo were innovating the way we
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So a few days ago, Judy posted her take on the potential Heatgate storm brewing around the new iPad. In her post, she references an article by Consumer Reports finding that, in their testing conditions, the new iPad ran 12 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than its predecessor. That Consumer
Disclaimer: Longer-than-necessary explanation of my love-affair with Lenovo proceeds actual relevant information I’ll be the first to admit that I was more than pleasantly surprised by Lenovo this summer. After graduating from college and getting a job, I figured one of my first
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