September 2nd, 2010
With all the Apple hoopla yesterday, we missed the fact that Epson announced a new all-in-one printer it says is the “fastest in its class.” The wifi-equipped all-in-one Epson Stylus NX625 printer will run at a blazing 15 pages/minute in black (but only 7.2 in color) — compare that with the Artisan 710 we tested  Read More →
September 2nd, 2010
Stories leading up to Wednesday’s debut of a $99 Apple TV focused on how some studios were worried about the impact of the Cupertino, Calif. company offering 99-cent episodes. However, the bigger threat from Apple TV may be the damage that can be done to the cable industry’s video-on-demand revenu. The addition of Netflix and  Read More →
September 1st, 2010
Ok, maybe the little black box won’t arrive in every single home, but unlike the 1st-gen AppleTV, the 2nd-gen announced today is going to sell like buttery hotcakes slathered in maple syrup. So what’s different? it’s a third the price of the original. A third. This is the biggie — The drastically dropped price removes  Read More →
September 1st, 2010
It’s smaller, cheaper and packed with HD offerings — let us know in the comments whether you’re ready to spend $99 for the new AppleTV.  Read More →
September 1st, 2010
Apple is live streaming Wednesday’s iPod event as a test of its massive new data center, we’ve been informed by a source. Apple’s first live video broadcast in years is a test of the server farm’s ability to stream a future version of iTunes for iOS devices, our tipster says. “The goal is to monitor  Read More →
August 31st, 2010
Forget battery packs or antenna boosters. In my book, this built-in bottle opener is a truly useful addition to an iPhone case. The iBottleoppener is a $19.99 case for the iPhone 3G or 3GS with a bottle opener on the back. It’s available for pre-order, but avoid the promo video, which is bad infomercial cheesy.  Read More →
August 31st, 2010
Remember KT, they recently announced pre-selling 130,000 iPhone 4s in 13 hours? Now they plan to sell a tablet, and it is not the iPad. The “Identity Tab” has a 7-inch screen and is powered by Android. The Apple partner says it is “definitely thinking of launching the iPad in Korea,” however. Apple was mum  Read More →
August 31st, 2010
Doornail dead on the Mac for almost twenty years, Autodesk has just announced that they will finally be bringing their multi-dimension engineering and architectural design software AutoCAD back to Apple customers through a native OS X port. Starting in October, Mac owners will again get to design their minds-eye mansions and skyscrapers without ever dropping  Read More →
August 30th, 2010
In the wake of work produced by the Stanford Laptop Orchestra and the many people worldwide using Smule applications on the iPhone, you knew this was coming: Four creative youngsters calling themselves the iPad Orchestra perform a nice piece of modern orchestral music here, using Seline HD, a new live performance and improvisation app optimized  Read More →
August 30th, 2010
Keeping the dozens of keyboard shortcuts necessary to be competitive in Blizzard’s new multi-faction, space RTS Stacraft II mind mapped can be difficult for even the most caffeinated South Korean pro gamer, but if you’ve got an iOS device, pulling off a successful Zerg rush is about to get a whole lot easier, thanks to  Read More →
August 27th, 2010
Dealing with overheating engines by running cold air over them is fine for old Volkswagen Beetles with almost the horsepower of an electric toothbrush and weird French cars (I know, the word “weird” there is redundant). As engines have become more powerful though, air-cooling has become less attractive — at least, in the automotive world. Computers  Read More →
August 27th, 2010
When we reviewed ID8-Mobile’s sneaky little MoGo Talk XD a month ago, we mentioned that it was only available for the 3G/s, but ID8-Mobile said they had an iPhone 4 version in the works. Turns out they weren’t kidding. The iPhone 4 MoGo Talk — which hides a thin Bluetooth headset in a sleek case —  Read More →
August 27th, 2010
We wrap up another week with two deals for the macBook fan and the latest crop of iPhone freebies from the App Store. First up is a MacBook Pro powered by an i5 dual processor running at 2.4GHz. The unit with a 15-inch screen also comes with 8GB of memory for $1,988. We also take  Read More →
August 27th, 2010
Got a current gen MacBook Pro that just won’t play nice with your external display, or has a tendency to freeze at starting line at the sound of the OS X boot chime? Apple has just updated the MacBook Pro EFI firmware to version 1.9. The new firmware resolves issues where a mid 2010 15-  Read More →
August 26th, 2010
Apple has today released version 9.0.4 of its iWork productivity suite. With it comes several bug fixes for Keynote, Pages and Numbers, and a new feature which allows for the exporting of Pages documents in the ePub format for use on their own iBooks iOS application. The full list of changes, as detailed in the support  Read More →
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