Radio Shack Shaves $50 Off iPhone Prices (More If You Trade in an Old One)

Posted on December 5, 2010 by admin

Radio Shack is slashing off the price of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS now through December 11. The iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (16GB) and iPhone 4 (32GB) will drop to .99, 9.99 and 9.99 respectively. If you’ve been waiting to upgrade, the time is now especially since Radio Shack is also offering to [...]
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Google Loses Street View Trespass Case, Pays (Very) Small Settlement

Posted on December 3, 2010 by admin

Google Street View may not cause mental anguish, but it could be considered trespassing. At least, that’s the lesson to learn from the experience of Pittsburgh couple Aaron and Christine Boring, who have successfully sued Google for trespassing after they found pictures of their house on the service despite living on a private road. The [...]
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Cyber Monday Spending Breaks $1 Billion

Posted on December 1, 2010 by admin

For those of you who made an online purchase on Cyber Monday, congratulations you helped set the record for the biggest shopping day in online history. About .3 billion dollars was spent the Monday after Thanksgiving alone, up 16 percent since last year, according to comScore. (More on TIME.com: How To Track Your Black Friday [...]
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The Loadout for November 29, 2010: New Games to Attack Your Week With

Posted on November 30, 2010 by admin

Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]
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XWave iPhone Headset Promises to Read Your Mind

Posted on November 28, 2010 by admin

The 0 XWave headset plugs into the headphone jack of any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and claims to measure your Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and Theta brainwaves. I have no way of proving or disproving these claims, though I can tell you that it certainly does something while you use it. The headset features [...]
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Emanata: Bad Alchemy

Posted on November 26, 2010 by admin

How can you tell that a graphic novel is going to be terrible? One very clear sign: if the name of the person who drew it does not appear on its front cover. In the case of the new comics adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist, the artist’s name also does not appear on [...]
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Mark Wahlberg To Take on “Uncharted” Territory

Posted on November 25, 2010 by admin

It’s official: Mark Wahlberg will be staring as hero Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie, based off the popular video game. The actor confirmed the news to MTV. Yeah, we had the same questions. One, there’s going to be an Uncharted movie? Two, Mark Wahlberg? Before you start getting a little nervous, the movie is [...]
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The Loadout: New Games to Attack Your Week With

Posted on November 10, 2010 by admin

Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]
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Behind The Magic: Deathly Hallows FX Supervisor Explains Your Favorite Scenes

Posted on November 8, 2010 by admin

There’s definitely something magical about the world of Harry Potter brought to life on film, and surprisingly, it has nothing to do with wizardry. The man behind the magic is actually Tim Burke, visual effects supervisor for Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part One, in theaters now. Burke has worked on every film in [...]
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App of the Week: Find My iPhone

Posted on November 2, 2010 by admin

Apple’s big software update from yesterday brought along with it improved remote location features for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users. The free Find My iPhone app locates any of your connected Apple products running the latest iOS 4.2 software and displays them on a map. You add a MobileMe account to your device (sign [...]
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