Archive | September 15, 2009

BoneyBoy Gets New Update – Now With Touch Control!

Boneyboy, a classic Run & Jump game by Mobisation, gets an update to version 1.3. In the 1.3 release, the game now supports touch control. Also, it now supports all new display sizes (800*480, with an additional banner at the top and the button). If you have not heard of BoneyBoy before, BoneyBoy was a winner in Smartphone & [...]

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HP Announces New Notebooks Including ENVY Line

HP announced a new set of notebooks and netbooks to their lineup today, including the new ENVY series of premium notebooks.

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D+Caf test strips answer the question – Is that decaffeinated coffee?

D+Caf test strips answer the question – Is that decaffeinated coffee?

If you’re a decaffeinated coffee drinker don’t you hate having to trust the person behind the counter to give you the right cup of coffee? Or how about when you get a cup of coffee in a conference room and your only clue about whether the pot contains regular or decaf is a chintzy table [...]

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Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Week Three into the Rosetta Stone TOTALe Program

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Week Three into the Rosetta Stone TOTALe Program

As you will recall, this week started with me being quite frustrated when I had miserably failed the Milestone at the end of Unit One. I was also concerned about the empty checkboxes that I was seeing on my Unit 1 progress bar, but I figured I would get things straightened out — eventually. Tuesday [...]

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Get Data In and Out of Google with New Data Liberation Site

Google has had a Twitter account called @dataliberation for a while now, but an official site was just launched today. The Data Liberation site explains how to get data into and out of Google, using standards-based, open formats.

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Win a One Year Subscription to Maghound

Update: Kevin’s youngest has spoken. I asked her to pick a number between one and eleven, and she said ten and five. That means the winners are breley and warp65. Congrats! If you’ve found yourself cutting back on some of life’s little luxuries, then you’ll love this: Gear Diary is teaming with Maghound to give [...]

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Is the 2012 Scion iQ the ‘Smart’ Choice?

Move over smart car, Scion is taking over the micro-subcompact car segment with its iQ. The new Scion iQ is [...]

Mary Halvorson Tops Her Critically Acclaimed Last Album with ‘Bending Bridges’

Mary Halvorson Quintet – ‘Bending Bridges’ Mary Halvorson Quintet – ‘Bending Bridges’ In late 2010 Mary Halvorson released Saturn Sings, [...]

A Second Opinion on the LifeProof Case

At the start of the year, Dan reviewed the LifeProof iPhone case. He loved it. I have had one for [...]

Contemplating the iPhone 5? Try Radio Shack

Ah, Radio Shack!  Back in the day, Radio Shack was the go-to place for electrical and electronic, well, stuff.  Cables, [...]

New iOS App “Carpet Ball” Now Available

I’m not much of a pool player, really.  I like pool–heck, I also like snooker a lot!–but the combination of [...]

SPIGEN SGP HTC One X Crumena Leather Pouch Series Review

The HTC One X is a beast… and I mean that in only the best way. It is big, it [...]