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Innovative Uses for Your iPad

Apple iPad

We all know that your iPad is a great tool for surfing the web, reading e-books, checking e-mail, playing games and more. And, of course, there’s an app for just about everything. With customization, you can use your iPad to balance your checkbook, find out how fast your car is traveling, log your daily food [...]

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Sony Shows Off 2 New Android Tables

Sony S2 Android Tablet

Last but not least, Sony is now in the Android tablet game, joining existing entrants Samsung, Motorola, et al. Well at least their announcment is on the books as the tablets won’t be released until later this Fall. Sony showed off 2 models at their press conference: the S1 and S2, which is a dual-screen [...]

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Rep Jesse Jackson Jr Says iPads Kill Jobs

iPad apps

If you can get past how ridiculous this sounds, you just have to laugh. Illinois representative Jesse Jackson Jr. says that the iPad is killing jobs in America. Of course, while he railed about the iPad (and I assume other devices/computing in general) destroying the traditional publishing world, he then went on to talk about [...]

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Wired Magazine’s iPad App Issues are now Free

Wired Magazine iPad App

Good news! Wired’s iPad app just got free! Well, technically, the issues going forward are free. The older issues (April 2011 and older) still run about $3.99 each. These issues are not small though – May’s issue is 380MB, so don’t forget to delete when you’re done with them. You’ll also know why your syncing [...]

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Top iPhone Apps to Help You with Your Taxes

iPhone tax Apps

Hooray, tax time is here again! I know you are thrilled, I can see it in your face. Before you fall off your seat in excitement, let me help you out with some tips that might make this tax season just a bit easier than last year. With the constant influx of new portable computing [...]

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Energizer Inductive Charger Only Requires Near Contact

EnergizerInductiveCharger

Energizer has released their inductive-charging alternative to the Powermat – they call it the Energizer IC2B-US Qi-Enabled 3 Position Inductive Charger. We’ll call it the Energizer Inductive Charger for short. The gizmo is compatible with all devices that use Qi technologies for charging. At the moment this appears to consist of covers for the iPhone [...]

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LaCie’s Little Big 1TB Drive has 10Gb/s Transfer Speed

LaCieLittleBigDisk

LaCie have announced their new Little Big Disk, featuring Thunderbolt technology. And, no, it has nothing to do with Little Big Planet – this is a storage drive that offers transfer speeds of 10Gb/s! Developed by Intel,Thunderbolt even trumps USB 3.0′s top-end 5Gb/s speeds.

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WiFi-only Samsung Galaxy Tab on Sale April 10 for $349

SamsungGalaxyTab

A WiFi-only version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab goes on sale on Sunday (Apr 10) for $349 in retail stores and on the Web. The Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2, and has a 7″ 1024×600 TFT screen with 16GB of internal storage and a micro-SD slot.

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Motorola Xoom vs Apple iPad 2 – A Spec-by-Spec Breakdown

Motorola Xoom and Apple iPad 2

The tablet war rages on and it is still not completely clear who will be the eventual victor (perhaps no single vendor at all). Will it be Apple (and their new iPad 2) or Motorola and the Xoom, their new tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) or perhaps another up-and-comer? Of course, many have already anointed [...]

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Plug-In Compact iPhone/iPod Speaker Dock

WALdock

Similar to Quirky, Kickstarter is another website that helps back designer’s innovative ideas, as long as enough money is pledged to the product. The idea we’re featuring today is the WALdok – a iPhone/iPod plug-in speaker, and has already met its funding pledge so will go into production on the 9th of April this year.

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