Archive for February, 2011
Xoom Won’t Be Sole Honeycomb Tablet for Long, LG Optimus Pad on Sale Next Month in Japan
While the Motorola Xoom will be the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, it will be quickly joined by other hardware rivals, such as the Optimus Pad, made by LG. The LG Optimus Pad will be available for pre-order in mid-March and will go on sale at the end of next month. The LG Optimus Pad [...]
Deal: ScotteVest 10th Anniversary 40% off Sale
ScotteVest, a company that makes clothing designed to carry your gadgets and gear from home to work or around the world, is having a 10th Anniversary sale and offering users 40% off select items. We’ve been big fans of ScotteVest as you can see from our previous reviews. We don’t just like ScotteVest gear because [...]
What is ThunderBolt and What Can You do with it?
The short answer is that ThunderBolt, formerly called Light Peak, allows you to transfer data really, really fast and can support multiple connection types such as a hard drive and a monitor. You can even daisy chain these items together — connecting your new MacBook Pro or Thunderbolt enabled computer to an external hard drive and connect [...]
Mac OS X Lion (10.7) Released to Developers: New OS X Lion Features Shown Off
Apple announced the first developer preview build of the next Mac operating system OS X 10.7, better known as Mac OS X Lion today right around the time it released a collection of new MacBook Pro notebooks. Mac OS X Lion was first shown off last fall, but today developers can get their hands on [...]
Apple Data Center in NC Readies for iTunes & MobileMe
Apple has built a mammoth data center in North Carolina that has 500,00 square feet of space. They are now saying this will host their iTunes and MobileMe data, according to reports from a share holders meeting hosted by the company this week. It is expected to come online sometime this Spring. There have been [...]
Onlive Games 2K Four Day Sale
We’re elbow deep testing out the new OnLive Game System and thought we’d report that they are having a weekend sale on 2K Games. This weekend users can get 50%-70% off many popular 2K Games titles including NBA2K11 and Major League Baseball 2k10. Each day of the four-day weekend there is a different game for [...]
FaceTime App hits Mac App Store for $.99
Just in time for the new MacBook Pros and the upcoming iPad 2 event Apple has released the final version of FaceTime for Mac on the Mac App Store. The beta was free, but if you want the FaceTime 1.0 App you’ll need to spend $.99 at the App store. Rumor has it the new [...]
How To Open Apple Pages Documents Without Pages
If you have ever received a Pages document on a Windows PC or any other computer that does not have Apple’s word processor loaded, you have been unable to view the document easily. Thanks to the recent addition of 12 new file formats to Google Docs compatibility list, anyone can open and view a Pages document. [...]
MacBook Pro 2011 Refresh Details: Sandy Bridge, AMD GPU & Thunderbolt
Apple announced the 2011 MacBook Pro refresh this morning, delivering five new MacBook Pro models to Apple users. After a short period of downtime the Apple Store is now back up and selling five new MacBook Pro models, two 13″ MacBook Pros, two 15 inch MacBook Pros and one 17″ MacBook Pro. The new 2011 [...]
4G Wireless Phones will Interfere with GPS Getting You Lost
Within the next few years one major 4G base station maker, LightSquared, expects to invest $6-$8 Billion dollars blanketing the US with 4G coverage for wireless phone carriers. The problem is their base station might be incompatible with GPS receivers used by most people for turn-by-turn directions, according to a report at Gizmodo. At issue is [...]
