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Summer in the City: The Five Best Portable Air Conditioners

Bye, Spring. Those five or six days you decided to grace us with your presence sure were nice. Hello, Summer. You are a jerk. People say they like you, but you only serve to make everything hot and uncomfortable.

We’re not going to take this lying down, Summer. Especially at night when we’re trying to sleep. And we’re going to fight …

25 Essential Apps for Travelers

After a long, cold, dark, snowy, jerky winter, we’ve officially hit some nice weather. And not the fake nice weather where it’s nice for half the day and then it rains and then the next day it snows—fool me once, shame on you; fool me pretty much all of April, shame on me for breaking out my short-shorts and donating all my warm …

Five Easter iPhone Apps That Are Actually Pretty Cool

Yep, Martha Stewart spiked our Easter-app fever with her Egg Dyeing 101. But the iTunes store was a fertile ground of arty holiday-themed apps, and we found some other pretty cool contenders. Whether you’re a devout egghead, an occasional Peeps-ter — or prefer to celebrate your own Easter-time holiday of “West”er — these five …

Introducing the TIME 100 for 2011

Our annual TIME 100 list is by no means definitive (are any of them really?) but as always our assemblage of movers and shakers cover a wide range of movements and industry: artists, politicians, freedom fighters, rebels, writers, athletes… and the list goes on.

But of course, you’re here at Techland because you care about …

11 Google Pranks to Help Celebrate April Fools’ Day

If there’s anyone who loves April Fools’ Day, it’s Google. The company has had a tradition of pulling pranks on their users whether it’s the first of April or not. From changing their name to honor a city in Kansas to playing with the font on our search results to introducing a free email account with a storage capacity of 1GB per user …

Play Ball! Five Baseball Video Games to Line Up This Season

“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”

– Paul Gallico

Also, let’s not forget that both beer and hot dogs inexplicably taste better inside a ballpark than they do anywhere else. Fact.

With the 2011 baseball season …

The Smartphones and Tablets of CTIA 2011 You Should Know About

With the smartphone and tablet markets booming, 2011 is a great time to have a wireless industry trade show. Press releases from CTIA 2011 flowed as soon as the week began, with device makers and wireless carriers flexing their muscles and hyping up their latest gadgets. Here’s a quick look at the biggest smartphones and tablets to debut …

8 Ways the Japan Crisis Impacts Consumer Tech

Typically, “supply chain” is a phrase that only business executives get excited about. Yet in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis, the world is starting to discover just how important those chains of supplies are. Sever or stress a single link, and the chain comes apart — affecting not only what’s …

Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Nine Essential iPhone Apps For Beer Lovers

According to lore, St. Patrick brought Catholicism to the Irish by using a three-leafed shamrock to help illustrate the meaning behind the church’s Divine Trinity.

Fast forward 1500+ years later, and we celebrate St. Patrick’s most festive of holidays using a slightly different three-pronged methodology: lots of green, maybe a parade …

Earthquake Preparedness Apps to Help You In Case of an Emergency

While you can’t prevent natural disasters like earthquakes, you can prepare for them so you know what to do when one hits.

Your phone can become a tool to help you survive a dangerous situation. Here are some suggestions of which apps to download so you can be prepared when disaster strikes. While it’s still scary to be put in that …

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