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Last week Facebook announced a new home screen replacement called ‘Home’ that makes Facebook your main launching point. The new application only works for Android devices. The main application itself was not as intriguing as the…
Is the new Surface Pro a musical instrument?
Earlier this year I saw a leaked image that may or may not have been the new iPhone. The leaked photos were just the front plate but were correct. I tweeted my disappointment at the time:…
The tiring Apple and Samsung patent battles have at least one positive outcome, pictures of the original iPad. The images below compare the iPad prototype, dated some time between 2002 and 2004, to an iPad…
While being open source gives Android developers the ability to customize it easier than on iDevices, why does it take a kickstarter project to make the OS halfway attractive? Chameleon is an android app that…
An interesting article from Bloomberg has been circling the web the past couple of days. It was written in January 2007 after the original Apple iPhone was announced. Author Matthew Lynn thought Apple’s new phone would never be…
When I heard that Sparrow came out with an email client for the iPhone, I downloaded without hesitation. What? $2.99. That is nothing for the products that team has produced. Sparrow for OS X is…
In my last post about eReaders vs paper books I was trying to decide if I wanted to stick with paper books or move to reading books on a device. The decision was to take the jump and get…
When reading there are few things better than holding a physical book. I read the occasional magazine and was never a huge fan of newspapers but a (hardback) book is by far my favorite. Up to…