From the moment Apple shipped the first iPad back in 2010, pundits started wondering when someone else would ship a tablet that rivaled it for overall appeal. The initial wondering, logically enough, focused on hardware …
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Back to the Farm: Zynga Launches FarmVille 2
At the height of the FarmVille craze, back in 2010, there were two kinds of Facebook users: those who were addicted to FarmVille, and those whose friends were addicted to FarmVille.
Zynga’s creation wasn’t the first one to let …
Netatmo Home Weather Station Kit Brings Out Your Inner Meteorologist
I took a meteorology class in undergrad as an elective because I’ve always been into the weather: tornadoes, hurricanes, derechos, ball lightning, supercells, squalls, you name it. Not enough to pursue it as a career, but let’s …
Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook: Incredible Portability Hindered by Price, Screen
More than a few times, I reached into my bag thinking I was pulling out my iPad but instead pulled out the $1,400 Acer Aspire S5 Ultrabook. It’s that thin.
Indeed, at a hair shy of 0.6″ thick, Acer is laying claim to “the …
Nintendo 3DS XL Review: Bigger, Refined, but Still-Flawed 3D
If the original 3DS seemed a little puny for a games handheld touting “glasses-free 3D,” Nintendo’s new, almost paperback-sized $200 3DS XL expands your range of options to two: pint-sized or big gulp.
If you already own a …
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Review: This Tablet’s Mightier with a Pen
When Samsung’s Galaxy Note smartphone went on sale in the U.S. in February, two things made it, um, noteworthy. At 5.3″, its display was the largest one ever offered on a phone. And the Note came with Samsung’s S Pen, a precision …
Papo & Yo Review: A Heartbreaking Meditation on Alcoholism and Child Abuse
Don’t get that title wrong, Papo & Yo is still a video game through and through: It has climbable ladders, autosaving, platforms you tap a gamepad to jump between and geometry-bending puzzles (no really, actual geometry bending) …
Primadesk Lets You Share Facebook Photos with Non-Facebookers
Facebook has close to a billion users, but chances are you know somebody who isn’t one of them. And sooner or later, that person’s going to ask why they still haven’t seen any pictures of your sister’s baby, or your vacation, or …
Four Great Baby Apps for iPhone (That Saved This New Parent’s Life)
Two weeks: That’s how old my newborn child is — a baby boy, our first — as of Monday this week. Everything’s upside-down right now: sleep, eating, walking, writing, thinking, the fabric of space-time, you name it. His mother …
Dust: An Elysian Tail Is from a Future That Never Happened
Dust: An Elysian Tail is from the future, only one that never happened. A future where 3D never kicked 2D gaming to the curb. A timeline where 2D side-scrollers never vanished from the charts. Playing it feels like falling …
30 Days with Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet
I’d be lying if I said my decision to attend Google’s I/O conference last month had nothing to do with the tablet rumors. I’ve been waiting for a good, affordable 7-inch tablet ever since Samsung pioneered the concept with its …
Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review: The Mac’s Lion Adventure Continues
How do you prep a venerable computer operating system to flourish in late 2012 and beyond?
We’re about to get answers to that question from both Apple and Microsoft, in the form of major upgrades to the world’s two most …
