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  • Droid appearing on Google and causing lines, what about iPhone?

    The day of the Droid came and left with relatively little press coverage compared to what we’ve seen from the iPhone in previous launches. However, that isn’t to say the Droid isn’t receiving its fair share of publicity, and for good reason. While I haven’t personally gotten my hands on one of these devices, I’ve heard many great things not only about Android 2.0 and the hardware, but about Verizon’s great coverage as well. With…

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Apple’s new 27-inch iMacs apparently experiencing performance issues

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 31, 2009 at 04:41 PM

Apple’s discussion forums have begun to flood with threads by users complaining of poor performance on the company’s new 27-inch iMacs, which were introduced to the public last week. Several different performance issues have been reported, such as the inappropriate spinning down of the hard drive and corrupted Snow Leopard… Continue Reading »

Free app roundup for October 30th, 2009

by Jake Gaecke on Oct 30, 2009 at 04:35 PM

Halloween might be upon you, but you’re grown up now. So instead of getting the candy, you’ll be giving it out with a big smile on your face, right? Yeah, probably not. Those darn kids just want candy. They don’t give a crap about you, and they certainly don’t care… Continue Reading »

Halloween iPhone apps that could actually be scary

by Kirk Hiner on Oct 29, 2009 at 08:51 AM

There’s certainly no shortage of Halloween-themed apps in the iTunes App Store. Search “Halloween,” and nearly 200 apps show up. Now, the connection to Halloween with some of these is dubious at best, but that’s still a lot of material. The question is, how many of these apps are actually… Continue Reading »

Google Reader makes its way to the Mac desktop with Gruml

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 27, 2009 at 09:20 PM

Gruml has been around for a while now, but its first beta was extremely glitchy; too much to make it a very interesting and useful application. However, more recent beta releases have made Gruml a much more stable application. To be specific, an impressive RSS reader that relies on Google… Continue Reading »

GrandPerspective for Mac graphically illustrates disk usage

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 27, 2009 at 01:18 PM

Recently, I’ve come across a very cool and useful Mac application known as GrandPerspective, a utility that scans a chosen area of your hard drive and outputs an illustration of how your hard drive space is being used. This can be particularly useful if you’re running low on disk space… Continue Reading »

The “impending” Apple tablet

by Jake Gaecke on Oct 26, 2009 at 07:36 PM

Another day, another rumor about the “impending” Apple Tablet. Today, the internet was on fire with talk about a leaked picture of what could be the SIM card tray for the rumored Apple Tablet. And if that wasn’t quite enough to get you to stop yawning, Bill Keller, executive editor… Continue Reading »

App it Up: Ping!

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 26, 2009 at 06:28 AM

Ping! is an iDevice to iDevice messaging application (similar to BlackBerry Messenger on Blackberry smartphones) that makes use of Apple’s Push Notification service, and is said to be a replacement for SMS or other IM clients. Ping! uses data from a 3G/EDGE or WiFi connection rather than SMS messages, and… Continue Reading »

App it Up: MyPlaylists

by Patrick Lutz on Oct 25, 2009 at 12:22 PM

MyPlaylists is a very simple, yet very useful utility that allows you to create music playlists right on your iPhone or iPod touch, without the need of a computer. The app also includes an iPod-like interface for listening to your created playlists, and management of the playlists with an interface… Continue Reading »

Google Chrome for Mac now official, here’s a first look

by Josh Holat on Oct 23, 2009 at 09:09 PM

This week, Google announced an official version of Google Chrome, a result of the Chromium project, at the Web 2.0 Summit in California. What that means is that outside of nightly developer builds, this version—build 4.0.223.8—is the first official release build of the software. While the Windows version has been… Continue Reading »

Free apps roundup for October 23rd, 2009

by Jake Gaecke on Oct 23, 2009 at 04:32 PM

Gamers rejoice; this is the week for free games. Racing, pinball, finger running, what else could you possibly want? I know…an RPN calculator! And to top it all off, VW announced their 2010 GTI with a special version of Real Racing. I know you’ll find some fun stuff in my… Continue Reading »

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