Year: 2012

  • Initial impressions of the PlayStation Vita handheld gaming console

    PlayStation and I have had our ups and downs in the past year, but somehow I’ve managed to move past the whole account hacking, contested charges, and banning of my beloved PSN account. I recently picked up the new PlayStation Vita, and so far I am impressed. For starters, the variety of new input methods…

  • iPad 2 price drops to $399, thanks to the new iPad

    If you happened to be online at all on March 7th, then it was inevitable that you learned about Apple’s new iPad. Yes, it’s called “the new iPad” (not iPad 3 or iPad HD). It comes with some great features: Retina Display, the new A5X chip with quad-core graphics, 4G LTE capability, and a new…

  • The New iPad: Everything You Need to Know

    Most of the rumors posted in our recent iPad 3 post came true today when the new iPad was unveiled. Of course, there were a few things we all got wrong. Like the name for instance. But we all had it right where it counted. Welcome to the future of iPad. Dropping the Number System…

  • Becoming a daring beer explorer with BrewGene for iOS and Android

    Have you ever felt overwhelmed at a liquor store when you’re faced with literally an entire wall of beer? On one hand, you can grab the old standby you’ve grabbed 100 times before and know you’ll like it. But on the other, there are 20 or 30 other kinds you have yet to try that…

  • Rumor Mill: 8 Upcoming Features of the New iPad 3

    With the iPad 3 event slated for March 7, the rumor mill is churning out a whole slew of changes to the original formula that may or may not appear on launch day. Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves from joining the fold and rounding out the best rumors out there. Oh, if only they…

  • GIVEAWAY: Win a $25 Rdio Gift Card

    If you’re an avid Rdio user or are considering jumping ship from another music streaming service, you just might be pleased to know that we have a $25 Rdio gift card with your name on it (if you’re the lucky winner, that is). The $25 gift card is yours to use however you see fit…

  • Simplify list making and note taking with WorkFlowy

    Simplify list making and note taking with WorkFlowy

    There’s another free productivity tool that harnesses the power of simplicity. WorkFlowy is probably the simplest, most powerful web app you will find. Basically it’s a list maker that can be used as a task organizer and project management tool. To use it, just start typing. Automatically you’re creating a bullet point. Press “return” and you…

  • Words with Friends is Mobile Gaming Perfection

    Saturday night. Relaxing at a friend’s house. Dinner is over, and we are all sitting around the dining table. The room is strangely quiet. Everyone at the table has a look of intense concentration, and the only sounds are the occasional shrills and pings produced by our various laptops and smartphones. No, this isn’t a…

  • Apple’s Natural Scrolling Feature Catches On

    Apple’s introduction of “natural scrolling” with OS X Lion was a controversial move. Apple effectively decided that computer users had for years been scrolling the wrong way around. They changed things so that, by default, OS X Lion users would “push” content up to move it up the screen, and “pull” it down to move…

  • Think again before buying a high-capacity memory card

    There I was, sitting at my computer sifting through the day’s deals on consumer electronics. I came upon Woot.com‘s deal for the day: a 64GB SDXC card for only $49. I was extremely tempted to go for it. 64GB in one small package was enticing, and I would no longer have to carry around so…