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  • 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…

  • Samsung Galaxy Note – Phone, Tablet, or Worthless Piece of Junk?

    Samsung Galaxy Note – Phone, Tablet, or Worthless Piece of Junk?

    Mobile phones started out resembling bricks. They were monsters, with the internal components necessary to make them work taking up so much space as to make early examples look ludicrous in hindsight. And then they shrank until the smaller they became, the better they were supposed to be. But that trend has now reversed, as…

  • Is Apple Turning OS X into iOS?

    Last week saw Apple announcing the arrival of the latest Mac OS X revision, Mountain Lion, which will be released later this year. Apple’s website clearly states that Mountain Lion will have “all new features, inspired by the iPad.” These include the Game Center, Notification Center, and system-wide Twitter integration that already exists on iDevices.…

  • Barnes & Noble releases 8GB Nook Tablet for $199

    When Barnes & Noble first released the Nook Tablet in November, it had 16GB of storage and a microSD card slot, something that Amazon’s Kindle Fire lacked, but B&N’s slate was $50 more, making the Kindle Fire look a little more attractive, even with only 8GB and no memory card slot. However, Barnes & Noble…

  • WriteRoom Brings Distraction-free Writing to Mac OS X

    I write for a living. While I don’t suffer writers block too often, I do have one major problem that affects my productivity and reduces my output – distraction. I love my MacBook Pro. I’m just a few clicks away from 16,000 songs, and all day long various applications ping, click and bing, alerting me…

  • iTriage helps people find medical care on their mobile phones

    iTriage helps people find medical care on their mobile phones

    There are mobile apps that will help you improve your  health, but what about when you’re sick or injured?  You need to know what is wrong with you and where to get it treated (probably more important). The iTriage app for Android, iOS, and Palm will help you diagnosis what ails you. If you don’t…