It’s the stuff you see in the best spy films or hear about from a friend of a friend who has a friend who knows a guy who lives in LA in a Hollywood Hills home – you know those luxury smart homes that are controlled by your voice, an iPhone or a super smart [...]
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iOS and Android phones, tablets: Activations soar
Christmas is a time for giving and for many, the gift was gadgets. Android and iOS devices saw a year over year 140 percent jump in activations this Christmas, with application downloads sailing past the historical norm. Skip to next paragraph Smartphones and tablets have surpassed the luxury phase, and are proliferating the market as every day household items. [...]
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Avi Greengart’s Last Minute Non-Obvious Holiday Gift Guide 2011 – SlashGear
Every year SlashGear puts together a gift guide that covers all the usual big ticket gadgets that people want for the holidays. It’s a great guide. However, what if you you’re looking for something a bit different or trying to find something for someone a bit harder to shop for? That’s what this guide is [...]
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The worst iPhone games of 2011 – iPhone app recommendations – Dan Kricke
When a game app isn’t bad because it’s unplayable or impossibly broken but because you can see its potential squandered right in front of your eyes, it can be hard to take. a game that’s broken is easily discarded, but a game that’s disappointingly incomplete keeps calling you back only to disappoint you repeatedly until [...]
Zurück in der Zukunft: Atari’s Greatest Hits-App bringt Retro-Games in Android Market « Android Apps und Handys im Test
Atari hat seine iTunes-Erfolgsapp Greatest Hits im Android Market veröffentlicht. Über 3,5 Millionen Downloads konnte Atari mit seiner Greatest Hits-App im iTunes App Store bereits verzeichnen. Nun soll die Erfolgsgeschichte im Android Market fortgeschrieben werden. Im Rahmen der App portiert das Unternehmen 100 Spiele seines Backkatalogs auf die Android-Plattform. Wie Atari in seiner Pressemitteilung mitteilt, [...]
How to get screenshots from an Apple iOS device
To get a screenshot from your Mac, it’s been the same way for years. you simply use one of a few keyboard shortcuts that typically involve using Shift-Command-3, Shift-Command-4 or a few variations thereof depending on your desired results. you could also use the Grab application amongst many others, for the same task. but with [...]
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Gadget News and Reviews: Top 10 best iPad Apps for Kids
Toddler and pre-schoolers take to the iPad and iPhone like the proverbial duck to water. There’s something so intuitive and simple about touching things on the screen that they just dive in without needing to be shown how it all works. The problem is that the App Store can be a confusing place if you’re [...]
A dashboard on your handlebars makes for intelligent exercise
Workouts whether I’m running or walking or biking in the Blue Hills, I prefer to leave any instrumentation behind. I even turn off the stroke counter on my Water Rower when I am working out at home. I just hate looking down at any device that tells me, after what feels like 20 minutes of [...]
Reviews: iHome iD9 Portable Rechargeable Speaker for iPad/iPhone/iPod
As the less expensive option, iDM12 benefits both from lower expectations and one extra feature—an integrated Bluetooth 2.1 wireless stereo streaming capability—that takes it out of the league of most $50-$100 speakers we’ve seen for Apple’s devices. iHome has given the 7.17” wide by 2.27” deep by 2.27” high pill-shaped unit both A2DP support and [...]