If you’ve made your way through the iPhone’s App Store, you’ve no doubt noticed several apps being sold for a certain price alongside a “lite” version of the same app. It’s more or less a feature-restricted version of the app meant to entice you to buy the full version.
There’s now a new section of the App Store called “Try Before You …
Retro gaming and personal hygiene are two things that go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Maybe not, but you have to admit these replica Super Nintendo cartridges look an awful lot like the real thing.
They’re actually bars of soap. Soap!
Weighing around seven ounces and “scented with Mountain Dew-type fragrance oil,” you …
A discussion about issues with Exchange over at Motorola’s support forums has revealed a tentative release date for Froyo for the Droid X. According to Motorola employee Matt, Droid X users will get the Froyo (Android 2.2) update in early September.
A fix for this will be included in the upgrade to Android 2.2 scheduled for
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In honor of Star Wars Month, I volunteered to painstakingly watch all six Star Wars movies and compile a list of gadget-like devices I spot in each one. I can promise you I will miss a few and I won’t know what some of them are supposed to be called, but I’ll be damned if I don’t watch all six episodes of one of the greatest film …
Ah yes, more Apple rumors. About as dependable in frequency as they are undependable in accuracy, they must all be reported no matter what. This latest round comes from iLounge, who cites a “highly reliable source” while cautioning us to “take this report with the requisite grains of salt.” They do pretty good work over there at …
Back in October of last year, Acer went down a seldom travelled path by serving up a 10-inch netbook (shown above) running both Windows XP and Android. It received lukewarm reviews early on, with most of the criticism stemming from the lack of access to the Android Market and a dedicated Gmail app. It ran Flash, though, and seemed to …
A series of photos taken by the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information form 1939-1943 have been published by denverpost.com and are said to be “some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression” in rural America. The photos were originally shown in a 2006 exhibit titled “Bound for Glory: …
It seems the cat is out of the bag. Neowin is reporting that the surprise the Microsoft Hardware team has been teasing on Twitter is what Microsoft Research is calling “Mouse 2.0”.
Come September, Microsoft will announce the Arc Touch Mouse. A research report that was released in October of 2009 details the team’s goal of …
Logitech is hoping to woo the gaming community with its new G-series line of high-end peripherals. The company’s press release says that the products are available now through Logitech’s site (some are backordered already) “and will be rolling out soon with major retailers.”
There’s the $160 G930 Wireless Gaming Headset, with 7.1 …
The Sezmi TV service was rolled out in the LA area back in 2008 but has recently expanded its availability to 36 additional markets. The package consists of a $149 TiVo-like receiver that hooks up to your broadband internet connection and a high-powered TV antenna capable of pulling in free, over-the-air, local HD channels.
For a $5 …
With yesterday’s release of Kick-Ass on DVD and Blu-ray, we called on Chris Brown, president and CEO of customized digital media company Metabeam, to walk us through the Blu-ray disc dual-screen experience, Metamenu – controllable by your iPhone or Android-platform smartphone. Download the free Metamenu app and your phone will …