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Sony Just Bought Its Future

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:31:49 -0700

Sony, with a $1.47bn check, just bought back its destiny. In agreeing to buy out Ericsson’s 50-percent stake in the Sony Ericsson smartphone partnership, the Japanese company brings to an end a…

HP keeping PC business, spin-off axed

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:51:55 -0700

HP keeping PC business, spin-off axed:

After several months of deliberation, it’s been announced today that HP will keep its Personal Systems Group business, this PC Unit to stay in the family for the time being. Just this past August…

Apple wins patent for Slide to Unlock iOS gesture

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:14:28 -0700

Apple wins patent for Slide to Unlock iOS gesture:

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has just granted Apple a new patent today for its “Slide to Unlock” iOS gesture. The patent application was filed more than a year before the very first…

Instantly Turn Any Text into a Sticky Note with This Mac Keyboard Shortcut [Video]

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:46:46 -0700

Instantly Turn Any Text into a Sticky Note with This Mac Keyboard Shortcut [Video]:

If you’re a fan of the Stickies app on the Mac and want a really quick way to create sticky notes out of existing text, here’s a keyboard shortcut that can save you some time. Just select any…

Launch app Quicksilver roars onto Mac OS X Lion

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:17:21 -0700

Launch app Quicksilver roars onto Mac OS X Lion:

Popular launch app Quicksilver has added support for Mac OS X Lion in the latest update, the development team announced on its blog today.

For those unfamiliar with the impressive app, …

Easily Navigate In and Out of Full Screen Mode in OS X with this Shortcut

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:17:03 -0700

Easily Navigate In and Out of Full Screen Mode in OS X with this Shortcut

GMusic Is a Native Google Music Player for the iPhone [Ios Downloads]

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:17:34 -0700

GMusic Is a Native Google Music Player for the iPhone [Ios Downloads]:

iOS: GMusic is a new native iOS app that streams music from your Google Music account right to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. It can even download songs for offline playback, something…

A License to Pry

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:28:50 -0800

A License to Pry:

Bump.com, an online start-up, is creating a way for people to ping each other using their license plates. The company’s founder, Mitch Thrower, compares the service to online coupon and…

Option-Click the Airport Symbol to Quickly See Your Connection Speed [In Brief]

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:11:31 -0800

Option-Click the Airport Symbol to Quickly See Your Connection Speed [In Brief]:

Commenter Roman reminds us that by holding the Option key on a Mac and clicking the symbol for your AirPort settings, you get the fastest path possible to seeing your connection strength,…

30 Things We Need — and 30 We Don't

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:26:00 -0800

30 Things We Need — and 30 We Don't:

Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we’re getting too much of stuff we don’t need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to…

WiFi2HiFi Streams Any Audio From Your PC to iOS [Downloads]

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:05:11 -0800

WiFi2HiFi Streams Any Audio From Your PC to iOS [Downloads]:

Windows/Mac and iOS: Apple’s AirPort Express has long been an awesome way to stream music from your PC across the house, but if you don’t have one, iOS app WiFi2HiFi lets you stream any…

SSDs May Have Flash But Western Digital Bets $4.3B on Disks

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:38:32 -0800

SSDs May Have Flash But Western Digital Bets $4.3B on Disks:

All the cool data centers are deploying solid state drives that use Flash memory as opposed to janky [JUNKY?] old hard drives, so why is Western Digital shelling out $4.3 billion to acquire…

Use A Wiki To Ace Your Classes [Study]

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:26:31 -0800

Use A Wiki To Ace Your Classes [Study]:

One of the tried and true best ways to study and retain information is to re-write the content - whether it be lecture notes, textbook facts and figures, or whatever - down again on paper. We…

Sleep is More Important than Food

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:00:39 -0800

Sleep is More Important than Food:

Let’s cut to the chase.

Say you decide to go on a fast, and so you effectively starve yourself for a week. At the end of seven days, how would you be feeling? You’d probably be hungry, perhaps a…

Coming Soon: Advertiser Alerts on Your Phone

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:49:41 -0800

Coming Soon: Advertiser Alerts on Your Phone:

Advertisers have long contemplated a world in which they could contact people walking down the street with special offers and get them to change course and enter a store. There’s been new movement…

How to Install Android on an iPhone in Six Easy Steps [Video]

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:34:36 -0800

How to Install Android on an iPhone in Six Easy Steps [Video]:

If you’ve got an iPhone, are a little bored with iOS, and you’re interested in moonlighting with Google’s Android operating system, you can dual boot Android and iOS side-by-side on your iPhone in…

UsingMiles Organizes Your Frequent Flier Miles for Easy Use [Travel]

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:40:45 -0700

UsingMiles Organizes Your Frequent Flier Miles for Easy Use [Travel]:

>Start using your frequent flier miles and reward points more effectively by manging them with UsingMiles, a unified rewards dashboard and travel search engine. Read on to learn more and…

Fit Finder Matches Men to Their Perfect Shirt [Measurements]

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:16:11 -0700

Fit Finder Matches Men to Their Perfect Shirt [Measurements]:

Everybody has that one shirt—it looks good and, more importantly, fits perfectly. Use that shirt to find other great-fitting tops with Fit Finder, an impressively detailed database and webapp.

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Cloud Printing on Its Way to Google Docs [Google]

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:30:16 -0700

Cloud Printing on Its Way to Google Docs [Google]:

Cloud printing is coming soon to Google Docs, according to some eagle-eyed source-code spying over at all-things-GOOG blog Google Operating System. Cloud Print is going to be Google’s…

WhatTheFont for iPhone Identifies Fonts on the Go [Downloads]

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:30:16 -0700

WhatTheFont for iPhone Identifies Fonts on the Go [Downloads]:

iOS: The popular font-identifying web site WhatTheFont (our look) now has an iOS app, letting you quickly identify fonts you see outside of your computer screen.

As far as web tools that…