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Continue reading →: Oppy shares its own Shadow
Oppy shares its own Shadow NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity shared this emotive picture of itself in the Endeavour Crater. These die-hard robots don’t know of giving up, even limping along, with amputated legs, they still manage to serve humanity faithfully. Well done Oppy. More grease to your elbow, or shall…
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Continue reading →: iOS 5.1.1 Untethered Jailbreak Has Been ReleasedAccording to an iDownload Blog post, the much anticipated iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak is due anytime today. Well that time has now come: now introducing Absinthe 2.0! The new jailbreak was first introduced in the form of a demonstration at the Hack In The Box Security Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands by the infamous…
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Continue reading →: Mark Zuckerberg’s Big WeekendSo what did you do the previous weekend? Did you ring the opening bell signaling your company joining the ranks on the NASDAQ ticker? Did you turn your long-time girlfriend’s medical school graduation party into a wedding? No? I didn’t think so. Well unlike you, billionaire and Facebook CEO/Founder Mark…
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Continue reading →: Former Summify Team Announces Twitter Email Digest Rollout for June 22The folks over at Summify have been a little busy since they were snapped up by Twitter in January. According to an email sent out to Summify subscribers, the company is being shutdown in order to focus on Twitter, namely the coming weekly email digests. But dispare not Summify users. You…
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Continue reading →: Twitter To Deliver Weekly Emails With “The Most Interesting News”Twitter has been making some big changes as of late. Back in January, the micro-blogging site had announced that it’s now available to be used in 21 languages thanks to the help of over 400,000 volunteers in its Translation Center. Now in an email that was sent out on Sunday, Twitter users were informed…
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Continue reading →: Capturing GPU Usage on Windows 8
To analyze your device’s GPU usage by Windows 8 please follow these simple steps: 1. Download Process Explorer from Microsoft and install as usual. 2. Run the Process Explorer as Admin by right-clicking on the Icon on Start Screen and on the App bar below elect to run as Admin.…
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Continue reading →: The Bane of Fast and Fluid in Windows 8
Microsoft just published on its Building Windows 8 Blog a treatise about realizing Fast and Fluid applications deployments for the platform. Fast and Fluid is the mantra that Microsoft adopted these days to describe responsive, naturally interactive applications designed for its Metro environment on Windows 8. They call them applications…
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Continue reading →: A Visit to the Grand Central Station Apple Store [PICS]A few weeks ago, I was able to make a trip down to New York City with fellow students from my college for a day trip. With my Nikon D3100 in hand and my girlfriend by my side, I hit the concrete jungle. Now this is far from my…
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Continue reading →: Creating Microsoft Account with other Email Addresses, Like GmailWindows 8 is the next big hit for the tech industry, and one of the big thing about Windows 8 is the ability to log in with your Microsoft Account. Though you can use Windows 8 using a local account, you will need to log in with your Microsoft Account…
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Continue reading →: Beta Test Meto Style Clock App for Windows 8 Before it Hits the Windows StoreWant to play with Windows 8 metro style apps that are not yet on the Windows Store? Here’s your chance. You can download a simple clock app for Windows 8. it is a metro style app, and not a desktop app. It is in its pre-beta stage. You can test this…
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Continue reading →: iOS Update 5.1.1 is Released and Ready for InstallA minor update for your iOS devices have been released by Apple today. iOS version 5.1.1 is an update to version 5.1 that was released alongside the new iPad. This software is available for free on any iOS devices running 5.1 and 5.0. If your devices is running an older…
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Continue reading →: Missed Watching The Samsung Galaxy S III? You Can Now Watch It OnlineIf you were like me, you too weren’t able to fly out to London and completely missed the well anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III press event. Heck, I even missed the live stream. Well fortunately for us slackers, Samsung has got us covered. The recorded press event is now available…
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Continue reading →: Windows 8 Won’t Play DVD Video Natively, but Do You Even Care?Windows 8 will not include the ability to play DVD movies natively; yes, it’s true! Premium editions of Windows Vista and most editions of Windows 7 did, but it’s all being undone with Windows 8. But the big question is, do you care? Here are the reasons as to why…
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Continue reading →: WOT #001: Use Format Factory to Convert Multimedia in Any FormatWelcome to my “What’s on My Taskbar” (WOT) series. In this series, I will pick on of my favorite Windows desktop apps and tell you why I think you might find it awesome! I will have another version of this series called “What’s on My Start Screen” (WOSC). That series…
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Continue reading →: New iPad vs iPhone 4: Photo ComparisonThe New iPad has been out for a little over a month now and many reviewers have raved over it. But one feature that has been underestimated on the new edition to the iPad family is the iSight camera.
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